Amanda
@immaterial-body.bsky.social
music as Deep Fade : The Spectral Light : The Floating World & others | anthropology (illness/pain/opioids) | the weird and eerie, the haunted and haunting, the sea, books | she/her
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Here is the proposed agreement the Trump admin sent to UCLA, which administrators fought tooth and claw to keep secret ucop.edu/communicatio...
ucop.edu
October 25, 2025 at 12:17 AM
Here is the proposed agreement the Trump admin sent to UCLA, which administrators fought tooth and claw to keep secret ucop.edu/communicatio...
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Turns out, food is plentiful and money is fake
October 24, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Turns out, food is plentiful and money is fake
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PRE-ORDER
I Am Providence ‘The Voice Of Death’
cruelnaturerecordings.bandcamp.com/album/the-vo...
A ferocious debut fusing noise and political rage into a cathartic sonic assault against technofascist hypercapitalism and systemic violence.
@immaterial-body.bsky.social
I Am Providence ‘The Voice Of Death’
cruelnaturerecordings.bandcamp.com/album/the-vo...
A ferocious debut fusing noise and political rage into a cathartic sonic assault against technofascist hypercapitalism and systemic violence.
@immaterial-body.bsky.social
October 3, 2025 at 9:53 AM
PRE-ORDER
I Am Providence ‘The Voice Of Death’
cruelnaturerecordings.bandcamp.com/album/the-vo...
A ferocious debut fusing noise and political rage into a cathartic sonic assault against technofascist hypercapitalism and systemic violence.
@immaterial-body.bsky.social
I Am Providence ‘The Voice Of Death’
cruelnaturerecordings.bandcamp.com/album/the-vo...
A ferocious debut fusing noise and political rage into a cathartic sonic assault against technofascist hypercapitalism and systemic violence.
@immaterial-body.bsky.social
Trying to edit a chapter I've never liked and making things to avoid it
September 14, 2025 at 9:40 AM
Trying to edit a chapter I've never liked and making things to avoid it
I talked about abject feral noise, sonic ghosts, and the unspoken with @africanpaper.bsky.social recently
Excellent interview with Amanda Votta (Deep Fade, The Spectral Light, This Floating World et al) for @africanpaper.bsky.social
africanpaper.com/2025/09/06/i...
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September 8, 2025 at 1:31 PM
I talked about abject feral noise, sonic ghosts, and the unspoken with @africanpaper.bsky.social recently
Lately, I've been preoccupied making video for a friend's upcoming live shows. Because sometimes you need more than one form of making things to function as a sort of being in the world, but tempered through some other medium, aside from you and your body, lest it get too close. The world, that is.
August 25, 2025 at 12:36 PM
Lately, I've been preoccupied making video for a friend's upcoming live shows. Because sometimes you need more than one form of making things to function as a sort of being in the world, but tempered through some other medium, aside from you and your body, lest it get too close. The world, that is.
It's maybe three sentences of mine, but me and a few others contributed to this exquisite corpse of a short story
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The Island of Eternal Return
Thank you to everyone that dived into their imagination and joined us on this particular adventure.
We assembled the fragments we received instinctually, seeing certain patterns in the submissions, ga...
hausnostromo.com
August 22, 2025 at 8:24 AM
It's maybe three sentences of mine, but me and a few others contributed to this exquisite corpse of a short story
hausnostromo.com/blogs/exquis...
hausnostromo.com/blogs/exquis...
Heavens cracking open over Liverpool
July 20, 2025 at 7:50 PM
Heavens cracking open over Liverpool
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PRE-ORDER
The Spectral Light “Obliteration”
cruelnaturerecordings.bandcamp.com/album/oblite...
a visceral, atmospheric journey shaped by improvisation, deep literary roots, and a shared affinity for both crushing heaviness and ghostly ambience.
@immaterial-body.bsky.social
The Spectral Light “Obliteration”
cruelnaturerecordings.bandcamp.com/album/oblite...
a visceral, atmospheric journey shaped by improvisation, deep literary roots, and a shared affinity for both crushing heaviness and ghostly ambience.
@immaterial-body.bsky.social
July 4, 2025 at 3:46 PM
PRE-ORDER
The Spectral Light “Obliteration”
cruelnaturerecordings.bandcamp.com/album/oblite...
a visceral, atmospheric journey shaped by improvisation, deep literary roots, and a shared affinity for both crushing heaviness and ghostly ambience.
