Square Michel Foucault, seen in a gated park in Paris.

Happy Pride, NYC. Today, tomorrow, and every day we will celebrate and fight for our queer and trans neighbors.

I just went to a 400 year old restaurant and bought apricot preserves from their bakery, and all you need in life is a fresh baguette, salty butter, and some house made jam from a 400 year old restaurant.

Paris window street view

Very excited to share a link to my new book! The introduction is now available at dukeupress.edu/archives-of-...

Another view of our flat. Perhaps not fair, but Paris>Boulder.

The frontroom of our delightful Latin Quarter flat in Paris for the next month.

It's a minor point from the episode, but @joshshepperd.bsky.social has done some truly amazing work on Adorno's (sort of) relationship with early broadcasting networks and cultures, @annieknk.bsky.social.

This guy, at the Victoria and Albert Museum.

Savory pies in London. Chicken with wild mushroom and clotted cream mushy peas, and ribeye with smoked beetroot and suet crust. Not pictured: gin.

Learned today that British Museum has no AC, but it does have a clear roof that lets the sun in and creates a additional greenhouse effect in 100ish degree weather.

University of Exeter is a serious research institution, roughly equal in world ranking research output to Ohio State or University of Florida. Imagine if OSU suddenly cut all of its humanities programs?

Prof. Fired for Palestinian Activism Should Be Reinstated, Arbitrator Says https://bit.ly/3QiSfsp

Solidarity with my Trans friends and colleagues.

A literal “radio tower” art installation at The Tate Modern. Made of radios. 📻

First day in London a success.

AI has started blocking the Wayback Machine from chronicling the web. Considering that nearly 40% of websites disappear after 10 years, this will enforce a giant loss in collective memory.

En route to Paris, looking for food, club, and wine bar recommendations.

Today’s Colorado new neighborhood view.

I feel like digital humanities was this great 15 year moment of techno-optimism that created solid resources and showed how old media connected to new media. Whereas AI is going to introduce a period of techno-cannibalism designed to devour digital humanities labor and anyone else in its proximity.

Amazing how a guy like Chris Rufo could hold more influence over public discussion about higher education than tens of thousands of people who actually work within the sector and care about it.

Thank you for setting the record straight @anthrofuentes.bsky.social “Rather than an argument from a radical anthropologist who rejects empiricism, as the report implies, the commentary is a contribution from an empirically grounded scientist.” www.chronicle.com/article/are-...

This ranking is correct that The Wire is the best HBO show, and possibly the best show ever in general?

A highlight from a night of many highlights fêteing DAISIES (1966) at the Czech Center NY yesterday evening! Behold the comedic genius of @hennefem.bsky.social who recorded this video in collaboration with amazing animator Kelly Gallagher for the occasion! We missed you IRL, Maggie! 🎂🌼

I hate to say it, but the colleagues positioning themselves to be pro AI in teaching and curriculum, are probably also positioning themselves to be administrators, and probably aren’t thinking about or don’t care how it will affect teaching, learning, or the careers of those around them.

A few years back I accidentally unearthed the first time that Marshall McLuhan coined "Understanding Media," in a 1958 letter by an advocacy group that brought him to the US on a fellowship to develop a syllabus on educational technology.

New porch view

I got through a bit of this already notorious report, written by very prominent philosophers about the “decline of the humanities.” Everyone on this report is smarter than I am, yet none of them seems to understand what it’s been like to navigate the academy since the late 1990s.

Art Institute has moved to censor free speech of its tenured faculty.

Time to make a Starter Pack for “Academics Who Refuse to Let AI Write for Them”?

CBS is never going to recover from Bari Weiss.

BREAKING: The Supreme Court upheld an Alabama Congressional map that denies Black voters fair representation. This decision flies in the face of democracy and is another critical blow to our voting rights.

Josh Shepperd excels at many things, but it is quite impressive to see how quickly he can build on online community off shared love of the beautiful art form subgenrie.

"Academics who Listen to Free Jazz" starter pack. By popular demand for attunement to challenging music. If you "like" this post I will add you to the list over the next couple days. Share widely!

There’s a movement to rename the Williamsburg Bridge the Sonny Rollins Bridge, because that’s where he famously practiced in the 1950s, resulting in the title of one of his best albums. I doubt it will happen, but a plaque or statue on the bridge would be cool.

Do not let AI write for you.

We moved back to Boulder from the Denver suburbs, liking my new home office window view.

University of Colorado’s famous lagoon turtles practicing for Fall cheer squad tryouts.

RIP Sonny Rollins! My favorite musician and a genius. Time to spin St. Thomas.

The Pope’s comments today feel like a historic moment.

The most important upcoming scholarly work on AI isn't going to be on how processes become automated, but how subjects (we) begin to lose autonomy, and reflect the regressions of automation in our habits and thought.

This year’s Library of Congress National Recording Registry has been announced. I’m the NRPB sound fellow. Big list this year - Ray Charles, Beyonce, Taylor, Byrds, Chaka Khan, Go-Go’s. newsroom.loc.gov/news/nationa...

New essay for @knightcolumbia.org that argues for why democracies must fund robust public media systems and begins to develop what I've been calling the "Public Media Center" model. I will be expanding on this work for @rooseveltinstitute.org in the months ahead: knightcolumbia.org/blog/reimagi...

Like @mychal3ts.bsky.social writes, “The library is always here for you." That's why we're committed to being here for our libraries. This year, we're adding $31.7 million in permanent, baseline funding to our city's three library systems so they can better serve New Yorkers.

We’re seeing the reemergence of academia as a sport of the leisure class.

Congrats to Penn State faculty on unionizing.

The Dismantling of Black Studies: “Everyone committed to democracy, intellectual freedom, and the rule of law should be alarmed at what is happening—and prepared to act.” www.thenation.com/article/soci...

Today’s forest view

the most anti free speech administration in this country’s history

New concept for a class: “Stuart Hall’s Reading List”: all of the philosophy and theory that he read and synthesized in building a new tradition.