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Erik Steinskog @eriksteinskog.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I am looking forward to Peter Koch Gehlshøj’s PhD defence on November 6, 2026, 13:00-16:00. His thesis is entitled “Murmuring Echoes: Reenacing Conflicts and Identities in Eighteenth-Century Music Theater,” and I’m the chairperson for the assessment committee. The defence is public.

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Murmuring Echoes: Reenacting Conflicts and Identities in Eighteenth-Century Music Theatre

PhD defence by Peter Koch Gehlshøj

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Erik Steinskog @eriksteinskog.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

My late evening music is Steve Reich's Music for 18 Musicians (composed 1974-76, first recorded 1978). I lost this LP to a former student..., but hey, this is a marvelous piece of music!

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Reich: Music for 18 Musicians

YouTube video by Steve Reich - Topic

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Erik Steinskog @eriksteinskog.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I just finished reading Muskism: A Guide for the Perplexed by Quinn Slobodian & Ben Tarnoff (see comments). @quinnslobodian.com @bentarnoff.com

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Erik Steinskog @eriksteinskog.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Happy International Translation Day to all celebrating!

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Dr Katie Twomey @k2mey.eurosky.social · 28/09/2026

This is quite cool. My university is the first organisation in the world to force Microsoft to allow us to turn off copilot summaries in Word 365, after a backlash against it from staff (including, very vocally, me). That cannot have been easy for our heroic IT people so hats very much off to them!

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Erik Steinskog @eriksteinskog.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Today it is 50 years since the release of Stevie Wonder's album Songs in the Key of Life.

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Love's In Need Of Love Today

YouTube video by Stevie Wonder - Topic

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Erik Steinskog @eriksteinskog.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Ursprung des deutschen Trauerspiels (1928).

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Erik Steinskog @eriksteinskog.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Walter Benjamin, who died on this day back in 1940, is without a doubt the most important thinker and writer for me. His Ursprung des deutschen Trauerspiels (1928) is my lodestar.

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Erik Steinskog @eriksteinskog.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Check out this Bandcamp Daily about David Murray. So much great music. And yes, Mr. Murray is among my favorite living musicians.

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David Murray is History

The saxophonist is a central figure in the story of jazz in the ‘80s and beyond.

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Erik Steinskog @eriksteinskog.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I think I would be fully occupied if the rest of my career consisted simply of finishing what I’ve started. And with that thought, I say goodnight.

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Erik Steinskog @eriksteinskog.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Underjordisk, the seventh novel in Karl Ove Knausgård’s Morning Star series will be out (in Norwegian) November 13 – and yes, that is a Friday.

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Underjordisk

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Erik Steinskog @eriksteinskog.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

In the mail today: my author’s copy of The Routledge Handbook of the Popular Music Cover Song: Vivid Versions and Musical Subjectivities edited by Mike Alleyne and Lori Burns. It contains my piece “Voicing Historicity in ‘Four Women’: Nina Simone (1966); Meshell Ndegeocello (2012).”

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Erik Steinskog @eriksteinskog.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Jeg skulle egentligt bare købe China Miévilles The Rouse, men endte også op med et eksemplar af Henrik Jøker Bjerres Det postakademiske universitet (se kommentar). Den ser vigtig ud, og jeg glæder mig til at læse.

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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

The fallacy that University leaders pushing AI are falling into is thinking that the point of undergraduate research is to find things out. It isn't. What students find out is typically already generally known. The point of undergraduate research is to learn how to find things out.

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Erik Steinskog @eriksteinskog.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

"Vi kan godt forstå, hvorfor de tech-selskaber, der lige nu overlever på venture-kapital og håbet om fremtidig profit, ønsker at kile sig ind i uddannelsessektoren. (...) Vi er mindre forstående overfor, hvorfor vi som universitet skal hjælpe dem."

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KU's omfavnelse af AI underminerer universitetet

Tech-virksomhederne bruger enorme mængder energi på at konstruere AI-udviklingen som en naturkraft, vi ikke kan afværge. Men det passer ikke, og som vidensinstitution har KU et ansvar for at sige fra,...

