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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

There's this incredible doc called Scratch about the DJ movement and one section is about crate digging and finding the perfect break no one has heard before. It's an art form. It's about taste. It's stitching together something new from something old. Here's DJ Shadow.

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DJ Shadow featured in the movie Scratch (2002)

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Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

This is John Cage’s handmade paper, composed of milkweed, cattail, pigweed, honeysuckle, saffron, and more — at the NYPL

Very fibrous handmade paper with different colored globs and flecks from various plants

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Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

“In the 1990s + 2000s, gov’ts, uni’s, + libraries—the institutions that historically bore responsibility for organizing + preserving public knwldg—declined to, or were prevented from, bldg the digital infrastructure plainly required by an age when democracy seemed ascendant + universally desirable”

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What Was the Internet?

As AI overtakes the web, five writers reflect on how far it’s fallen and what comes next.

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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

it's a monday afternoon at the end of july, of course we're writing syllabi against-a-i.com is here for you! and if you're a humanities teacher who's developed materials you'd like to contribute as we glow up for fall, PLEASE SEND! against-a-i.com

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AGAINST AI -

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Sport in History Podcast @sportinhistorypod.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Join us as we speak to @idlesmc.bsky.social about his most recent book: 'Physical Culture and the Biopolitics of the International Garden City Movement' published last year with Palgrave McMillan. Listen on all major podcast platforms or via the link: www.sportinhistory.com/pages/bssh-p...

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The Sport in History Podcast | British Society of Sports History

The Sport in History Podcast helps publicise your research with the public and wider academic community.

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Josh Shepperd @joshshepperd.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

Resonance (UC Press) is looking for humanities research across the following topics: Sound in Political Crisis, Sound and Social Justice, Experiments in Sound, Sound Archives and Preservation, and we're convening a permanent series that'll examine "Film and Cinema Sound" this Fall. Please circulate!

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Resonance | University of California Press

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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 20/06/2026

‘This World Cup, unlike Russia 2018, is hosted by democratic nations, and unlike Qatar 2022 the walkways to its stadiums are not paved with bones. But it will forever be associated with newly obscene levels of fan exploitation.’ Simon Skinner: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

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Simon Skinner · ‘I wouldn’t pay it either’: World Cup Wallcharts

This World Cup, unlike Russia 2018, is hosted by democratic nations, and unlike Qatar 2022 the walkways to its stadiums...

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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

"nearly 75% of instructional staff in American higher education now work outside the tenure system. Contingency no longer exists at the edges of academic life; it increasingly defines the structure through which the university teaches, adapts, + reproduces itself." working-mass.com/2026/06/04/i...

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Intellectual Homelessness: The Adjunct and the Disappearing University - Working Mass

By: Ashraf Hazeyen Every semester, the adjunct professor walks into the classroom carrying the full symbolic weight of the university while possessing almost none of its protections. They enter with a...

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Ben Williamson @benpatrickwill.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

Perfect case of what we termed academic content assetization in a recent paper, where HE institutions use their learning platforms to gather teaching materials from staff to then repurpose as future revenue-generating derivative products

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Mina Kimes @minakimes.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

I can't stop laughing at this post. It's perfect.

A guy asking ChatGPT to review a series of fart sound effects and getting a serious kiss ass response that calls it atmospheric

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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 29/03/2026

‘Economic historians have vastly overestimated the amount of time that women spent on domestic labour. This is not because men were doing it. But there was not so much domestic work to do as previously assumed.’ @tomlukejohnson.bsky.social on early moden work. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

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Tom Johnson · Save My Beer: Industrious Revolution

Labour was once an organic part of the peasant household, done in the interest of subsistence. Certainly many people in...

