Taylor Agajanian
@cyborglibrarian.bsky.social
PhD student of Media, Technology, & Society at Northwestern University | Critical media scholar studying the ways digital platforms fuel problematic information, shape politics, and cause offline harm to marginalized communities.
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Ep. 256: Suspiria (1977) (w/ Taylor Agajanian)
Podcast Episode · The Friendchise Podcast · 10/19/2025 · 2h 2m
podcasts.apple.com
Back on the pod for spooky season to chat one of my favorite topics! This episode we're covering Argento’s sensory feast Suspiria (1977), the 2018 remake, and all things Giallo. 🔪🩸 podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e...
Back on the pod for spooky season to chat one of my favorite topics! This episode we're covering Argento’s sensory feast Suspiria (1977), the 2018 remake, and all things Giallo. 🔪🩸 podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e...
Ep. 256: Suspiria (1977) (w/ Taylor Agajanian)
Podcast Episode · The Friendchise Podcast · 10/19/2025 · 2h 2m
podcasts.apple.com
October 20, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Back on the pod for spooky season to chat one of my favorite topics! This episode we're covering Argento’s sensory feast Suspiria (1977), the 2018 remake, and all things Giallo. 🔪🩸 podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e...
First conference presentation at APSA 2025 wrapping up year one of my PhD 🤗
September 13, 2025 at 3:16 PM
First conference presentation at APSA 2025 wrapping up year one of my PhD 🤗
The Minneapolis shooter was wearing a KMFDM shirt bc they were a fan of past mass shooters and wanted to nod specifically to the Columbine Shooter Dylan Klebold. This has absolutely no connection to the band itself or their music which is politically left. Let's leave the Satanic Panic in the 90s.
August 27, 2025 at 10:49 PM
The Minneapolis shooter was wearing a KMFDM shirt bc they were a fan of past mass shooters and wanted to nod specifically to the Columbine Shooter Dylan Klebold. This has absolutely no connection to the band itself or their music which is politically left. Let's leave the Satanic Panic in the 90s.
Forgot about the Air and Water show and now I get to spend the rest of the week/end terrorized by the sound, worried about my apartment being hit by a fighter jet for literally no reason. But its fun I guess!
August 14, 2025 at 3:21 PM
Forgot about the Air and Water show and now I get to spend the rest of the week/end terrorized by the sound, worried about my apartment being hit by a fighter jet for literally no reason. But its fun I guess!
Maybe I am just sheltered from growing up in East Los Angeles but I am legit disturbed by the number of totally average young white women on the other app that are proud flagrant white supremacists, posting selfies and all. For free!
August 3, 2025 at 11:33 PM
Maybe I am just sheltered from growing up in East Los Angeles but I am legit disturbed by the number of totally average young white women on the other app that are proud flagrant white supremacists, posting selfies and all. For free!
Is South Park going to be the reason deep fake technology gets outlawed 🤣
July 24, 2025 at 7:37 PM
Is South Park going to be the reason deep fake technology gets outlawed 🤣
This whole “Children of the Waning Star” TikTok cult debacle is a prime example of why digital public spaces should NOT be all ages spaces. Children and teenagers need their own moderated digital spaces where they can express themselves and connect without being exploited by lonely adults or worse.
July 17, 2025 at 7:16 PM
This whole “Children of the Waning Star” TikTok cult debacle is a prime example of why digital public spaces should NOT be all ages spaces. Children and teenagers need their own moderated digital spaces where they can express themselves and connect without being exploited by lonely adults or worse.
I thought I couldn't hate wasps more than I already do, but the high rise I live in is covered in bridge spiders (a type of orb weaver) which I have grown to love and to my horror I now have to witness their parasitic kidnappings by mud-daubers on a daily basis all summer long.
July 14, 2025 at 7:36 PM
I thought I couldn't hate wasps more than I already do, but the high rise I live in is covered in bridge spiders (a type of orb weaver) which I have grown to love and to my horror I now have to witness their parasitic kidnappings by mud-daubers on a daily basis all summer long.
I did not have Tucker Carlson roasting the hell out of Ted Cruz on my 2025 bingo card.
June 18, 2025 at 10:22 PM
I did not have Tucker Carlson roasting the hell out of Ted Cruz on my 2025 bingo card.
These exposes are becoming increasingly common and yet there is very little interrogation of whether these metaphysical matrixy "AI as god" responses are the result of intentional training by the noted techno accelerationists who develop these chatbots. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/13/t...
They Asked an A.I. Chatbot Questions. The Answers Sent Them Spiraling.
www.nytimes.com
June 13, 2025 at 10:27 PM
These exposes are becoming increasingly common and yet there is very little interrogation of whether these metaphysical matrixy "AI as god" responses are the result of intentional training by the noted techno accelerationists who develop these chatbots. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/13/t...
