iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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𝐑𝐨𝐛𝐞𝐫𝐭 𝐌𝐨𝐨𝐫 @robertmoor.com · 28/05/2026

File under: Books that feel written for me and my weird interests, specifically. Immediate pre-order.

Kyle Parry @kyleparry.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

Preorder-able, $10 @uminnpress.bsky.social A book influenced by Ursula Le Guin's dark insights, eg "...I hope you will remember that darkness is your country, where you live, where no wars are fought and no wars are won, but where the future is. Our roots are in the dark; the earth is our country."

catalog entry for ways of seeing after dark; the book cover is followed by descriptive copy that reads: Rethinking darkness through the politics and possibilities of vision Darkness is widely misunderstood, argues Kyle Parry. We take darkness as the enemy of sight, yet we can’t see without it. We call the worst parts of our lives dark, yet we wouldn’t be here without wombs, skulls, oceans, the moon, and other shadowed places. Ways of Seeing After Dark contends that darkness is not absence but presence, shaping how worlds are sensed, inhabited, and understood. Darkness brings peril, but it is also a fundamental, if increasingly threatened, condition of living together on this planet. Tracing links between John Berger’s influential Ways of Seeing and his more poetic later writings, Parry recasts contemporary conditions defined by light pollution, digital mediation, and racialized regimes of seeing. In dialogue with artists, critics, and astronomers, Ways of Seeing After Dark examines how fear of darkness is built rather than universal and how such training intersects with broader social structures, including racism and capitalism. Showing how “felt darkness displaces physical darkness” and “brighter nights bring darker days,” Parry reveals the dark as a multifaceted phenomenon with political and perceptual significance, calling for new ways of seeing with the night.

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Kyle Parry @kyleparry.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

It's official! Out this November. I've loved working with @uminnpress.bsky.social and @lpennywark.bsky.social a second time. www.upress.umn.edu/978151792214...

cover of the book Ways of Seeing After Dark by Kyle Parry, the cover in midnight blue, the title in white, and the author's name in yellow

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Miriam Posner @miriamposner.com · 15/11/2025

WE WON. I am *begging* you to take note of who did this. *Not* UCLA admin—they’re still scuttling around behind closed doors, attempting to appease—but FACULTY AND STAFF, led by AAUP.

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Kyle Parry @kyleparry.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

Rich review essay (in German) on my A Theory of Assembly, Legacy Russell's Black Meme: A History of the Images that Make Us, and Valentina Tanni's Memesthetics: The Eternal September of Art from an issue on memes: zfmedienwissenschaft.de/heft/archiv/... zfmedienwissenschaft.de/heft/text/vo...

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Vom Erfassen der Vielstimmigkeit und den Bedingungen selbstbestimmter Meme-Praktiken | Zeitschrift für Medienwissenschaft

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Kyle Parry @kyleparry.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

Moten: "I have been studying how we can be together. I have been studying how we are together."

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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 17/09/2025

Israeli forces are pushing deeper into Gaza City as the full-fledged military ground invasion continues despite mounting international condemnation. "It's just extermination for the sake of extermination."

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Miriam Posner @miriamposner.com · 15/09/2025

Tomorrow the UC regents are meeting at UCSF to discuss Trump's extortion attempt. This is a defining moment for the UC system, for public education, and for the university as an institution. We demand no concession, no capitulation, no cuts.

No Concessions, No Capitulation, No Cuts
On September 16 at 2pm, we are joining the AAUP and CUCFA for a rally at the William J. Rutter Center at UCSF, 1675 Owens Street, San Francisco, to demand No Concessions, No Capitulation, and No Cuts to our University of California. Please join us!

