I once called a noise track this. Back in the 90s.

Pile of books about black metal

Current research… 🤘🏻

Page of text from Zillah Bethell’s “The Song Carrier”.

Page of text from Zillah Bethell’s “The Song Carrier”.

When two worlds collide! Reading Zillah Bethell’s “The Song Carrier” to our 7yo at bed time last night & suddenly these pages really resonated with my ideas for an essay I’m writing on @uboatheflesh.bsky.social, queer ecology, Hauntological trauma, Indigenous knowledge systems, & noise aesthetics!

I still want to write an Our Band Could Be Your Life book on that whole scene. My opening chapter would be called ‘A Watery Kentucky’.

I’m always a bit “argh” when I see academic work sailing close to my own yet-to-be published stuff. Then I unclench and realise it’s all good. Ana Davies, I salute you. This is a really interesting paper on @uboatheflesh.bsky.social and posthumanism. May we share pages in a #Uboa Reader one day! 🫡

パートナーシップ制度導入自治体 | 情報データベース | 結婚の自由をすべての人に - Marriage for All Japan - パートナーシップ導入自治体を紹介しているページです。性のあり方に関わらず、誰もが結婚するかしないかを自由に選択できる社会の実現を目指して活動しています。

With the start of a new fiscal year, 15 more local governments in Japan have started "partnership systems" to recognize relationships of LGBT couples in the absence of marriage equality, bringing the total count to (at least) 557 local governments, covering 93.5% of Japan's population! 🏳️‍🌈

An Introduction to Trans Theology (08-Jun-2026) Course overview  This course introduces students to the growing field of trans theology. Beginning with the origins of the field as it developed out of feminist theology in the early 2000s, we will se...

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...

Stephen King “It”

“It.” I was 12 or 13 (1990). Scared the hell out of me. Only got as far as the scrawled ”It” in blood on the bathroom wall scene… That was enough for me. Went back to King aged about 19 or 20 and became absolutely obsessed for a couple of years. Bought most of his catalogue from 2nd hand bookshops.

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.

Excellent news. And your curatorial labour paid off. Thanks again comrade! Just have to write the bally thing now!!

Audition. Ring. A Tale of Two Sisters.

I think we all needed this.

Photo commemorating the passing of Éliane Radigue.

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. ✌🏻

Good luck. We’ve put in a proposal for a Twin Peaks related panel.

Switching to my *chin-stroke* account… Congratulations, Anna. This is brilliant news. I’m a Leeds alumnus three times over. The Uni is brilliant. And the city is fantastic. Really hope you have similarly good news with the funding 🤞🏻.

CFA: Neoplatonism and the Presocratics (SCS 2027) CALL FOR ABSTRACTSNeoplatonism & the PresocraticsPanel of the International Society for Neoplatonic StudiesSociety for Classical Studies, 7-10 January 2027, BostonOrganizer: Jeremy Swist, Michigan...

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!

WOMEN AND METAL HAVE 5 MINUTES? HELP A GIRL OUT AND FILL OUT MY SURVEY ABOUT YOUR EXPERIENCES AS FEMALE METAL FAN AND MISOGYNY ALL RESPONSES ARE ANONYMOUS Goldsmiths

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 think, in some sense, Jean-Luc Nancy might call that “arch distance” a “syncope”. He writes about Kant’s work having a gap between author and text. There is very little “Kant” in (late) Kant.

Stones, air, axioms, by Thomas Tilly & Jean-Luc Guionnet 4 track album

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 “In this talk, I challenge prevailing anthropocentric understandings of community by identifying and expanding three interrelated senses of composition found throughout Alphonso Lingis' work. First, I examine how Lingis dissolves the nature/culture binary, unsettling the conceptual boundaries that separate human from nonhuman lite. Secondly, I explore the symbiotic relationships between humans and nonhumans, highlighting the material and existential interdependencies that connect them. Finally, I consider how sensations, intensities, and embodied experiences generate forms of belonging that transcend linguistic or rational frameworks traditionally regarded as the sine qua non conditions for community. My ultimate aim shall be to illustrate and build upon Lingis' radical rethinking of community as an open, dynamic assemblage in which human and nonhuman beings co-constitute one another.” Niki Young lectures Philosophy at the University of Malta. His philosophical interests centre around 20" and 21« Century Continental thought, with a special focus on the incorporation of 20h century ideas into contemporary fields of research such as those of Posthumanism, Animal Studies, as well as New and Speculative forms of Realism and Materialism. Registration's open untl 15/01/2026 https://forms.gle/zTAAkY6RGzh4nw7E9 zoom Date: 17 January 2026 Time: 16:00 p.m. CET (Central Europe Time zone)

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...
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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.

@michaelshallcross.bsky.social

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

Ashon Crawley: Quantum Mechanics. Quantum Sound. Quantum Love. YouTube video by EMPAC | Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center at Rensselaer

Totally in love with this cat! #AshonCrawley

This sounds right up my abyssal void! 👌🏻

Ashton Crawley

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! 📚 🤓