François Mouillot @fmouillot.bsky.social · 10/12/2025« There’s a kind of quiet violence in how music is consumed today—flattened into background noise, sonic perfume fed into algorithms, sold as lifestyle. It’s entertainment as anesthesia. Sound without the weight. » - Agriculture 010
Reposted by François MouillotKen Wissoker @kwissoker.bsky.social · 02/06/2025into a successful book, think about the review process in a productive way, and the unanticipated problems of second and subsequent books. This year, I also want to talk about the worrisome situation for scholarly publishing. Never financially solid, the situation has taken a sudden turn for ... 2/ 1495
François Mouillot @fmouillot.bsky.social · 24/04/2025My latest on social media platforms and logics of knowledge production in East Asian independent music, out in Convergence now: doi.org/10.1177/1354... Special thanks to @qianhuang.bsky.social for helping bring this out into the world!journals.sagepub 071
François Mouillot @fmouillot.bsky.social · 30/03/2025AI promises expertise without experts: « We all know it’s not going to work. But the fantasy compels risk-averse universities […] because it promises the power to control what learning does without paying the cost for how real learning happens”: www.nytimes.com/2025/03/29/o...nytimes.comOpinion | The Tech Fantasy That Powers A.I. Is Running on FumesA.I. is just what we need in the post-fact era: less research and more predicting what we want to hear. 130
François Mouillot @fmouillot.bsky.social · 22/03/2025One of a few, growing, Do-It-Together initiatives in the HK indie scene: “There are more people putting on shows, there’s more music, the bands are more active and more ambitious.” zolimacitymag.com/un-tomorrow-...zolimacitymag.comUn.Tomorrow: Hong Kong’s Newest Indie Record LabelMusicians from David Boring, Wellsaid and An Id Signal have banded together to capture Hong Kong’s new musical ambitions with Un.Tomorrow 020
Reposted by François MouillotKen Wissoker @kwissoker.bsky.social · 21/03/2025Here's a more fulsome post from the Press. So sad. Farewell to Jonathan Sterne dukeupress.wordpress.com/2025/03/21/f...dukeupress.wordpress.comFarewell to Jonathan SterneWe are very sad to learn of the death of communication scholar Jonathan Sterne, after a long battle with cancer. He was 54 years old. Sterne was James McGill Professor of Culture and Technology at … 712549
François Mouillot @fmouillot.bsky.social · 21/03/2025RIP Jonathan Sterne, a trail blazer and an inspiration to so many, in so many ways. I learned so much from him and his partner Carrie in my time McGill on how to become the kind of academic, and person, I want to be. I will continue to practice and share what he taught me. 092
Reposted by François MouillotRob @robarcand.bsky.social · 13/03/2025Earlier today, a group of students received word that Jonathan Sterne entered hospice care yesterday following his ongoing battle with cancer. I think there's a few of his colleagues and former students that follow me on here (he's also currently my phd advisor), more info will be coming soon 2510516
François Mouillot @fmouillot.bsky.social · 13/03/2025The old major/indie labels divide that keeps on giving up. Some interesting contemporary takes on it in this podcast episode: open.substack.com/pub/notagspo...open.substack.com41: Major labels are hoovering up what's left of independent musicCan you be a truly independent artist anymore? 010
Reposted by François MouillotRobin James @robinjames.bsky.social · 07/03/2025PopCon and popular music studies would like to have a WORD with this premise. Popular music criticism thrives outside the university and has for a long time, even as music journalism has too collapsed. The only thing we're missing is prestige and big salaries (oh is that what they mean by 'survive') 0103
François Mouillot @fmouillot.bsky.social · 07/03/2025For those with interest in South East Asian/Asian popular music, deadline is on March 15th!: iaspm-sea.org/conference-2...iaspm-sea.org2025 Conference CfP: Peripheries, Margins, and Ambiguities across Borders in SouthEast Asian Popular Music 6-8 August 2025 | National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan submit a paper The tides of… 010
Reposted by François MouillotErik Bordeleau @derivativ.bsky.social · 27/01/2025AFTER PROTOCOLS, the last issue of Revue Espace art Actuel # 139 is out! Co-directed by @ncasemajor.bsky.social and myself, the bilingual issue (French-English) discuss all things related to art & blockchain. Enjoy! espaceartactuel.com/en/produit/1... Cover image: @isthisa.bsky.social 083
Reposted by François MouillotLoïc Riom @loicriom.bsky.social · 23/09/2024✨My contribution to the platform/platformization debate 🫣 Being a “Global Music Platform”: Platform Work in Light-Tech Capitalism Out in Social media + Society 📚 Check it out here: 👇 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... #PlatformEconomy #TechCapitalism #DigitalLabor #PlatformStudiesmedia.tenor.comTa Da Toby Domzalski GIFALT: Ta Da Toby Domzalski GIF 1135
François Mouillot @fmouillot.bsky.social · 25/01/2025From 2021 and missing some key artists/groups, but pleased to say a majority of those important bands are still active in the Hong Kong underground: daily.bandcamp.com/lists/hong-k...daily.bandcamp.comMeet the Bands Keeping Hong Kong’s Underground Rock Scene AliveDespite structural issues and pandemic problems, these artists are determined to keep guitar music a going concern in their hometown. 010
Reposted by François MouillotQuinn Daedal @quinnanya.me · 22/01/2025Worried about how long your favorite art, stories, videos, and other media will remain online? You can do something about it. Archive it, put it on a flash drive, share it. Digital things are fragile, but you don't need serious tech skills to protect the digital things you care about. 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈 2231140
François Mouillot @fmouillot.bsky.social · 23/01/2025Happy to be involved in this MASSIVE collection, with a chapter on the role of distribution infrastructures, afrological improvisation and whiteness in the Québec ‘Musique actuelle’ scene: www.routledge.com/The-Routledg...routledge.comThe Routledge Companion to Diasporic Jazz StudiesThe Routledge Companion to Diasporic Jazz Studies recognizes the proliferation of jazz as global music in the 21st century. It illustrates the multi-vocality of contemporary jazz studies, combining lo... 020
François Mouillot @fmouillot.bsky.social · 22/01/2025A nice little primer of notable activity in the ever under-the-radar Hong Kong indie music scenes (across multiple genres & community): open.substack.com/pub/passingn...open.substack.comThe Hong Kong music that mattered in 2024Gigs, records and moments that we can't forget, for better or for worse 021
Reposted by François MouillotBenjamin Duester @benjaminduester.bsky.social · 20/01/2025📚New year, new publication out in a #continuum special issue on Popular Music’s revival and renewal edited by the fantastic Lauren Istvandity, Mengyu Luo and John Tebutt.📚 In this article, I take on the annually regurgitated ‘cassette revival’ or ‘cassette comeback’.tandfonline.comThe ‘cassette comeback’: debunking a tenacious narrativeAcademic attention to cassette tapes has reached its first peak in 30 years. If anything, this focus demonstrates that the adoption of media is not as linear as has been commonly anticipated in the... 061