Seth Brodsky
@sbrodsky.bsky.social
I teach music, modernism, psychoanalysis @ University of Chicago, direct Gray Center for Arts & Inquiry, and am mostly unconscious. Stuff: http://bit.ly/3JMupgJ
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The @chicago.suntimes.com photographer who risked their personal health and safety to take this photograph is Anthony Vazquez. Please credit photographers and media outlets. In this age of misinformation, a photo with no context could be anything at all.
Please remind us who the domestic terrorists are again.
October 15, 2025 at 12:16 AM
The @chicago.suntimes.com photographer who risked their personal health and safety to take this photograph is Anthony Vazquez. Please credit photographers and media outlets. In this age of misinformation, a photo with no context could be anything at all.
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This weekend, three men in Evanston hugged their families goodbye to look for work at Home Depot but were attacked by ICE before they could return home.
Two were abducted, one is petrified of leaving the home.
If you’re able, please help us support our neighbors: www.gofundme.com/f/stand-with...
Two were abducted, one is petrified of leaving the home.
If you’re able, please help us support our neighbors: www.gofundme.com/f/stand-with...
Donate to Stand With the Families Left Behind After Evanston ICE Raid, organized by Michele Hays
If you are on social media and live near Evanston, IL, you ma… Michele Hays needs your support for Stand With the Families Left Behind After Evanston ICE Raid
www.gofundme.com
October 14, 2025 at 9:01 PM
This weekend, three men in Evanston hugged their families goodbye to look for work at Home Depot but were attacked by ICE before they could return home.
Two were abducted, one is petrified of leaving the home.
If you’re able, please help us support our neighbors: www.gofundme.com/f/stand-with...
Two were abducted, one is petrified of leaving the home.
If you’re able, please help us support our neighbors: www.gofundme.com/f/stand-with...
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‼️ I never liked his incredible music being reduced solely to the “Untitled (How Does It Feel)” video. The Voodoo tour caused him a lot of pain.
October 14, 2025 at 8:25 PM
‼️ I never liked his incredible music being reduced solely to the “Untitled (How Does It Feel)” video. The Voodoo tour caused him a lot of pain.
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Theorists! My department is hiring (NTT but continuing and good pay): jobs.chronicle.com/job/37895447...
Assistant/Associate Professor Non-Tenure Track Appointment in Music Studies-Theory - Philadelphia, Pennsylvania job with Temple University Boyer College of Music and Dance | 37895447
Teach a variety of undergraduate & graduate courses in Music Theory. Advise and mentor graduate students. Contribute to departmental &college service.
jobs.chronicle.com
October 9, 2025 at 12:19 PM
Theorists! My department is hiring (NTT but continuing and good pay): jobs.chronicle.com/job/37895447...
D’Angelo, one of the greatest musical artists of our catastrophic age, is dead. Learn his music through and through, it will change your life.
October 14, 2025 at 4:21 PM
D’Angelo, one of the greatest musical artists of our catastrophic age, is dead. Learn his music through and through, it will change your life.
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week 7, in a city under siege for 32 days and counting, and the students who are able to come to class despite the blitz are showing up like their lives depend on those 50 minutes of togetherness, poetry, and big questions
IDK, man. School started 2 weeks ago for us, and once again students remind me that they’re so curious and interested in the world and anxious to ask big questions. We hear that these questions are no longer useful or relevant, but wherever that’s coming from, it’s not what students believe.
October 10, 2025 at 2:36 PM
week 7, in a city under siege for 32 days and counting, and the students who are able to come to class despite the blitz are showing up like their lives depend on those 50 minutes of togetherness, poetry, and big questions
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he does not regret to inform you and neither do I
Jack Dickinson, 26, says “we’re winning this.”
An Interview With the Portland Chicken
Rachel Saslow
www.wweek.com
October 10, 2025 at 12:59 AM
he does not regret to inform you and neither do I
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People of Illinois, we need your help.
