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B. Ricardo Brown, PhD

@node801.bsky.social
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Professor of Social Science & Cultural Studies Dept. Social Science & Cultural Studies, Pratt Institute. sciences.social/@NODE801 #CriticalTheory #HistSTM #Sociology #soundscapes -:- Simon's Rock College '78-'82 CUNY Grad Center '96-2001

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B. Ricardo Brown, PhD @node801.bsky.social · 54m
Bluestem Goldenrod Solidago caesia Observer: arman_ #FtTryonParkNYCbiodiversity #NYC #WaHi #iNat www.inaturalist.org/observations... via Fort Tryon Park: #Biodiversity and Ecology #iNaturalist Project. www.inaturalist.org/projects/new...
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B. Ricardo Brown, PhD @node801.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
How the new Pacific Crest Trail ‘sound map' can take you to the trail without leaving home Gregory Thomas #Biodiversity #Soundscapes #SoundscapeEcology www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/ar...
A hiker shown on the Pacific Crest Trail near Quincy (Plumas County) in 2023. A new "sound map" of audio recordings shows a new aspect of the famous trail. (Brian Feulner/Special to The Chronicle)
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B. Ricardo Brown, PhD @node801.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
NASA Artemis www.facebook.com/NASAArtemis
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B. Ricardo Brown, PhD @node801.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
[Archive] Notes on Royal Society’s “Types of Mankind” post (2012) #HistSTM #HistSci until-darwin.blogspot.com/2012/10/note...
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B. Ricardo Brown, PhD @node801.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
[Archive] 'Continuity and Discontinuity in Aronowitz’s Critiques of Sociology, Science, and Marxism" for the meeting “Stanley Aronowitz and the Labors of Theory” CUNY Graduate Center, April 13 and 14, 2017 #HistSTM #CriticalTheory #Sociology #CulturalStudies node801.blogspot.com/2017/04/cont...
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B. Ricardo Brown, PhD @node801.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Pond Spreadwings Genus Lestes Observer: jstave #NewBostonNHbiodiversity #NewHampshire #iNat www.inaturalist.org/observations... via New Boston, N.H. #Biodiversity and Ecology #iNaturalist Project. www.inaturalist.org/projects/for...
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B. Ricardo Brown, PhD @node801.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
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B. Ricardo Brown, PhD @node801.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Wild Turkey Meleagris gallopavo Observer: ricbrown2 #FtTryonParkNYCbiodiversity #NYC #WaHi #iNat www.inaturalist.org/observations... via Fort Tryon Park: #Biodiversity and Ecology #iNaturalist Project. www.inaturalist.org/projects/new...
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B. Ricardo Brown, PhD @node801.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
[Blog Archive] Theodor Adorno on "...the most compelling of the motivations which induced me to take up sociology." #CriticalTheory #Sociology node801.blogspot.com/2013/11/theo...
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B. Ricardo Brown, PhD @node801.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
[Blog Archive] Stumbled upon: An incident from Reconstruction Era South Carolina. The things one comes across when researching take on some of the aspects of found objects, and this is one of them. #SouthCarolina #CivilWar #Slavery #Reconstruction node801.blogspot.com/2012/06/stum...
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B. Ricardo Brown, PhD @node801.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
[Blog Archive] The Hanging of Amy Spain in "the Beautiful Village" of Darlington, S.C., March 1865. #USCivilWar #SouthCarolina #Darlington #CivilWar #Slavery node801.blogspot.com/2009/05/hang...
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B. Ricardo Brown, PhD @node801.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Wrinkly Stinkhorn Satyrus rugulosus Observer: anthonysavereno #PeeDeeRegionBiodiversity #SouthCarolina #Biodiversity #iNat www.inaturalist.org/observations... Darlington-Mechanicsville-Whipple's Landing-Florence #iNaturalist Project. www.inaturalist.org/projects/dar...
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B. Ricardo Brown, PhD @node801.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Winter Ants and Allies Genus Prenolepis Needs ID Observer: ricbrown2 #FtTryonParkNYCbiodiversity #NYC #WaHi #iNat www.inaturalist.org/observations... via Fort Tryon Park: #Biodiversity and Ecology #iNaturalist Project. www.inaturalist.org/projects/new...
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B. Ricardo Brown, PhD @node801.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
John Coltrane Centennial WKCR is thrilled to celebrate the centennial of Coltrane with a landmark 100-hour birthday broadcast from 8pm on Saturday, September 19 to midnight on Wednesday, September 23. www.cc-seas.columbia.edu/wkcr/john-co...
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B. Ricardo Brown, PhD @node801.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Neighborhood Cheers for Essential Workers. 7pm, April 13, 2020. Cabrini Blvd., Washington Heights, NYC. #NYC #COVID #Soundscapes soundcloud.com/summerclub-n...
