Sean
@seancosgrove.bsky.social
Historian, Cultural Theorist, Writer, and Writing Teacher. Thinking about bodies, cities, and space.
In LA, but from Sydney.
Trying to treat this place differently than I did the other.
He/Him
In LA, but from Sydney.
Trying to treat this place differently than I did the other.
He/Him
Thrilllled to have this off my desk after all these years
January 9, 2026 at 6:41 PM
Thrilllled to have this off my desk after all these years
I am baaaack (for who knows how long) to say that I’ve finished my first book of the year: ✅✅✅
January 9, 2026 at 5:42 AM
I am baaaack (for who knows how long) to say that I’ve finished my first book of the year: ✅✅✅
It is hard to communicate to people just how ungovernable cockatoos really are
April 24, 2025 at 9:24 PM
It is hard to communicate to people just how ungovernable cockatoos really are
USC’s student paper reports that the classics, “philosophy, chemistry, sociology, molecular biology and religion [departments aall] rescinded pending admission offers last week.”
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April 5, 2025 at 9:52 PM
USC’s student paper reports that the classics, “philosophy, chemistry, sociology, molecular biology and religion [departments aall] rescinded pending admission offers last week.”
dailytrojan.com/2025/04/04/u...
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That's when I realised that Big and I were in a romantic trade war, but our tariffs were not reciprocal
April 5, 2025 at 3:58 AM
That's when I realised that Big and I were in a romantic trade war, but our tariffs were not reciprocal
Received my own email yesterday morning informing me that the program I was to participate in this summer had their NEH funding terminated.
Even if funding is restored in future (generally), how could you ever trust that it won’t be immediately rescinded again without cause?
Even if funding is restored in future (generally), how could you ever trust that it won’t be immediately rescinded again without cause?
Pour one out tonight not only for the thousands of fantastic scholars whose NEH grants were wrongly terminated, but also for all of the junior scholars who have never—and now may never in their lifetimes—receive federal support for their research
April 5, 2025 at 9:42 PM
Received my own email yesterday morning informing me that the program I was to participate in this summer had their NEH funding terminated.
Even if funding is restored in future (generally), how could you ever trust that it won’t be immediately rescinded again without cause?
Even if funding is restored in future (generally), how could you ever trust that it won’t be immediately rescinded again without cause?
So what is the deal with Greenland? Oil?
"The President said, clearly, he doesn't think that military force is going to be necessary, but he absolutely believes that Greenland is an important part of the security, not just of the United States, but of the world."
Vance when asked about the use of military force to acquire Greenland.
Vance when asked about the use of military force to acquire Greenland.
March 28, 2025 at 8:24 PM
So what is the deal with Greenland? Oil?
Chiming in to say that I too am happy to be scooped up 😂
When scholars of authoritarianism and fascism leave U.S. universities because of the deteriorating political situation here, we should really worry.
March 26, 2025 at 1:20 AM
Chiming in to say that I too am happy to be scooped up 😂
This is a wild papal photo
My latest @latimes.com so share!
Column: Near death, Pope Francis rallied back. We need his voice more than ever
Francis rejected all trappings of sovereignty and cult of personality. Instead, he has lived and preached what Jesus commanded his followers to do in the Sermon on the Mount, which might as well be th...
www.latimes.com
March 25, 2025 at 9:39 PM
This is a wild papal photo
Aside from the general lack of transparency, the “bold action” here involves zero direct or collective response to the attack on universities themselves.
Facing possible federal funding cuts under threats from the Trump administration and already in financial disarray since before the election, the University of Southern California has announced a hiring freeze and more cost-cutting measures: www.latimes.com/california/s...
USC calls for hiring freeze, austerity efforts amid budget woes and Trump investigations
Roiled by turmoil, USC has announced several cutbacks and belt-tightening measures as it faces 'federal funding uncertainty' under the Trump administration.
www.latimes.com
March 25, 2025 at 9:38 PM
Aside from the general lack of transparency, the “bold action” here involves zero direct or collective response to the attack on universities themselves.
