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22. BA Music (UIUC, 2025). inquisitor of finite modes, perseverer of the Absolute. editor for @crittheoryworkgrp.bsky.social. banner from Soul Glo music video. Ko-Fi: https://ko-fi.com/levnekov
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What is common knowledge in your field but shocks outsiders? We rarely play or sing professionally. We're more Humanities than Fine Arts.

Zizek is such an incredibly stupid guy, and there's really zero value in taking seriously anyone whose work has truck with his at this point

“you’re so valid for that” gillian rose laser eyes

ICE just arrested Brad Lander, the NYC Comptroller and one of the leading candidates for Mayor, without grounds. He was conducting routine immigration court work, escorting individuals from hearings. He asked ICE for their warrant - well within his legal rights. This is political intimidation.

what works on "anti-Americanism" + changes throughout history would you guys recommend

Brad Lander--comptroller of the city of New York, and one of the leading mayoral candidates--has just been arrested by masked federal thugs. @bradlander.bsky.social www.amny.com/news/brad-la...

Austrian pianist Alfred Brendel died today, aged 94. R.I.P. www.youtube.com/watch?v=24Du...

According to the Israeli police in Haifa (and other places). It's now "illegal" to wear shirts that say "End the War." Opposing the war, with words, is now "illegal" in The Only Democracy in the Middle East™️.

"Things might be tough but it's great for artists! They'll create more!" You might not believe me but going through a lifetime's worth of stress Every Single Week for years and years- is actually not the optimal set of circumstances that inspires artists to create

And people will simply not believe you, it’s really cool

Same energy

There’s a fine line between AI skepticism and AI denialism. To me, the distinction is whether one shows a genuine interest in understanding what AI can accomplish

got back to my apartment and I have no groceries yayyy

The Senate reconciliation bill retains the trans healthcare Medicaid/CHIP ban. Call your Senators, we still have a good shot at killing this provision. Hundreds of thousands of people rely on this care.

my bunker in tel aviv has been breached and we can smell the mustard gas starting to waft in. my 7 children's dying wishes are that you not rank zoran mamadani

i read too much Aristotle exegesis to not be a philosophy major or classics nerd

Spent the day walking around chicago with a buddy!!! And Cookie here got a new shirt for the summer 💪✨

THIS THURSDAY ON TGS @thisguysucked.com: the brilliant Hannah Zeavin @hzeavin.bsky.social gives me the lowdown on a psychiatrist who made a whole lot of regular women feel like Very Bad Moms. We also talk about our matching Freud plants.

Hello I would like to introduce you to a podcast about both of these things at once 🗣️

i would like your help with an experimental social art project this post is the project the goal of this post is for it to receive ZERO likes, and only receive *replies* or *reposts* if it receives any likes, i will immediately turn off replies, thereby sealing and finishing it this is take #4

Rereading Matthew Morrison's Blacksound article in JAMS, + while I'm not as hostile to it now as I used to be, I don't think the critique of racialism leveraged via Mundy + Cedric Robinson is the strongest critique of biological racism that can be leveled against Guido Adler.

im always doing this

this is p accurate

Republicans: "We must secure the existence of our people and seize universities for white children." Democrats: "We've got a new VP of Strategic Initiatives and are expanding the business school."

Say what? www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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For the second year in a row I am teaching my class “Religion and Unbelief” over the next three weeks for UChicago’s Pre-College Summer Session program. Class starts today and I’m excited to introduce my re-designed syllabus & begin to discuss what the academic study of religion & secularism entails

not that my opinion matters but imho big picture left ideological response to this should be push no borders/free movement, midlevel ideological response to say (and try to genuinely make) migrant detention and deportation illegitimate, and practical efforts directed at making enforcement impossible