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Kyle Parry @kyleparry.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

Excited to join v cool fellow panelists for the Curationist Metadata Summit on "subversive, unconventional, and unexpected approaches to metadata creation and use." I'll talk on ideas from my essay "Metadata Is Not Data About Data." www.curationist.org/news/save-th... 9/18 noon EST online/open

Curationist 2025 Metadata Summit Metadata Outside the Box

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Kyle Parry @kyleparry.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

rich article on "DeepTok noise" animating "memetic ensembles that are purposefully out of sync"; TikTok as a "metadata machine"; (+ selfishly helps me link my diff recent projects, on metadata, on assembly) Noise in sonic social media: Memetic soundscapes of Deep TikTok Elena Pilipets, Jason Chao

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Kyle Parry @kyleparry.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

maybe the undergrad class is a core thing (e.g. light) complicated (e.g. light not just x but also y, z) but also organized (e.g light in art = light as a, b, c, d) but also urgent (e.g. light as power) but also tangible/fun (e.g. light all around you) but also not the whole story (e.g. darkness)

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Kyle Parry @kyleparry.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

recent reads: - Extractive Capitalism / L Khalili - The Vegetarian + The White Book / Han Kang - Otherlands: A Journey Through Earth's Extinct Worlds / T. Halliday - The Invention of Clouds / R Hamblyn - The Left Hand of Darkness / U K Le Guin - Tyranny of the Minority / L + Z keeping it eclectic

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Kyle Parry @kyleparry.bsky.social · 04/08/2025

Can’t put words to it, but reading/holding John Berger’s notebooks is moving, prismatic, fascinating. Also: didn’t expect to find him writing 11 pages of detailed notes on (from what I can tell) Isaac Asimov’s The Universe. Quasars and all. Bits in British Library for my new book or something else

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Kyle Parry @kyleparry.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

Han Kang: “There is none of us whom life regards with any partiality. Sleet falls as she walks the streets, holding this knowledge inside of her.” Reading now The White Book, having just finished The Left Hand of a Darkness. Works somehow.

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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

Republican presidents get power and Democratic presidents don't. That's what the last four years of SCOTUS boils down to. slate.com/news-and-pol...

Perhaps the most perverse part of CASA, other than its horrific impact on the infants of immigrants, is its timing. For four years, the Supreme Court sat back as a hand-selected group of far-right judges issued a stream of universal injunctions against the Biden administration. Then, barely five months into Trump’s second term, it suddenly cut down the practice. The court has applied an egregious double standard that awards Republican presidents with sweeping authority and presumptive legitimacy while relentlessly curtailing executive power each time a Democrat occupies the Oval Office. No democracy can long survive a regime in which a monarchical president and his black-robed collaborators supplant the Constitution with their own partisan whims.

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Kyle Parry @kyleparry.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

v late to this slightly awkward task, but made a webpage for the book kyleparry.info/a-theory-of-... my new book is now in peer review 🤞🏼

A screen capture of the webpage for A Theory of Assembly, with words from reviews at the top and part of the cover at the bottom

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Kyle Parry @kyleparry.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

Not expecting a response but why not try. Anyone know what Cooper sentence or passage this paraphrases? In the United States, ['built'] is used with much more latitude than in England. There, as Fenimore Cooper puts it, everything is BUILT. The priest BUILDS up a flock; the speculator a fortune...

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Kyle Parry @kyleparry.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

Moten: “The beautiful that’s inseparable from the terrible—that’s too nasty to be sublime, too flavorful to be in good taste, too syncopic to get fixed, too different to be one, too twenty-one to be nineteen, too then to be now, too open and close to be proximate—is what we share, in study.”

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Kyle Parry @kyleparry.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

absolutely packed bus, on the way to Dolores Park, young kid with mom boards with sign that says Trump Has Small Dick-tator Energy, people settle, brief silence, someone at the front: “Way to go San Francisco!” woooooooo

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Kyle Parry @kyleparry.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

writing about memes again, hope i don't blow it

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Joe Katz @joekatz45.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

There are now more than 2000 #NoKings events scheduled for all 50 states, DC, Puerto Rico, Guam and about a dozen foreign countries. RSVPs are skyrocketing, which is particularly worth noting because a lot of people are very understandably dead set against RSVPing. We will not back down.