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For folks who don’t know, ethnic studies programs like African American/Africana Studies, Asian American Studies, Chicano Studies and the like come directly from civil right era campus activism. Attempts to disempower such programs should be framed as attacks on civil rights same as much else rn.
March 22, 2025 at 3:57 PM
For folks who don’t know, ethnic studies programs like African American/Africana Studies, Asian American Studies, Chicano Studies and the like come directly from civil right era campus activism. Attempts to disempower such programs should be framed as attacks on civil rights same as much else rn.
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Letter signed by members of the Columbia History Department urging resistance to the Trump Administration's efforts to dictate university policy.
"Should this control be realized, here or elsewhere, it would make any real historical scholarship, teaching, and intellectual community impossible."
"Should this control be realized, here or elsewhere, it would make any real historical scholarship, teaching, and intellectual community impossible."
March 20, 2025 at 12:14 PM
Letter signed by members of the Columbia History Department urging resistance to the Trump Administration's efforts to dictate university policy.
"Should this control be realized, here or elsewhere, it would make any real historical scholarship, teaching, and intellectual community impossible."
"Should this control be realized, here or elsewhere, it would make any real historical scholarship, teaching, and intellectual community impossible."
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Columbia seems poised to cede control of their institution to the whims of people who want to destroy it and higher education as a whole. It's impossible to overstate how short-sighted this is. The idea that Trump will stop here is beyond belief. www.wsj.com/us-news/educ...
Exclusive | Columbia Is Nearing Agreement to Give Trump What He Wants
The school faces a deadline to yield to administration demands, with $400 million in federal funding at stake.
www.wsj.com
March 19, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Columbia seems poised to cede control of their institution to the whims of people who want to destroy it and higher education as a whole. It's impossible to overstate how short-sighted this is. The idea that Trump will stop here is beyond belief. www.wsj.com/us-news/educ...
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Leader of the US Flight attendance union calls on workers and their unions to prepare for general #strike as US (public service) workers stripped of bargaining rights by Trump
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Image if that happens, it being accompanied by protests and boycotts around the world....1/2
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Image if that happens, it being accompanied by protests and boycotts around the world....1/2
‘We Have Very Few Options but To Join Together To Organize for a General Strike’
Arguably the most potent and powerful figure in the labor movement today has just declared that American workers—no matter what you do or what sector you’re in—now have “very few options but to join t...
portside.org
March 13, 2025 at 12:05 PM
Leader of the US Flight attendance union calls on workers and their unions to prepare for general #strike as US (public service) workers stripped of bargaining rights by Trump
portside.org/2025-03-11/w...
Image if that happens, it being accompanied by protests and boycotts around the world....1/2
portside.org/2025-03-11/w...
Image if that happens, it being accompanied by protests and boycotts around the world....1/2
These arguments that Trump/the administration have lost the plot ask the wrong questions about the state of America right now. They presume Trump is some irrational actor, rather than asking who benefits or what the goals might be outside of just simple economic growth.
March 16, 2025 at 1:32 AM
These arguments that Trump/the administration have lost the plot ask the wrong questions about the state of America right now. They presume Trump is some irrational actor, rather than asking who benefits or what the goals might be outside of just simple economic growth.
It was my birthday but I forgot to post so here’s me catching up!
March 14, 2025 at 10:57 PM
It was my birthday but I forgot to post so here’s me catching up!
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it is grimly hilarious that, given the immense, decades-long fetishization of "leadership" and "leadership skills" in business-oriented academia and politics, even unto the formation of leadership institutes, there should turn out to be no leaders in any positions of power
March 14, 2025 at 11:25 AM
it is grimly hilarious that, given the immense, decades-long fetishization of "leadership" and "leadership skills" in business-oriented academia and politics, even unto the formation of leadership institutes, there should turn out to be no leaders in any positions of power
Not to be that guy, but what about the humanists? 👀👀👀
A French University is funding a Safe Place For Science program meant to recruit scientists who cannot continue their work in the US. www.univ-amu.fr/fr/public/a...
March 14, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Not to be that guy, but what about the humanists? 👀👀👀
That Taylor Greene and Boebert are the face of the Republican Party is important for 2 reasons:
1) Surely the path forward for Ds is to move left (as the Rs moved right) to capture “new” voting blocs.
