"Perhaps what the score most resembles is a topographical map, with the arcs like a distant outcropping of mountains and the arrows at the bottom right bringing sketched-out directions to mind" harpers.org/archive/2026...
TODAY: @annamerlan.bsky.social on an extraordinary 1939 guide to New York City. “Reading the guidebook now gives the sense, not of a past city, but a parallel one, an unseen but strangely familiar river flowing just over the horizon.” flaminghydra.com/new-york-for...
There’s a moment somewhere in Culture in the Age of Three Worlds where Michael Denning says this was one of Stuart Hall’s favorite albums. Have always had in the back of my mind to pitch something like this on it and the Marcus Garvey connection, so nice to see it done much better here 💫
Resignation letters from UVA Rector and Vice Rector to Youngkin.
Too long for full alts, but will post excerpts following.
One of the things that genuinely shocked me as I read through surveillance logs for the police is how much of their energy and attention is dedicated to shutting down vigils and other ceremonies of remembrance.
as part of it, i'm going to maintain a regular blogging practice and email newsletter, please sign up if that's your thing robarcand.info/blog/why-bot... robarcand.info/newsletter
new year, new personal website robarcand.info
it's included the new print edition of the @are.na Annual, and also ran online today at @dirt.bsky.social dirt.fyi/article/2025...
earlier this year, i had a really thoughtful conversation with the science and technology scholar Paul N Edwards about his work on the history of climate measurement, its relationship to the history of computing, and the long shadow cast over both by the military-industrial complex
that’s a good question! @sadiecouture.bsky.social was coordinating mailing some out early last month, she may still have a few
I helped organize this memorial zine to my beloved doctoral advisor @jonathansterne.bsky.social. Thanks to all the contributors for their beautiful offerings. Sound ON for silly, apropos page turning sound effects.
intercomzine.com
i was too upset in the moment to submit anything but please read all of these student and faculty reflections, each of which is incredibly special intercomzine.com
sounds like the intro to a great book
Warner is saying that any AI deals they'll agree to as a company will be opt-in only. That's consistent with the principles we all agreed to via Human Artistry Campaign. Even if you think gen AI music sucks, that's an important guardrail. www.wmg.com/news/growing...
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what would it take to reframe debates about streaming and cultural decline in marxist terms? for @nplusonemag.com i tried to think through the current crisis (AI! VC! A24!) and what a newly militant labor movement could mean for the culture industries www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...
I skipped this article for a while because I figured I'd read enough about the NYT's Mamdani coverage. I don't want to say the headline does the article a disservice - it is also very much about that - but goes well beyond as well
MAMDANI CAME OUT TO JA RULE "NEW YORK" AND IMMEDIATELY QUOTED EUGENE DEBS
really great www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/sta...
thanks emma!
"The digital image is dead, long live whatever fluid vessel has taken its place this week." @robarcand.bsky.social reviews Hito Steyerl’s new collection, "Medium Hot: Images in the Age of Heat." https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/a-network-of-global-incinerators/
My friend @rorshock.bsky.social — CS undergrad, humanities PhD — has built a brilliant prgm @ The New School: “Code as a Liberal Art” nurtures “code + computational thinking as tools for critical + creative inquiry,” and as forces for 👍+👎 social change. His spring Software Engineering class looks 🌟
Tomorrow I start as an Asst Prof in Communication, Media and Arts at Seton Hall. Last spring, news that this opportunity would pan out coincided very closely with the passing of my advisor, Jonathan Sterne. Some overdue reflections on that, mostly on Jonathan, here: akstuhl.net/blog/2025-08...
i did literally nothing to bring this together except lend them an essay that i already wrote, but i'm totally geeking out about this zine.
just go look at the collection of art in the first couple of pages, i'm so enthralled right now, i love it. i desperately want to buy a physical copy.
When we lost Jonathan Sterne last spring I had made this list of Jonathanisms. Now that I'm sitting down to prep syllabi, I thought of him a bit this morning. Anyway, sharing it here too. bonpourlorient.tumblr.com/post/7783226...
‘Weren’t all Black people owed something for the dispossession that accumulated over generations? Or was the university’s primary function only to pursue knowledge about the history that gave rise to these questions?’
Vincent Brown reviews ‘Yale and Slavery’: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