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B. Ricardo Brown, PhD @node801.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
The New York Public Library Opens “Pandemic Diaries,” a Collection of Oral Histories Documenting Life Under Lockdown Collected in real time by The Library, the audio collection captures the unprecedented lived experiences of New Yorkers and others #NYC #COVID www.nypl.org/press/new-yo...
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B. Ricardo Brown, PhD @node801.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
[Archive] The Quadrupedia and the Observations on the Three Kingdoms of Nature by Linnaeus (1735) #HistSTM #HistSci until-darwin.blogspot.com/2012/12/the-...
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B. Ricardo Brown, PhD @node801.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
The avatar I use on other accounts is of me and Sam sitting together just before we went off to cook Thanksgiving dinner. He got his own plate, of course! 😎
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B. Ricardo Brown, PhD @node801.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
🤣 And because I get to sit reading and writing under the American Elms in Ft. Tryon Park, which I did very often with my good friend Sam, so somehow the drawing seemed quite familiar 😎
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B. Ricardo Brown, PhD @node801.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
FYI - origin of my avatar: Illustration 80 from Asa Gray's Elements of Botany (c.1890) with author(?) sitting under an American Elm tree with his dog.
Illustration  80 from Asa Gray's Elements of Botany (c.1890) with author(?) sitting under an American Elm tree with his dog.
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B. Ricardo Brown, PhD @node801.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
The Works of Henri Lefebvre: Four Lectures Iván Zatz-Díaz Oct. 11 — Metaphilosophy Nov. 15 — Critique of Everyday Life Dec. 6 — The Production of Space Jan. 10 — Critique vol. 3 and Rhythmanalysis #CriticalTheory #Sociology #Marx marxedproject.org/event/four-l...
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B. Ricardo Brown, PhD @node801.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
[Archive] RACE AFTER DARWIN [for Devin Griffiths and Deanna K. Kreisel, eds. 2023. After Darwin: Literature, Theory, and Criticism in the Twenty-First Century. Cambridge University Press.] #HistSTM #HistSci #CriticalTheory [PDF] www.academia.edu/attachments/...
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B. Ricardo Brown, PhD @node801.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Cardinal Flower Lobelia cardinalis Observer: sleepy_bee #NewBostonNHbiodiversity #NewHampshire #iNat www.inaturalist.org/observations... via New Boston, N.H. #Biodiversity and Ecology #iNaturalist Project. www.inaturalist.org/projects/for...
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B. Ricardo Brown, PhD @node801.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Squirrel Tree Frog Dryophytes squirellus Observer: breanna_gayle #PeeDeeRegionBiodiversity #SouthCarolina #Biodiversity #iNat www.inaturalist.org/observations... Darlington-Mechanicsville-Whipple's Landing-Florence #iNaturalist Project. www.inaturalist.org/projects/dar...
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B. Ricardo Brown, PhD @node801.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
25 years later.... Who are the "Enemies of Civilization"? (October 2001) Remarks prepared for "09.11.01: Responses and Responsibilities" -Pratt Institute, October, 2001. #911 #NYC #CriticalTheory #CulturalStudies www.academia.edu/attachments/...
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B. Ricardo Brown, PhD @node801.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
[Archive] Simia to Homo: from C. F. Hoppe's Anthropomorpha (1760) "As for me, I am still uncertain, by what characteristic mark the troglodytes can be distinguished from man, according to the principles of natural history" #HistSTM #HistSci until-darwin.blogspot.com/2012/05/simi...
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B. Ricardo Brown, PhD @node801.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
HYDRA: snake-like body, two feet, seven heads and as many necks, without wings. One is preserved in Hamburg similar to the Hydra described in the Apocalypse of St. John, Chapters 12 and 13, and this is also true of a great many animal species exhibited, but wrongly so. Nature is always true to itself and has never naturally produced several heads on one body. When seen for ourselves, the fraud and artifice was most easily revealed as the teeth of a wild weasel differ from those of an Amphibian.
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B. Ricardo Brown, PhD @node801.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Blog archive link: Until (and a bit after) Darwin for "Diversity, Culture, Theory, and Data: Science on Human Variety." SLAS Faculty Research Seminar (2011) until-darwin.blogspot.com/2011/11/dive...
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B. Ricardo Brown, PhD @node801.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
[Archive] Until (and a bit after) Darwin for "Diversity, Culture, Theory, and Data: Science on Human Variety." SLAS Faculty Research Seminar (2011). #HistSTM #HistSci #CharlesDarwin www.academia.edu/1118937/_Unt...
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B. Ricardo Brown, PhD @node801.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Pipevine Swallowtail Battus philenor Observer: borboletas #FtTryonParkNYCbiodiversity #NYC #WaHi #iNat www.inaturalist.org/observations... via Fort Tryon Park: #Biodiversity and Ecology #iNaturalist Project. www.inaturalist.org/projects/new...
