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newyorker.com
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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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
online.ucpress.edu
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Reposted by: Tim Richardson, Anna Hickey‐Moody, Kathleen Kennedy

joshshepperd.bsky.social
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
online.ucpress.edu
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hallcommajon.bsky.social
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
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by Tim Richardson

timorichardson.bsky.social
It IS great
genmon.fyi
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]
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genmon.fyi
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
youtu.be
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Reposted by: Tim Richardson, Melanie C. Green

joshshepperd.bsky.social
Delighted to have interviewed with WBUR's Meghna Chakrabarti "On Point." First half discusses the historical intricacies of the US public media ecosystem. Second half I tried to detail how the GOP rescission bill was designed to attack democratic media.
Can public media survive?
The U.S. Congress cut federal funding for public media, shuttering the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. What does that mean for the future of local news across the country?
www.wbur.org
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by Tim Richardson

timorichardson.bsky.social
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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by Tim Richardson

timorichardson.bsky.social
morning patch to get gathered
(long version here: youtu.be/a7SIr4De6CU?... )
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Reposted by: Tim Richardson, Harvey J. Miller, Mark Rice

nondriver.bsky.social
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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Reposted by: Tim Richardson, Julia Lynch, Brian Keegan

josephfasano.bsky.social
For a Student Who Used AI to Write a Paper
For a Student Who Used AI to Write a Paper Now I let it fall back in the grasses. I hear you. I know this life is hard now. I know your days are precious on this earth. But what are you trying to be free of? The living? The miraculous task of it? Love is for the ones who love the work. —Joseph Fasano
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Reposted by: Tim Richardson, Steve Peers, Mark D. White , and 1 more

ninametz.bsky.social
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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by Tim Richardson

timorichardson.bsky.social
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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Reposted by: Tim Richardson, Mark D. White, Victor Asal

joshshepperd.bsky.social
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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Reposted by: Tim Richardson, Cary P. Gross, Stacie B. Dusetzina , and 1 more

prasad.bsky.social
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
drugmonkey.bsky.social
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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Reposted by: Tim Richardson, Andrew Jacobs

levostregc.bsky.social
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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sfgate.com
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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Reposted by: Tim Richardson, Victor Pickard

joshshepperd.bsky.social
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.
www.yahoo.com
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kstedman.bsky.social
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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timorichardson.bsky.social
"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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by Tim Richardson

timorichardson.bsky.social
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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evilrobotbill.bsky.social
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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lacanmunist.bsky.social
Time to drop the really big bomb:

The unconscious is the discourse of the Other.

Have a nice day!
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by Tim Richardson

timorichardson.bsky.social
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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beth-palgrave.bsky.social
📘 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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by Tim Richardson

timorichardson.bsky.social
TROUBLE WITH PEOPLE is live on Spotify, Apple Music, etc. The album starts ambient, dark, and noisy, but the 5th track marks a change and it all gets…various after that. Made it to be listened to straight through, but feel free to jump around. I hope there’s something there for everyone.
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timorichardson.bsky.social
Today marks the 9th anniversary of my object-a project. Made w/ modular synths, tape, field recordings, my voice, etc. - the album is variously ambient, noisy, cheerful, melancholy, experimental, comfy, abrasive, and drone-y. Free on Bandcamp.
object-a.bandcamp.com/album/troubl...
Trouble with People, by object-a
12 track album
object-a.bandcamp.com
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cgbrooke.bsky.social
After an unfortunately light spring semester, I'm trying to rev up my writing schedule for the summer. This week, a couple of book reviews: Klein and Thompson's Abundance (cgbrooke.substack.com/p/a-bun-dance), and Wynn-Williams' Careless People (cgbrooke.substack.com/p/dirty-rott...)
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
Sarah Wynn-Williams, Careless People
cgbrooke.substack.com
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fractalecho.bsky.social
If you're a grad student or an undergrad interested in research I need to you listen to me very carefully.

You cannot learn to write good research papers if you do not read good research papers.

Stop asking LLMs to summarize papers for you.
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us.theconversation.com
As the President, FCC and Congressional Republicans consider ending public funding for NPR and PBS, a media historian revisits why public media was founded in the first place and how it contributes to equal access to information today: buff.ly/CW6Jsbr
@joshshepperd.bsky.social @colorado.edu
Trump and many GOP lawmakers want to end all funding for NPR and PBS − unraveling a US public media system that took a century to build
The precursors of today’s public media programs consisted of professors giving lectures about history and finance.
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