intellectual caliban (Lev)
@levnekov.bsky.social
23. PhD student in musicology at Pitt. BA Music (UIUC, 2025). inquisitor of finite modes, perseverer of the Absolute. editor for @crittheoryworkgrp.bsky.social. banner from Soul Glo, Gold Chain Punk. Ko-Fi: https://ko-fi.com/levnekov
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notes to self:
- be reasonably polite to normies
- be helpful when asked
- it's ok for someone to be wrong w/o textblocking them
- your ability to make a living involves politics
- you don't have to go for the jugular every time
- strategize without becoming reliant on strategems
- touch grass
- be reasonably polite to normies
- be helpful when asked
- it's ok for someone to be wrong w/o textblocking them
- your ability to make a living involves politics
- you don't have to go for the jugular every time
- strategize without becoming reliant on strategems
- touch grass
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I will stand by, this remains the funniest mistranslation in manga localization history
November 11, 2025 at 6:18 PM
I will stand by, this remains the funniest mistranslation in manga localization history
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I think people tend to forget that the original impetus of a scholarly approach to Marx was anti-Stalinism.
November 12, 2025 at 1:13 PM
I think people tend to forget that the original impetus of a scholarly approach to Marx was anti-Stalinism.
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i like to play this game where i scroll through my zotero and go ‘boy, i read *that*? and that too??’
November 12, 2025 at 4:57 AM
i like to play this game where i scroll through my zotero and go ‘boy, i read *that*? and that too??’
STRESS TINNITUS WELCOME BACK
November 12, 2025 at 4:41 AM
STRESS TINNITUS WELCOME BACK
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obviously there’s nothing wrong with being good at math, and I also don’t believe that studying the humanities is some sort of magic anti-evil antidote, but our society has become truly pathologically unbalanced with how much Good At Math is valued over everything else
terminal Math Brain truly is a cancer that is eating the world
I think the belief by the powerful that "people will put up with many things if you are excellent at math" is incredibly revealing in terms of understanding How We Got Here
November 12, 2025 at 1:00 AM
obviously there’s nothing wrong with being good at math, and I also don’t believe that studying the humanities is some sort of magic anti-evil antidote, but our society has become truly pathologically unbalanced with how much Good At Math is valued over everything else
a part of my inner life can be explained by finding FFN Lopunny fic on my 2DS when i was 11
November 12, 2025 at 3:31 AM
a part of my inner life can be explained by finding FFN Lopunny fic on my 2DS when i was 11
ok so someone who I like a lot as a colleague was saying the last name "Treitler" like "treatler" and I had to stop myself from snorting in class
November 12, 2025 at 2:30 AM
ok so someone who I like a lot as a colleague was saying the last name "Treitler" like "treatler" and I had to stop myself from snorting in class
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when you think about it, magnets are kind of super woke
November 11, 2025 at 9:25 PM
when you think about it, magnets are kind of super woke
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It required him doing enough cocaine to become a fascist demoniac and he claims to not even remember making it, but damn if it wasn’t worth it!
August 6, 2025 at 9:16 PM
It required him doing enough cocaine to become a fascist demoniac and he claims to not even remember making it, but damn if it wasn’t worth it!
call me Caleb with how many audibles I called during my presentation
November 11, 2025 at 9:42 PM
call me Caleb with how many audibles I called during my presentation
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the bond franchise has already encountered and solved this problem
November 11, 2025 at 7:11 PM
the bond franchise has already encountered and solved this problem
jumpscare: you know Pachelbel? that Pachelbel? apparently his son was a slaver (fat L)
![David Hunter, “Music and the Use of the Profits of the Anglo-American Slave Economy (ca. 1610–c. 1810),” in The Oxford Handbook of Economic Ethnomusicology:
“The Support of Professional and Amateur Musicians by Slavery's Profits in North America and the Caribbean
The second way in which slavery's profits were put to use was by professional and amateur musicians who owned slaves or who were hired to teach music to slave owners or their children or to other participants in the slave economy. We know very little about the domestic lives of professional musicians in the European tradition prior to the Revolution in the North American colonies. Did they own slaves? The organist Charles (Carl) T.