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Petisia @petisia.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

United Nations has backed a resolution to change the way Africa is represented on world maps. The “Correct the Map” resolution was adopted by a vote of 164 to one, with six countries abstaining. The United States was the only country to vote against it.👇🏾 www.npr.org/2026/09/04/n... #PINKS

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Erik Steinskog @eriksteinskog.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

am saying good night with Cassandra Wilson's 2002 album Belly of the Sun. Good night.

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The Weight

YouTube video by Cassandra Wilson - Topic

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Erik Steinskog @eriksteinskog.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Today it is 115 years since Romare Bearden was born.

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Erik Steinskog @eriksteinskog.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

I am saying good night with John Zorn's 2007 album Six Litanies for Heliogabalus. I *love* this album. And yes, play it loud!!! Good night. Today John Zorn is 73. Happy birthday.

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Litany I

YouTube video by John Zorn - Topic

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Elise A. Mitchell @bydreamphd.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

I’ve had this convo privately enough times in the last week to go public: I don’t think there is any valuable way to use AI in a history classroom.

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Erik Steinskog @eriksteinskog.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

As of yesterday, I have assessed PhDs in 5 countries: Norway, Denmark, Finland, USA, and Canada. Fun fact: only those in Norway (Bergen) and Denmark (Copenhagen) were in musicology! (Finland/Helsinki: Philosophy; USA/Temple: Africology and African-American Studies; Canada/Concordia: Humanities).

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William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 25/08/2026

[Exit Queen.]

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Erik Steinskog @eriksteinskog.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Tonight I can write “she did good” on social media and everyone in my feed will understand who I’m referring to.

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Erik Steinskog @eriksteinskog.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Eg var i Canada – nærare bestemt, Halifax, Ny Skotland – då eg såg Christopher Nolan si versjon av Odyssevskvædet i sumar. Hadde eg vore heima, ville eg allereie ha sitert frå Arne Garborg si omsetjing (mi utgåve er andre upplag frå 1919):

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Erik Steinskog @eriksteinskog.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

I wish my university had a policy similar to this one.

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Tade "Will Eat Your Heart in the Marketplace" Thompson @tadethompson.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

To me, a lot of this tomfoolery happens because folks don't understand sci-fi. When we write stories with Dyson Spheres we know there's not enough matter in the solar system available to build one. It's just a conceit, a Once Upon a Time. Like FTL travel. These folks never explored the ideas.

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Life Inside "THE LINE" - Why Saudi Arabia’s Glass Megacity Will Fail (An Architectural Analysis)

YouTube video by Daniel Titchener

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Erik Steinskog @eriksteinskog.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

I started school 50 years ago, in 1976, at Kleppe skule, in Klepp (Rogaland, Norway). Here is the official picture from my first grade.

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Erik Steinskog @eriksteinskog.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

If the tech-companies start wanting to get paid for the actual expenses of universities (students, faculty, admin with licenses) using AI, I’m pretty sure most universities cannot afford the bill.

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Erik Steinskog @eriksteinskog.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Henry Threadgill (born February 15, 1944) is among the top, well, three composers/musicians alive today!

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Erik Steinskog @eriksteinskog.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

I wasn’t aware of a pipeline between Spiked and The Spectator until today (authors writing both places, on the same topics, basically the same stories) as I try not to read either of them. Strange bedfellows.

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 17/08/2026

"AI" has existed in its current form for barely four years and the fact that it's jammed up the cognitive development of an entire generation that fast (and that there's a specific overclass of techofascists who are deeply thrilled about this) is a big damn red flag. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/17/u...

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What Do Students Lose When They Stop Writing? (Gift Article)

Educators are worried that many students can no longer write essays without A.I. And it’s costing more than just grammar skills.

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Erik Steinskog @eriksteinskog.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

In two weeks, I will be the external examiner for Maurice Jones’s thesis “Temporally Autonomous Spaces: A Black Quantum Rhythmanalysis of Festivals at the Intersection of Art, Music, and Technology,” at Concordia University.

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PhD Oral Exam - Maurice Jones, Humanities | Events - Concordia University

Temporally Autonomous Spaces: A Black Quantum Rhythmanalysis of Festivals at the Intersection of Art, Music, and Technology

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