Immortalized in the movie “Swing Kids” (1993). “Swing heil”
November 25, 2025 at 1:10 PM
Immortalized in the movie “Swing Kids” (1993). “Swing heil”
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Anthony Braxton changed my life and rewired my brain when I took three classes with him as an undergrad. There's a whole legion of us out there, undercover Braxtonites throughout the music/industry ecosystem. If you don't know his work, maybe you should.
At 80, This Composer Is Easier Than Ever to Celebrate
www.nytimes.com
November 25, 2025 at 12:48 PM
Anthony Braxton changed my life and rewired my brain when I took three classes with him as an undergrad. There's a whole legion of us out there, undercover Braxtonites throughout the music/industry ecosystem. If you don't know his work, maybe you should.
Hope this person never eats American cuisine (re: xenophobia, misogyny, genocide, slavery, etc)
November 25, 2025 at 11:43 AM
Hope this person never eats American cuisine (re: xenophobia, misogyny, genocide, slavery, etc)
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I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
November 25, 2025 at 9:26 AM
I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
I’ll be damned—had no idea! Thanks!
November 25, 2025 at 3:21 AM
I’ll be damned—had no idea! Thanks!
In this one, Kathleen Chalfant is reenacting Rainer as interviewee. The cat appears around 3:30, is discussed by off-camera voices around 4:00 and appears to have been removed after a cut at 4:20. #scoresproject
www.getty.edu/publications...
www.getty.edu/publications...
The Scores Project: Interview with Kathleen Chalfant impersonating Yvonne Rainer (excerpt from Rainer Variations) (2001–2)
A unique digital compilation of experimental scores, audiovisual materials, and source documents from the postwar avant-gardes, interpreted by experts on art, music, dance, and poetry.
www.getty.edu
November 24, 2025 at 10:18 PM
In this one, Kathleen Chalfant is reenacting Rainer as interviewee. The cat appears around 3:30, is discussed by off-camera voices around 4:00 and appears to have been removed after a cut at 4:20. #scoresproject
www.getty.edu/publications...
www.getty.edu/publications...
Whose cat is this? In this video from Charles Atlas's Rainer Variations (2001-2), Richard Move reenacts an interview with the choreographer Yvonne Rainer. Is the cat impersonating Rainer's cat? #scoresproject #academicsky #experimentalnotation
www.getty.edu/publications...
www.getty.edu/publications...
November 24, 2025 at 10:09 PM
Whose cat is this? In this video from Charles Atlas's Rainer Variations (2001-2), Richard Move reenacts an interview with the choreographer Yvonne Rainer. Is the cat impersonating Rainer's cat? #scoresproject #academicsky #experimentalnotation
www.getty.edu/publications...
www.getty.edu/publications...
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Stahl house is for sale in case you are in need of an architecturally significant property in the Hollywood Hills:
www.latimes.com/travel/story...
www.latimes.com/travel/story...
Iconic Stahl House, a Midcentury Modern stunner, up for sale
The Stahl House is selling for $25 million. The current owners say its tour program will continue for now.
www.latimes.com
November 24, 2025 at 6:50 PM
Stahl house is for sale in case you are in need of an architecturally significant property in the Hollywood Hills:
www.latimes.com/travel/story...
www.latimes.com/travel/story...
Thoroughly convinced that Common Sense’s true circulation numbers are unknowable. But compared to what? Isn’t this also true of every other text produced in revolutionary USA? Are there better, more reliable circulation numbers for the Declaration, or is it circulation = mythology all the way down?
November 24, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Thoroughly convinced that Common Sense’s true circulation numbers are unknowable. But compared to what? Isn’t this also true of every other text produced in revolutionary USA? Are there better, more reliable circulation numbers for the Declaration, or is it circulation = mythology all the way down?
Who were the people who accurately predicted that Labour’s “move fast and mend things” would actually just mean “get Tory austerity done”? Let’s listen more to whoever that was.
November 24, 2025 at 1:16 PM
Who were the people who accurately predicted that Labour’s “move fast and mend things” would actually just mean “get Tory austerity done”? Let’s listen more to whoever that was.
Martin Hägglund makes this argument in This Life: Secular Faith and Spiritual Freedom (2019). He says the goal of any political system should be to maximize everyone’s socially available free time.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/This_Li...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/This_Li...
This Life: Secular Faith and Spiritual Freedom - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
November 24, 2025 at 11:48 AM
Martin Hägglund makes this argument in This Life: Secular Faith and Spiritual Freedom (2019). He says the goal of any political system should be to maximize everyone’s socially available free time.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/This_Li...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/This_Li...
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Philip Glass had no business going so hard on the score of this animation. 10/10 🎼🎶
I remember this from Sesame Street, 1979! Cathryn Aison & Philip Glass's Geometry of Circles!
www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/film_screeni...
www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/film_screeni...
Geometry of Circles - animation: Cathryn Aison / music: Philip Glass (Classic Sesame Street)
YouTube video by MonsterpieceTheatre
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November 23, 2025 at 5:42 AM
Philip Glass had no business going so hard on the score of this animation. 10/10 🎼🎶
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Oregon Public Media did a really beautiful mini doc about the first descent of the undammed Klamath River that is worth a watch youtu.be/4FuGuWeAra4?...
