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).
I based this around cinematic characters and narrative. sydneyreviewofbooks.com/essays/what-...
What is an Ecopath? | Sydney Review of Books
Only a few short decades ago, we may have only felt their stealth and thought of them as understudies to real villainry. With bodies littering roads around the world and no end in sight, their presenc...
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August 30, 2025 at 9:27 PM
I based this around cinematic characters and narrative. sydneyreviewofbooks.com/essays/what-...
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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...
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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.
Khaled Sabsabi's Thank You Very Much is very familiar to me, given my cut-up Reagan Speaks for Himself having gone "viral" during Reagan's candidacy and reign. In the Senate hearing there was a banal assumption that it was "shocking," etc., when it was very straightforward in the context of 2006.
February 25, 2025 at 11:22 AM
Khaled Sabsabi's Thank You Very Much is very familiar to me, given my cut-up Reagan Speaks for Himself having gone "viral" during Reagan's candidacy and reign. In the Senate hearing there was a banal assumption that it was "shocking," etc., when it was very straightforward in the context of 2006.
10:03 pm: resignation requested
February 25, 2025 at 11:04 AM
10:03 pm: resignation requested
Check out the chapter on Matter and Radiation in Bachelard's The New Scientific Spirit. CVR is prominently featured.
February 2, 2025 at 9:42 PM
Check out the chapter on Matter and Radiation in Bachelard's The New Scientific Spirit. CVR is prominently featured.
Have you checked out C. V. Raman, Raman scattering and spectroscopy? Energetic basis for materials science, but Raman resonance also brought into play for live subcellular imaging. For me, he's the sweet spot between energy and matter.
February 2, 2025 at 9:08 AM
Have you checked out C. V. Raman, Raman scattering and spectroscopy? Energetic basis for materials science, but Raman resonance also brought into play for live subcellular imaging. For me, he's the sweet spot between energy and matter.