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LMODIGLIANI

@lmodigliani.bsky.social
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Visual Studies. Art History. Visual Art. Urbanism. Catastrophe. Travel enthusiast.

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Jon Phillips @jowiph.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
I would kill or die for Larry
A small operation in Oregon that hunts truffles with a trained dog has added an unpaid trainee. A cat named Larry accompanies the handler and the truffle dog into the woods every outing, works a patch of ground a little apart from them, and digs with tremendous confidence in places where there is nothing.
The handler says Larry has never found a truffle and shows no sign of understanding the assignment. He does not use scent the way the dog does and he does not respond when the dog makes a find.
He simply digs his own holes nearby and then inspects them. "He thinks he's on the team," the handler said. "He is emphatically not on the team."
TRUFFLE DOG FINDS THE TRUFFLES -
'TRAINEE' CAT DIGS RANDOM HOLES AND FINDS DIRT
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LMODIGLIANI @lmodigliani.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
Sadly, and as no surprise, this criminal president is bankrupting the USA just like one of his tawdry casinos, and like all those unpaid contractors, we will be left holding the debt. fortune.com/2026/03/23/u...
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The Treasury just declared the U.S. insolvent. The media missed it | Fortune
The Government Accountability Office can't even verify the books. Here's what Congress must do.
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LMODIGLIANI @lmodigliani.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
Absolutely beautiful. I will show this in my global art activism class in the fall.
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LMODIGLIANI @lmodigliani.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
This is an inspiring speech that I hope other countries will get behind.
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LMODIGLIANI @lmodigliani.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
Incredible image of the war our own administration has brought into our own streets.
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LMODIGLIANI @lmodigliani.bsky.social · 30/11/2025
This really is an amazing show IMO. Unlike this writer, I don’t find it lacking at all. It’s multiple genres at once (sci-fi, zombie, mystery, drama…) and full of details that signal our current moment: the dystopian realities of the utopian promise of AI, issues of free speech, loneliness & more.
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50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
Here’s a great guide on how to stay safe at a No Kings protest today.
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How to Protest Safely: What to Bring, What to Do, and What to Avoid
If you’re planning to hit the streets, here’s what you need to know.
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Demetre Daskalakis @drdemetre.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
Enough is enough. The health of the country is in danger. Read our resignation letters: insidemedicine.substack.com/p/breaking-n...
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Breaking News: Read three top CDC officials' resignation emails.
The end of an era.
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Patrick Hickey, MD @pwhickey.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
Must read - Powerful warning to the nation as @drdemetre.bsky.social resigns as Director of the National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases and posts this post on X. Well done, Sir! 🔥💪 “My resignation letter from CDC. Dear Dr. Houry, 1/x
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Sara Silverstein @sarasilverstein.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
Arabic Studies, Holocaust Studies, Russian, Eastern European & Eurasian Studies, Religion, & more—decimating the humanities destroys our ability to understand the world, act in it, and envision a future. Blue states are complicit in this destruction of scholarship and teaching @uoregon.bsky.social
"I've now been allowed and asked to share more details about what's going down at the University of Oregon, which involves imminent announcement of firings, among others, of tenure-track and tenured faculty. Given the units impacted (see below), please share this with your professional networks in related disciplines and start getting ready to put pressure (or begin putting pressure already) on the University of Oregon upper admin to abandon this alleged plan before they finalize it. 

It appears that, with no prior consultations, the departments of Religion and Classics (two separate units), and the programs in Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies, German & Scandinavian, Judaic Studies, Arabic Studies, and Holocaust Studies (the latter five all parts of a previously- consolidated mega unit called the Schnitzer School of Global Studies and Languages) are facing imminent announcement of elimination (expected the week of Sept 7), with layoffs of pre-tenure, tenured, and career faculty in these units. The reason given is "financial exigency" -- upper administrations of several universities across the country (and in blue states like Oregon also) appear to be giddy to use the context of Trump attacks on higher ed to dismantle the humanities. 

Faculty at OU won a faculty union not long ago; this may be, in part, a retaliation for that, l've been told. The union is working with AAUP, etc.; my understanding is that the maximum spotlight is needed at this point."
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LMODIGLIANI @lmodigliani.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
Very pleased to share my text “Spiritually overqualified: Robert Rauschenberg and ‘The Happy Apocalypse’ commission” in Burlington Contemporary now available online in issue 12 with a number of other interesting essays. contemporary.burlington.org.uk/journal/jour...
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Burlington Contemporary - Journal - Spiritually overqualified: Robert Rauschenberg and ‘The Happy Apocalypse’ commission
For a few days in June 2023 the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation, New York, was illuminated by an uncanny amber glow. Outside, an orange sky hung heavy with particulate matter and the atmosphere was haz...
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LMODIGLIANI @lmodigliani.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
Newark airport today midday. Crumbling infrastructure & labor shortages with absolutely no good reason I’ve heard of as to why it had to be this way.
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LMODIGLIANI @lmodigliani.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
Thanks to Shannon Constantine for this thoughtful and smart review of my book Counter Revanchist Art in the Global City. Check it out! asapjournal.com/review/revie...
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Review of Leah Modigliani’s Counter Revanchist Art in the Global City: Walls, Blockades, and Barricades as Repertoires of Creative Action
Leah Modigliani. Counter Revanchist Art in the Global City: Walls, Blockades, and Barricades as Repertoires of Creative Action. Routledge: 2023. Borders, barricades, and walls have long served as tools and symbols of state oppression, functioning materially and metaphorically to delineate the d...
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General Strike US @generalstrikeus.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
It’s almost time for the #HANDSOFF protest! We need YOU to share about the General Strike at this event. We’re all volunteers - help us pass out flyers this Saturday! drive.proton.me/urls/CNRXQTD...
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50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
This is only the beginning. Follow us and join the movement! #50501movement #FiftyFiftyOne #BuildTheResistance #PoliticalRevolution #NoVoiceUnheard #NoKings #VoicesOfFlorida #VoicesUnheard #ImpeachTrump #NoKings #NoKingsDay @polrev.bsky.social
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Scott Galloway @profgalloway.com · 18/02/2025
Interesting data in light of current events. More about welfare queen Elon Musk: www.profgalloway.com/elon-musk-we...
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LMODIGLIANI @lmodigliani.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
If you are at #caa113 please stop by to hear our panel “Environmental Culture, Urban Artscapes, and the Urbanoscene” at 4:30. My paper is about the Grenfell Tower disaster and artist responses to it. Pictured: Chris Ofili, Requiem, 2023 and Steve McQueen, Grenfell, 2019
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