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David Arditi @davidarditi.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

View from my kitchen windows. These armadillos live under my neighbor's shed

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David Arditi @davidarditi.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

We need to have a conversation about peer review in academia across fields The problem: different people see their role differently as a reviewer Here are some of the issues and some of the solutions

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David Arditi @davidarditi.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

We need to have a conversation about peer review in academia across fields The problem: different people see their role differently as a reviewer Here are some of the issues and some of the solutions

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David Arditi @davidarditi.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I'd love to partner with a quantitative social scientist to use empirical data to support my concept "digital feudalism"

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David Arditi @davidarditi.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Is it me or has produce been awful lately? Could this be related to tariffs?

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David Arditi @davidarditi.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Start of VT vs UMD broadcast, FS1 announcer describes DMV as "West Virginia, Virginia, Maryland" This is going to be a long game . .

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Alyx Vesey @alyxvesey.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Popular Music Books In Process update. HMU if you wanna join the team or present work in 2027.

Popular Music Books in Process series, 2026-2027:
Call for Proposals and for New Co-Organizers

Since 2020, the Popular Music Books in Process series has held online
events for music writers and scholars to bring recent books or works in
progress to an engaged community. PMBiP is a collaboration between the Journal of Popular Music Studies, the Pop Conference, and IASPM-US. There have been more than 160 Zoom events so far, almost all preserved on YouTube. The recordings are also being archived at the Rock ‘n’ Roll Hall of Fame for educational purposes.

This year, Eric Weisbard is retiring from leading the series. Antonia
Randolph, Kimberly Mack, Francesca Royster, and Gus Sadler are also
stepping back. We thank them for all their work in selecting and scheduling authors, guiding presenters, cultivating audiences, participating in sessions, and posting videos.

Elena Razlogova, Alyxandra Vesey, and Carl Wilson are staying on. We are currently looking for a few new people to join us as co-organizers to keep PMBiP alive and growing. We welcome critics, researchers, and authors both inside and outside academia. The time commitment is not much more than three to four hours a month in season, plus a couple of off-season online meetings. If you would like to join us, or to suggest someone else you know with the skills and interest to be part of the group, please email alyx.vesey@gmail.com as soon as possible, at the latest by Monday, Oct. 5.

Meanwhile, we are on a semi-hiatus. We will have a few events in the fall
that are held over from last season, all on Tuesdays at 5 pm:

Nov 10: Jessica Holmes, Music at the Margins of Sense (University of
Michigan Press) with Anabel Maler, Seeing Voices: Analyzing Sign
Language Music (Oxford University Press)
Dec 8: Karl Hagstrom Miller, Amateurs Make American Pop Music: A
History (Duke University Press, forthcoming)
TBA: Eric Lott, Pleasant Valley Sunday (Duke Singles Series, in progress)
We will return to a more regular schedule in early 2027. We are now seeking proposals for that new season. If you have a new book or one publishing in the next year, or have work in progress you want to showcase for feedback, please let us know.

Sessions last between 60 and 90 minutes. All kinds of formats are welcome, from readings and dialogues to roundtables, always including a generous Q&A. Some authors have even incorporated live music. Unfortunately we can’t play music recordings or videos due to YouTube’s draconian restrictions, but visual displays are more than welcome. We ask you to make your event conversational on some level and to avoid longer solo presentations.You are encouraged to propose co-presenters or interlocutors, or we can help arrange them. We may suggest combining authors whose topics or approaches seem compatible. Our YouTube page shows the variety of strategies presenters have used.
Whatever the format, our focus remains books, whether early in gestation or after publication. We want to highlight popular music writing of many kinds, whether scholarly, mass-market, personal, or hybrid, keeping our communities connected, and welcoming in new participants. Presenters are asked to do their best to attend several other sessions through the season, to get a feel for the series and also to support it. Please feel free to share this call with others you think might want to join in.

For early 2027 and beyond, email to all seven co-organizers by October 1:

-A proposal of about 300 words describing the book or books that you would like to present, along with your preferred presentation format;
-A bio of up to 100 words for each participant;
-An indication of when would be best for you. Specific months or even a few specific dates are encouraged. The exact time for winter-spring sessions is still to be determined, but it will be circa Monday-Wednesday, 5 pm to 5:30 pm ET.

Thank you!

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David Arditi @davidarditi.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

What search are we using now? I can no longer turn off Google AI results and it is driving me crazy

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David Arditi @davidarditi.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Just submitted Living the Dream: America the Exploitable for review!!! Good to have this book off my plate for a bit

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David Arditi @davidarditi.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

American media outlets are mystified by political speech. These stories that show Dolly Parton was never political miss that she was definitively political She never endorsed candidates or took sides in PARTY politics. She lived her life supporting and defending the downtrodden, that is political!