2) The Ds, as they currently exist, aren’t a party of opposition. They haven’t kept apace.
1) Surely the path forward for Ds is to move left (as the Rs moved right) to capture “new” voting blocs.
2) The Ds, as they currently exist, aren’t a party of opposition. They haven’t kept apace.
March 5, 2025 at 11:48 PM
That Taylor Greene and Boebert are the face of the Republican Party is important for 2 reasons:
1) Surely the path forward for Ds is to move left (as the Rs moved right) to capture “new” voting blocs.
2) The Ds, as they currently exist, aren’t a party of opposition. They haven’t kept apace.
1) Surely the path forward for Ds is to move left (as the Rs moved right) to capture “new” voting blocs.
2) The Ds, as they currently exist, aren’t a party of opposition. They haven’t kept apace.
My building on campus isn’t accessible and, to the best of my knowledge, has no fire suppression system of any kind. But yes, let’s dedicate millions of dollars to a wall…
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USC to develop plans for permanent secure checkpoints - Daily Trojan
Staff email obtained by the Daily Trojan reveals the University’s spring priorities.
dailytrojan.com
March 5, 2025 at 5:10 AM
My building on campus isn’t accessible and, to the best of my knowledge, has no fire suppression system of any kind. But yes, let’s dedicate millions of dollars to a wall…
dailytrojan.com/2025/03/03/u...
dailytrojan.com/2025/03/03/u...
I watched “Possessor” last night and let me tell you it is the most fucked up and horrifying movie I’ve seen in a HOT MINUTE.
Recommend if you’re into that sort of thing.
Recommend if you’re into that sort of thing.
March 2, 2025 at 12:49 AM
I watched “Possessor” last night and let me tell you it is the most fucked up and horrifying movie I’ve seen in a HOT MINUTE.
Recommend if you’re into that sort of thing.
Recommend if you’re into that sort of thing.
USC continues to remove “DEI” related resources, this time by collapsing the Office of Inclusion and Diversity into the Culture Team.
It might feel a little less like the University was capitulating entirely if this weren’t a last-minute-on-Friday email…
dailytrojan.com/2025/02/28/t...
It might feel a little less like the University was capitulating entirely if this weren’t a last-minute-on-Friday email…
dailytrojan.com/2025/02/28/t...
The Office of Inclusion and Diversity integrates into Culture Team - Daily Trojan
The University said Wednesday it was reviewing programs to comply with Trump administration rules.
dailytrojan.com
March 1, 2025 at 4:48 AM
USC continues to remove “DEI” related resources, this time by collapsing the Office of Inclusion and Diversity into the Culture Team.
It might feel a little less like the University was capitulating entirely if this weren’t a last-minute-on-Friday email…
dailytrojan.com/2025/02/28/t...
It might feel a little less like the University was capitulating entirely if this weren’t a last-minute-on-Friday email…
dailytrojan.com/2025/02/28/t...
I’m just not sure how much stock I can put into an album review by someone calling Angelenos “Los Angeleans”……
March 1, 2025 at 3:31 AM
I’m just not sure how much stock I can put into an album review by someone calling Angelenos “Los Angeleans”……
That people are already re-selling these Cowboy Carter tickets for thousands of dollars more merely four hours after the fans-only PREsale is wiiiiiiild and outrageous.
February 12, 2025 at 12:19 AM
That people are already re-selling these Cowboy Carter tickets for thousands of dollars more merely four hours after the fans-only PREsale is wiiiiiiild and outrageous.
This weekend’s horror movie was “The Void” and, look, I’m easily won over. It was fun but definitely very chaotic…
Reviews say “Lovecraftian” but I’ll leave that with y’all.
Reviews say “Lovecraftian” but I’ll leave that with y’all.
February 10, 2025 at 10:27 PM
This weekend’s horror movie was “The Void” and, look, I’m easily won over. It was fun but definitely very chaotic…
Reviews say “Lovecraftian” but I’ll leave that with y’all.
Reviews say “Lovecraftian” but I’ll leave that with y’all.