First Descent: Kayaking the Klamath River after the largest dam removal in U.S. history
YouTube video by Oregon Public Broadcasting
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November 23, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Oregon Public Media did a really beautiful mini doc about the first descent of the undammed Klamath River that is worth a watch youtu.be/4FuGuWeAra4?...
This one’s the winner I think. Also woukd have accepted:
Silly rabbit, tripping is for teenagers
Murder is for murderers and hard drugs are for bartenders
OR
He said I got to the part about the exodus
And up to then I only knew it was a movement of the people
Silly rabbit, tripping is for teenagers
Murder is for murderers and hard drugs are for bartenders
OR
He said I got to the part about the exodus
And up to then I only knew it was a movement of the people
November 23, 2025 at 3:53 AM
This one’s the winner I think. Also woukd have accepted:
Silly rabbit, tripping is for teenagers
Murder is for murderers and hard drugs are for bartenders
OR
He said I got to the part about the exodus
And up to then I only knew it was a movement of the people
Silly rabbit, tripping is for teenagers
Murder is for murderers and hard drugs are for bartenders
OR
He said I got to the part about the exodus
And up to then I only knew it was a movement of the people
I recall one of the early excerpts from Annette Gordon-Reed‘s The Hemmingses of Monticello explaining that TJ‘s contemporaries would definitely have viewed the relationship with Sally as incest, since she was a half-sister of his deceased wife.
November 23, 2025 at 1:11 AM
I recall one of the early excerpts from Annette Gordon-Reed‘s The Hemmingses of Monticello explaining that TJ‘s contemporaries would definitely have viewed the relationship with Sally as incest, since she was a half-sister of his deceased wife.
Man I needed this today
November 22, 2025 at 11:48 PM
Man I needed this today
Fell for this after it wasnt debunked for the first few days and changed all the settings on like 4 different work/personal accounts and now I’m too lazy to switch back.
November 22, 2025 at 11:30 PM
Fell for this after it wasnt debunked for the first few days and changed all the settings on like 4 different work/personal accounts and now I’m too lazy to switch back.
My chapter is on de-credentialing. New model for an un-university that grants no degrees or credentials but will help you expunge or renounce degrees you no longer want
November 22, 2025 at 8:54 PM
My chapter is on de-credentialing. New model for an un-university that grants no degrees or credentials but will help you expunge or renounce degrees you no longer want
Thanks—I did that last week so I had no idea what was going on.
November 22, 2025 at 2:12 PM
Thanks—I did that last week so I had no idea what was going on.
Yes. This is making me want to move Kant and Foucault on "What is Enlightenment?" up to week 1 or 2 in my syllabi for the foreseeable future.
November 21, 2025 at 6:16 PM
Yes. This is making me want to move Kant and Foucault on "What is Enlightenment?" up to week 1 or 2 in my syllabi for the foreseeable future.
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Fuck yeah, Libraries!
Court issues permanent injunction in the State of Rhode Island v. Trump, preventing the dismantling and defunding of the Institute for Museum and Library Service.
www.courtlistener.com/docket/69844...
Court issues permanent injunction in the State of Rhode Island v. Trump, preventing the dismantling and defunding of the Institute for Museum and Library Service.
www.courtlistener.com/docket/69844...
Order on Motion for Summary Judgment – #99 in State of Rhode Island v. Trump (D.R.I., 1:25-cv-00128) – CourtListener.com
MEMORANDUM AND ORDER granting 75 Motion for Summary Judgment and denying 84 Cross-Motion for Summary Judgment. So Ordered by Chief Judge John J. McConnell, Jr. on 11/21/2025. (Jackson, Ryan) (Entered:...
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November 21, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Fuck yeah, Libraries!
Court issues permanent injunction in the State of Rhode Island v. Trump, preventing the dismantling and defunding of the Institute for Museum and Library Service.
www.courtlistener.com/docket/69844...
Court issues permanent injunction in the State of Rhode Island v. Trump, preventing the dismantling and defunding of the Institute for Museum and Library Service.
www.courtlistener.com/docket/69844...
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I was honored to be invited to give the annual Dotterer Lecture Series in Literature talk at Salisbury University yesterday. It was great meeting new people and catching up with old friends!
November 21, 2025 at 1:47 PM
I was honored to be invited to give the annual Dotterer Lecture Series in Literature talk at Salisbury University yesterday. It was great meeting new people and catching up with old friends!
The painter Eugene Delacroix’s biological father was the diplomat Talleyrand (according to Simon Schama).
November 21, 2025 at 2:36 AM
The painter Eugene Delacroix’s biological father was the diplomat Talleyrand (according to Simon Schama).
Baraka’s “Black Art” (1965) seems like a shoe-in for the anthology:
“We want poems that kill”
“We want poems that kill”
November 20, 2025 at 8:59 PM
Baraka’s “Black Art” (1965) seems like a shoe-in for the anthology:
“We want poems that kill”
“We want poems that kill”
Can poems also make LLMs do the whatever the opposite of this is?
Can verse produce Bildung, I guess is what I'm asking?
Can verse produce Bildung, I guess is what I'm asking?
November 20, 2025 at 8:42 PM
Can poems also make LLMs do the whatever the opposite of this is?
Can verse produce Bildung, I guess is what I'm asking?
Can verse produce Bildung, I guess is what I'm asking?