Reposted by @yblent.bsky.socialRebecca Colesworthy @rcolesworthy.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Thank you, Uncle Fred. You would’ve hated the current hellscape but the books and music you gave me still help me through it. 2621
Reposted by @yblent.bsky.socialNathan K. Hensley @nathankhensley.bsky.social · 07/10/2026🚨 ALERT 🚨: All of Stuart Hall's notebooks have been digitized and are freely available to browse and read??? stuarthalldigital.bham.ac.uk/archival_mat... 4355198
Reposted by @yblent.bsky.socialRebecca Colesworthy @rcolesworthy.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Held in my hands for the first time today—Howard Rambsy II’s The Convergence: When Collegiate Black Men Meet African American Literary Studies. Based on his experience of teaching a 1st semester lit class for Black men every yr since 2004. Out in HC; preorder the PB. sunypress.edu/Books/T/The-... 2262
yblent.bsky.social @yblent.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Woody’s got one for this: genius.com/Billy-bragg-...genius.comBilly Bragg and Wilco – Secret of the SeaWho can guess the secret of the sea? / Who can guess the secret of the sea? / If you can guess the secret of my love for you / Then we both could know the secret of the sea / Tell 010
Reposted by @yblent.bsky.socialfester's quest @nmohlmann.bsky.social · 06/10/2026My intro to poetry class is kind of a "what if The Mighty Ducks was a tragedy?" kind of situation but the other day we were doing "Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking" and this earnest student raised her hand and said, "This might be crazy but what if without death there *is* no love?" 021
Reposted by @yblent.bsky.socialNick Benson @ottergoose.net · 03/10/202640 people on today's ICE flight out of Minneapolis, 38 men, and two women. If a loved one may have been aboard, full footage of the loading can be seen here: youtube.com/watch?v=UaNQj8rTpJo 37640
Reposted by @yblent.bsky.socialJeremy Millar @jeremymillar.bsky.social · 03/10/2026To celebrate the composer’s birthday, here’s Steve Reich’s Piano Phase, usually played by two pianists, played here for the first time by one.youtu.bePiano Phase (solo) - First solo performance everYouTube video by Rob Kovacs 072
Reposted by @yblent.bsky.socialTodd Wolfson @proftwolf.bsky.social · 03/10/2026My PhD advisor, Peggy Sanday, published Fraternity Gang Rape (1990). She found gang rape functions as male bonding through domination: men use women to prove masculinity, gain status, & demonstrate loyalty. Group norms normalize coercion, erase consent, & institutional privilege shields perpetrators 729593
Reposted by @yblent.bsky.socialColleen T @librarycolleen.bsky.social · 02/10/2026This Yoko Ono Book Channels Dadaism and Buddhism 📜 www.getty.edu/news/yoko-on...getty.eduThis Yoko Ono Book Channels Dadaism and Buddhism | Getty NewsThe act of considering the art is the art. 051
yblent.bsky.social @yblent.bsky.social · 02/10/2026They’re mad because they want to learn and their schools are being defunded (with more austerity on the way I’m sure). Things will be so much better when these kids are in charge. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/o...theguardian.comFires, fury and hundreds of arrests as France gripped by student protestsGovernment struggling to deal with worst crisis in months after being taken by surprise by massive demonstrations 100
Reposted by @yblent.bsky.socialCount Duccula 🦇🦆 | VTuber [Long Hiatus] @ducc.uk · 02/10/2026YOU WILL NOT EGRET WATCHING THIS 2255
yblent.bsky.social @yblent.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Yes I’m still on this Queneaudelaire thing from yesterday. For times when you can’t have genius or thunderclaps, that’s when you need to practice some style. 000
yblent.bsky.social @yblent.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Seems true to life. I’m not a poet but I imagine you don’t go out every day thinking I’m going to have a fleeting but life changing encounter with a beautiful, anonymous Beatrice. 99 times out of a 100 it’s going to be some chicken-neck 26yo yelling at someone on the bus for stepping on his feet. 101
yblent.bsky.social @yblent.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Possibly just a stoner thought, but has anyone else thought of the story in Queneau’s Exercises de Style as a kind of prosaic, deflationary rewriting of “À Une Passante”? -In the street vs on a bus -Majestic femme vs ridiculous homme -Feston/ourlet vs hat with cord -no 2nd meeting vs 2nd encounter 111
Reposted by @yblent.bsky.socialJohanna Winant @johannawinant.bsky.social · 30/09/2026my son‘s oldest friend—they became besties as toddlers in Pittsburgh and now they are third graders who live thousands of miles away from each other—wrote him this amazing letter 1455
Reposted by @yblent.bsky.socialShannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · 29/09/2026In class on Tues we'll talk a bit abt the history of Tolstoy College, the anarchist college @ Buffalo. I planned to offer some context re: UB's progressivism in media studies, xprmental 🎞️ + poetics in the 60s + 70s. Learned (belatedly) that Buffalo just eliminated its whole legendary poetics pgm 😭 1334
yblent.bsky.social @yblent.bsky.social · 30/09/2026If you had put a Kickstarter or gofundme link at the end of that I’d be broke rn 120
yblent.bsky.social @yblent.bsky.social · 26/09/2026I’m so glad you noticed and mentioned this! I won’t say whether I did do winking or not but in partial defense it was the first time I’d ever had an opportunity to try the salad. (Same with the bean bin at the Knowles show at the Grey Gallery) 120
Reposted by @yblent.bsky.socialShannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · 25/09/2026And they ended with Make a Salad. They didn’t have enough to go around, so they distributed to those who most enthusiastically expressed interest – who, in a very un-Knowlesian non-coincidence, were all the young white men 🙄 181
