Historian, curator, and vinyl collector.

Joined August 2011
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The cover of #neuromatic arrived yesterday and I am loving the purple. Book drops in the fall from @UChicagoPress and @Class_200 and @prince
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İlk aklıma gelenler: John Modern Lardas ile Sam Haselby'ın kitaplarına, Gil Anidjar'ın Kan'ına ve bunların kaynakçasındaki ilgili kitaplara bakabilirsiniz.
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"One of the key epistemic and institutional logics of the secular is its commitment to religion as a matter of privately held and internally processed belief." —John Lardas Modern
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I am re-reading Neuromatic by the brilliant thinker John Lordas Modern. Enriching. Provocative. Witty.
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Something for these times podcasts.apple.com/be/podcas…

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When it is cooled to about 400 degrees below zero, it exhibits a kind of otherworldly behavior that might make quantum computers possible. youtu.be/wMsazR6Tnf8?si=cMDc…

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On Wednesday, Microsoft’s scientists said they had built what is known as a “topological qubit” based on this new phase of physical existence, which could be harnessed to solve mathematical, scientific and technological problems. #ellul
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Twitter dead tech; gather here
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13 Dec 2024
A flute that toots and a bee that stings, Class 200 is here when you need it most…. bsky.app/profile/class200.bs…

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7 Dec 2024
We are moving over there. Slowly but surely. We got shit brewing. bsky.app/profile/class200.bs…

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American Religion is delighted to announce that our journal is now open access! All of our past and future issues are now freely accessible through our website and Project Muse! american-religion.org/home/j…
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Very thankful to learn that Perilous Intimacies was selected as a finalist for the American Academy of Religion book award. My extensive gratitude to the jury for their time in engaging the book and for this recognition. aarweb.org/AARMBR/Publicatio…
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Framing the recent Arnold Palmer story as confused or senile continues to miss how Trump uses profane language to deliberately break of the rules of democratic civility. I attempted to offer an analysis of this rhetoric in Going Low cup.columbia.edu/book/going-…
Trump goes on long confused ramble: “Arnold Palmer is all man. I mean no disrespect to women, I love women, but he was all man. When he took showers with the other pros they came out saying ‘Oh my God.’ I had to say it... I had to tell you the shower part because it’s true”
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⁦Shirin Vossoughi⁩, a ⁦@NorthwesternU⁩ professor, was among 52 faculty who signed an open letter opposing the school’s new demonstration policy as caving to political pressure to silence certain types of activism. ⁦@shirinblue⁩ ⁦ apnews.com/article/campus-fr…
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Timely. Une étrange défaite - Didier Fassin editionsladecouverte.fr/une_… via @Ed_LaDecouverte

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Martha Schoolman and I with an op-ed on Florida's antisemitism textbook review
The Florida university system’s antisemitism scare is counterproductive and ill-informed | Opinion trib.al/Gxljp2u
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1>I just got a flashback memory of being in like third grade, and there was this new method of doing math that our teacher was introducing to us. We put both hands out on the table, fingers spread wide, and throgh some combination of taps and touches and slides we were instructed
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2>to turn our selves into a kind of calculator/piano, like the Texas Instruments in each of our desks but one that conformed to the particular rhythms of our body. #OpenAIo1
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