Brian Fairley
@brianfairley.bsky.social
Postdoctoral fellow in Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies at Pitt. (Ethno)musicologist, media historian, former dramaturg.
Sitting in the university library freshman year and absorbing Arcadia in one sitting remains one of the most pleasurable reading experiences of my life
November 29, 2025 at 11:06 PM
Sitting in the university library freshman year and absorbing Arcadia in one sitting remains one of the most pleasurable reading experiences of my life
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The New School is now a place where students cannot major in History, Anthropology, Sociology, Global Policy & International Affairs, Global Studies, Urban Studies, or Environmental Studies. And more pauses, closures, and mergers coming down the pike this week. The future is uncertain.
November 19, 2025 at 1:15 PM
The New School is now a place where students cannot major in History, Anthropology, Sociology, Global Policy & International Affairs, Global Studies, Urban Studies, or Environmental Studies. And more pauses, closures, and mergers coming down the pike this week. The future is uncertain.
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dawg not the steakhouse wedding font
November 5, 2025 at 3:33 PM
dawg not the steakhouse wedding font
Because of federal funding cuts, the American Research Institute of the South Caucasus (ARISC) has lost two-thirds of its income. ARISC has supported me and dozens of scholars and is one of the only organizations funding research in this region. If you’re able, please consider donating to help them!
Help ARISC survive federal grant cuts!
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September 29, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Because of federal funding cuts, the American Research Institute of the South Caucasus (ARISC) has lost two-thirds of its income. ARISC has supported me and dozens of scholars and is one of the only organizations funding research in this region. If you’re able, please consider donating to help them!
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hey sorry for putting this on your feed but @jay.bsky.team won't explain why this is still up despite violating Bluesky TOS. I also havent gotten any email from the multiple reports I've filed on it. Could you guys report it also and tell me if you at least get an email? bsky.app/profile/nypo...
Charlie Kirk assassination latest shooting committed by trans people and advocates
Charlie Kirk assassination latest shooting committed by trans people and advocates
The assassination of conservative pundit Charlie Kirk marks the latest example of a growing wave of murders and other shootings committed by transgender people and others advocating for their rights.
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September 15, 2025 at 6:43 PM
hey sorry for putting this on your feed but @jay.bsky.team won't explain why this is still up despite violating Bluesky TOS. I also havent gotten any email from the multiple reports I've filed on it. Could you guys report it also and tell me if you at least get an email? bsky.app/profile/nypo...
Genuinely sad about this!
Melvyn Bragg has decided to stand down as host of In Our Time, the BBC says.
September 3, 2025 at 11:25 AM
Genuinely sad about this!
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For a limited time, you can try out three months of Defector blogs for less than the price of a happy hour pint. I hope you will do it, because I think the blogs are good and the more people that subscribe the more we can hire. defector.com/defector-is-...
Defector Is Celebrating Its Fifth Birthday By Giving You A Big Fat Discount | Defector
Defector turns five next month. At last week’s offsite meetings, we celebrated that accomplishment and talked seriously about the 10-year mark—how we’re going to get there, and what we want Defector t...
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August 19, 2025 at 5:39 PM
For a limited time, you can try out three months of Defector blogs for less than the price of a happy hour pint. I hope you will do it, because I think the blogs are good and the more people that subscribe the more we can hire. defector.com/defector-is-...
Just saw this in Tbilisi and filing it away for NBA meme purposes (@netw3rk.bsky.social)
July 5, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Just saw this in Tbilisi and filing it away for NBA meme purposes (@netw3rk.bsky.social)
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STAGGERING: This new study of 133 countries is the first to estimate the impact of all USAID’s work. In 2 decades, it has saved *92M* lives. Current cuts, if not reversed, are forecast to cost up to *14M* lives thru 2030. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
July 1, 2025 at 2:23 PM
STAGGERING: This new study of 133 countries is the first to estimate the impact of all USAID’s work. In 2 decades, it has saved *92M* lives. Current cuts, if not reversed, are forecast to cost up to *14M* lives thru 2030. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
New publication! Here’s my review of two books about sound recordings of POWs during WWI (Britta Lange’s Captured Voices for Kadmos Verlag and Anette Hoffmann’s Knowing by Ear for @dukepress.bsky.social). Surveying some great work on these complex sound archives and hoping to inspire some more!
Sounds of Captivity: Prisoner-of-War Recordings in the First World War | Journal of the Royal Musical Association | Cambridge Core
Sounds of Captivity: Prisoner-of-War Recordings in the First World War - Volume 150 Issue 1
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June 16, 2025 at 8:13 PM
New publication! Here’s my review of two books about sound recordings of POWs during WWI (Britta Lange’s Captured Voices for Kadmos Verlag and Anette Hoffmann’s Knowing by Ear for @dukepress.bsky.social). Surveying some great work on these complex sound archives and hoping to inspire some more!
Wolves have left at least 10 points on the table, could have doubled up the Lakers by now
May 1, 2025 at 2:43 AM
Wolves have left at least 10 points on the table, could have doubled up the Lakers by now
New publication alert! I have an article in the just-released issue of the Journal of Sonic Studies, titled “Singing at Your Own Funeral: Overdubbed Intimacy and the Persistence of Tradition in Soviet Georgia.” Please check it out! www.researchcatalogue.net/view/3509747...
Singing at Your Own Funeral: Overdubbed Intimacy and the Persistence of Tradition in Soviet Georgia by Brian Fairley
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April 3, 2025 at 12:59 PM
New publication alert! I have an article in the just-released issue of the Journal of Sonic Studies, titled “Singing at Your Own Funeral: Overdubbed Intimacy and the Persistence of Tradition in Soviet Georgia.” Please check it out! www.researchcatalogue.net/view/3509747...