@immaterial-body.bsky.social
The Spectral Light “Obliteration”
cruelnaturerecordings.bandcamp.com/album/oblite...
a visceral, atmospheric journey shaped by improvisation, deep literary roots, and a shared affinity for both crushing heaviness and ghostly ambience.
@immaterial-body.bsky.social
Always a nice hangout spot
June 20, 2025 at 9:34 AM
Always a nice hangout spot
Wrote a chapter for this recently published volume.
June 7, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Wrote a chapter for this recently published volume.
Life in Salem lately
June 7, 2025 at 11:54 AM
Life in Salem lately
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THE BIG REVEAL!
You can now buy tickets for our 2025 online conference
'A Warning to the Curious: Celebrating 100 years of M R James 'A Warning to the Curious'
Talks! Workshops! Events! Author roundtable with NGHI VO, SILVIA MORENO-GARCIA and SUZAN PALUMBO!
buytickets.at/romancingthe...
You can now buy tickets for our 2025 online conference
'A Warning to the Curious: Celebrating 100 years of M R James 'A Warning to the Curious'
Talks! Workshops! Events! Author roundtable with NGHI VO, SILVIA MORENO-GARCIA and SUZAN PALUMBO!
buytickets.at/romancingthe...
Buy tickets – A Warning to the Curious: A Ghostly Online Conference – Zoom
Romancing the Gothic presents its fifth annual online conference over two days - 23rd and 24th August. The conference celebrate...
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May 17, 2025 at 4:22 PM
THE BIG REVEAL!
You can now buy tickets for our 2025 online conference
'A Warning to the Curious: Celebrating 100 years of M R James 'A Warning to the Curious'
Talks! Workshops! Events! Author roundtable with NGHI VO, SILVIA MORENO-GARCIA and SUZAN PALUMBO!
buytickets.at/romancingthe...
You can now buy tickets for our 2025 online conference
'A Warning to the Curious: Celebrating 100 years of M R James 'A Warning to the Curious'
Talks! Workshops! Events! Author roundtable with NGHI VO, SILVIA MORENO-GARCIA and SUZAN PALUMBO!
buytickets.at/romancingthe...
After months of dealing with eye issues, surgeries, and lingering vision things that made it impossible to write much at all, I'm getting back to my dissertation draft rewrites. It feels a lot like this, honestly.
April 28, 2025 at 2:47 PM
After months of dealing with eye issues, surgeries, and lingering vision things that made it impossible to write much at all, I'm getting back to my dissertation draft rewrites. It feels a lot like this, honestly.
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I fear we're on track for a world in which AI has more rights than, say, american women
“Can ChatGPT experience joy or suffering? Does Gemini deserve human rights?” our tech columnist asks. “Many A.I. experts I know would say no, not yet, not even close. But I was intrigued.”
Should We Start Taking the Welfare of A.I. Seriously?
As artificial intelligence systems become smarter, one A.I. company is trying to figure out what to do if they become conscious.
www.nytimes.com
April 28, 2025 at 1:37 PM
I fear we're on track for a world in which AI has more rights than, say, american women
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"[T]hroughout Votta’s many years of making music, she hasn’t sounded more extreme."
Album review: Deep Fade's (@immaterial-body.bsky.social) 'Oblivion Spell' - out tomorrow via @phagetapes.bsky.social.
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Album review: Deep Fade's (@immaterial-body.bsky.social) 'Oblivion Spell' - out tomorrow via @phagetapes.bsky.social.
sun-13.com/2025/04/17/d...
Deep Fade: Oblivion Spell
Amanda Votta returns with the project’s fiercest recordings to date.
sun-13.com
April 17, 2025 at 10:52 AM
"[T]hroughout Votta’s many years of making music, she hasn’t sounded more extreme."
Album review: Deep Fade's (@immaterial-body.bsky.social) 'Oblivion Spell' - out tomorrow via @phagetapes.bsky.social.
sun-13.com/2025/04/17/d...
Album review: Deep Fade's (@immaterial-body.bsky.social) 'Oblivion Spell' - out tomorrow via @phagetapes.bsky.social.
sun-13.com/2025/04/17/d...