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B. Ricardo Brown, PhD @node801.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
06.14.2023 The morning writing spot under the American Elms #NYC #FtTryonPark #WaHi
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B. Ricardo Brown, PhD @node801.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
"WKCR is very pleased to announce a special broadcast celebrating the life and work of the iconic composer and inventor John Cage. Devoting 24 hours to John Cage, this special broadcast will run from midnight to midnight on September 5th...." www.cc-seas.columbia.edu/wkcr/story/j...
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B. Ricardo Brown, PhD @node801.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Frances Julia "Snow" Wedgewood's article "The Natural and the Supernatural" (1871) for the Spectator comparing Lucretius and Darwin's theory using portions of this translation can be found here: babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=md... #HistSTM #HistSci #CharlesDarwin
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B. Ricardo Brown, PhD @node801.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
New at Darwin Online translation of Lucretius by Darwin's niece and feminist Frances Julia 'Snow' Wedgwood. 1871. 'Translation of Lucretius [De Rerum Natura] (Natural selection)' with marginal notes by Darwin. #HistSTM #HistSci #CharlesDarwin darwin-online.org.uk/content/fram...
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B. Ricardo Brown, PhD @node801.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
The influence of acoustic characteristics and anthropogenic noise on restorative perceptions of natural soundscapes #Soundscapes #SoundscapeEcology #Biodiversity besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
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B. Ricardo Brown, PhD @node801.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
08.25.2026 American Elms, Fort Tryon Park, NYC
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B. Ricardo Brown, PhD @node801.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
08.25.2026 Fort Tryon Park, NYC
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B. Ricardo Brown, PhD @node801.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
[Archive] Cultural Studies - Introductory Lectures. To be added.... eventually, or, "after all due consideration and in the fullness of time" #sociology #CulturalStudies #CriticalTheory culturalstudieslectures.blogspot.com
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B. Ricardo Brown, PhD @node801.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
[Archive] Cultural Studies - Introductory Lectures. Lecture Eight – The Origins of Cultural Studies in the U.K. #sociology #CulturalStudies #CriticalTheory culturalstudieslectures.blogspot.com/2012/03/lect...
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B. Ricardo Brown, PhD @node801.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
[Archive] Cultural Studies - Introductory Lectures. Lecture 7: The Frankfurt School and Cultural Studies (Notes and Slides). #sociology #CulturalStudies #CriticalTheory culturalstudieslectures.blogspot.com/2012/03/lect...
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B. Ricardo Brown, PhD @node801.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
[Archive] Cultural Studies - Introductory Lectures. Lecture Six: Fetishism and Popular Culture: Umberto Eco's Casablanca #sociology #CulturalStudies #CriticalTheory culturalstudieslectures.blogspot.com/2012/03/feti...
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B. Ricardo Brown, PhD @node801.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
[Archive] Cultural Studies - Introductory Lectures. Lecture Five: Degeneracy, Culture, and Critique - Science, Reason, & Knowledge. I & II (notes). #sociology #CulturalStudies #CriticalTheory culturalstudieslectures.blogspot.com/2012_02_01_a... culturalstudieslectures.blogspot.com/2012/02/lect...
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B. Ricardo Brown, PhD @node801.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
[Archive] Cultural Studies - Introductory Lectures. Lecture Four: Kafka and the Crisis of the Society of Discipline #sociology #CulturalStudies #CriticalTheory culturalstudieslectures.blogspot.com/2012/02/lect...
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B. Ricardo Brown, PhD @node801.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
[Archive] Cultural Studies - Introductory Lectures. Lecture Three - Borges: Fragments, Dreams, and the Meaning of Tradition - Part I #sociology #CulturalStudies #CriticalTheory culturalstudieslectures.blogspot.com/2012/02/lect...
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B. Ricardo Brown, PhD @node801.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
[Archive] Cultural Studies - Introductory Lectures. Lecture Two: The Dialectic of Enlightenment I – Bach, Kant, Theresiana, Frederick, Sade, Horkheimer/Adorno culturalstudieslectures.blogspot.com/2012/01/lect...
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B. Ricardo Brown, PhD @node801.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
[Archive] Cultural Studies - Introductory Lectures. Lecture I: On the Question “What is Cultural Studies?” #socology #CulturalStudies #CriticalTheory culturalstudieslectures.blogspot.com/2012/01/lect...
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B. Ricardo Brown, PhD @node801.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
After some delays amid the general vicissitudes of life, back at work on this project. It has changed somewhat, but hoping to finish during my sabbatical. "Work In Progress - Science and Race in the Long 19th Century: From Natural History to the Sciences of Life" www.academia.edu/122079095/Wo...
Kay Sage - Tomorrow Mr Silber. 1955.
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B. Ricardo Brown, PhD @node801.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
www.openculture.com/2017/09/when...
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B. Ricardo Brown, PhD @node801.bsky.social · 24/12/2025
Link to story: www.vice.com/en/article/a...
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B. Ricardo Brown, PhD @node801.bsky.social · 24/12/2025
The photo of Farley receiving his award for being a role model...
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