Reposted by @yblent.bsky.socialShannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Now it’s Drip Music 151
Reposted by @yblent.bsky.socialShannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Holy moly! I just learned that my Parsons friends Andrew LeClair and E Roon Kang designed this thing! I told Andrew it’s brought me so much joy over the past two years! 171
Reposted by @yblent.bsky.socialShannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · 25/09/2026FIND A WAY TO PRODUCE EVERYTHING EVERYBODY NEEDS & TO GET IT TO THEM MAKE IT WORK www.getty.edu/publications... 1368
yblent.bsky.social @yblent.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Yeah I’ve been on de facto hiatus here for several months due to course prep, but just checked in too see some wonderfully gratifying responses to the Scores Project event on Thursday! (We also did a thing at Yale Weds that Ben helped organize, and Nathan was also there to talk Baudelaire thurs) 020
yblent.bsky.social @yblent.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Guilty as charged, but proud to be a dude-friend 110
Reposted by @yblent.bsky.socialShannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Here are @roulettenyc.bsky.social for a panel on the magnificent Scores Project (about which I wrote in a forthcoming article). George Lewis is discussing Ben Patterson’s Paper Piece www.getty.edu/publications... 3476
yblent.bsky.social @yblent.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Oh great! Thank you for coming! So sorry I missed a chance to connect in person! 110
yblent.bsky.social @yblent.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Tonight! 8pm. $30 at the door. Free livestream and archived video if you can’t make it in person #scoresproject roulette.org/event/the-sc...roulette.orgThe Scores Project: A Book Release Show w/ The Rise of the NovelScholars of experimental notation discuss their publication The Scores Project, followed by performances from members of The Rise of the Novel. 121
Reposted by @yblent.bsky.socialStacey Burns @wentrogue.bsky.social · 03/08/2026How it started / How it’s going Minneapolis Safe Routes to School project, on 35th St near Folwell Elementary School 0519
Reposted by @yblent.bsky.socialyblent.bsky.social @yblent.bsky.social · 01/08/2026So incredibly excited for this upcoming book launch for #scoresproject and performance by Rise of the Novel at Roulette Intermedium in Brooklyn, Thursday 9/24, 8pm roulette.org/event/the-sc...roulette.orgThe Scores Project: A Book Release Show w/ The Rise of the NovelScholars of experimental notation discuss their publication The Scores Project, followed by performances from members of The Rise of the Novel. 121
yblent.bsky.social @yblent.bsky.social · 03/08/2026Really enjoyed this, as well as an earlier one from this series on Sebeok, Eco, and semiotics of nuclear waste. I like your format with the bibliographies; will become a more regular reader 110
yblent.bsky.social @yblent.bsky.social · 03/08/2026Jesus, I’m sorry to hear that. If people can’t find solidarity with their fellow humans in a specialist’s waiting room I just don’t know… 060
yblent.bsky.social @yblent.bsky.social · 03/08/2026And yet everyone lucky to live long enough will eventually… 180
Reposted by @yblent.bsky.socialBriony Neilson @brionyneilson.bsky.social · 03/08/2026They don't build library systems like this anymore: inside the Bibliothèque nationale de France in Paris in 1938, a librarian stands next to a pneumatic tube, holding a reader's call slip requesting access to printed materials (Jacques Boyer/Roger-Viollet) 🗃️ 58220
yblent.bsky.social @yblent.bsky.social · 03/08/2026Yeah I don’t like being in this metaphor at all 010
yblent.bsky.social @yblent.bsky.social · 02/08/2026Credit: Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Perfect Lovers! 120
Reposted by @yblent.bsky.socialPlashing Vole @plashingvole.bsky.social · 02/08/2026I think of my university as one of those insects which get parasitised. The brain has been eaten but it’s still moving to meet the needs of interlopers with their own very separate, rapacious purposes. 153
yblent.bsky.social @yblent.bsky.social · 02/08/2026I will provide $$$$ seed money for an Only Book prize. Eligibility would last forever—because years and seasons no longer matter. Anyone who pubs a book and then quits the academy or experiences downward job mobility within it qualifies. Well, as soon as I have a job… 030
Reposted by @yblent.bsky.socialMegan Gallagher @megangallagher.bsky.social · 02/08/2026"You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read." Happy birthday, James Baldwin! 11486398
yblent.bsky.social @yblent.bsky.social · 02/08/2026Many people forget to say this part, but for me it’s the whole ballgame: “Sorrells said it’s also important for kids to see people who don’t look like them in literature. She said children need to see people who resemble their neighbors, friends and loved ones.” www.twincities.com/2026/08/02/r...twincities.comSt. Paul teacher-run nonprofit wants kids to see themselves in classroom booksWhen young kids are learning to read, it’s important that they also develop a desire to read, Taylor Sorrells says. 051
Reposted by @yblent.bsky.socialDr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · 02/08/2026Incredibly evocative work by Samuel van Hoogstraten, born on this day in 1627. A kind of domestic still life. Nothing & everything. 317621
yblent.bsky.social @yblent.bsky.social · 02/08/2026TIL this apartment building in Duluth used to be part of Work People’s College, a socialist and eventually IWW-run college for future labor leaders. Started as a HS and Finnish seminary but students struck in protest of rules against discussing social issues. Socialists bought the struggling school 082