Get your cell phones out – record what you see. Put it on social media. Peacefully ask for badge numbers and identification. Speak up for your neighbors.
We need to let the world know this is happening – and that we won’t stand for it.
Get your cell phones out – record what you see. Put it on social media. Peacefully ask for badge numbers and identification. Speak up for your neighbors.
We need to let the world know this is happening – and that we won’t stand for it.
September 30, 2025 at 2:47 AM
People of Illinois, we need your help.
Get your cell phones out – record what you see. Put it on social media. Peacefully ask for badge numbers and identification. Speak up for your neighbors.
We need to let the world know this is happening – and that we won’t stand for it.
Get your cell phones out – record what you see. Put it on social media. Peacefully ask for badge numbers and identification. Speak up for your neighbors.
We need to let the world know this is happening – and that we won’t stand for it.
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the Brazilian right is attempting to pass measures through the legislature to shield Bolsonaro and other legislators from the legal consequences of the failed coup, for which Bolsonaro was recently sentenced to 27 years. these photos are of the massive protests in response.
Estou do lado do povo brasileiro. As manifestações de hoje demonstram que a população não quer a impunidade, nem a anistia. O Congresso Nacional deve se concentrar em medidas que tragam benefícios para o povo brasileiro.
September 22, 2025 at 3:20 AM
the Brazilian right is attempting to pass measures through the legislature to shield Bolsonaro and other legislators from the legal consequences of the failed coup, for which Bolsonaro was recently sentenced to 27 years. these photos are of the massive protests in response.
Contemporary modernism
TIL that for some people with irreparably damaged corneas, you can pull one of their teeth, drill a hole in it, install an artificial lens, sew it into their cheek (so tissue attaches), then pull it out and stick it in their damaged eye, and ... it works fine!?! www.nbcboston.com/news/health/...
Man, 34, is no longer blind after tooth is implanted in eye in 'crazy' surgery
Tooth-in-eye surgery sounds like science fiction, but it can help people with severely damaged corneas see again. A patient and his doctors describe what it's like.
www.nbcboston.com
September 13, 2025 at 10:38 AM
Contemporary modernism
The anxiety of influence—an “astral disease“ as Harold Bloom called it
September 13, 2025 at 10:35 AM
The anxiety of influence—an “astral disease“ as Harold Bloom called it
Fantastic thread
An unsatisfying term I’ve been thinking through to make sense of this is “postpolitical.” The right looks for that one signifier to prove the shooter was a leftist, the left hopes for proof he was a right winger, and so on. But for these kids don’t use signifiers that way (1/)
September 12, 2025 at 6:34 PM
Fantastic thread
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An unsatisfying term I’ve been thinking through to make sense of this is “postpolitical.” The right looks for that one signifier to prove the shooter was a leftist, the left hopes for proof he was a right winger, and so on. But for these kids don’t use signifiers that way (1/)
September 12, 2025 at 5:58 PM
An unsatisfying term I’ve been thinking through to make sense of this is “postpolitical.” The right looks for that one signifier to prove the shooter was a leftist, the left hopes for proof he was a right winger, and so on. But for these kids don’t use signifiers that way (1/)
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"Forget the partial deals. Go in with full force and finish this,” the premier [Netanyahu] reportedly said Trump told him."
www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_ent...
www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_ent...
PM told cabinet a partial hostage-ceasefire deal with Hamas ‘not on the table’ – reports
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www.timesofisrael.com
September 1, 2025 at 12:54 PM
"Forget the partial deals. Go in with full force and finish this,” the premier [Netanyahu] reportedly said Trump told him."
www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_ent...
www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_ent...
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"After you've done that, can you dig a hole 6ft deep?"
August 30, 2025 at 11:49 AM
"After you've done that, can you dig a hole 6ft deep?"
