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Fovea Hex @foveahex.bsky.social · Aug 26

Great piece by William Robin - I especially love the John Adams quote "...it was also marvelously provocative, giving an R. Crumb middle finger to the crabbed, pedantic world of academic modernism.”

The New Yorker @newyorker.com · Aug 26

How Terry Riley’s “In C” became a generation-defining crossover hit, marking the major-label arrival of a pulse-based musical revolution—now known as minimalism.

When the Man Tried to Sell Minimalism to the Counterculture

Columbia Records saw Terry Riley’s “In C,” now rereleased for his ninetieth birthday, as a perfect anthem for the psychedelic Zeitgeist, but the mainstream couldn’t contain the composer’s utopian ener...

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Tim Richardson @timorichardson.bsky.social · Aug 21

Tim Richardson @timorichardson.bsky.social · Aug 19

Listen up

Josh Shepperd @joshshepperd.bsky.social · Aug 19

Resonance (UC Press) is looking for humanities research across the following topics: Sound in Political Crisis, Sound and Social Justice, Experiments in Sound, Sound Archives and Preservation, and we're convening a permanent series that'll examine "Film and Cinema Sound" in 2026. Please circulate!

Resonance | University of California Press

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Jon Hall @hallcommajon.bsky.social · Aug 14

Welp, it’s really gonna happen. The Big Cats (my band) are releasing an album next month.

Tell Me Where to Go by The Big Cats

Stream and Pre-save Tell Me Where to Go - Distributed by DistroKid

distrokid.com

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Tim Richardson @timorichardson.bsky.social · Aug 13

It IS great

Matt Webb 🌸🌼🌸 @genmon.fyi · Aug 13

Turns out there’s a movie adaptation of LAST AND FIRST MEN?

Narrated by Tilda Swinton??

It covers the final sequence about the 18th men (on Neptune in two billion years) and is spoken word over moody panning shots of brutalist war memorials in the former Yugoslavia

Is great.

youtu.be/f-lBSl4MqWY

Jóhann Jóhannsson's LAST AND FIRST MEN [Official Trailer]

YouTube video by Metrograph

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Tim Richardson @timorichardson.bsky.social · Aug 13

ChatGPT tells me that Voltaire said “The happiest of all lives is a busy solitude,” and it occurs to me that the promise of agential ai is that it gets rid of both.

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Tim Richardson @timorichardson.bsky.social · Aug 11

morning patch to get gathered
(long version here: youtu.be/a7SIr4De6CU?... )

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A. Zivarts @nondriver.bsky.social · Aug 5

AAA estimates the average cost of owning a car is $12,297 a year, and recommends drivers spend no more than 10 percent of their income on car costs. This means you should make 120K to afford the average cost. Median *household* income in the US is $77K. The math just doesn't work.

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Joseph Fasano @josephfasano.bsky.social · Aug 4

For a Student Who Used AI to Write a Paper

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Tim Richardson @timorichardson.bsky.social · Aug 3

Took a few days off and this happened. Now time to pull the patch and it’s back to work tomorrow. Full thing here youtu.be/kKE4MYNaHMc?...

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Josh Shepperd @joshshepperd.bsky.social · Aug 2

I gave an in-depth interview with my hometown Chicago Tribune about what’s going to happen to NPR and PBS, and how cutting public media is part of a broader anti-democratic ideological project.

Column: The Corporation for Public Broadcast is ‘winding down.’ What does that mean for public radio and TV?

The Corporation for Public Broadcasting announced it is “wind-down” operations. What does this mean for public radio and TV?

www.chicagotribune.com

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Nina Metz @ninametz.bsky.social · Aug 1

Column: The Corporation for Public Broadcast is ‘winding down.’ What does that mean for public radio and TV?

I talk with media studies professor and public media expert Josh Shepperd for an explainer. In short, it's dire

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Column: The Corporation for Public Broadcast is ‘winding down.’ What does that mean for public radio and TV?

The Corporation for Public Broadcasting announced it is “wind-down” operations. What does this mean for public radio and TV?

www.chicagotribune.com

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Prasad Jallepalli, MD, PhD @prasad.bsky.social · Jul 29

few outcomes, except for 99% of FDA-approved drugs, 174 recipients of 104 Nobel Prizes, training ~30K MDs and ~10K PhDs per year to enter the workforce, and a 34% reduction in age-adjusted cancer deaths since 1990 -- the largest decrease in history

Drug Monkey @drugmonkey.bsky.social · Jul 29

Now do the Department of Defense budget, Andrew.

