Happy 85th birthday Wendy Carlos, who revolutionised the synth with Bob Moog, made electronic music before Eno & Kraftwerk, & composed scores for Tron, Clockwork Orange and The Shining. A trans icon, Carlos gave few interviews but this BBC one features her beloved cat www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z3ca...

Loved being able to share this amazing video essay with my students today. youtu.be/jz7nOzBv7eE?...

"Sorrow is composed of a heart in autumn." A few notes on translating Xin Qiji's short lyric that I had a written a while back. (yes, it's on my substack, only bc I needed to find a place to park it after the original publishing site disappeared...) open.substack.com/pub/chowleen...

Please join the South Asian film and media studies community here! Please add friends and colleagues, and let me know if you'd like to be included. go.bsky.app/7n3AdXG

“Let me speak plainly: It is not antisemitic to demand justice for all Palestinians living in their ancestral lands.” Love this whole article.

Merry Christmas, early modern Indian-style (1630, Golconda) asia.si.edu/explore-art-...

Eric Drott’s “Streaming Music, Streaming Capital” analyzes the political economy of online music streaming platforms. Read the free intro & pre-order the book for 50% off with coupon CYBER23! www.dukeupress.edu/streaming-mu...

This looks great: www.hurstpublishers.com/book/anarchy...

"I was sitting there on the edge of my chair with a decision to make—pass on the war.. or climb the stairs, go to sleep.. read the score in the morning.. Not yet immune to the real-real, I sat and watched with such anxiety, such nausea—it seemed.. immoral to go to sleep" Dionne Brand, The Blue Clerk

Academic friends, please spread the word about a postdoc opportunity at the Center for Advanced Research in Global Communication at Annenberg/Penn. www.asc.upenn.edu/news-events/...

I asked a bunch of my favorite music journalists what they thought about Gannett's new Taylor Swift reporter/the state of music journalism/etc. Here's what they had to say: www.readtpa.com/p/8-writers-...

I'm on the board of intersectional feminist journal MAI, which looks at various aspects of visual culture, and our latest issue is fresh off the virtual presses. Best of all, it's a special issue on Agnès Varda! Viva Varda! maifeminism.com/issues/focus...

A random screencap from today's research: this poor dyed or painted dog masquerading as a wolf or hyena in Nosferatu (1922). Pretty sure it's still a good dog, @darthbluesky.bsky.social.

A reminder for Americans that the 5Calls app makes it trivially easy to call your representatives. I’ve been using it daily. 5calls.org

Fully funded PhD position @uvahumanities.bsky.social in international history of sound vacatures.uva.nl/UvA/job/PhD-...

Academic folks who spent not so small fortunes on the books from the library you needed but could never keep during the 1990s and 2000s, have you ever considered where you want your books to go after you pass? Most grad students today don’t want your physical books. Nor do most univ. libraries.

Four years in, being widowed still doesn’t feel like being single, which my divorced friends rarely understand. (I spent last weekend organizing dozens of boxes of my late husband’s research materials with one of his colleagues.) This piece rings true: www.nytimes.com/2023/11/03/s...

Many publications have misguided policies that restrict the civic participation of their journalists on the spurious logic that such actions would jeopardize the publication’s reputation & veneer of neutrality—outcomes that are always more frequently & efficiently achieved by publishing hot garbage.

Why Norway — the poster child for electric cars — is having second thoughts Electric cars are crucial, but not enough to solve climate change. We can’t let them crowd out car-free transit options. www.vox.com/future-perfe...

Holy shit. What an article; kudos to Nolan for sharing his experience. https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/08/california-vehicular-homelessness-car-dwelling-los-angeles/674901/

Upcoming deadline for this TT job in Black feminisms and/or Black feminist theory at UMass-Amherst; please share with anyone you know who may be interested www.h-net.org/jobs/job_dis...

I never understood the six feet separation rule. It doesn’t make sense. Scientists revisiting the distinction between airborne and aerosols have discovered why it makes no sense.