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Higher ed worker. Here to talk about music, Marxism, and pedagogy. He/him. Banner image: Pope.L.

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AP @dnslycnnctd.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Horrible news. I used to teach her “Post-Fordist Desires” essay in my Sex, Aesthetics, Capitalism class and the students, year after year, would mark it as a highlight of the semester.
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J.D. Connor @jdconnor.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
The experience of the rebooted Gilded Age is hard to get a systematic handle on. How can everything carry premium/designer/elite/platinum pricing? How does that feel? Here are three versions of what I've been thinking of as luxury offgassing. 1. Airlines race to premium (Delta CEO to WSJ)
Delta CEO explaining to WSJ about premium creep
WSJ: Are there any segments of consumers where you are seeing any resistance to higher fares? Are there people out there who are kind of throwing in the towel?

BASTIAN: I wouldn’t say throwing in the towel, but those at the lower end of the economic curve are going to be the most sensitive, and that’s why we reduced our supply offering in that market.
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nick @unionnick.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
On the *same day* the Cornell Seven drugged and raped Jane Doe, Cornell banned four students (including the President of Cornell JVP) from campus for three years for nonviolent, pro-Palestine protests. The same Cornell officials let the rapists off with apology essays.
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AP @dnslycnnctd.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
This made the rounds already and you might already know it, but it is great at putting AI adoption into the wider economic context of higher ed. It might help place AI in relation to other concerns your colleague has or is sympathetic to: hedgehogreview.com/issues/the-f...
hedgehogreview.com
Artificial Negligence
Faculty sense that AI could make old-fashioned teaching and learning much more difficult to achieve, if not obsolete.
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Julia Serano @juliaserano.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
NEW ESSAY on last week's deluge of Dems embracing anti-trans positions. let's stop fixating on trans ppl & instead recognize that Dems have a cisgender problem. pls share! Medium (friend link): juliaserano.medium.com/on-democrats... & Substack (no paywall): juliaserano.substack.com/p/on-democra...
juliaserano.medium.com
On Democrats Who Cave in Response to Anti-Trans Attack Ads
and more importantly: a response to all the cis people responding to the way that trans people are responding to said Democrats’ responses
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AP @dnslycnnctd.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Klara and the Sun (2021) by Kazuo Ishiguro
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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Screenshot of article which reads: We are surrounded by a petrified silence for self-preservation, the 
predominant institutional feeling in our present. Perhaps the framework 
of anticipatory complicity for our universities helps us better confront the 
profound existential crisis our fields face with internal attacks on gender 
ideology that have exposed scholars of women, gender, and sexuality to 
ruthless scrutiny. We need to reckon with not only the shockingly rapid 
dismantling of our field of gender and sexuality studies in 2025 and the 
lack of substantial opposition and a defense of academic freedom in the 
university today, but decades of starvation of WGSS by colleges and uni-
versities. Then we might find new ways to contest the university’s com-
plicity with the only actual gender ideology at play today: state-enforced 
gender binarism.
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Deidre Lynch @drbibliomane.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
I got tired of waiting for the journalists at @theharvardcrimson.bsky.social to cover this (it IS summer), but this is to say that ALL the staff members in Women & Gender Studies here were laid off last week, on the top of the cutting of 5 lecturer positions in the program last year.+
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Klang Academy @klangacademy.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Welcome to Klang Academy, an alternative conservatory for students of the sonic arts and sound studies launching in Fall 2026. Sign up for updates and programming announcements at klangacademy.org See you soon.
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AP @dnslycnnctd.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Please share how it goes when you teach it!
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AP @dnslycnnctd.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
I’m getting together with a few other people this Wednesday to talk about it. Lmk if you want join and I’ll send you a link! We’re meeting from 12-2 on zoom.
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AP @dnslycnnctd.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
A great, clarifying article: "[We] need to fight to reverse deskilling by empowering the academic proletariat to again make meaningful decisions—about their own work, if not about all institutional spending—thus returning the 'brain' of educational work to the classroom from the central office."
hedgehogreview.com
Artificial Negligence
Faculty sense that AI could make old-fashioned teaching and learning much more difficult to achieve, if not obsolete.
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AP @dnslycnnctd.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Obviously.
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13 Monsters
YouTube video by Lightning Bolt - Topic
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AP @dnslycnnctd.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
📢 📢📢📢
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Abbie Boggs @abbieboggs.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
On 7/17, the Federal Register published a new rule to tighten the conditions on student visas. Now it goes to Congress for review and likely applications starting 9/15. My students are getting official emails and starting to ask questions, so wrote up some observations based on my research: 1/
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DHS formalizes major student visa changes: what to know
The Trump administration said the changes will apply to student, exchange, and foreign media visa holders.
