Kyle Parry
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Kyle Parry
@kyleparry.bsky.social
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v late to this slightly awkward task, but made a webpage for the book
kyleparry.info/a-theory-of-...
my new book is now in peer review 🤞🏼
kyleparry.info/a-theory-of-...
my new book is now in peer review 🤞🏼
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WE WON. I am *begging* you to take note of who did this. *Not* UCLA admin—they’re still scuttling around behind closed doors, attempting to appease—but FACULTY AND STAFF, led by AAUP.
BREAKING: In AAUP et al v. Trump (wall-to-wall union lawsuit challenging the administration’s unlawful use of TItle VI to reshape the University of California system), the faculty and staff of the UC system WON!!!
We were granted our preliminary injunction! @aaup.org
We were granted our preliminary injunction! @aaup.org
November 15, 2025 at 12:01 AM
WE WON. I am *begging* you to take note of who did this. *Not* UCLA admin—they’re still scuttling around behind closed doors, attempting to appease—but FACULTY AND STAFF, led by AAUP.
Rich review essay (in German) on my A Theory of Assembly, Legacy Russell's Black Meme: A History of the Images that Make Us, and Valentina Tanni's Memesthetics: The Eternal September of Art
from an issue on memes: zfmedienwissenschaft.de/heft/archiv/...
zfmedienwissenschaft.de/heft/text/vo...
from an issue on memes: zfmedienwissenschaft.de/heft/archiv/...
zfmedienwissenschaft.de/heft/text/vo...
Vom Erfassen der Vielstimmigkeit und den Bedingungen selbstbestimmter Meme-Praktiken | Zeitschrift für Medienwissenschaft
zfmedienwissenschaft.de
October 13, 2025 at 8:37 PM
Rich review essay (in German) on my A Theory of Assembly, Legacy Russell's Black Meme: A History of the Images that Make Us, and Valentina Tanni's Memesthetics: The Eternal September of Art
from an issue on memes: zfmedienwissenschaft.de/heft/archiv/...
zfmedienwissenschaft.de/heft/text/vo...
from an issue on memes: zfmedienwissenschaft.de/heft/archiv/...
zfmedienwissenschaft.de/heft/text/vo...
pasteable:
Haha, I got you! The word you're looking for is actually "pasteable" (with an "e"). But the correct term is often "copy-pasteable," which describes something that can easily be copied and pasted. Glad to hear I’m helping with your homework though! Anything you're working on right now?
Haha, I got you! The word you're looking for is actually "pasteable" (with an "e"). But the correct term is often "copy-pasteable," which describes something that can easily be copied and pasted. Glad to hear I’m helping with your homework though! Anything you're working on right now?
September 29, 2025 at 10:40 PM
pasteable:
Haha, I got you! The word you're looking for is actually "pasteable" (with an "e"). But the correct term is often "copy-pasteable," which describes something that can easily be copied and pasted. Glad to hear I’m helping with your homework though! Anything you're working on right now?
Haha, I got you! The word you're looking for is actually "pasteable" (with an "e"). But the correct term is often "copy-pasteable," which describes something that can easily be copied and pasted. Glad to hear I’m helping with your homework though! Anything you're working on right now?
Moten: "I have been studying how we can be together. I have been studying how we are together."
September 23, 2025 at 11:47 PM
Moten: "I have been studying how we can be together. I have been studying how we are together."
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Israeli forces are pushing deeper into Gaza City as the full-fledged military ground invasion continues despite mounting international condemnation.
"It's just extermination for the sake of extermination."
"It's just extermination for the sake of extermination."
September 17, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Israeli forces are pushing deeper into Gaza City as the full-fledged military ground invasion continues despite mounting international condemnation.
"It's just extermination for the sake of extermination."
"It's just extermination for the sake of extermination."
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Tomorrow the UC regents are meeting at UCSF to discuss Trump's extortion attempt. This is a defining moment for the UC system, for public education, and for the university as an institution. We demand no concession, no capitulation, no cuts.
September 15, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Tomorrow the UC regents are meeting at UCSF to discuss Trump's extortion attempt. This is a defining moment for the UC system, for public education, and for the university as an institution. We demand no concession, no capitulation, no cuts.
Excited to join v cool fellow panelists for the Curationist Metadata Summit on "subversive, unconventional, and unexpected approaches to metadata creation and use."
I'll talk on ideas from my essay "Metadata Is Not Data About Data."
www.curationist.org/news/save-th...
9/18 noon EST online/open
I'll talk on ideas from my essay "Metadata Is Not Data About Data."
www.curationist.org/news/save-th...
9/18 noon EST online/open
September 2, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Excited to join v cool fellow panelists for the Curationist Metadata Summit on "subversive, unconventional, and unexpected approaches to metadata creation and use."
I'll talk on ideas from my essay "Metadata Is Not Data About Data."
www.curationist.org/news/save-th...
9/18 noon EST online/open
I'll talk on ideas from my essay "Metadata Is Not Data About Data."
www.curationist.org/news/save-th...