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It is with profound sadness that we mourn the passing of Jonathan Sterne, an extraordinary scholar whose groundbreaking work transformed the fields of sound studies, media theory, and the cultural study of technology.
March 21, 2025 at 11:41 PM
It is with profound sadness that we mourn the passing of Jonathan Sterne, an extraordinary scholar whose groundbreaking work transformed the fields of sound studies, media theory, and the cultural study of technology.
(expression of stony resolve softening, warm smile spreading across my face) Ah what the hell. Pass me an endorsement brother.
My YES vote is *not* an endorsement of this deeply flawed CR.
My YES vote is 💯 about refusing to shut our government down.
I refuse to punish working families and plunge millions of Americans into chaos.
I will never, ever, ever, ever, ever vote to shut our government down.
My YES vote is 💯 about refusing to shut our government down.
I refuse to punish working families and plunge millions of Americans into chaos.
I will never, ever, ever, ever, ever vote to shut our government down.
March 15, 2025 at 12:22 PM
(expression of stony resolve softening, warm smile spreading across my face) Ah what the hell. Pass me an endorsement brother.
Having listened to the recent season of In the Dark, it’s shocking to imagine the bar for prosecuting US military for war crimes going even lower
“we have to be able to commit war crimes to win wars” is the type of thing a 16-year-old dumbass says and — well, yeah, hegseth is basically a 16-year-old dumbass
NEW: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is expected to start a sweeping overhaul of military lawyers to make the US less restricted by the laws of armed conflict, per ppl familiar @theguardian.com exclusive www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
March 13, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Having listened to the recent season of In the Dark, it’s shocking to imagine the bar for prosecuting US military for war crimes going even lower
@netw3rk.bsky.social Were you trying to think of Annie Lennox’s “no more I love you’s” on today’s Six Trophies?
March 12, 2025 at 10:51 AM
@netw3rk.bsky.social Were you trying to think of Annie Lennox’s “no more I love you’s” on today’s Six Trophies?
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Equity Arc is an awesome organization that I have enjoyed working with in the past. You can donate to support their work here: equityarc.org/donate/
February 27, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Equity Arc is an awesome organization that I have enjoyed working with in the past. You can donate to support their work here: equityarc.org/donate/
Could easily program a full festival just of Bowie roles
what's your favourite acting role by a singer? mine's gotta be shirley manson as a terminator
February 26, 2025 at 11:13 PM
Could easily program a full festival just of Bowie roles
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ASME Award nomination day was always a great time for performative aw-shucks humility on Twitter, and @asherelbein.bsky.social can definitely do that if he wants for this ASME-nominated bit. But I, the story's editor, refuse to. Parul Sehgal, you will be DEFEATED. defector.com/the-judgment...
The Judgment Of Magneto | Defector
Somewhere beyond death, in a realm of judgment and pain, a concrete labyrinth filled by countless names, a man walks. He is Jewish, and has been made hard and cruel by his experiences in the Nazi deat...
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February 13, 2025 at 9:44 PM
ASME Award nomination day was always a great time for performative aw-shucks humility on Twitter, and @asherelbein.bsky.social can definitely do that if he wants for this ASME-nominated bit. But I, the story's editor, refuse to. Parul Sehgal, you will be DEFEATED. defector.com/the-judgment...
Recently went on the Eurasian Knot podcast to talk about my research on sound recordings from WWI POW camps. Please check it out! www.euraknot.org/recording-ge...
Recording Georgians in WWI POW Camps
In 1916, the German anthropologist Rudolf Pöch and musicologist Robert Lach set out to the Eger prisoner of war camp with a unique research agenda: to record the la…
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February 13, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Recently went on the Eurasian Knot podcast to talk about my research on sound recordings from WWI POW camps. Please check it out! www.euraknot.org/recording-ge...
As always delighted to subscribe to a website whose NBA coverage invokes “Oulipo constraints” (@girinathan.bsky.social) defector.com/masai-ujiri-...
Masai Ujiri Continues His Baffling Wing Collection | Defector
To understand the mind of Masai Ujiri, the brilliant team president of the Toronto Raptors who chisels away at his reputation with each passing season, it helps to hear his story about five incredible...
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February 7, 2025 at 8:32 PM
As always delighted to subscribe to a website whose NBA coverage invokes “Oulipo constraints” (@girinathan.bsky.social) defector.com/masai-ujiri-...
About to present at my fifth and last conference this fall (phew) - if you’re at #ASEEES24, please come to my paper on Sergei Parajanov and Georgian music at 4!
November 21, 2024 at 7:50 PM
About to present at my fifth and last conference this fall (phew) - if you’re at #ASEEES24, please come to my paper on Sergei Parajanov and Georgian music at 4!
Looking forward to pretending to be a medievalist in my #ams24 paper later today - on Georgia (the country) and ways of looking at the medieval musical past in the Soviet Union. Come if you can!
November 15, 2024 at 1:29 PM
Looking forward to pretending to be a medievalist in my #ams24 paper later today - on Georgia (the country) and ways of looking at the medieval musical past in the Soviet Union. Come if you can!
Obviously the Yankees losing this series will be rewarding enough, but if it’s a direct result of Aaron Boone’s idiocy it will be that much sweeter
October 26, 2024 at 3:54 AM
Obviously the Yankees losing this series will be rewarding enough, but if it’s a direct result of Aaron Boone’s idiocy it will be that much sweeter