I went to Europe for the first time this last week and caught covid from these guys on the way out 🦴
May 29, 2025 at 12:44 AM
I went to Europe for the first time this last week and caught covid from these guys on the way out 🦴
Reposted by Taylor Agajanian
With @cyborglibrarian.bsky.social at St. Alexander Nevsky Cathedral, Sofia
May 18, 2025 at 3:28 PM
With @cyborglibrarian.bsky.social at St. Alexander Nevsky Cathedral, Sofia
Through the course of this fuckery I’ve noticed that there appears to be no strategy beyond sheer chaos and acceleration. They are making cuts and firing people indiscriminately, which will inevitably affect their own constituents. What is the end goal here beyond just being king of the ashes?
"Cuts have no apparent regard for civil society or opportunity costs or long-term strategic thinking. Their targets are Elon Musk’s and Project 2025’s targets. They have found no fraud, just democracy at work. They’re apparently eager to see what happens when it no longer does." Brian Barrett:
The DOGE Takeover Is Worse Than You Think
What’s happening to the US government right now is bad. What comes next is worse.
www.wired.com
March 1, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Through the course of this fuckery I’ve noticed that there appears to be no strategy beyond sheer chaos and acceleration. They are making cuts and firing people indiscriminately, which will inevitably affect their own constituents. What is the end goal here beyond just being king of the ashes?
Unintentional monochromatic book haul from Women & Children First feminist bookstore here in Chicago
February 28, 2025 at 6:43 AM
Unintentional monochromatic book haul from Women & Children First feminist bookstore here in Chicago
Mochi says “All my friends hate Meta”
February 27, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Mochi says “All my friends hate Meta”
Trump's Office of Women's Health added a whole page devoted to transphobia under the guise of "protecting women and children." It's not trans-people women and children need protecting from, its cis-men. We are harassed, abused, assaulted, raped, and murdered every-fucking-day by cis-men.
February 19, 2025 at 10:23 PM
Trump's Office of Women's Health added a whole page devoted to transphobia under the guise of "protecting women and children." It's not trans-people women and children need protecting from, its cis-men. We are harassed, abused, assaulted, raped, and murdered every-fucking-day by cis-men.
Reposted by Taylor Agajanian
Cemetery snow day in Chicago with @cyborglibrarian.bsky.social
February 15, 2025 at 9:47 PM
Cemetery snow day in Chicago with @cyborglibrarian.bsky.social
This is the second midwest columbiner in under two months to plot a mass shooting. Its almost as if there aren’t a litany of public UwU fan cams of Dylan Roof and other mass shooters all over Tumblr and TikTok at any given moment. www.indystar.com/story/news/c...
Indiana teen charged in school shooting plot had shrine of killers, sought mental help, police say
Court records illustrate a history of bullying, denied mental health treatment and a shrine to mass killers in the case against a Mooresville student.
www.indystar.com
February 14, 2025 at 3:26 PM
This is the second midwest columbiner in under two months to plot a mass shooting. Its almost as if there aren’t a litany of public UwU fan cams of Dylan Roof and other mass shooters all over Tumblr and TikTok at any given moment. www.indystar.com/story/news/c...
Watching Come and See (1985) thinking “Make Nazis reprehensible again”
February 8, 2025 at 6:59 AM
Watching Come and See (1985) thinking “Make Nazis reprehensible again”
Why does Cyberpunk 2077, with its enormous soundtrack, keep torturing me with the shittiest adult contemporary-counting crows-ass song during seemingly every sentimental character cutscene?
February 7, 2025 at 6:43 AM
Why does Cyberpunk 2077, with its enormous soundtrack, keep torturing me with the shittiest adult contemporary-counting crows-ass song during seemingly every sentimental character cutscene?
Chatted with some friends of mine about one of my favorite topics: horror films! More specifically Ti West’s porno slasher flick and first in the Maxxxine trilogy, ‘X’ 🔪 podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e...
Ep. 229: X (w/ Taylor Agajanian)
Podcast Episode · The Friendchise Podcast · 02/05/2025 · 2h 7m
podcasts.apple.com
February 7, 2025 at 12:42 AM
Chatted with some friends of mine about one of my favorite topics: horror films! More specifically Ti West’s porno slasher flick and first in the Maxxxine trilogy, ‘X’ 🔪 podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e...
As a native Angeleno and CSULB alum, this is really gross and I hate this very much!!
California State University - the largest public system in the country w 23 campuses - announced it is now “AI powered.” All while laying off hundreds of faculty and shuttering whole depts due to yet another (Democratic Party I should add) austerity budget
February 5, 2025 at 10:02 PM
As a native Angeleno and CSULB alum, this is really gross and I hate this very much!!
The horrors are certainly horroring
February 5, 2025 at 5:37 PM
The horrors are certainly horroring