Douglas Kahn
@douglaskahn.bsky.social
Writer, historian and theorist of the arts, focus on sound and energies, with STS-ish background. Books: Energies in the Arts (2019), Earth Sound Earth Signal (2013), Noise Water Meat (1999).
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Douglas Kahn
@douglaskahn.bsky.social
· Jan 9
What is an Ecopath? I wrote this during the 2019-2020 Australian bush fires burning on both sides of the ridge I live on. Photo by Lynn Robb of remnants of the fires in Malibu.
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Read an extract from James Tenney: Writings And Interviews On Experimental Music
In an extract from this new collection, Douglas Kahn interviews the US Fluxus composer and theorist in 1999 about his influences and works.
www.thewire.co.uk/in-writing/book-extracts/read-an-extract-from
In an extract from this new collection, Douglas Kahn interviews the US Fluxus composer and theorist in 1999 about his influences and works.
www.thewire.co.uk/in-writing/book-extracts/read-an-extract-from
Read an extract from James Tenney: Writings And Interviews On Experimental Music - The Wire
In an extract from a new collection of writings and interviews by James Tenney – edited by Robert Wannamaker, Lauren Pratt and Tashi Wada – Douglas Kahn interviews the US Fluxus composer and theorist ...
www.thewire.co.uk
October 1, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Read an extract from James Tenney: Writings And Interviews On Experimental Music
In an extract from this new collection, Douglas Kahn interviews the US Fluxus composer and theorist in 1999 about his influences and works.
www.thewire.co.uk/in-writing/book-extracts/read-an-extract-from
In an extract from this new collection, Douglas Kahn interviews the US Fluxus composer and theorist in 1999 about his influences and works.
www.thewire.co.uk/in-writing/book-extracts/read-an-extract-from
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I had a good chat with Guardian Australia but I fear the piece they've just published reads as if I'm in the pro-AI camp. I'm actually strongly against the push for AI to be adopted, especially in the creative industries. medium.com/@olliebown/s...
Students are right to challenge the roll-out of generative AI in universities
The course “Generative AI for Artists” at the School of Art & Design at UNSW Sydney was set up recently as an optional elective to offer…
medium.com
August 29, 2025 at 3:09 AM
I had a good chat with Guardian Australia but I fear the piece they've just published reads as if I'm in the pro-AI camp. I'm actually strongly against the push for AI to be adopted, especially in the creative industries. medium.com/@olliebown/s...
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For those not following the drama earlier, it's for sharing this piece advocating for nonviolence (but not being judgy about how targeted people respond either). And saying some things about governmental/ institutional violence.
Some Notes on the City of Angels and the Nature of Violence
I think maybe it's begun, the bigger fiercer backlash against the Trump Administration which is itself a violent backlash against every good thing that's happened over the past several decades – the a...
www.meditationsinanemergency.com
June 11, 2025 at 9:43 AM
For those not following the drama earlier, it's for sharing this piece advocating for nonviolence (but not being judgy about how targeted people respond either). And saying some things about governmental/ institutional violence.
Claudia Arozqueta's groundbreaking book available for preorder from MIT Press.
March 13, 2025 at 2:55 AM
Claudia Arozqueta's groundbreaking book available for preorder from MIT Press.
Rare Giant Mantis spotted in the Blue Mountains.
March 9, 2025 at 4:27 AM
Rare Giant Mantis spotted in the Blue Mountains.
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I'm one of several US-based historians interviewed for this piece 🗃️
www.france24.com/fr/am%C3%A9r...
www.france24.com/fr/am%C3%A9r...
Peut-on comparer l'administration Trump au régime nazi ?
Musk accusé d'avoir fait un salut nazi, humiliation de Zelensky, stigmatisation des étrangers, licenciements brutaux, ambition territoriale. Depuis le retour de Trump, l'administration américaine mult...
www.france24.com
March 7, 2025 at 7:50 PM
I'm one of several US-based historians interviewed for this piece 🗃️
www.france24.com/fr/am%C3%A9r...
www.france24.com/fr/am%C3%A9r...