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AP @dnslycnnctd.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Genuinely one of the best essays I’ve read in a long time: “Far from being opposites, intelligence and stupidity are intimately bound. The most elaborately intelligent performance can be the most structurally vacant, mobilising all the resources of thought in the service of erasure.”
equator.org
Gaza and the Problem of Moral Stupidity • EQUATOR
Forty years after Edward Said demanded ‘permission to narrate’, the truth from Palestine has never been more widely known. And yet the annihilation continues.
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MIT Press @mitpress.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
"The myth of technological and political and social inevitability is a powerful tranquilizer of the conscience. Its service is to remove responsibility from the shoulders of everyone who truly believes in it." —Joseph Weizenbaum
thereader.mitpress.mit.edu
Can the Classroom Ever Be Automated?
Long before AI, teaching machines promised to make education more efficient. Their forgotten history reveals why that dream keeps falling short.
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Rebecca Colesworthy @rcolesworthy.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
As an indie scholar & publisher, my party line is usually that the hums have never been funded much, scholars have always made do w/ v little & have kept doing so despite austerity/adjunctification & now, so far, despite full-on political attacks/closures/layoffs—but fuck I worry abt gender studies
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Peretsky @peretsky.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
noise means a large enough amount of information that one cannot decipher a specific component of it from the rest when confronting it all at once i.e. white noise being literally every audible frequency at the same time. but that doesn't mean you can't extract specific elements out of the wall.
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AP @dnslycnnctd.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
This looks incredible!!!
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AP @dnslycnnctd.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
Few things hit as hard as “Ooo long!” but this entire record is stunning. It’s hard to imagine what would knock it out of my top 5 by EOY. outofyourheadrecords.bandcamp.com/album/dance-...
outofyourheadrecords.bandcamp.com
dance! skip! hop!, by Tomeka Reid
5 track album
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AP @dnslycnnctd.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
Neurosis’s surprise return has already been pretty widely praised, so I have nothing significant to say except that it’s great, great sludge. neurosis.bandcamp.com/album/an-und...
neurosis.bandcamp.com
An Undying Love For A Burning World, by Neurosis
8 track album
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AP @dnslycnnctd.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
When you want noise that’s infernal and layered. tracedobjects.bandcamp.com/album/other-...
tracedobjects.bandcamp.com
Other Things That Could Be Alphabetical, by Marcloid & Woods Law Group
7 track album
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AP @dnslycnnctd.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
This record is so pissed. A perfect encapsulation of the present. My AOTY so far. mandyindiana.bandcamp.com/album/urgh
mandyindiana.bandcamp.com
URGH, by Mandy, Indiana
10 track album
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AP @dnslycnnctd.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
Great thread! Some I haven't seen listed yet: Amber Jamilla Musser intro to Sensual Excess; Emma Heaney's intro to Feminism Against Cisness; Jennifer Nash's intro to How We Write Now; and, most recently, Annie McClanahan's intro to Beneath the Wage.
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AP @dnslycnnctd.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Kalindi Vora and Neda Atanasoski with a banger: "The 'aesthetics of AI' is ... the ensemble of forms (sleek or cute robots, intimate wearables, servile or seductive voices, and pleasurable interfaces) through which monopoly platforms secure the right to capture, recombine, and operationalize life."
e-flux.com
AI’s AURA: Aesthetic, Ubiquitous, Regimented Automation - Journal #162
Neda Atanasoski and Kalindi Vora argue that AI aesthetics combine the sublime with ubiquity, regimentation, and automation.
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Budget Motel Abyss @budgetmotelabyss.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
My belated attempt to intervene in the Capital translation discourse while also thinking about how it connects to the history of the Marx revival www.jhiblog.org/2026/06/08/t...
jhiblog.org
Towards a Critical Materialist Analysis of Capital’s Translations
by Chris O'Kane
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In These Times @inthesetimes.com · 08/06/2026
“We’re not trying to compete with Hollywood. We’re creating something that can only exist here.” Forced from their homes by Sudan’s war, young women are building a new resistance cinema with smartphones, volunteer labor and stories that demand to be told.
inthesetimes.com
Sudanese Filmmakers Forge New Paths
Young women forced from their homes in the ongoing war are creating a new form of resistance cinema.
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AP @dnslycnnctd.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
K2 and Kaori Komura push their synths and percussion way past the red. One of the more blistering noise records I’ve heard this year. sssm.bandcamp.com/album/tradit...
sssm.bandcamp.com
Traditionelle Japanische Darstellende Künste 2025, by K2 & Kaori Komura
2 track album
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AP @dnslycnnctd.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
Ambient dub techno for near death experiences. kristengallerneaux.bandcamp.com/album/life-day
kristengallerneaux.bandcamp.com
LIFE DAY, by Kristen Gallerneaux
6 track album
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AP @dnslycnnctd.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
Plunderphonics but make it slap. officialauthks.bandcamp.com/album/darkli...
officialauthks.bandcamp.com
darklight, by heavensouls x stickerbush aka sidepeices
20 track album
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AP @dnslycnnctd.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
An unnervingly catchy record given that it appears to be narrated from the perspective of a stalker. carladalforno.bandcamp.com/album/confes...
carladalforno.bandcamp.com
Confession, by Carla dal Forno
12 track album
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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 06/06/2026
The Chronicle's dominant position in the higher ed media ecosystem is one of the biggest problems that we face. Endless right-wing grift, just like the New York Times.
