The @londonjesuit.bsky.social is running a course on trans theology in June! If you wanna know what theology and transness have to say to one another (constructively), or are just interested in whats going on in the field, this is the course for you londonjesuitcentre.churchsuite.com/events/4kgas...

It’s been a bit of a dry spell, publication-wise, these past few months. But I’m pleased to say that my book review of “Earthly Things” on @fordhampress.bsky.social is out as part of the new issue of “Ecokritike” journal which went live today. It’s a timely and thought-provoking collection. 📚

Very happy to share I’ll be part of a #TwinPeaks -themed panel at the #BAMS2026 conference, #WeirdModernisms, at Loughborough, along with the far more qualified @michaelshallcross.bsky.social and @theothercoogan.bsky.social. My paper hopes to incorporate sound, Pierre Schaeffer, Laura P and Jowday.

I think we all needed this.

As someone with her visage above my own on 🦋 (for that is she in my banner), it would be remiss of me not to note the sad passing of Éliane Radigue. ✌🏻

Deadline is March 1st for submissions for the International Society for Neoplatonic Studies panel I am organizing for SCS 2027 in Boston. Please help me spread the word!

Please share and/or fill this out if it applies to you: forms.gle/6TuZYUzhAznR... "Female identifying metal fans- I need your input for my university research! I am currently gathering some stats around misogyny in metal music scenes…All reponses will be recorded as anonymous.”

I first heard this LP - “a sound work based on the relationship between the architecture and acoustics of St Pierre Cathedral in Poitiers” - on Ed Pinsent’s great Sound Projector radio show (2012). It’s proven to be so conducive to writing my latest essay, I’ve actually included it in the text!

Ecokritikes online lectures' series 2026-2027 “Community in the Broadest Sense: Human/Animal Composition in Alphonso Lingís” Niki Young, University of Malta, Malta. Registration 's open untl 15/01/2026 forms.gle/zTAAkY6RGzh4... zoom 17 January 2026 Time: 16:00 p.m. CET (Central Europe Time zone)

That high you get when you read an essay which deeply resonates with you and the ideas start pinging. Just finished the wonderful “That There Might Be Black Thought” (2016) by @ashoncrawley.bsky.social. Thank you for such a rich text Prof. Crawley. Much to think about… 🙏🏻

@sedserio.com is there a means of contacting you regarding potential use of a piece of yours?

Anyone read/recommend this?

With the constant attacks on academic research stretching across the globe, it is incredibly brave to nominate my tape, "Learning by Listening Vol. 9: Learning to Make Noise: Toward a Process Model of Artistic Practice within Experimental Music Scenes," as the best cassette of the year.

Is there anything more cold than the automated early hours unsuccessful outcome job application email?! Absolutely horrendous.

Totally in love with this cat! #AshonCrawley

You know you’re a theory nerd when you happen across a scholar new to you and it’s like you discovered a new favourite band! This just happened with my stumbling across the Black theological work of Ashton Crawley. Very excited to read more and integrate with my own ideas! 📚 🤓

The new Winter 2025 issue of "Resonance" includes original research articles + new contributions to the special series 'Listening to Harry Shearer’s Le Show' & 'Sound History is Cultural History.' online.ucpress.edu/res/issue/6/4

[Call for applications – Robert and Lisa Sainsbury Fellowships 2026-27] For PhD holders/Early Career Researchers of Japanese visual and material cultures. Starting Sep 2026. Based in Norwich UK. Further information -> www.sainsbury-instit...

Aaron Fagan’s Atom and Void is a dazzling and haunting meditation on existence and impermanence. Out now. Explore a free sample: press.princeton.edu/books/paperb... #Poetry #Literature #Poems

I know several of the wonderful people who have contributed/edited this forthcoming beast. Promises to be fantastic. #MetalSky #MetalStudies #PhilSky #FeministStudies 👏🏻🫶🏻🤘🏻

Ecokritike Online Colloquium “Homo Eco-politicus in Literary and Cultural Studies” Date: 15th of November 2025 Time: EET (Eastern European Time / wintertime zone of Athens, Greece)

Shout out to @yorkstjohn.bsky.social for their forthcoming “Trans Lives in Focus: Commemorating Trans Day of Remembrance 2025” event on 20th November! 🏳️‍⚧️ ⚧️ 🫶🏻

Symposium on #Gadamer International Symposium at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice: “Gadamer: Open Questions and Continuing Debates — On the 125th Anniversary of His Birth” #PhilSky #Hermeneutics #AcademicSky

Next Rootstock workshop at @yorkstjohn.bsky.social will be on the 10th December at 2pm and will be exploring the folklore of Yarrow and the Yew 🌿

Happy to now be able to represent this absolute queen! #Uboa 🤌🏻🫶🏻

The Polish-Japanese Academy of Information Technology in Warsaw and Haus of Sleep collective are pleased to extend their invitation to a unique event combining science, culture, and art on 22 Nov 2025. It includes lectures, workshops, and performances by contemporary experimental music performers.

