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Sinéad Gleeson @sineadgleeson.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

Happy 85th birthday Wendy Carlos, who revolutionised the synth with Bob Moog, made electronic music before Eno & Kraftwerk, & composed scores for Tron, Clockwork Orange and The Shining. A trans icon, Carlos gave few interviews but this BBC one features her beloved cat www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z3ca...

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Cormac Donnelly @cormacrestrike.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

Loved being able to share this amazing video essay with my students today. youtu.be/jz7nOzBv7eE?...

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Irani Bag / کیف ایرانی by Maryam Tafakory

YouTube video by maryam tafakory

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eileen chengyin chow @chowleen.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

"Sorrow is composed of a heart in autumn." A few notes on translating Xin Qiji's short lyric that I had a written a while back. (yes, it's on my substack, only bc I needed to find a place to park it after the original publishing site disappeared...) open.substack.com/pub/chowleen...

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Aswin Punathambekar @aswinp.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

Please join the South Asian film and media studies community here! Please add friends and colleagues, and let me know if you'd like to be included. go.bsky.app/7n3AdXG

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Mara Wilson @marawilson.bsky.social · 29/12/2023

“Let me speak plainly: It is not antisemitic to demand justice for all Palestinians living in their ancestral lands.” Love this whole article.

“Be boldly critical of Israel — not despite being Jewish, but because you are. There is no tradition more central to Judaism than prophetic truth-telling, no Jewish imperative more urgent than bravely criticizing corrupt leadership, starting with our own.”

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Duke University Press @dukepress.bsky.social · 07/12/2023

Eric Drott’s “Streaming Music, Streaming Capital” analyzes the political economy of online music streaming platforms. Read the free intro & pre-order the book for 50% off with coupon CYBER23! www.dukeupress.edu/streaming-mu...

Cover of Streaming Music, Streaming Capital by Eric Drott. Image features a cracked phone screen with audio waves depicted at the top of the screen against an orange background. The bottom three-quarters of the cover is black.

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Nilanjana Bhattacharjya @nilanjana.bsky.social · 28/11/2023

This looks great: www.hurstpublishers.com/book/anarchy...

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Citizen.Coping @propcazhpm.bsky.social · 11/10/2023

"I was sitting there on the edge of my chair with a decision to make—pass on the war.. or climb the stairs, go to sleep.. read the score in the morning.. Not yet immune to the real-real, I sat and watched with such anxiety, such nausea—it seemed.. immoral to go to sleep" Dionne Brand, The Blue Clerk

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Aswin Punathambekar @aswinp.bsky.social · 07/11/2023

Academic friends, please spread the word about a postdoc opportunity at the Center for Advanced Research in Global Communication at Annenberg/Penn. www.asc.upenn.edu/news-events/...

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'M-Dash' Devereaux @michelledevereaux.bsky.social · 07/11/2023

I'm on the board of intersectional feminist journal MAI, which looks at various aspects of visual culture, and our latest issue is fresh off the virtual presses. Best of all, it's a special issue on Agnès Varda! Viva Varda! maifeminism.com/issues/focus...

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MAI Focus Issue 12: Reframing Varda

In this issue of MAI, we asked authors to start with an image from Agnès Varda’s work and present an analysis guided by their close reading.

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Dr. Kendra Preston Leonard (she/her) @kleonardphd.bsky.social · 07/11/2023

A random screencap from today's research: this poor dyed or painted dog masquerading as a wolf or hyena in Nosferatu (1922). Pretty sure it's still a good dog, @darthbluesky.bsky.social.

A dog has been painted to look like a wolf or hyena looks out from a den or nest.

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Ed Yong is offline @edyong209.bsky.social · 07/11/2023

A reminder for Americans that the 5Calls app makes it trivially easy to call your representatives. I’ve been using it daily. 5calls.org

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5 Calls

Spend 5 minutes. Make 5 calls. Make your voice heard.

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Nilanjana Bhattacharjya @nilanjana.bsky.social · 05/11/2023

Academic folks who spent not so small fortunes on the books from the library you needed but could never keep during the 1990s and 2000s, have you ever considered where you want your books to go after you pass? Most grad students today don’t want your physical books. Nor do most univ. libraries.

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Nilanjana Bhattacharjya @nilanjana.bsky.social · 04/11/2023

Four years in, being widowed still doesn’t feel like being single, which my divorced friends rarely understand. (I spent last weekend organizing dozens of boxes of my late husband’s research materials with one of his colleagues.) This piece rings true: www.nytimes.com/2023/11/03/s...

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A Marriage Problem That Can’t Be Solved

My husband and I haven’t spoken in more than a year. It can’t go on like this, but it will.

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Ed Yong is offline @edyong209.bsky.social · 04/11/2023

Many publications have misguided policies that restrict the civic participation of their journalists on the spurious logic that such actions would jeopardize the publication’s reputation & veneer of neutrality—outcomes that are always more frequently & efficiently achieved by publishing hot garbage.

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Kerim Friedman 傅可恩 @kerim.one · 04/11/2023

Why Norway — the poster child for electric cars — is having second thoughts Electric cars are crucial, but not enough to solve climate change. We can’t let them crowd out car-free transit options. www.vox.com/future-perfe...

Although the EV rush has reduced tailpipe emissions, it has also entrenched car dependence, which inflicts other kinds of damage. “Climate change gave Norway an opportunity to change how we travel,” said Eriksen. “I worry we had this once-in-a-generation chance to fix our transportation network, and we blew it.”

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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 30/10/2023

Upcoming deadline for this TT job in Black feminisms and/or Black feminist theory at UMass-Amherst; please share with anyone you know who may be interested www.h-net.org/jobs/job_dis...

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Nilanjana Bhattacharjya @nilanjana.bsky.social · 03/11/2023

I never understood the six feet separation rule. It doesn’t make sense. Scientists revisiting the distinction between airborne and aerosols have discovered why it makes no sense.

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