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Like- what if we purposefully avoided thinking about the latest digital bullshit the tech industry waved around in our faces?
Resistance as aggressively not caring?
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Chanders
@Chanders@sciences.social
mastodon 4.7.3Professor of Sociology. Interests include publics, assemblages, middlebrow culture, where Europe & the new world meet. Mann, Bolano, Charlie Parker, Virginia Woolf.
Associate Editor of the International Journal of Press/Politics and Sociologica.
(he/him).
I’m from New York, live in Bologna, Italy, and work in Milan. There’s a lot of stuff I miss about the USA and a lot I don’t. I miss cornmeal and Mexican food primarily.
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Just saw the really sad news that @stevesilberman@newsie.social has died, and at a shockingly young age.
The news makes me really sad- and really angry, for the first time in a long time (I've mostly gotten over it), at Elon Musk.
Steve and I were the kind of "friends" that only existed on Twitter in the early 2010s. We never met, and he became super famous, but we definitely hung out in that early Twitter way. What a weird feeling.
Today was a long day, but the little kid dancing w/ a suitcase to “Wuthering Heights” in Milano Centrale was a good city moment. 💃
From a letter from Italo Calvino to Pasolini, 1973.
@gleemie@social.coop hi Lilly nice to have you here. I don’t use this as much as I used to but it’s more a general trend of me using social media less. Great to see you.
@gl33p@mastodon.social this is the way.
@bourgwick@heads.social what a debacle.
“Did the directors hate the opera so much they were trying to turn us against it? Were they trying to create a staging so devoid of good ideas that it would highlight the vacuity of the opera by analogy? Was the notion of a grand spectacle underpinned by nothing actually the point?”
https://www.mundoclasico.com/articulo/41643/Bottomless-self-indulgence
“A Trump–Chernenko debate would have been less punishing and more rewarding than what went down in Atlanta. As Biden death-marched to the podium he seemed to be communicating his greetings to the moderators via grunt. The speaking voice that then emerged seemed like little more than an elaboration on the grunt, an uncanny, cold-induced dirge.”
@brianstorms@mastodon.social indeed; I’m still interested in what the computer scientist philosophers have to say to some degree, there are just a lot (more) of those other self-interested operators out there.
“A scholarly artist, Uchida was intent on testing my musical knowledge, stopping the interview several times to quiz me on the German Renaissance, the invention of musical copyright, Bach’s “St. Matthew Passion” and the deaths of Schubert and Webern. Unimpressed, she at one point suggested I leave my job for a year to study music full time.”
Here's an experiment:
Try to access the Columbia Law Review for the dates between June 3-5, 2024, on the Wayback Machine.
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@JeriLRyan all images here usually contain “alt-text,” or at least that is the expectation. Doing it is a good way of showing care to the community here.