51st state’s official music
“Defend the District” protest and Go-Go concert against Trump’s takeover at 14th and U St:
August 22, 2025 at 1:59 AM
51st state’s official music
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NEW: Video shared with me from a bystander in DC shows multiple masked federal agents (at least one of whom appears to have an ICE badge) violently attacking and handcuffing a delivery worker in the street outside Bluestone Lane cafe near Logan Circle this morning.
Please take care when watching.
Please take care when watching.
August 16, 2025 at 3:48 PM
NEW: Video shared with me from a bystander in DC shows multiple masked federal agents (at least one of whom appears to have an ICE badge) violently attacking and handcuffing a delivery worker in the street outside Bluestone Lane cafe near Logan Circle this morning.
Please take care when watching.
Please take care when watching.
Miss this guy much
Michael Brooks would have turned 42 today. Here he is flawlessly explaining why the Israel Palestine situation is not complicated. Why it's not even asymmetrical warfare, but an occupation.
Rest in peace Michael. You were the best of us.
Rest in peace Michael. You were the best of us.
August 14, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Miss this guy much
As things go, a low priority but: good weather apps? With good radar features? It feels impossible to find one that doesn't require a huge yearly fee! Recs?
August 12, 2025 at 8:42 PM
As things go, a low priority but: good weather apps? With good radar features? It feels impossible to find one that doesn't require a huge yearly fee! Recs?
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It’s true!
counterpoint
criticism is the art of animating crap.
criticism is the art of animating crap.
I sometimes read these very well-educated critics writing their hearts out on crap, and I'm depressed because they're wasting so much first-rate intellect on such low-grade material. (2001)
August 10, 2025 at 9:21 PM
It’s true!
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128 members of the Royal Ballet and Opera sign an open letter in solidarity with Danni Perry displaying the 🇵🇸 flag at a curtain call, and ask the Royal Ballet and Opera to acknowledge and act against Israel's genocide of Palestinians in Gaza.
via Make Freedom Ring
www.instagram.com/p/DM3Uib-gGH...
via Make Freedom Ring
www.instagram.com/p/DM3Uib-gGH...
August 3, 2025 at 1:40 PM
128 members of the Royal Ballet and Opera sign an open letter in solidarity with Danni Perry displaying the 🇵🇸 flag at a curtain call, and ask the Royal Ballet and Opera to acknowledge and act against Israel's genocide of Palestinians in Gaza.
via Make Freedom Ring
www.instagram.com/p/DM3Uib-gGH...
via Make Freedom Ring
www.instagram.com/p/DM3Uib-gGH...
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Those tables were how she kept her house hot!
August 3, 2025 at 10:03 PM
Those tables were how she kept her house hot!
Yay @oliviagiovetti.bsky.social is on the bsky! With this banger on Verdi and the neutering of opera. “The last thing that Verdi … cared about in that moment was music: ‘There is and should be only one kind of music pleasing to the ears of the Italians of 1848 – the music of the guns!’”
Anyway, hi Bluesky. Here's something I wrote for @lrb.co.uk earlier this week about Danni Perry bringing the Palestine flag onto the stage of the ROH and why claiming political impartiality in relation to a Verdi opera is like calling Guernica a painting of a horse. www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/ju...
Olivia Giovetti | Against Consensus
During the curtain call for the closing performance of Verdi’s Il trovatore at the Royal Opera House on 19 July, one...
www.lrb.co.uk
August 3, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Yay @oliviagiovetti.bsky.social is on the bsky! With this banger on Verdi and the neutering of opera. “The last thing that Verdi … cared about in that moment was music: ‘There is and should be only one kind of music pleasing to the ears of the Italians of 1848 – the music of the guns!’”
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The High Court has granted a full legal review of the govts proscription of Palestine Action as a terrorist organisation. The groups co-founder Huda Ammori will now be able to bring a full legal review in the Royal Courts of Justice.
July 30, 2025 at 1:33 PM
The High Court has granted a full legal review of the govts proscription of Palestine Action as a terrorist organisation. The groups co-founder Huda Ammori will now be able to bring a full legal review in the Royal Courts of Justice.