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Just got an email from the Fulbright Association. As of right now, funding has been cut off to 12,500 US citizens currently abroad and and more than 7,400 foreigner scholars and students in the United States
March 7, 2025 at 10:46 PM
Just got an email from the Fulbright Association. As of right now, funding has been cut off to 12,500 US citizens currently abroad and and more than 7,400 foreigner scholars and students in the United States
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Aix-Marseille University in France will provide 15 million Euros over 3 years to 15 American scientists who feel threatened or hindered in their research by the orange manbaby.
French University to Fund American Scientists Who Fear Trump Censorship
The program, called ‘safe place for science,’ offers American scientists funding to continue their research in France.
www.404media.co
March 6, 2025 at 7:49 AM
Aix-Marseille University in France will provide 15 million Euros over 3 years to 15 American scientists who feel threatened or hindered in their research by the orange manbaby.
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So - I've actually led Ebola outbreak response at USAID.
This is bunk from Elon. They have laid off most of the experts, they're bankrupting most of the partner orgs, have withdrawn from WHO, and muzzled CDC.
What's left is a fig-leaf effort to cover their asses politically.
This is bunk from Elon. They have laid off most of the experts, they're bankrupting most of the partner orgs, have withdrawn from WHO, and muzzled CDC.
What's left is a fig-leaf effort to cover their asses politically.
Elon Musk: "We will make mistakes. We won't be perfect ... so for example, with USAID, one of the things we accidentally canceled very briefly was ebola prevention."
February 26, 2025 at 10:41 PM
So - I've actually led Ebola outbreak response at USAID.
This is bunk from Elon. They have laid off most of the experts, they're bankrupting most of the partner orgs, have withdrawn from WHO, and muzzled CDC.
What's left is a fig-leaf effort to cover their asses politically.
This is bunk from Elon. They have laid off most of the experts, they're bankrupting most of the partner orgs, have withdrawn from WHO, and muzzled CDC.
What's left is a fig-leaf effort to cover their asses politically.
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This morning at Dept of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) HQ in DC as mandatory return to office began, this video played on loop for ~5 mins on screens throughout the building, per agency source.
Building staff couldn’t figure out how to turn it off so sent people to every floor to unplug TVs.
Building staff couldn’t figure out how to turn it off so sent people to every floor to unplug TVs.
February 24, 2025 at 2:51 PM
This morning at Dept of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) HQ in DC as mandatory return to office began, this video played on loop for ~5 mins on screens throughout the building, per agency source.
Building staff couldn’t figure out how to turn it off so sent people to every floor to unplug TVs.
Building staff couldn’t figure out how to turn it off so sent people to every floor to unplug TVs.
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Can Australian arts orgs just stop with all this bullshit, everyone is over it.
Grow the fuck up. Quit it with the censorship. Let artist art, or we'll just turn around and art harder to spite you.
Grow the fuck up. Quit it with the censorship. Let artist art, or we'll just turn around and art harder to spite you.
National Gallery of Australia literally had Pacific Indigenous art collective SaVĀge K’lub cover up the Palestinian flag in their work days before the opening of their exhibition. This racist censorship is rife throughout the arts in Australia, it is disgusting! www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...
February 20, 2025 at 8:34 AM
Can Australian arts orgs just stop with all this bullshit, everyone is over it.
Grow the fuck up. Quit it with the censorship. Let artist art, or we'll just turn around and art harder to spite you.
Grow the fuck up. Quit it with the censorship. Let artist art, or we'll just turn around and art harder to spite you.
Hard to believe that some Australians take this guy seriously. #peterdutton
February 19, 2025 at 7:44 AM
Hard to believe that some Australians take this guy seriously. #peterdutton
Apple, meet bowerbird.
February 15, 2025 at 2:43 AM
Apple, meet bowerbird.
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Aqua tweezers, from the people who brought you Chladni figures. Intro vid from Nature.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=XKgH...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=XKgH...
‘Aqua tweezers’ manipulate particles with water waves
YouTube video by nature video
www.youtube.com
February 12, 2025 at 7:02 AM
Aqua tweezers, from the people who brought you Chladni figures. Intro vid from Nature.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=XKgH...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=XKgH...