Here’s my paper and slides from the @yorkstjohn.bsky.social Haunted Soundscapes symposium. It’s an excerpt from a larger work in progress. It joins the dots between #BoardsOfCanada, Freud, Otto Rank, Georg Simmel, Gaston Bachelard, Marx, Mark Fisher, Derrida, and Fredric Jameson and #SesameStreet!

Just devastating. Most of my feed is rightfully outraged about the cuts to music (posed to become an "extra curricular" activity) but the cuts to modern languages are so grim too: if I understand correctly, it means no HE language provision on this side of the midlands www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

I’ll never tire of receiving a new book to pore over. I’ve been waiting for this one from @objectoriented.bsky.social to “drop” since I first heard about it. Penguin have exceed themselves. A beautiful hardback with grainy dust sleeve and embossed title author text. Truly an object (🥁) of beauty!

<gasp!> rrrriiip <slash!> <whisper> Aaaaaaiiiiieeee ... Damien Pollard listens to "Sound and Horror in the Giallo Film" focusing on thriller classics like THE BIRD WITH THE CRYSTAL PLUMAGE and SHORT NIGHT OF GLASS DOLLS. New from @iupress.bsky.social. iupress.org/978025307391...

The deadline for the joint BAMS/ MSA conference is fast approaching! It's exactly one month away on December 1, 2025. Please note it's the same deadline for panels, papers, roundtables, and workshop/ seminar proposals. You can propose in-person or online panels/ roundtables (but not hybrids).

As a freshly minted associate editor for “Ecokritike” - an international, open access, blind and double peer-reviewed journal in Environmental Humanities, Literary Theory, and Cultural Criticism - I’m very proud to signal boost our upcoming online lecture from the brilliant Professor #TimIngold.

Deconstructing Surfaces

Just taken my first punt on submitting an academic paper without a CfP. Hello, “Resonance” (@ucpress.bsky.social). *flutters eyelashes* 👁️👁️

📣 My new paper “Aestheticizing the Between: Ambient Grindcore as Practice-Based Inquiry into a Poetics of Resonance and More-than-Human Feeling” has just been published in issue 4 of “CePRA Journal” for the Centre for Practice in the Arts at the University of Leeds. #Grindcore #Philosophy #Metal

Pleasure to be involved with the PGR student symposium at @yorkstjohn.bsky.social at their upcoming free Haunted Soundscapes event on 22nd October. Some fab sounding papers in the offing showcasing a lot of the great research happening at YSJ. Details here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/haunted-so...

Upload your papers to Knowledge Commons, too! They don't require a login to access papers in their repository: about.hcommons.org

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Hey. Someone’s messaged me, but I’m a 🦋 age-authentication refusenik, so don’t have access to it. Whoever it is, if you’re legit, please get in touch via email (deets on my ORCiD page - link in my bio). Ta.

#AcademicSky - what’s the consensus on uploading conference papers (containing unpublished research) to sites such as ORCiD or PhilPapers? Do much folk do that here? I’m just trying to strengthen my online presence but without potentially shooting myself in the foot.

All set to deliver my paper - “The Ec(h)otone: Japanese Philosophy, Sonic Ecocriticism, and Nonbinary Ontologies” - at the 9th European Network of #Japanese #Philosophy conference at @Edinburgh-uni.bsky.social today! Great honour to be among such wonderful company. #PhilSky #SoundStudies

Subcontinental Synthesis, edited by Paul Purgas, explores the history of India's first electronic music studio, founded in 1969 at the National Institute of Design in Ahmedabad with the support of the composer David Tudor. Buy now strangeattractor.greedbag.com/buy/subconti...

#JapaneseNoise #PowerElectronics

#CFP: "Climate Havens: Humanistic Perspectives on Resilience, Migration, and Resources" Symposium (University of Rochester and Rochester Institute of Technology, April 16-17, 2026) Deadline for abstracts: August 15 2025 More info: events.rochester.edu/event/humani...

Another boot for NOX tomorrow. It's gonna be great!

Has anyone got any good pointers for a total neophyte in Aboriginal/Indigenous philosophies? I’m coming at it from an ontological/ecological/new or speculative materialist POV. Any key scholars, collections, etc. that you think I should check out? #PhilSky #Ecocriticism #NewMaterialism #Aboriginal

😱 Exciting bit of premature news bc I can't hold my water..: Channelling Voice explores the political, historical, embodied and methodological production of voices whose sonic powers can be heard and felt. The conference expands Bodies of Sound: Becoming a Feminist Ear (Silver Press, 2024) 1/5

Expanded version of my essay, ‘Sounding the S/-cene: Merzbow, Noise, and Ontological Ambience’, for 20th anniversary of CD reissue of “Scene” by @merzbow.net just landed on the #MiraeArts site. Now with added footnotes! 🤤

📣 📣 Honoured to have my mini-essay, ‘Sounding the S/-cene: Merzbow, Noise, and Ontological Ambience’, feature in the booklet for the new 20th Anniversary CD pressing of “Scene” by @merzbow.net, released by California’s Mirae Arts. Shipping 7/7/25. Available in stores worldwide. #Merzbow #Noise 💿