AP @dnslycnnctd.bsky.social · 14/10/2026Horrible 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. 000
Reposted by APJ.D. Connor @jdconnor.bsky.social · 09/10/2026The 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) 1237
Reposted by APnick @unionnick.bsky.social · 27/09/2026On 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. 6453642147
AP @dnslycnnctd.bsky.social · 18/09/2026This 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.comArtificial NegligenceFaculty sense that AI could make old-fashioned teaching and learning much more difficult to achieve, if not obsolete. 041
Reposted by APJulia Serano @juliaserano.bsky.social · 15/09/2026NEW 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.comOn Democrats Who Cave in Response to Anti-Trans Attack Adsand more importantly: a response to all the cis people responding to the way that trans people are responding to said Democrats’ responses 231347558
Reposted by APDeidre Lynch @drbibliomane.bsky.social · 17/08/2026I 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.+ 21920550
Reposted by APKlang Academy @klangacademy.bsky.social · 11/08/2026Welcome 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. 071
AP @dnslycnnctd.bsky.social · 25/07/2026I’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. 110
AP @dnslycnnctd.bsky.social · 23/07/2026A 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.comArtificial NegligenceFaculty sense that AI could make old-fashioned teaching and learning much more difficult to achieve, if not obsolete. 031
AP @dnslycnnctd.bsky.social · 22/07/2026Obviously.youtube.com13 MonstersYouTube video by Lightning Bolt - Topic 000
Reposted by APAbbie Boggs @abbieboggs.bsky.social · 21/07/2026On 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/newsweek.comDHS formalizes major student visa changes: what to knowThe Trump administration said the changes will apply to student, exchange, and foreign media visa holders. 15332
AP @dnslycnnctd.bsky.social · 17/07/2026Genuinely 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.orgGaza and the Problem of Moral Stupidity • EQUATORForty years after Edward Said demanded ‘permission to narrate’, the truth from Palestine has never been more widely known. And yet the annihilation continues. 010
Reposted by APMIT 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 Weizenbaumthereader.mitpress.mit.eduCan 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. 23821
Reposted by APRebecca Colesworthy @rcolesworthy.bsky.social · 05/07/2026As 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 2505
Reposted by APPeretsky @peretsky.bsky.social · 25/06/2026noise 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. 1173
AP @dnslycnnctd.bsky.social · 14/06/2026Few 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.comdance! skip! hop!, by Tomeka Reid5 track album 000
AP @dnslycnnctd.bsky.social · 14/06/2026Neurosis’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.comAn Undying Love For A Burning World, by Neurosis8 track album 100
AP @dnslycnnctd.bsky.social · 14/06/2026When you want noise that’s infernal and layered. tracedobjects.bandcamp.com/album/other-...tracedobjects.bandcamp.comOther Things That Could Be Alphabetical, by Marcloid & Woods Law Group7 track album 110
AP @dnslycnnctd.bsky.social · 14/06/2026This record is so pissed. A perfect encapsulation of the present. My AOTY so far. mandyindiana.bandcamp.com/album/urghmandyindiana.bandcamp.comURGH, by Mandy, Indiana10 track album 110
AP @dnslycnnctd.bsky.social · 12/06/2026Great 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. 040
AP @dnslycnnctd.bsky.social · 11/06/2026Kalindi 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.comAI’s AURA: Aesthetic, Ubiquitous, Regimented Automation - Journal #162Neda Atanasoski and Kalindi Vora argue that AI aesthetics combine the sublime with ubiquity, regimentation, and automation. 000
Reposted by APBudget Motel Abyss @budgetmotelabyss.bsky.social · 08/06/2026My 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.orgTowards a Critical Materialist Analysis of Capital’s Translationsby Chris O'Kane 32713
Reposted by APIn 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.comSudanese Filmmakers Forge New PathsYoung women forced from their homes in the ongoing war are creating a new form of resistance cinema. 03914
AP @dnslycnnctd.bsky.social · 07/06/2026K2 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.comTraditionelle Japanische Darstellende Künste 2025, by K2 & Kaori Komura2 track album 100
AP @dnslycnnctd.bsky.social · 07/06/2026Ambient dub techno for near death experiences. kristengallerneaux.bandcamp.com/album/life-daykristengallerneaux.bandcamp.comLIFE DAY, by Kristen Gallerneaux6 track album 100
AP @dnslycnnctd.bsky.social · 07/06/2026Plunderphonics but make it slap. officialauthks.bandcamp.com/album/darkli...officialauthks.bandcamp.comdarklight, by heavensouls x stickerbush aka sidepeices20 track album 100
AP @dnslycnnctd.bsky.social · 07/06/2026An unnervingly catchy record given that it appears to be narrated from the perspective of a stalker. carladalforno.bandcamp.com/album/confes...carladalforno.bandcamp.comConfession, by Carla dal Forno12 track album 110
Reposted by APAsheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 06/06/2026The 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. 1231982
Reposted by APAP @dnslycnnctd.bsky.social · 05/06/2026Here’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. 021
AP @dnslycnnctd.bsky.social · 05/06/2026Here’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. 021
AP @dnslycnnctd.bsky.social · 04/06/2026Premilla 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.eduTroubling CareAbout 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… 100
AP @dnslycnnctd.bsky.social · 04/06/2026Dense 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.comDISPLACES, by Francesco Fabris9 track album 100
AP @dnslycnnctd.bsky.social · 04/06/2026Improvisations 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.comlow clouds hang, this land is on fire, by Tashi Dorji11 track album 100
AP @dnslycnnctd.bsky.social · 04/06/2026Hypnagogic reels. Kind of like a cross between late period Broadcast and Coil in their moon worshipping mode. strategictapereserve.bandcamp.com/album/16mmstrategictapereserve.bandcamp.com16mm, by Dogs Versus Shadows & Nicholas Langley19 track album 131
AP @dnslycnnctd.bsky.social · 04/06/2026Exquisitely dejected slowcore. “Bloodchimes” (SOTY btw) has the most wrenching feedback solo you’ll hear. motionward.bandcamp.com/album/the-mothmotionward.bandcamp.comThe Moth, by Cancer House6 track album 110
Reposted by APAP @dnslycnnctd.bsky.social · 02/06/2026Last 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. 012
AP @dnslycnnctd.bsky.social · 03/06/2026Here 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. 141
AP @dnslycnnctd.bsky.social · 02/06/2026Last 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. 012
AP @dnslycnnctd.bsky.social · 15/05/2026Aren Aizura’s “The Romance of the Amazing Scalpel: ‘Race,’ Labor, and Affect in Thai Gender Reassignment Clinics” is also good. 010
AP @dnslycnnctd.bsky.social · 15/05/2026I 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. 220
Reposted by APMatthew Kirschenbaum @mkirschenbaum.bsky.social · 10/04/2026For 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: 🧵 310059
Reposted by APJeff Wasserstrom @jwassers.bsky.social · 08/04/2026Fascinating 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.comlareviewofbooks.orgWill the Real Jia Zhangke Please Stand Up? | Los Angeles Review of BooksJia Zhangke’s foray into AI filmmaking says a lot about the state of the industry in both China and the United States. 0148