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sirosenbaum.bsky.social @sirosenbaum.bsky.social · 2h

Oof. Sorry. Yeah my mom was abusive but confusingly also great. I will write you a note any time you want to be excused from class

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sirosenbaum.bsky.social @sirosenbaum.bsky.social · 2h

!! Senhas definitely encountered Elizabethan drama before tho. And I’m willing to bet she knows a ton abt the War of the Roses

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sirosenbaum.bsky.social @sirosenbaum.bsky.social · 9h

that's when you don't go to school bc your mom says you're too depressed, right? I remember those

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sirosenbaum.bsky.social @sirosenbaum.bsky.social · 9h

Yes only the most respected, wealthy, and powerful organizations do this thing, so our shitty university certainly shouldn't

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sirosenbaum.bsky.social @sirosenbaum.bsky.social · 9h

"Despite recent emphasis on decolonizing Music Studies, only elite institutions in the West — the colonial powers — have brought it into their curricula and field of study." Amazing that "only elite institutions do this" is taken as evidence that we shouldn't do this

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sirosenbaum.bsky.social @sirosenbaum.bsky.social · 9h

"Throughout Eastern Europe, there is very little engagement with issues of social justice. Nor is this a point of focus in Russia, despite the foundational role of sociology in Russian Music Studies. " This is not an argument against engaging in issues of social justice.

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sirosenbaum.bsky.social @sirosenbaum.bsky.social · 9h

I should say that people have historically even denied the consciousness of humans who don't have language, or even who simply don't speak the same language

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sirosenbaum.bsky.social @sirosenbaum.bsky.social · 9h

I mean I would argue that too. People are very stingy with attributing consciousness even to animals who clearly exhibit it, who can produce symbolic behavior, spontaneously solve puzzles and make decisions, etc. AI makes it clear the prejudice is based on language or lack thereof.

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sirosenbaum.bsky.social @sirosenbaum.bsky.social · 9h

that implies plants are conscious

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Mallory Moore @sexabolition.blog · 12h

It's like looking inside a Kaleidescope and saying "I saw towering spires more complex than any human design, this must be a new autonomous architecture" but it's just a chamber of mirrors and lenses around the material world it is reflecting distortedly.

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Mallory Moore @sexabolition.blog · 12h

By rights an autonomous machine intelligence should be completely unfamiliar to our concepts of social communication, comfort in getting to know each other, loneliness, need to have private things that aren't shared, the various other urges that make us human.

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sirosenbaum.bsky.social @sirosenbaum.bsky.social · 10h

My long held opinion on executions is that if we're going to have them, the method should be hand-to-hand combat and the executioners should be regular people who get called up, like jury duty. If you kill your executioner you go free

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sirosenbaum.bsky.social @sirosenbaum.bsky.social · 10h

Again, I can imagine artistic justifications for this but the glass thing makes me think he just didn't think a lot about it

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sirosenbaum.bsky.social @sirosenbaum.bsky.social · 10h

they also invented the "seafood plate painted with fish" meme

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sirosenbaum.bsky.social @sirosenbaum.bsky.social · 10h

these people LOVED drawing octopodes as silly little guys

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sirosenbaum.bsky.social @sirosenbaum.bsky.social · 10h

iirc only one other species of animal on the planet is mentioned and it's these weird crop-ruining birds. I'm not even getting to the point where the aliens never evolved blood coagulation or an immune system

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sirosenbaum.bsky.social @sirosenbaum.bsky.social · 10h

like, I know it's purposefully thin; that world is kind of a shadow or afterimage of other worlds; but for god's sake, paper!

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sirosenbaum.bsky.social @sirosenbaum.bsky.social · 10h

Close second: the Dark Tower world has tons of glass but paper is a rare substance. Paper! you can make paper out of anything! It doesn't even require a high temperature torch! The Americas never invented glass but they had paper!

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sirosenbaum.bsky.social @sirosenbaum.bsky.social · 10h

one of my many grievances with The Book of Strange New Things is the aliens being described as dressing in leather but no mention of how they obtain or process it.

