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

In the words of @rhea.art: “The CIA were the greatest art critic of the twentieth century.”

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

“America participated as a defender of the arts in the war effort against fascist obscurantism. To assist American artists and to contribute to the victory of life (artistic creation) over death (Nazi barbarism) was seen as a national duty.”

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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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Chet Scoville @chesterscoville.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

You know one of the oddities of our time is that at least some things that now get dismissed as utopian dreams are not future hopes, but things that really did exist in living memory — affordable housing, a proper social safety net, a climate that isn’t running out of balance. Many others.

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Tobias Ewé @sonocculture.com · 20/04/2026

exactly bsky.app/profile/sono...

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Will Schrimshaw @schrimshaw.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

An article I wrote about electronic music in the home has just been published by Organised Sound Ambient Machines: synthesis in the domestic sphere www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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Ambient Machines: Synthesis in the domestic sphere | Organised Sound | Cambridge Core

Ambient Machines: Synthesis in the domestic sphere

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mattie lubchansky @mattielubchansky.com · 09/02/2026

if you have a ring camera you are a child, terrified of the silhouette of a jacket hanging on a chair. you are lower than a worm to me. you have sold your soul to a devil that has offered you nothing in return

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Everest Pipkin @everest.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

I've just published a new userscript that remembers the path of your cursor over the linked pages of Wikipedia, averaging and wearing them into the page, showing your browsing history over time Install at greasyfork.org/en/scripts/5... or read more about it everest-pipkin.com#projects/des...

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Desire Paths for Wikipedia

An extension that remembers the path of a cursor over the linked pages of Wikipedia, “wearing” them into the page.

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Paulo da Fonseca @paulodafonseca.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

Milan Adamčiak. Echo, 1966

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Evan Greer @evangreer.bsky.social · 20/12/2025

maybe it's just my inner anarchist punk but "theft" is just not the thing about AI that pisses me off i'm a thousand times more concerned about, say, face surveillance or the use of machine learning for automated decision making in health care than I am about spicy autocomplete trained on my music

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Tobias Ewé @sonocculture.com · 08/11/2025

the horror vacui industrial complex

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Roger Freedman @rogerfreedman.bsky.social · 01/11/2025

The first (1955) Danish edition of Ray Bradbury’s FAHRENHEIT 451. Later editions did not convert the title, so this is the only SI-compatible edition! 🎢

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E z r a @bruit.eurosky.social · 31/10/2025

learning about Alison Knowles' art has been and will continue to be an endless source of joy. of course scholarship distorts reality but from where i stand, a life well lived

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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 · 31/10/2025

I am recording the characters of my input and I am going to output characters back into the room again and again until the computationalist biases of the operator reinforce themselves

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Tobias Ewé @sonocculture.com · 21/10/2025

I thought they had gone real deep into Y2K nostalgiacore, until I realised that The Strokes are still making music…

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Tobias Ewé @sonocculture.com · 21/10/2025

I’m teaching a course on digital music this semestre, and that’s also what I’ve arrived at. I was caught completely off guard when students were telling me that they were into indie rock.

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ACLU @aclu.org · 14/10/2025

The trailblazing transgender rights activist Miss Major has passed away at the age of 78. Miss Major was a lifelong organizer and participant in the ballroom scene. She took part in the 1969 Stonewall Riots and was injured by the police — but she kept fighting.

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Eryk Salvaggio @eryk.bsky.social · 05/10/2025

On "AI slurs" (clanker, etc) -- on one depressing level, I worry that slurs for machines humanize them b/c assigning slurs is what people do to people. But I understand the impulse, because we assign slurs to dehumanize. But if you tell me to "kick a clanker" and am gonna feel bad for it.

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Tobias Ewé @sonocculture.com · 27/09/2025

It’s apparently very common, and can be really difficult to spot when patients don’t realise it’s happening.

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Tobias Ewé @sonocculture.com · 27/09/2025

Every single time..! To the point that my last doc suggested I had white coat syndrome.

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Tobias Ewé @sonocculture.com · 27/09/2025

»The figure of the artist is not an auratic superman underwritten by Walter Benjamin’s writing, a worker hero who captures his productive value as a just reward for posessing a mystical spark that his comrades lack.«

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Tobias Ewé @sonocculture.com · 14/09/2025

the world needs more Marxist live-coders

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Tobias Ewé @sonocculture.com · 07/09/2025

Then I’d be spending more time on here investigating bots than reading.

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

i’ve been experiencing the same for months. it must be one or several lists used by bots (or surprisingly bland normies).

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Tobias Ewé @sonocculture.com · 30/08/2025

Oh no, not this physiognomy shit again. “the economists trained an A.I. to predict nine emotions, including sadness, fear, anger, awe, contentment, and amusement in over 630,000 paintings.”

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Tobias Ewé @sonocculture.com · 20/08/2025

thou shalt not make repetitive generic music, thou shalt not make repetitive generic music, thou sha

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Tobias Ewé @sonocculture.com · 11/08/2025

I refuse to play this game until they give the guy a bicycle 😤

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Tobias Ewé @sonocculture.com · 10/08/2025

“aerchaeologies” is what Wilhelm Reich was up to in Maine in the 1940s.

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Tobias Ewé @sonocculture.com · 10/08/2025

I might do a combo! “Do Bats Know What it is Like to Have Politics?”

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Tobias Ewé @sonocculture.com · 09/08/2025

Thanks! Redeemed wd5n-3n7h

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Tobias Ewé @sonocculture.com · 02/08/2025

I love the Bellroy sling..! How’s the WANDRD rogue with the laptop pouch thing? Can you bike with it comfortably?

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Tobias Ewé @sonocculture.com · 01/08/2025

I really want to get one, but the battery life is just too short atm..

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Tobias Ewé @sonocculture.com · 26/07/2025

I haven’t read the Yates. I wonder if someone has written a Marxist history of memory, using the same argument that Marx has about the forming of the senses being a labour of the entire history down to the present?

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Tobias Ewé @sonocculture.com · 26/07/2025

Jan and Aleida Assmann are great on cultural memory, and fundamental to the field of Memory Studies. I remember Paul Ricoeur’s Memory, History, Forgetting being great on memory’s dependency on forgetting. There’s on course lots written on techne and memory, which I’m sure you’re aware of.

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