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

I will allow myself one armchair protest tactics take re: LA this rules

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Micah @rincewind.run · 09/06/2025

really proud to live in Los Angeles right now fuck these assholes, this city is great

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Cristian Farias @cristianfarias.com · 09/05/2025

This Rümeysa Öztürk hearing is radicalizing. I've been a court reporter for many years, and I've never covered anything like this: A student deeply committed to her studies, imprisoned solely over writing an op-ed, being made to testify under oath for her own freedom. Dark, dark stuff.

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Kyle Parry @kyleparry.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

A generous 📕 review: "[a] ground-breaking and much-needed work . . . A Theory of Assembly: From Museums to Memes undertakes the prodigious task of establishing a system of several shifting lenses through which many facets of the contemporary mediascape become visible as an interconnected whole…

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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 11/03/2025

Mahmoud Khalil “was abducted before [his wife’s] very eyes" and "disappeared,” says Ramzi Kassem, CUNY professor of law. Kassem is the founder of the legal clinic CLEAR, which is contesting Khalil's "baseless" detention and Louisiana transfer in New York court.

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Filipe Campante @filipecampante.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

People need to understand that nothing that’s going on now will be “self-defeating”: it will have to be actively defeated. Stop assuming that the regular mechanisms of democracy and the rule of law are operational now. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/16/o...

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Kyle Parry @kyleparry.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

baby rose's cover of landslide is really good

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

The looters I want to talk about are the ones who stole our safe and stable climate from us. Millennia of planetary harm for individuals' profit. They set the fires.

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Kyle Parry @kyleparry.bsky.social · 05/01/2025

just finished The Light Eaters and am now going to need to find a way to follow the latest on the science of plants seeing, sensing, acting — it’s addictive

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Kyle Parry @kyleparry.bsky.social · 01/01/2025

i like the lines these masts make

reflected masts in wavy marina water, making for squiggly lines, about 7 of them

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Kyle Parry @kyleparry.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

ethos pathos logos memos (memeos?)

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Kyle Parry @kyleparry.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

“…in writing about the complexity of plants, he recognized the limits of people.” “…[Theophrastus] equated the liquid flowing through plants to the blood of animals, remarking that both flow through veins, and described the core of trees as ‘heartwood’, a term we still use today.” “But he was

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Kyle Parry @kyleparry.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

100 pages into The Light Eaters, my dreams grew roots, reached places they hadn’t reached before, had electric charge signals to every scene, what if the whole plant is the brain

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Kyle Parry @kyleparry.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

my phone, a cracked satellite, half mirror, chocolate bar, very flat friend, fiend, fun, awful

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Kyle Parry @kyleparry.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

“Slowly, sleep was becoming a private and regulated activity: something one was ashamed of doing in public, at odd hours, or entangled with bodies other than a spouse’s.” - Reiss

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Kyle Parry @kyleparry.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

light as a popular dancer: "Another way to think about this is to imagine that light is a very popular dancer trying to make her way across a crowded dance floor. Even if she is trying to steadily move across the floor, many partners may interrupt her path to have a turn to twirl around with her...

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Kyle Parry @kyleparry.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

i like the lines these pearl peppers make

a collection of pearl peppers in a tray with a spoon

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Kyle Parry @kyleparry.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

“…I am not always writing a sentence to tell a story, exactly, but simply to be in the space of a sentence, to make things appear in it, to see what is possible.” - Amina Cain

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Kyle Parry @kyleparry.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

the eventual comedic edge of having the same nightmare an author just told you about hours before

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Kyle Parry @kyleparry.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

_orbital_ has me seeing this puffy blanket both better and from further above

a view of a puffy blanket of clouds with a spectrum of pools of shadow, as seen from a commercial plane

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constellations journal @constellationsjrnl.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

📣📕As a journal focused on cultural rhetorics, we’re thrilled to bring together these scholars, instructors, practitioners, and all-around magnificent humans. Are you interested in cultural rhetorics? Let us know and we’ll add you! go.bsky.app/Mzw3HSc #AcademicSky #WritingCommunity

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