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Tobias Ewé @sonocculture.com · 27/08/2026

“As things turned out, the war was to do far more for modern culture in the United States than all the efforts of Partisan Review put together.”

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Tobias Ewé @sonocculture.com · 27/08/2026

“Just as Paris was falling to the Germans the American government organized a ‘Buy American Art Week,’ which was to be held every year.”

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Tobias Ewé @sonocculture.com · 27/08/2026

“Before the nation could support a modernist avant-garde, however, it first needed to develop an awareness of art and organizations within which dialogue and controversy could take place. What was needed was a continuation of the efforts timidly begun with the WPA.”

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Tobias Ewé @sonocculture.com · 27/08/2026

Reading: Serge Gilbaut’s ‘How New York Stole the Idea of Modern Art’ “The new enthusiasm for the arts not only met the cultural needs of the nation but also satisfied a political need without engaging American forces on the ground…”

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Tobias Ewé @sonocculture.com · 27/08/2026

Preliminary manuscript for Deleuze’s The Logic of Sense.

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Tobias Ewé @sonocculture.com · 31/10/2025

RIP Alison Knowles, Music by Alison, Fully Guaranteed 12 Fluxus Concerts, NYC, May 23, 1964.

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Tobias Ewé @sonocculture.com · 03/06/2025

no posts, just followers..

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Tobias Ewé @sonocculture.com · 10/05/2025

having lived in canada for almost a decade now, i’ve been burned too many times not to ask…

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Tobias Ewé @sonocculture.com · 07/05/2025

I don’t believe that any of you are real…

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Tobias Ewé @sonocculture.com · 04/05/2025

Is there a Professor Oak in Games Studies willing to write the foreword for this?

Email from the AiR mailing list.
Subject: CFP: Bloomsbury Book Project - Pokémon 30th Anniversary.
Body text excerpt: Dear Colleagues.
We are pleased to invite contributions to an edited volume titled “Gotta Study 'Em All: 30 Years of Pokémon,” scheduled (tentatively) for publication with Bloomsbury Academic in 2026 - the 30th anniversary of the Pokémon franchise. The project has already received initial positive feedback from the commissioning editors at Bloomsbury.

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Tobias Ewé @sonocculture.com · 09/04/2025

From the use of percussion to the feedback loop with Lucier’s brain in the centre, ‘Revivification’ really is Music for Solo Performer 2: Undead Edition.

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Tobias Ewé @sonocculture.com · 04/04/2025

Secret third option: “The machine works even when it doesn’t work. We must convince the people to work.”

“Advocates of computer vision have adopted the position that, even in error—especially in error—computer vision can revise the way we see the objects of our study.”

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Tobias Ewé @sonocculture.com · 21/03/2025

Jonathan Sterne says delete your account: “I would strongly encourage any humanists still on here to move over to Humanities commons, bring their colleagues with them, and then delete their accounts here.”

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Tobias Ewé @sonocculture.com · 20/11/2024

“Help by making a list of everything in your work area that has a microcomputer chip and report it immediately.” Nice try, cops 🦾

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Tobias Ewé @sonocculture.com · 20/11/2024

we need a version for the current platform, @notsaved.bsky.social

tweet by @notsaved from 2020 that correctly states: if you use spotify you dont deserve music imho

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Tobias Ewé @sonocculture.com · 19/11/2024

I’m sure we all remember that this was how we first learned our place on the political compass.

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Tobias Ewé @sonocculture.com · 19/11/2024

age yourself with your first computer

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Tobias Ewé @sonocculture.com · 13/11/2024

“…babbling as the raw material of sonic reality.” Rosalind Krauss as unexpected sonic materialist avant la lettre.

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Tobias Ewé @sonocculture.com · 13/11/2024

Thomas the apostle managed it by tricking Christ into thinking he was just going to give him a regular handshake. Reach for the stars ✨

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Tobias Ewé @sonocculture.com · 12/11/2024

Would you consider an expat working on sonological-marxism?

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Tobias Ewé @sonocculture.com · 12/11/2024

The confluence between the dematerialisation of art and the materialisation of music happened in 1968, when John Cage played chess against Marcel (and Teeny) Duchamp on a sound-generating chessboard.

Black and white photograph of Marcel Duchamp and John Cage playing chess on a sonified chessboard, with Teeny Duchamp spectating.

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Tobias Ewé @sonocculture.com · 12/11/2024

“Adorno and Stockhausen were having a big argument about the aesthetics of this music, and [David] Tudor… just looked at them and said quietly to Adorno: ‘I’m afraid you just don’t understand this music.’”

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