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DePaul posted a Heidegger job, is Will retiring?

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This is the first time I've heard someone use the "anti-life" framing for this moment, but it's another good sign that The Genealogy of Morals is actually the text we need to be reading to understand the present moment, philosophically

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Undergrad education does not teach hard/content skills! It teaches the broader 'soft' skills like: communication, balancing multiple priorities, project management, research, asking questions to get needed information, working independently to achieve designated deliverables, etc.

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nor'easter report, day 3: fence is intact, basement is dry, dogs however are bonkers

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Today in Peloton musicology, Sam doing a progressive climb to every key change in Chain Reaction, may be the only kind of acceptable progressive climb lol

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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 27/09/2026

Do people think less of me in a scholarly way? Seems so since I became independent.

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“Ordinary slop is a strategy for developing licensable audio IP for use on platforms like Instagram or TikTok—generic sounds optimized for algorithmic personalization … so generic or indeterminate that they can fit many different determinate contexts…”

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Robin James @robinjames.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Also worth noting given the pop music discourse today that I already identified the divergence between the charts/mainstream and critical taste, two months ago www.its-her-factory.com/2026/08/slop...

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Slop-doom-ism: a new era for pop music & criticism

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Robin James @robinjames.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

This is correct and when I call songs like "Ordinary" and "Choosin Texas" slop this is more what I mean than any claim they were produced by AI in order for music to sit in the background it can't create any friction with settled expectations (settled expectations=one type of whiteness as property)

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Robin James @robinjames.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Watching Teenage Sex & Death at Camp Miasma & tbh if a central character has an HVAC vent for a head it’s a lost opportunity to use an REM cover that her than a NIN cover for the title sequence

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Nor'easter report: the one tree down on my street didn't hit any wires, and for the first time this summer it also didn't knock out my fence, so I'll take that as a win so far

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Saw TikToks from Charli’s tour, it starts off with fireworks and “Oblivion is freedom” TS’s “that girl is trashy” just not meeting the moment

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Realized that after my oldest friend stopped talking to me after my spouse transitioned, the only people in Cincy I talk to/commune with anymore are WOXY/Inhailer people (my brother lives in NC now). Radio chosen family.

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Funny that the lyrics to TS’s Cleveland start off sounding like my boomer mom from Kentucky

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I mean if you are a philosopher worth your salt you know the thinking/consciousness question is just a deflection that tries to frame a political question of personhood as a metaphysical question of the philosophy of mind

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I need to stop doing this haha

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The Breeders - Shocker In Gloomtown

Instead of listening to TS sing about Cleveland, may I suggest The Breeders covering GBV, with a cameo from Bob Pollard www.youtube.com/watch?v=glAe...

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YouTube video by The Breeders

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Seems like arts journalism's way to get in on the franchise-ization/IP/asset-ification of the creative industries. Trafficking in and ranking brands/properties as ways to generate engagement not just that rankings are austerity, austerity leaves only rankings

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he's right it's mainly women now but it's more due to the demonetization/feminization of musical labor, less about video games

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Robin James @robinjames.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Is it bad that I hear the title of this movie to the tune of a certain song by Fleetwood Mac?

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Robin James @robinjames.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Back door just creaked to the tune of the first arpeggio in Benny Benassi’s “Satisfaction”, same timbre too

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Robin James @robinjames.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

ICYMI you can read the introduction to my new book GOOD VIBES ONLY: PHENOMENOLOGY & THE BIOPOLITICS OF ALGORITHMIC LEGITIMATION for free on the Duke UP website: assets-us-01.kc-usercontent.com/f7ca9afb-82c...

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Robin James @robinjames.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

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Robin James @robinjames.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I think we actually disagree less than Natalie might imagine! I call it slop bc it exhibits a formulaic approach to songwriting like "Ordinary" that aims to be generic enough to adapt to & fit in a wide wide range of particular situations: diff Billboard charts, personal moments on social media, etc

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Robin James @robinjames.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

There's decades of scholarship that shows that mainstream anxieties about new technologies get parsed along a racialized virgin/whore dichotomy where helpful new tech is associated w white women whereas dangerous new tech is associated with Black women

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Robin James @robinjames.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

In my dream last night work got a new meeting app called Chat UK and it looked like Teams, but in WinAmp drag

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Robin James @robinjames.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

1. To be honest this happens in revision not in the first go through putting words on a page. Barf it out when you think it THEN work on organization. 2. My writing process starts on my blog and then I put several blogs together for a conference paper etc. I start w small chunks then combine.

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Robin James @robinjames.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Even STEM PhDs are Doctors of Philosophy in X, every field is at its apex a humanistic practice sorry not sorry

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Robin James @robinjames.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

nobody can get mortgages anymore so they're bundling and speculating on song catalogs also at the exact moment musical LABOR is demonetized music as ASSET is the way people extract value out of music

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Good Vibes Only: Phenomenology and the Biopolitics of Algorithmic Legitimation

oh geez just realized it's 2 months until Good Vibes Only is published it's book 5 but i'm so excited bc I think it's the most impactful thing i've ever written? www.dukeupress.edu/good-vibes-o...

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Good Vibes Only: Phenomenology and the Biopolitics of Algorithmic Legitimation

oh geez just realized it's 2 months until Good Vibes Only is published it's book 5 but i'm so excited bc I think it's the most impactful thing i've ever written? www.dukeupress.edu/good-vibes-o...

dukeupress.edu

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The Discourse this week reminding me that the US is like the least philosophically educated in the global north, maybe the world. Ironically unless you go to Catholic school there's basically no formal philosophical education anywhere K-undergrad unless you take a philosophy elective.

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You know if some journalism scholar wanted to propose to me a scholarly crossover critical history of the NYT I’d be all over that

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This TikTok user seems to only make snippets of songs, effectively musical microblogs. I wish she made full songs so I could play one on the radio but it seems like she’s innovating a new form of songwriting for short form algorithmically curated video www.tiktok.com/@iheartcalli...

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callie's Creator Profile

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