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Colin Self
@colinself.bsky.social
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Artist, composer, performance maker, alleged multi-hyphenate. XOIR and TIAPS co-founder. My 3rd LP is out February 21st!
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rockdelux.bsky.social
“respite ∞ levity for the nameless ghost in crisis”, el tercer disco largo de @colinself.bsky.social, es un álbum extraordinario en variedad –avant-pop, 2-step, R&B, glitch music, ambient soul...–, inventiva y ejecución.

✍️ José Manuel Caturla
Colin Self
www.rockdelux.com
April 5, 2025 at 3:36 PM
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fucktheory.bsky.social
My controversial queer theory is that being happy is good and helping people is good and wanting better for the world is good and lecturing young queer people about negative politics while making six or seven figures a year at a private university is bad bad bad bad bad.
March 21, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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fucktheory.bsky.social
I reviewed the new album by @colinself.bsky.social over on Patreon.

No paywall, free to read!
REVIEW: Colin Self, respite ∞ levity for the nameless ghost in crisis | FT
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April 2, 2025 at 9:21 PM
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rockdelux.bsky.social
“respite ∞ levity for the nameless ghost in crisis”, el tercer disco largo de @colinself.bsky.social, es un álbum extraordinario, lleno de canciones sobre deseo, soledad y transformación con un punto de esoterismo que conecta con el antiguo Antony Hegarty aka ANOHNI.

✍️ José Manuel Caturla
Colin Self
www.rockdelux.com
April 2, 2025 at 8:50 PM
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fucktheory.bsky.social
This beautiful track from @colinself.bsky.social’s new album has been on a loop in my house recently.
April 1, 2025 at 4:52 PM
colinself.bsky.social
Babe wake up, Colin Self is going on tour!
March 14, 2025 at 6:11 PM
colinself.bsky.social
Hosting a special one-off XOIR session in NYC next week! shotgun.live/en/events/xo...
March 11, 2025 at 5:39 PM
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self.agency
the leap from disappearing the undocumented to disappearing visa holders to disappearing green card holders to disappearing naturalized citizens to disappearing natural born citizens is no leap at all, but a series of tiny steps

block the path
March 9, 2025 at 8:31 PM
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justusharris.bsky.social
Music Recommendation Alert:
This my favorite album of the year by far - please do yourself a favor and check it out. Ghosts, connection with spirits and total bangers - listened to it many a time all the way through!

Congrats @colinself.bsky.social this work is permeated with cosmic care
March 7, 2025 at 5:39 PM
colinself.bsky.social
Hi! It’s Bandcamp Friday! 100% of sales go straight to the artist! You know what to do~

colinself.bandcamp.com/album/respit...
respite ∞ levity for the nameless ghost in crisis, by Colin Self
12 track album
colinself.bandcamp.com
March 7, 2025 at 4:11 PM
colinself.bsky.social
My new video for Losing Faith ft. animations by Aidan Koch is out today on YouTube ! youtube.com/playlist?lis...
February 27, 2025 at 10:42 PM
colinself.bsky.social
I have got to be more of a faggot
February 14, 2025 at 4:47 AM
colinself.bsky.social
Getting ready for tour
February 12, 2025 at 10:33 PM
colinself.bsky.social
Love *is* the law 𝗵𝘂𝗵
February 4, 2025 at 9:26 AM
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lgbtqhistory.bsky.social
"Seven Poems by Martha Shelley," The Ladder, Vol. 14, Issue 7-8, April/May 1970.
January 24, 2025 at 3:42 PM
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thomasvlinge.bsky.social
#Serbia 🇷🇸: mass protests also took place in Novi Sad, in the northern Vojvodina region, the site of the railway station tragedy.
January 24, 2025 at 2:24 PM
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helenajaneczek.bsky.social
Bratislava. Belgrado. Tbilisi.
January 24, 2025 at 10:06 PM
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rebeccasolnit.bsky.social
Don't spread rumors. Stick to substantiated data. Here's a rumor that spread a panic that this excellent news source found no basis for. missionlocal.org/2025/01/sfpd...
ICE confirms no immigration activity on Muni. But SFUSD helped spread rumor.
SFUSD sent emails notifying families that a middle school student claimed to have been approached by ICE. It wasn't true.
missionlocal.org
January 24, 2025 at 9:33 PM
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criticalinquiry.bsky.social
"Born out of the political and ecological dump of the mid-1970s, object performance plays this script in reverse: it proposes playing in the dump."

From our new issue, read Gabriel Levine's "Dump Puppetry": www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10....
January 24, 2025 at 11:25 PM
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maxtundra.com
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“I've found that a lot of people have an "annoying guy at the magic show trying to prove how smart he is" energy towards art in general, and especially the work of people like David Lynch. They either want to reject the idea of mystery altogether - insisting that they can see the man behind the curtain - or they want to believe that there are clues and the mystery can be solved. We cannot just let a thing be, we want answers. We want evidence that the artist either had some specific authorial intent that we can deem as acceptable, or we want evidence that the artist was a con man in order to prove that we were never fooled. Because heaven forbid the idea that we decide what it means for ourselves. That's too vulnerable and uncomfortable.”
January 24, 2025 at 11:26 PM
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maxtundra.com
Stupendous article. This screengrabbed bit really resonated.
“I hate the embarrassment that people in this country have around art. I hate the word "pretentious" especially. I am not against skepticism, but that's not what I'm talking about here. It's one thing to criticise pretension when it serves to hide a lack of substance, but we have long since lost the plot about what the word "pretentious" even means. It has become a cudgel, a pernicious rejection of the idea that art should "mean" anything at all beyond entertainment. This kneejerk anti-intellectualism that manifests most often among the "let people enjoy things" crowd, who take gleeful pride in their ignorance and condescension towards any art that aims to broaden horizons or break rules. People who treat art like customer service, like an artist is a DJ you've hired for a wedding to only take requests.
January 24, 2025 at 11:23 PM
colinself.bsky.social
youtu.be/4ainJO9Heo8?... on repeat all day
Laurie Anderson - Long Time No See (Set and Reset score)
YouTube video by KouKlouvahata Puppet Theatre
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January 24, 2025 at 11:39 AM
colinself.bsky.social
I could not imagine a better time for Tabatha Coffey to take over the USA.
January 24, 2025 at 10:38 AM
colinself.bsky.social
Is there an open-source extension for this or any other app that blurs the face of E*on or Dump?
January 23, 2025 at 1:14 PM
colinself.bsky.social
Doing my German taxes for multiple years and I can safely say right now… I would prefer jail time! Lock me up? I would prefer that. Carceral residency!
January 23, 2025 at 11:03 AM