I should be in Birmingham (the UK one) right now bjt im not because of endless vision things. But hey maybe soon
April 9, 2025 at 10:09 PM
I should be in Birmingham (the UK one) right now bjt im not because of endless vision things. But hey maybe soon
Light reading. My tween mall is featured prominently early on as one of the first malls in the US. Horrifying flashbacks - except for the hot pretzels, those were always good.
April 7, 2025 at 7:42 PM
Light reading. My tween mall is featured prominently early on as one of the first malls in the US. Horrifying flashbacks - except for the hot pretzels, those were always good.
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im all set to graduate Columbia University majoring in " Cowardice " , with a minor in "Kissing Fucking Ass" a nd "Prostrating myself "
March 26, 2025 at 6:57 PM
im all set to graduate Columbia University majoring in " Cowardice " , with a minor in "Kissing Fucking Ass" a nd "Prostrating myself "
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Historian of slavery here this is like freedom seekers and free blacks being kidnapped by marshals and sent to the south. The Anti Man Hunting League in Boston with local chapters in the Commonwealth fought to prevent it.
NEW—After a day of uncertainty on where agents took Tufts student Rumeysa Ozturk, she appears to be in a Louisiana facility.
1400+ miles from Somerville, Massachusetts, where she was taken.
A judge ordered to not take her out of state without 48 hour notice. She was detained last night.
1400+ miles from Somerville, Massachusetts, where she was taken.
A judge ordered to not take her out of state without 48 hour notice. She was detained last night.
WATCH: The Moment Masked ICE Agents Arrested Tufts Graduate Student Who Spoke Out in Support of Palestine
“I can buy that badge from a fucking costume store,” says a witness to the “kidnapping” of Rumeysa Ozturk as she was on her way to break her Ramadan fast.
zeteo.com
March 26, 2025 at 10:10 PM
Historian of slavery here this is like freedom seekers and free blacks being kidnapped by marshals and sent to the south. The Anti Man Hunting League in Boston with local chapters in the Commonwealth fought to prevent it.
Remains one of my favorite things
Fleetwood Mac - Sara (Official Music Video)
YouTube video by Fleetwood Mac
www.youtube.com
March 23, 2025 at 2:10 AM
Remains one of my favorite things
Spring equinox:
First flowers of the year, snowdrop and crocus. Distant, cold scent like snowmelt and obscured sunlight, poisonous and heady
First flowers of the year, snowdrop and crocus. Distant, cold scent like snowmelt and obscured sunlight, poisonous and heady
March 20, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Spring equinox:
First flowers of the year, snowdrop and crocus. Distant, cold scent like snowmelt and obscured sunlight, poisonous and heady
First flowers of the year, snowdrop and crocus. Distant, cold scent like snowmelt and obscured sunlight, poisonous and heady
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I've been quiet lately for... a lot of reasons.
But honestly: Fuck all this shit. Gloves off.
Cowards to the back.
But honestly: Fuck all this shit. Gloves off.
Cowards to the back.
March 14, 2025 at 9:47 PM
I've been quiet lately for... a lot of reasons.
But honestly: Fuck all this shit. Gloves off.
Cowards to the back.
But honestly: Fuck all this shit. Gloves off.
Cowards to the back.
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"The drug user movement is constantly losing our members & our leaders. Our very capacity to fight is constantly under siege from the grave. We are being disorganized by death, by social murder. We are not what we were. We are now a ghost-bloodied movement." www.crackdownpod.com/episodes/epi...
Episode 50: The Toll — Crackdown Podcast
It’s the end of an era in Canada. On March 10th – after nine years in power – Mark Carney replaced Justin Trudeau as Canada’s Prime Minister. We mark the occasion by looking back at Trudeau’s legacy o...
www.crackdownpod.com
March 14, 2025 at 10:45 PM
"The drug user movement is constantly losing our members & our leaders. Our very capacity to fight is constantly under siege from the grave. We are being disorganized by death, by social murder. We are not what we were. We are now a ghost-bloodied movement." www.crackdownpod.com/episodes/epi...
With everything else that's going on, you'd think that pre-meeting anxiety would sort of fade into the background but no, still here. Might be worse even.
March 13, 2025 at 2:48 PM
With everything else that's going on, you'd think that pre-meeting anxiety would sort of fade into the background but no, still here. Might be worse even.