“Washington has thrown billions at NIH for decades with little accountability and few measurable outcomes,” HHS spokesperson Andrew Nixon said in a statement to Future Pulse.

www.politico.com/newsletters/...

NIH spending battle’s ripple effect

www.politico.com

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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · Jul 28

The fallacye that "higher ed degree must leade to a job wyth same name" ys deeplye harmful to present-daye societye. A philosophye major kan do businesse just as well as a businesse major. Yn some wayes perhaps even bettir. Thys fallacye ys useful onlye to those who seeke to kill higher ed.

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Jon Hall @hallcommajon.bsky.social · Jul 20

Allow me to just say that if you were able to accumulate a billion dollars, then business is, in fact, easy there.

SFGATE @sfgate.com · Jul 19

Burger billionaire Lynsi Snyder is saying goodbye to the West Coast.

'Business is not easy here': In-N-Out's owner is leaving California

Burger billionaire Lynsi Snyder is saying goodbye to the West Coast.

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Josh Shepperd @joshshepperd.bsky.social · Jul 18

What will defunding NPR, PBS, and public media affiliates mean for democratic media, and how will the rescission bill affect First Nations communications? I wrote a concise analysis with Allison Perlman (UC-Irvine).

Clawback of $1.1B for PBS and NPR puts rural stations at risk – and threatens a vital source of journalism

Public broadcasting has long been a target of conservative Republicans.

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Kyle Stedman @kstedman.bsky.social · Jul 8

I'd like my first-year students to spend time exploring how the act of reading words compares to engaging with other forms of content (audio, video, etc.). Do you have any favorite readings / content / activities on that topic that you've used in class?

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Tim Richardson @timorichardson.bsky.social · Jul 1

"The trouble with all this junk is that it lacks purpose. While people have found uses for tools marketed as AI, they are not designed to be purposeful. They show up in our lives through a corporate mandate, and we must expend energy on finding a place where they can fit."

Imitating the future, breaking the present

Tech companies are only pretending to innovate, through copying futuristic aesthetics from science fiction without understanding their purpose.

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Tim Richardson @timorichardson.bsky.social · Jun 28

There are people who will do everything they can to prove to others that they’re not afraid. Those folks scare me.

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Cosey Fanni Tutti @coseyfannitutti.bsky.social · Jun 12

It was such a blast and honour having the opportunity for this exchange with Peter. Big thanks to him and @thequietus.com

Will Salmon @evilrobotbill.bsky.social · Jun 12

Wicked interview here between two faves, @coseyfannitutti.bsky.social and Peter Strickland.

thequietus.com/interviews/i...

Peer Review: Peter Strickland Interviews Cosey Fanni Tutti... and Vice Versa | The Quietus

Musician artist Cosey Fanni Tutti interviews film maker Peter Strickland... and vice versa, with no interference from us.

thequietus.com

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Robert McDonald @lacanmunist.bsky.social · Jun 5

Time to drop the really big bomb:

The unconscious is the discourse of the Other.

Have a nice day!

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Tim Richardson @timorichardson.bsky.social · Jun 5

Hyperrhiz 28 is out and includes video, images, and documentation for my data sonification / sound art piece The Flower of Rhetoric

hyperrhiz.io/hyperrhiz28/...

The Flower of Rhetoric

The Flower of Rhetoric documents a data sonification/sound art project that gives both a body and voice to keywords from across the required texts of a graduate seminar titled Ambience and Rhetoric.

hyperrhiz.io

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Calum Neill @axisofelvis.bsky.social · May 15

Book number 40 in the Palgrave Lacan Series (if my maths is right), maintaining our mission to publish high quality monographs from the best new and established voices in the Lacanian field.

Beth Farrow @beth-palgrave.bsky.social · May 15

📘 Just published! Traumatic Neurosis Revisited: Drive-jouissance and the Wounds of Life by Leslie Chapman

A bold rethinking of trauma through Freud, Lacan, and Laplanche. Essential reading for psychoanalysis and philosophy scholars.

🔗 bit.ly/4djGSr6
#Psychoanalysis #Lacan #Freud #TraumaStudies

Cover image of the book, white background, green font, picture of an open eye looking at something burning

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