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New Starter Pack list --> go.bsky.app/QkzdKZR
February 5, 2025 at 9:23 AM
New Starter Pack list --> go.bsky.app/QkzdKZR
Techbros quick in with the new circuitry of coordination/Gleichschaltung.
January 20, 2025 at 6:29 AM
Techbros quick in with the new circuitry of coordination/Gleichschaltung.
Livestock methane fire.
January 10, 2025 at 8:36 AM
Livestock methane fire.
What is an Ecopath? I wrote this during the 2019-2020 Australian bush fires burning on both sides of the ridge I live on. Photo by Lynn Robb of remnants of the fires in Malibu.
sydneyreviewofbooks.com/essays/what-...
sydneyreviewofbooks.com/essays/what-...
January 9, 2025 at 9:13 AM
What is an Ecopath? I wrote this during the 2019-2020 Australian bush fires burning on both sides of the ridge I live on. Photo by Lynn Robb of remnants of the fires in Malibu.
sydneyreviewofbooks.com/essays/what-...
sydneyreviewofbooks.com/essays/what-...
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Her full, eloquent explanation here: anntelnaes.substack.com/p/why-im-qui...
Why I'm quitting the Washington Post
Democracy can't function without a free press
anntelnaes.substack.com
January 4, 2025 at 1:08 AM
Her full, eloquent explanation here: anntelnaes.substack.com/p/why-im-qui...
In 2005 I was bumped up to business on a flight from Chicago to Sacramento. I sat next to a major software firm CTO who was also a born-again Christian. We talked for the entire trip. He told me about using his wealth to fund The Creation Museum. Here's Adam in Garden of Eden with a penguin.
December 4, 2024 at 8:09 AM
In 2005 I was bumped up to business on a flight from Chicago to Sacramento. I sat next to a major software firm CTO who was also a born-again Christian. We talked for the entire trip. He told me about using his wealth to fund The Creation Museum. Here's Adam in Garden of Eden with a penguin.
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My new podcast with Lucy Lippard is out and I am delighted to share it. Have a listen (and watch, because the video is great too)
Feminism, Proto-Blogs, and Chaco Canyon: Lucy Lippard’s Life in Art
YouTube video by Hyperallergic
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November 26, 2024 at 11:46 PM
My new podcast with Lucy Lippard is out and I am delighted to share it. Have a listen (and watch, because the video is great too)
Can anyone help parse this poster? The top reads WORLD ALLIANCE, the next rung LEAGUE OF NATIONS, and then ONE UNIT, ONE FORCE, ONE SPEECH, ONE PRAYER, ONE TAX... and then the star with clusters of...? He's Australian chemist and musician Alexander Hector in 1950. #hist
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austhistassoc.bsky.social
November 20, 2024 at 5:37 AM
Can anyone help parse this poster? The top reads WORLD ALLIANCE, the next rung LEAGUE OF NATIONS, and then ONE UNIT, ONE FORCE, ONE SPEECH, ONE PRAYER, ONE TAX... and then the star with clusters of...? He's Australian chemist and musician Alexander Hector in 1950. #hist
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austhistassoc.bsky.social
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Musk building new cancer alleys in Black cities. It’s exactly as bad as you think
My last day at NPR was yesterday. I'm heartbroken about not working with my favorite humans. But I'm excited about what's next (more soon)!
My final story aired today on Morning Edition, it's about Musk, xAI and Memphis. I see it as a harbinger of what's to come...
www.npr.org/2024/11/15/n...
My final story aired today on Morning Edition, it's about Musk, xAI and Memphis. I see it as a harbinger of what's to come...
www.npr.org/2024/11/15/n...
Regional power authority approves request for Musk's Memphis AI supercomputer project
The regional power authority in Memphis approved a request for enough energy to power a small city. Elon Musk's AI company will use it for a massive supercomputer. The project was a surprise to many.
www.npr.org
November 15, 2024 at 11:20 PM
Musk building new cancer alleys in Black cities. It’s exactly as bad as you think