Pachelbel (1690-1750) certainly did. The younger son of Johann Pachelbel (1653-1706), Charles settled in Boston before 1734, in which year he went to Trinity Church, Newport, Rhode Island, to assemble the organ that had been donated to the church by a recent res-ident, the philosopher, divine, and would-be college administrator George Berkeley (1685-1753) (Perry 2008). In 1736 Pachelbel moved to Charleston, South Carolina, becoming organist of St. Peter's Church in 1740. He was the teacher of Peter Pelham (1721-
1805), who was the church organist in Williamsburg, Virginia, 1755-1802, and whose manuscript keyboard tutor includes works by Handel (Butler 2005). An inventory of Pachelbel's belongings taken after his death reveals that his two most valuable possessions were slaves, Peg and Ned, valued at £230 and £100 respectively (Redway 1952). In this, he was typical of men who considered themselves gentlemen, a slave or slaves being the cheap colonial substitution for servants hired for the same purposes in Britain. By way of comparison, the inventory says Pachelbel's small spinet was worth £10 and his clavichord £4. In addition to his salary of £40 per annum Pachelbel had supported himself […]”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ykfmg4kzubg3rjvzkhqmxk7n/bafkreihiuprp4eiyy6rc5i2mvvrto6aroo53wolxithojylqfoayv62ufe@jpeg)
November 11, 2025 at 6:27 PM
jumpscare: you know Pachelbel? that Pachelbel? apparently his son was a slaver (fat L)
I need to stop catastrophizing as a coping mechanism
November 11, 2025 at 5:34 PM
I need to stop catastrophizing as a coping mechanism
i promise i'm cooking
November 11, 2025 at 1:57 AM
i promise i'm cooking
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The broad vibe shift against an organization like AIPAC is good overall and indicates something serious in the underlying direction of the Democratic base but I think, and have for a long time now thought, it was always a bit too simplistic to chalk up the pro-Israel consensus *to* AIPAC et al.
November 10, 2025 at 8:41 PM
The broad vibe shift against an organization like AIPAC is good overall and indicates something serious in the underlying direction of the Democratic base but I think, and have for a long time now thought, it was always a bit too simplistic to chalk up the pro-Israel consensus *to* AIPAC et al.
hot take: Susan McClary didn't go far enough
November 10, 2025 at 6:18 PM
hot take: Susan McClary didn't go far enough
> be me today
> forget I turned my Monday alarm off last week
> wake up half an hour past my alarm
> scarf down a granola bar
> it's snowing
> no coffee, we ball
> take my meds
> miss three buses
> jog up Squirrel Hill to catch another bus
chat is this Monday
> forget I turned my Monday alarm off last week
> wake up half an hour past my alarm
> scarf down a granola bar
> it's snowing
> no coffee, we ball
> take my meds
> miss three buses
> jog up Squirrel Hill to catch another bus
chat is this Monday
November 10, 2025 at 2:53 PM
> be me today
> forget I turned my Monday alarm off last week
> wake up half an hour past my alarm
> scarf down a granola bar
> it's snowing
> no coffee, we ball
> take my meds
> miss three buses
> jog up Squirrel Hill to catch another bus
chat is this Monday
> forget I turned my Monday alarm off last week
> wake up half an hour past my alarm
> scarf down a granola bar
> it's snowing
> no coffee, we ball
> take my meds
> miss three buses
> jog up Squirrel Hill to catch another bus
chat is this Monday
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People playing music without headphones on the train got me reflecting on Hobbes and Rousseau and the nature of Society and such things
November 10, 2025 at 6:40 AM
People playing music without headphones on the train got me reflecting on Hobbes and Rousseau and the nature of Society and such things
the more I read about my field's history, the less alien my already alienated position feels relative to what the "baseline" was 40 years ago
November 10, 2025 at 3:39 AM
the more I read about my field's history, the less alien my already alienated position feels relative to what the "baseline" was 40 years ago
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The Cardiac Bears do it again.
Bears 24, Giants 20
Bears 24, Giants 20
November 9, 2025 at 9:11 PM
The Cardiac Bears do it again.
Bears 24, Giants 20
Bears 24, Giants 20
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Fourth-quarter magic from Caleb Williams with the 17-yard TD run.
4 plays, 53 yards in 1:06
And just like that, it's Bears 24, Giants 20
4 plays, 53 yards in 1:06
And just like that, it's Bears 24, Giants 20
November 9, 2025 at 9:04 PM
Fourth-quarter magic from Caleb Williams with the 17-yard TD run.
4 plays, 53 yards in 1:06
And just like that, it's Bears 24, Giants 20
4 plays, 53 yards in 1:06
And just like that, it's Bears 24, Giants 20
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One week under COMMUNIST Zohran Mamdani and the once great American Musicological Society does this. SAD!
November 9, 2025 at 1:02 PM
One week under COMMUNIST Zohran Mamdani and the once great American Musicological Society does this. SAD!