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Josephine beckbook.com Riesman @josie.zone · 21h

Live from Lisbon, it's the @beckbook.com launch party!!!!

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sirosenbaum.bsky.social @sirosenbaum.bsky.social · 21h

you are correct and this was gross

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sirosenbaum.bsky.social @sirosenbaum.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

This reminds me I should go rewatch her in that bonkers 90s sci fi Revengers Tragedy

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sirosenbaum.bsky.social @sirosenbaum.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

But yeah Izzard’s work was half Shakespeare to begin with. I couldnt help thinking how seamlessly she would have fit into one of his companies of players

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sirosenbaum.bsky.social @sirosenbaum.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

*knapping not involving fuck you autocorrect

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sirosenbaum.bsky.social @sirosenbaum.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Yeah one of the examples was they found evidence of flint involving, which was def one of their captured Powhatans, not an Englishman

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sirosenbaum.bsky.social @sirosenbaum.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I think people are currently used to much more "realism" in Shakespearian performances, but I greatly cherish this 1970s Commedia-influenced Taming of the Shrew, so I am very happy to see this type of broad charatcer work www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZMdX...

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The Taming of the Shrew. American Conservatory Theater. Subtitles: ENG.

YouTube video by old_45

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sirosenbaum.bsky.social @sirosenbaum.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Scene transitions were handled by walking the character to the back of the stage, executing a tight turn, and walking back out as the next character. You could tell who she was playing before she even started speaking, just by the way she walked.

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sirosenbaum.bsky.social @sirosenbaum.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Even though I'd see her Great Expectations I could not imagine how this was going to work, and then it just worked. She had a very specific, almost Commedia-like physical stance for each character

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sirosenbaum.bsky.social @sirosenbaum.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

It went back and forth. I personally loved how she treated R & G, and the players; and then while you're still chuckling over that, Ophelia enters and destroys you

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sirosenbaum.bsky.social @sirosenbaum.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Anyway leave it to Suzy raise so many questions in a text; questioning history and belief was always the basis of her art. I was greatly entertained and deeply grateful.

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sirosenbaum.bsky.social @sirosenbaum.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

That was the most moving part of the play. In order to keep the plates spinning in a one-woman show with upwards of 5 or 6 characters onstage at once, there is a certain amount of broadness in the acting that's necessary, but Ophelia's mad scene was disconcertingly realistic.

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sirosenbaum.bsky.social @sirosenbaum.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

She goes ahead and solves the "to be or not to be" puzzle very neatly

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sirosenbaum.bsky.social @sirosenbaum.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Hyperion to a satyr? ok dude. Should you or should you not kill yourself? How about do both, as Ophelia does - and underlined by the argument about whether or not her death was a suicide. It is and isn't. It's a quantum suicide.

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sirosenbaum.bsky.social @sirosenbaum.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

her grief is so raw and real, her madness in grief so tormented in comparison to his feigned madness, that it shows everything he's told the audience as being founded on a false premise.

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sirosenbaum.bsky.social @sirosenbaum.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

It also makes me think, again, that Hamlet doesn't react to things like normal people. One wonders what his relationship with his father was really like. He's angry about his mother's remarriage more than anything else. We get to know Ophelia's dad much better, and he's an idiot, but when he dies >

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sirosenbaum.bsky.social @sirosenbaum.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I suppose it's not surprising. I wonder how much of England (and Europe)'s enthusiasm for the Greeks and Romans was as a gasp of fresh air in the stifling confines of Christian religious wars

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sirosenbaum.bsky.social @sirosenbaum.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

so there's this interesting dynamic. Contra some critics, I don't think there's a Christian worldview anywhere in Shakespeare; Christian rituals are described, but only anthropologically, as practices and beliefs individual to the characters, not as rules of the universe. Considering the context

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sirosenbaum.bsky.social @sirosenbaum.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

He can't kill himself, because he might be sent to hell; he can't kill Claudius at prayer, because HE might go to heaven; his uncertainty - an atheist's uncertainty that admits the possibility of belief - utterly paralyzes him, whereas his ancestors, pagans, would have killed Claudius immediately

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