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David Arditi @davidarditi.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Fast Capitalism CFP: Precarity, Debt, and Control in the Age of Artificial Intelligence websites.uta.edu/centerforthe...

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Fast Capitalism CFP: Precarity, Debt, and Control in the Age of Artificial Intelligence – Center for Theory

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David Arditi @davidarditi.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Fast Capitalism CFP: Precarity, Debt, and Control in the Age of Artificial Intelligence websites.uta.edu/centerforthe...

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Fast Capitalism CFP: Precarity, Debt, and Control in the Age of Artificial Intelligence – Center for Theory

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David Arditi @davidarditi.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

CFP!!! Precarity, Debt, and Control in the Age of Artiﬁcial Intelligence Please circulate

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Fast Capitalism @fast-capitalism.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

CFP: Precarity, Debt, and Control in the Age of Artificial Intelligence

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Fast Capitalism @fast-capitalism.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Please consider contributing

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David Arditi @davidarditi.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

CFP!!! Precarity, Debt, and Control in the Age of Artiﬁcial Intelligence Please circulate

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David Arditi @davidarditi.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

I see all the beautiful pictures parents take on the first day of school My son: grabs the camera

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David Arditi @davidarditi.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Ladies and Gentlemen, on August 8, 2026, I completed a draft of my book Living the Dream: America the Exploitable There is much to be edited before submission, but it is drafted

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Jeb Bush's Iconic 'Please Clap' Moment

ALT: Jeb Bush's Iconic 'Please Clap' Moment

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David Arditi @davidarditi.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Saw this bobcat in a driveway on my jog this morning. Second bobcat sighting this year!

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David Arditi @davidarditi.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

All I have left to write of my current project is the conclusion. I can do this!

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David Arditi @davidarditi.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Today I feel like a middle-aged home owning dad I got a new blade for my lawn mower, changed the oil, and I am looking forward to mowing the lawn with the temperature already passed 90

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David Arditi @davidarditi.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Any thoughts on what type of bird this is?

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David Arditi @davidarditi.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

The sharks on Shark Tank passed on the Ring doorbell!

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David Arditi @davidarditi.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Like clockwork, I am getting soooooo close to finishing a book. Then I had an idea on my jog this morning. Just spent 30 minutes working on that idea. Book sitting there . . .

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David Arditi @davidarditi.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

Scripted Minecraft shows are the strangest online phenomena

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David Arditi @davidarditi.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

Talk to me when it's been over 100 for 3 months

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David Arditi @davidarditi.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

American meritocracy: Those who excel at their jobs get assigned more work Those who suck at their jobs get promoted

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David Arditi @davidarditi.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Woke up to a $25,000 grant to help start a graduate sustainability certificate!

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Mike Follert @mfollert.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

For timely & incisive analysis of the FIFA World Cup by some very sharp critical thinkers, read the newest issue of @fast-capitalism.bsky.social, out today! mavmatrix.uta.edu/fastcapitali...

Table of contents for Fast Capitalism Issue

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David Arditi @davidarditi.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Our latest issue of Fast Capitalism is out! It includes a special section on #FIFA World Cup mavmatrix.uta.edu/fastcapitali...

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Fast Capitalism | Vol 23 | Iss 1

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David Arditi @davidarditi.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

Michael Dell donated $6.25 billion to Trump accounts. This will be $250 for 25 million kids Guess how much those accounts will be after 18 years? $376!!! They will all be on their way to being little Dells

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David Arditi @davidarditi.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

Writing a book on what I call the "gig trap" and really hit on some odd formulations for people to "be your own boss"

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David Arditi @davidarditi.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

Writing about remote work (and its problems) as my son plays Pokemon in the other part of the room, dogs bark at the pool guy, and partner asks me to do things around the house . . .

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David Arditi @davidarditi.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

As we require more people to have bachelor's degrees, capital expects universities to train their workers. At the same time, capitalists fight funding universities. Professors are unequipped for training workers to perform for capital. Somehow it becomes all our fault

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David Arditi @davidarditi.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

Anyone interested in a book talk? Let me know!

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David Arditi @davidarditi.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

Anyone interested in a book talk? Let me know!

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David Arditi @davidarditi.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

A former student bought this for me. Awesome gift

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David Arditi @davidarditi.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

"For the population at large, the idea of going to work without an employer is an unserviceable myth. For those who nevertheless try it, it is a disastrous illusion." C. Wright Mills, White Collar

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David Arditi @davidarditi.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

Glad I got my grades in yesterday morning!

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David Arditi @davidarditi.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

As a professor, I take offense There is nothing clearer than the way I speak to students. Stop attacking us

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David Arditi @davidarditi.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

“Capital is dead labor, which, vampire-like, lives only by sucking living labor, and lives the more, the more labor it sucks.” Happy birthday Karl Marx

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