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Jennifer Sano-Franchini @jsanofranchini.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

It's the first day of spring break, so I guess why not start an etsy shop for generative AI refusal stickers? 🫠 www.etsy.com/shop/byebot I'm planning to donate all proceeds to anti-generative AI, pro-human community organizations. Hoping to be able to share more about this soon! #byebot

About byebot: I started out making these stickers for fun and I gave hundreds away for free at academic conferences! But since I posted pics online, numerous people have asked me about buying them. So, I decided to start this shop. All proceeds will go to anti-generative AI, pro-human community organizations. More about this coming soon!

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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

The wait is (almost) over! @ghostdoc2026.bsky.social is coming to audiences on March 27th! Screenings and rentals are available via Kinema, and the film will stream free on PBS and YouTube this fall. Details at: notaidoc.com

Image for the documentary Ghost in the Machine by Valerie Veatch. The title appears in large glitch-style rainbow text over a black-and-white close-up of a hand holding a set of mechanical eyes. At the top it reads “Official Selection 2026 Sundance Film Festival” and “A Film by Valerie Veatch.” A quote reads, “A necessary, radical, Molotov cocktail of a documentary.” Attribution: The Wrap. A small badge on the right says “Not AI.”

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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

Honestly I need historians to be the plaintiffs in every case I cover because if they make it to discovery you just KNOW those primary sources are going public. Exhibit A: The American Historical Association uploading video depos of the DOGE bros to YouTube. www.youtube.com/watch?v=qkCz...

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Nathan Cavanaugh Deposition in ACLS-AHA-MLA Lawsuit About the NEH, Part 1 of 6

YouTube video by American Historical Association

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Engaging Sports @engagingsports.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

When we hike or bike in preserved space, such as a state or national park, we’re not just enjoying nature—we’re experiencing a contested political space...Spaces for recreation and leisure are marked by power struggles over who gets to define each space’s meaning and national significance.

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Outdoor Recreation and the Contested Meaning of Preserved Space - Engaging Sports

The Society Pages (TSP) is an open-access social science project headquartered in the Department of Sociology at the University of Minnesota

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Duke University Press @dukepress.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

Save 30% on #NewBook "Abolition Archives, Feminist Futures" by Kathi Weeks, which examines the works of Angela Davis, Shulamith Firestone, and Donna Haraway to build a case for the abolition of prison and family and the refusal of work. buff.ly/WNQyfxY

Cover of Abolition Archives, Feminist Futures by Kathi Weeks. The cover features rectangles and other geometric shapes overlapping each other in red, pink, and black. The title is written in all caps in a bold sans serif white font. The title is written diagonally. The author’s name appears below in the same font and direction but in hot pink. Where the author’s name overlaps with the red rectangle in the background, the text appears black.

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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

QUITGPT.org

chat is trump's biggest donor - $25M in 2025

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Johanna Winant @johannawinant.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

I wrote an essay for @bostonreview.bsky.social about what I learned about close reading when I taught at West Virginia University www.bostonreview.net/articles/the...

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The Claims of Close Reading - Boston Review

Literary studies have been starved by austerity, but their core methodology remains radical.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 11/11/2025

new video up at my youtube page on the history of the filibuster and why it’s Bad. watch/share/subscribe/etc! youtu.be/a30e7lw6KL4

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What's the deal with the filibuster?

YouTube video by Takes™ by Jamelle Bouie

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Andy Cush @cushac.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

Especially since the publication of 'Mood Machine,' there's a growing sense among underground musicians that we don't have to simply accept our own exploitation by streaming. I wrote about the artists who are dropping out and imagining a future beyond it www.hearingthings.co/musicians-no...

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Tune In, Drop Out

The independent musicians and labels who are saying no to streaming.

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A CLOSER LISTEN @acloserlisten.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

Boredom (1924) – Siegfried Kracauer schwarzemilch.wordpress.com/wp-content/u...

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Brian Zahnd @brianzahnd.bsky.social · 30/12/2024

“Thinking has an affective, bodily dimension. Goosebumps. Stirrings innervate thinking. This is precisely why artificial intelligence cannot think. Because feelings and affects are analog, bodily events, they cannot be represented in algorithms. Intelligence merely calculates.” ~Byung-Chul Han

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