Doug Eacho
@dougeacho.bsky.social
performance historian, prof (U of T ➡️ NUS). writing a book about automating theatre (surrealism, cybernetics, backstage tech, ai) in which i discover to much astonishment that it was capital all along.
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to me the evidence suggests otherwise!
January 22, 2026 at 11:30 AM
to me the evidence suggests otherwise!
if trump were best approached as a structural usa constitution problem then why are there so many trump-likes across contemporary democracies?
January 22, 2026 at 10:45 AM
if trump were best approached as a structural usa constitution problem then why are there so many trump-likes across contemporary democracies?
problem is if they accept our accents then it would be only fair for us to accept the québecois accent and that really is a step too far
January 21, 2026 at 12:50 PM
problem is if they accept our accents then it would be only fair for us to accept the québecois accent and that really is a step too far
it's the -é / -ais vowel difference that kills me in french
January 21, 2026 at 12:43 PM
it's the -é / -ais vowel difference that kills me in french
as someone who biked from MV to Stanford daily for 5 years - and I'm always pro bike lane - wow! is it used? Biking through the adjacent neighborhoods was lovely and safe, and Camino Real seems way too hot and unshaded most of the year to use if there's another option
January 3, 2026 at 5:20 AM
as someone who biked from MV to Stanford daily for 5 years - and I'm always pro bike lane - wow! is it used? Biking through the adjacent neighborhoods was lovely and safe, and Camino Real seems way too hot and unshaded most of the year to use if there's another option
"tangled" and "zootopia" are so much better than the rest it's hard to understand them as from the same corporate author as like "encanto". is disney animation very segmented project by project? like mini studios within the studio?
January 2, 2026 at 11:26 PM
"tangled" and "zootopia" are so much better than the rest it's hard to understand them as from the same corporate author as like "encanto". is disney animation very segmented project by project? like mini studios within the studio?
moana even more so. perhaps lin-manuel miranda's primary historical project has been trying to make musical theatre straight
January 2, 2026 at 11:23 PM
moana even more so. perhaps lin-manuel miranda's primary historical project has been trying to make musical theatre straight
"frozen" is an abomination on many grounds but the main one is it's so aggressively tonally hetero
January 2, 2026 at 11:20 PM
"frozen" is an abomination on many grounds but the main one is it's so aggressively tonally hetero
yes (only just got a proper research budget, after all...)
December 20, 2025 at 11:03 AM
yes (only just got a proper research budget, after all...)
ty for your timeliness: I've already parked spring 26 for a "re-read Grundrisse and cover autonomism" deep dive! the sort of area i suspect has been poorly served by the grad school syllabus-quick-hits introduction...
December 2, 2025 at 11:32 AM
ty for your timeliness: I've already parked spring 26 for a "re-read Grundrisse and cover autonomism" deep dive! the sort of area i suspect has been poorly served by the grad school syllabus-quick-hits introduction...
similarly: the elite uni's could have increased their undergrad student numbers alongside population. starting new uni's is really hard! expanding them pretty straightforward
November 29, 2025 at 5:35 PM
similarly: the elite uni's could have increased their undergrad student numbers alongside population. starting new uni's is really hard! expanding them pretty straightforward
among the toronto bourgeois toddler parent set, the *only* argument advanced for "maybe i'll send my kid to private school" is "i want to keep them away from school computers and AI"
November 21, 2025 at 3:01 PM
among the toronto bourgeois toddler parent set, the *only* argument advanced for "maybe i'll send my kid to private school" is "i want to keep them away from school computers and AI"
yeah i think her reputation is higher in theatreworld than in lit proper
November 15, 2025 at 4:52 PM
yeah i think her reputation is higher in theatreworld than in lit proper
wait is there something bad about jelinek i dont know about? she's maybe my favorite winner of that prize in decades
(the other austrian winner, however...)
(the other austrian winner, however...)
November 14, 2025 at 1:26 AM
wait is there something bad about jelinek i dont know about? she's maybe my favorite winner of that prize in decades
(the other austrian winner, however...)
(the other austrian winner, however...)
we don't get that many global-bourgeois immigrants in the US actually, so Vance is doubly wrong (wrong about the surface as well as about the deeper dynamics) but he's so stewed in the global right that he is hoping other countries' surface appearance can stick in the US anyway
November 14, 2025 at 12:10 AM
we don't get that many global-bourgeois immigrants in the US actually, so Vance is doubly wrong (wrong about the surface as well as about the deeper dynamics) but he's so stewed in the global right that he is hoping other countries' surface appearance can stick in the US anyway
i like the thread here but I think this one may be imported from abroad: in the UK, Canada, Germany (at least Berlin), you actually have had wealthy immigrants at scale buying up real estate, allowing RWers to associate the fact of the refugee with the fact of inward capital flight
November 14, 2025 at 12:10 AM
i like the thread here but I think this one may be imported from abroad: in the UK, Canada, Germany (at least Berlin), you actually have had wealthy immigrants at scale buying up real estate, allowing RWers to associate the fact of the refugee with the fact of inward capital flight
in my experience some of the skills are still retained by students of sufficiently elite backgrounds, but *none* of them (enrolled in an arts major) have engaged with non-commercial art unless their parent is a professional artist.
November 12, 2025 at 2:29 AM
in my experience some of the skills are still retained by students of sufficiently elite backgrounds, but *none* of them (enrolled in an arts major) have engaged with non-commercial art unless their parent is a professional artist.
ah haven't tried that one. children of earth is worth another shot i'd think even if it won't be an all-timer for you, just a great execution of a great concept
November 12, 2025 at 2:16 AM
ah haven't tried that one. children of earth is worth another shot i'd think even if it won't be an all-timer for you, just a great execution of a great concept