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AP @dnslycnnctd.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Here’s the TOC! We have great essays on the political economy of care in the Caribbean and under Israeli settler colonialism; radical care practices among disaster case managers, in the welfare rights movement, between people on the move, within art, in the Gaza solidarity encampment, & more.
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AP @dnslycnnctd.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Here’s the TOC! We have great essays on the political economy of care in the Caribbean and under Israeli settler colonialism; radical care practices among disaster case managers, in the welfare rights movement, between people on the move, within art, in the Gaza solidarity encampment, & more.
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AP @dnslycnnctd.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Premilla Nadasen and I co-edited a special issue of the Scholar & Feminist Online. It’s called “Troubling Care” and it was just published! Check it out here: sfonline.barnard.edu/troubling-ca...
sfonline.barnard.edu
Troubling Care
About this Issue Sandra Moyano-Ariza Introduction Premilla Nadasen and Alex Pittman Part 1: Life-Making Within and Against Colonialism Groundings: Caribbean Counternarratives in the Understories of…
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AP @dnslycnnctd.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Dense and dynamic electroacoustic compositions that sometimes have a dramatic flair. Fans of Tim Hecker will probably like this too. francescofabris.bandcamp.com/album/displa...
francescofabris.bandcamp.com
DISPLACES, by Francesco Fabris
9 track album
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AP @dnslycnnctd.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Improvisations on electric guitar that glide from ambient excursions to more focused John Fahey/Jack Rose-style folk. tashidorji.bandcamp.com/album/low-cl...
tashidorji.bandcamp.com
low clouds hang, this land is on fire, by Tashi Dorji
11 track album
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AP @dnslycnnctd.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Hypnagogic reels. Kind of like a cross between late period Broadcast and Coil in their moon worshipping mode. strategictapereserve.bandcamp.com/album/16mm
strategictapereserve.bandcamp.com
16mm, by Dogs Versus Shadows & Nicholas Langley
19 track album
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AP @dnslycnnctd.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Exquisitely dejected slowcore. “Bloodchimes” (SOTY btw) has the most wrenching feedback solo you’ll hear. motionward.bandcamp.com/album/the-moth
motionward.bandcamp.com
The Moth, by Cancer House
6 track album
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AP @dnslycnnctd.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
Last summer, @jamacintosh.bsky.social and I led a Marxism reading group on zoom. We are getting the gang back together this month to read @anniemcc.bsky.social’s Beneath the Wage. DM or comment if you’re interested. Or pass this along! All are welcome.
A person who appears to be a food delivery worker in a light blue jacket hauls large insulated bags and checks a phone while sitting on a light blue bike in front of a blue double door.
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AP @dnslycnnctd.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Here are 16 records from the first half of 2026 that are great. I’m still favoring noise, drone, field recordings, and various kinds of improvised music, but compiling this list made me realize I have an apparent affinity for duos. Comments on each coming over the next few days.
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AP @dnslycnnctd.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
Last summer, @jamacintosh.bsky.social and I led a Marxism reading group on zoom. We are getting the gang back together this month to read @anniemcc.bsky.social’s Beneath the Wage. DM or comment if you’re interested. Or pass this along! All are welcome.
A person who appears to be a food delivery worker in a light blue jacket hauls large insulated bags and checks a phone while sitting on a light blue bike in front of a blue double door.
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AP @dnslycnnctd.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
Aren Aizura’s “The Romance of the Amazing Scalpel: ‘Race,’ Labor, and Affect in Thai Gender Reassignment Clinics” is also good.
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AP @dnslycnnctd.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
I think I’ve mentioned this to you in the past, but I find Shiloh Whitney’s “Byproductive Labor” really compelling. Premilla Nadasen also has a great critique of attempts to understand care labor in terms of compassion in her latest book.
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AP @dnslycnnctd.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
Literally listening to this on my commute right now!
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Matthew Kirschenbaum @mkirschenbaum.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
For those hereabouts scrambling to remediate course materials in order to meet the end of the month deadline for compliance with new federal ADA Title II standards, here is the endgame as I see it: 🧵
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Jeff Wasserstrom @jwassers.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Fascinating new piece in @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social (edited by its film section editors) by @bairuiwen.bsky.social on Jia Zhangke & AI lareviewofbooks.org/article/jia-... cc @afrawang.bsky.social @yunnia.bsky.social @chinabooksreview.com
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Will the Real Jia Zhangke Please Stand Up? | Los Angeles Review of Books
Jia Zhangke’s foray into AI filmmaking says a lot about the state of the industry in both China and the United States.
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AP @dnslycnnctd.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
I’m so sorry, Jenna. What a beautiful tribute!
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