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Writer, historian and theorist of the arts, focus on sound and energies, with STS-ish background. Books: Energies in the Arts (2019), Earth Sound Earth Signal (2013), Noise Water Meat (1999).

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Read an extract from James Tenney: Writings And Interviews On Experimental Music - The Wire In an extract from a new collection of writings and interviews by James Tenney – edited by Robert Wannamaker, Lauren Pratt and Tashi Wada – Douglas Kahn interviews the US Fluxus composer and theorist ...

Read an extract from James Tenney: Writings And Interviews On Experimental Music

In an extract from this new collection, Douglas Kahn interviews the US Fluxus composer and theorist in 1999 about his influences and works.

www.thewire.co.uk/in-writing/book-extracts/read-an-extract-from

01.10.2025 16:11 👍 19 🔁 9 💬 0 📌 0
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What is an Ecopath? | Sydney Review of Books Only a few short decades ago, we may have only felt their stealth and thought of them as understudies to real villainry. With bodies littering roads around the world and no end in sight, their presenc...

I based this around cinematic characters and narrative. sydneyreviewofbooks.com/essays/what-...

30.08.2025 21:27 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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Students are right to challenge the roll-out of generative AI in universities The course “Generative AI for Artists” at the School of Art & Design at UNSW Sydney was set up recently as an optional elective to offer…

I had a good chat with Guardian Australia but I fear the piece they've just published reads as if I'm in the pro-AI camp. I'm actually strongly against the push for AI to be adopted, especially in the creative industries. medium.com/@olliebown/s...

29.08.2025 03:09 👍 13 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 0
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Some Notes on the City of Angels and the Nature of Violence I think maybe it's begun, the bigger fiercer backlash against the Trump Administration which is itself a violent backlash against every good thing that's happened over the past several decades – the a...

For those not following the drama earlier, it's for sharing this piece advocating for nonviolence (but not being judgy about how targeted people respond either). And saying some things about governmental/ institutional violence.

11.06.2025 09:44 👍 988 🔁 238 💬 46 📌 42
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Claudia Arozqueta's groundbreaking book available for preorder from MIT Press.

13.03.2025 02:55 👍 9 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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Rare Giant Mantis spotted in the Blue Mountains.

09.03.2025 04:27 👍 17 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Peut-on comparer l'administration Trump au régime nazi ? Musk accusé d'avoir fait un salut nazi, humiliation de Zelensky, stigmatisation des étrangers, licenciements brutaux, ambition territoriale. Depuis le retour de Trump, l'administration américaine mult...

I'm one of several US-based historians interviewed for this piece 🗃️
www.france24.com/fr/am%C3%A9r...

07.03.2025 19:50 👍 44 🔁 16 💬 3 📌 2

Just got an email from the Fulbright Association. As of right now, funding has been cut off to 12,500 US citizens currently abroad and and more than 7,400 foreigner scholars and students in the United States

07.03.2025 22:46 👍 6253 🔁 3228 💬 206 📌 609
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French University to Fund American Scientists Who Fear Trump Censorship The program, called ‘safe place for science,’ offers American scientists funding to continue their research in France.

Aix-Marseille University in France will provide 15 million Euros over 3 years to 15 American scientists who feel threatened or hindered in their research by the orange manbaby.

06.03.2025 07:49 👍 902 🔁 292 💬 20 📌 38

So - I've actually led Ebola outbreak response at USAID.

This is bunk from Elon. They have laid off most of the experts, they're bankrupting most of the partner orgs, have withdrawn from WHO, and muzzled CDC.

What's left is a fig-leaf effort to cover their asses politically.

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26.02.2025 22:30 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Khaled Sabsabi's Thank You Very Much is very familiar to me, given my cut-up Reagan Speaks for Himself having gone "viral" during Reagan's candidacy and reign. In the Senate hearing there was a banal assumption that it was "shocking," etc., when it was very straightforward in the context of 2006.

25.02.2025 11:22 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

10:03 pm: resignation requested

25.02.2025 11:04 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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This morning at Dept of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) HQ in DC as mandatory return to office began, this video played on loop for ~5 mins on screens throughout the building, per agency source.

Building staff couldn’t figure out how to turn it off so sent people to every floor to unplug TVs.

24.02.2025 14:51 👍 43955 🔁 13550 💬 2082 📌 3281

Can Australian arts orgs just stop with all this bullshit, everyone is over it.

Grow the fuck up. Quit it with the censorship. Let artist art, or we'll just turn around and art harder to spite you.

20.02.2025 08:34 👍 46 🔁 13 💬 1 📌 0
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Hard to believe that some Australians take this guy seriously. #peterdutton

19.02.2025 07:44 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Apple, meet bowerbird.

15.02.2025 02:43 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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‘Aqua tweezers’ manipulate particles with water waves
‘Aqua tweezers’ manipulate particles with water waves YouTube video by nature video

Aqua tweezers, from the people who brought you Chladni figures. Intro vid from Nature.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=XKgH...

12.02.2025 07:02 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

New Starter Pack list --> go.bsky.app/QkzdKZR

05.02.2025 09:23 👍 55 🔁 14 💬 1 📌 0

Check out the chapter on Matter and Radiation in Bachelard's The New Scientific Spirit. CVR is prominently featured.

02.02.2025 21:42 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Have you checked out C. V. Raman, Raman scattering and spectroscopy? Energetic basis for materials science, but Raman resonance also brought into play for live subcellular imaging. For me, he's the sweet spot between energy and matter.

02.02.2025 09:08 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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Techbros quick in with the new circuitry of coordination/Gleichschaltung.

20.01.2025 06:29 👍 6 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Livestock methane fire.

10.01.2025 08:36 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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What is an Ecopath? I wrote this during the 2019-2020 Australian bush fires burning on both sides of the ridge I live on. Photo by Lynn Robb of remnants of the fires in Malibu.

sydneyreviewofbooks.com/essays/what-...

09.01.2025 09:13 👍 9 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Why I'm quitting the Washington Post Democracy can't function without a free press

Her full, eloquent explanation here: anntelnaes.substack.com/p/why-im-qui...

04.01.2025 01:08 👍 1191 🔁 423 💬 22 📌 36
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Insect yoga.

27.12.2024 04:38 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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In 2005 I was bumped up to business on a flight from Chicago to Sacramento. I sat next to a major software firm CTO who was also a born-again Christian. We talked for the entire trip. He told me about using his wealth to fund The Creation Museum. Here's Adam in Garden of Eden with a penguin.

04.12.2024 08:09 👍 7 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
Feminism, Proto-Blogs, and Chaco Canyon: Lucy Lippard’s Life in Art
Feminism, Proto-Blogs, and Chaco Canyon: Lucy Lippard’s Life in Art YouTube video by Hyperallergic

My new podcast with Lucy Lippard is out and I am delighted to share it. Have a listen (and watch, because the video is great too)

26.11.2024 23:46 👍 76 🔁 22 💬 6 📌 1
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Vol. 24 No. 23 (10 June 1950)

nla.gov.au/nla.obj-4683...

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