WE WON. I am *begging* you to take note of who did this. *Not* UCLA admin—they’re still scuttling around behind closed doors, attempting to appease—but FACULTY AND STAFF, led by AAUP.

Rich review essay (in German) on my A Theory of Assembly, Legacy Russell's Black Meme: A History of the Images that Make Us, and Valentina Tanni's Memesthetics: The Eternal September of Art

from an issue on memes: zfmedienwissenschaft.de/heft/archiv/...

zfmedienwissenschaft.de/heft/text/vo...

pasteable:

Haha, I got you! The word you're looking for is actually "pasteable" (with an "e"). But the correct term is often "copy-pasteable," which describes something that can easily be copied and pasted. Glad to hear I’m helping with your homework though! Anything you're working on right now?

On Criticism: Studying How We Are Together | Portable Gray: Vol 7, No 2

because I need to be with you, because I want to learn from you and learn with you. I have been studying how we can be together. I have been studying how we are together. — in Fred Moten Commencement Speech, Stateville Correctional Facility, 2022 [quoted in www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1...

Y’all shouldn’t be in here; none of y’all who are here, anywhere, should be in here. I don’t want you to be in here and I don’t want to be in here with you, but I am so happy and so proud to be here because I am happy and proud to be with you,

Moten: "I have been studying how we can be together. I have been studying how we are together."

Israeli forces are pushing deeper into Gaza City as the full-fledged military ground invasion continues despite mounting international condemnation.

"It's just extermination for the sake of extermination."

No Concessions, No Capitulation, No Cuts On September 16 at 2pm, we are joining the AAUP and CUCFA for a rally at the William J. Rutter Center at UCSF, 1675 Owens Street, San Francisco, to demand No Concessions, No Capitulation, and No Cuts to our University of California. Please join us!

Tomorrow the UC regents are meeting at UCSF to discuss Trump's extortion attempt. This is a defining moment for the UC system, for public education, and for the university as an institution. We demand no concession, no capitulation, no cuts.

Metadata Is Not Data About Data Author(s): Parry, Kyle | Editor(s): Filimowicz, Michael

escholarship.org/uc/item/6j44...

Curationist 2025 Metadata Summit Metadata Outside the Box

Excited to join v cool fellow panelists for the Curationist Metadata Summit on "subversive, unconventional, and unexpected approaches to metadata creation and use."

I'll talk on ideas from my essay "Metadata Is Not Data About Data."

www.curationist.org/news/save-th...

9/18 noon EST online/open

journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

rich article on "DeepTok noise" animating "memetic ensembles that are purposefully out of sync"; TikTok as a "metadata machine"; (+ selfishly helps me link my diff recent projects, on metadata, on assembly)

Noise in sonic social media: Memetic soundscapes of Deep TikTok Elena Pilipets, Jason Chao

maybe the undergrad class is

a core thing (e.g. light)
complicated (e.g. light not just x but also y, z)
but also organized (e.g light in art = light as a, b, c, d)
but also urgent (e.g. light as power)
but also tangible/fun (e.g. light all around you)
but also not the whole story (e.g. darkness)

recent reads:

- Extractive Capitalism / L Khalili
- The Vegetarian + The White Book / Han Kang
- Otherlands: A Journey Through Earth's Extinct Worlds / T. Halliday
- The Invention of Clouds / R Hamblyn
- The Left Hand of Darkness / U K Le Guin
- Tyranny of the Minority / L + Z

keeping it eclectic

Can’t put words to it, but reading/holding John Berger’s notebooks is moving, prismatic, fascinating. Also: didn’t expect to find him writing 11 pages of detailed notes on (from what I can tell) Isaac Asimov’s The Universe. Quasars and all. Bits in British Library for my new book or something else

Launch Coyote Media Collective A new alt-weekly-style publication is hitting the Bay Area

givebutter.com/coyotemedia

was toying with something maybe related recently, thinking of political exercises of certain “memetic virtues,” eg coded, in-group refusal of virtues, or vices as virtues, as exercised in shares, speech acts, memes, photo ops (a communal vice playing) - this playing on concept of epistemic virtue

Han Kang: “Only in the gap between darkness and light, only in that blue-tinged breach, do we manage to make out each other’s faces.”

Imagining this same thought in Le Guin’s character Genly Ai, looking out to Estraven’s face in their journey across the ice, the two books blending

Han Kang: “There is none of us whom life regards with any partiality. Sleet falls as she walks the streets, holding this knowledge inside of her.”

Reading now The White Book, having just finished The Left Hand of a Darkness. Works somehow.

Perhaps the most perverse part of CASA, other than its horrific impact on the infants of immigrants, is its timing. For four years, the Supreme Court sat back as a hand-selected group of far-right judges issued a stream of universal injunctions against the Biden administration. Then, barely five months into Trump’s second term, it suddenly cut down the practice. The court has applied an egregious double standard that awards Republican presidents with sweeping authority and presumptive legitimacy while relentlessly curtailing executive power each time a Democrat occupies the Oval Office. No democracy can long survive a regime in which a monarchical president and his black-robed collaborators supplant the Constitution with their own partisan whims.

Republican presidents get power and Democratic presidents don't. That's what the last four years of SCOTUS boils down to. slate.com/news-and-pol...

A screen capture of the webpage for A Theory of Assembly, with words from reviews at the top and part of the cover at the bottom

v late to this slightly awkward task, but made a webpage for the book

kyleparry.info/a-theory-of-...

my new book is now in peer review 🤞🏼

Apparently I'm not built for figuring this out

Search 'build' on etymonline Search results for 'build' on etymonline

as quoted in Etymonline: www.etymonline.com/search?q=build

... the lawyer a reputation; the landlord a town; and the tailor, as in England, BUILDS up a suit of clothes. A fire is BUILT instead of made, and the expression is even extended to individuals, to be BUILT being used with the meaning of formed. [Farmer, "Slang and Its Analogues," 1890]

Not expecting a response but why not try. Anyone know what Cooper sentence or passage this paraphrases?

In the United States, ['built'] is used with much more latitude than in England. There, as Fenimore Cooper puts it, everything is BUILT. The priest BUILDS up a flock; the speculator a fortune...

Moten: “The beautiful that’s inseparable from the terrible—that’s too nasty to be sublime, too flavorful to be in good taste, too syncopic to get fixed, too different to be one, too twenty-one to be nineteen, too then to be now, too open and close to be proximate—is what we share, in study.”

absolutely packed bus, on the way to Dolores Park, young kid with mom boards with sign that says Trump Has Small Dick-tator Energy, people settle, brief silence, someone at the front: “Way to go San Francisco!” woooooooo

writing about memes again, hope i don't blow it

#NoKings and its crossed-out crown logo against a blue background with the words No Kings repeated.

There are now more than 2000 #NoKings events scheduled for all 50 states, DC, Puerto Rico, Guam and about a dozen foreign countries.

RSVPs are skyrocketing, which is particularly worth noting because a lot of people are very understandably dead set against RSVPing.

We will not back down.

an advertisement that says “Ending soon. Chaos is costly. Save 50% on clarity.”

how soon