9/18 noon EST online/open
rich article on "DeepTok noise" animating "memetic ensembles that are purposefully out of sync"; TikTok as a "metadata machine"; (+ selfishly helps me link my diff recent projects, on metadata, on assembly)
Noise in sonic social media: Memetic soundscapes of Deep TikTok Elena Pilipets, Jason Chao
Noise in sonic social media: Memetic soundscapes of Deep TikTok Elena Pilipets, Jason Chao
August 29, 2025 at 4:44 PM
rich article on "DeepTok noise" animating "memetic ensembles that are purposefully out of sync"; TikTok as a "metadata machine"; (+ selfishly helps me link my diff recent projects, on metadata, on assembly)
Noise in sonic social media: Memetic soundscapes of Deep TikTok Elena Pilipets, Jason Chao
Noise in sonic social media: Memetic soundscapes of Deep TikTok Elena Pilipets, Jason Chao
maybe the undergrad class is
a core thing (e.g. light)
complicated (e.g. light not just x but also y, z)
but also organized (e.g light in art = light as a, b, c, d)
but also urgent (e.g. light as power)
but also tangible/fun (e.g. light all around you)
but also not the whole story (e.g. darkness)
a core thing (e.g. light)
complicated (e.g. light not just x but also y, z)
but also organized (e.g light in art = light as a, b, c, d)
but also urgent (e.g. light as power)
but also tangible/fun (e.g. light all around you)
but also not the whole story (e.g. darkness)
August 26, 2025 at 6:08 PM
maybe the undergrad class is
a core thing (e.g. light)
complicated (e.g. light not just x but also y, z)
but also organized (e.g light in art = light as a, b, c, d)
but also urgent (e.g. light as power)
but also tangible/fun (e.g. light all around you)
but also not the whole story (e.g. darkness)
a core thing (e.g. light)
complicated (e.g. light not just x but also y, z)
but also organized (e.g light in art = light as a, b, c, d)
but also urgent (e.g. light as power)
but also tangible/fun (e.g. light all around you)
but also not the whole story (e.g. darkness)
recent reads:
- Extractive Capitalism / L Khalili
- The Vegetarian + The White Book / Han Kang
- Otherlands: A Journey Through Earth's Extinct Worlds / T. Halliday
- The Invention of Clouds / R Hamblyn
- The Left Hand of Darkness / U K Le Guin
- Tyranny of the Minority / L + Z
keeping it eclectic
- Extractive Capitalism / L Khalili
- The Vegetarian + The White Book / Han Kang
- Otherlands: A Journey Through Earth's Extinct Worlds / T. Halliday
- The Invention of Clouds / R Hamblyn
- The Left Hand of Darkness / U K Le Guin
- Tyranny of the Minority / L + Z
keeping it eclectic
August 26, 2025 at 5:07 PM
recent reads:
- Extractive Capitalism / L Khalili
- The Vegetarian + The White Book / Han Kang
- Otherlands: A Journey Through Earth's Extinct Worlds / T. Halliday
- The Invention of Clouds / R Hamblyn
- The Left Hand of Darkness / U K Le Guin
- Tyranny of the Minority / L + Z
keeping it eclectic
- Extractive Capitalism / L Khalili
- The Vegetarian + The White Book / Han Kang
- Otherlands: A Journey Through Earth's Extinct Worlds / T. Halliday
- The Invention of Clouds / R Hamblyn
- The Left Hand of Darkness / U K Le Guin
- Tyranny of the Minority / L + Z
keeping it eclectic
Can’t put words to it, but reading/holding John Berger’s notebooks is moving, prismatic, fascinating. Also: didn’t expect to find him writing 11 pages of detailed notes on (from what I can tell) Isaac Asimov’s The Universe. Quasars and all. Bits in British Library for my new book or something else
August 4, 2025 at 10:50 AM
Can’t put words to it, but reading/holding John Berger’s notebooks is moving, prismatic, fascinating. Also: didn’t expect to find him writing 11 pages of detailed notes on (from what I can tell) Isaac Asimov’s The Universe. Quasars and all. Bits in British Library for my new book or something else
Han Kang: “There is none of us whom life regards with any partiality. Sleet falls as she walks the streets, holding this knowledge inside of her.”
Reading now The White Book, having just finished The Left Hand of a Darkness. Works somehow.
Reading now The White Book, having just finished The Left Hand of a Darkness. Works somehow.
July 1, 2025 at 1:36 PM
Han Kang: “There is none of us whom life regards with any partiality. Sleet falls as she walks the streets, holding this knowledge inside of her.”
Reading now The White Book, having just finished The Left Hand of a Darkness. Works somehow.
Reading now The White Book, having just finished The Left Hand of a Darkness. Works somehow.
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Republican presidents get power and Democratic presidents don't. That's what the last four years of SCOTUS boils down to. slate.com/news-and-pol...
June 27, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Republican presidents get power and Democratic presidents don't. That's what the last four years of SCOTUS boils down to. slate.com/news-and-pol...
v late to this slightly awkward task, but made a webpage for the book
kyleparry.info/a-theory-of-...
my new book is now in peer review 🤞🏼
kyleparry.info/a-theory-of-...
my new book is now in peer review 🤞🏼
June 27, 2025 at 5:42 PM
v late to this slightly awkward task, but made a webpage for the book
kyleparry.info/a-theory-of-...
my new book is now in peer review 🤞🏼
kyleparry.info/a-theory-of-...
my new book is now in peer review 🤞🏼
Not expecting a response but why not try. Anyone know what Cooper sentence or passage this paraphrases?
In the United States, ['built'] is used with much more latitude than in England. There, as Fenimore Cooper puts it, everything is BUILT. The priest BUILDS up a flock; the speculator a fortune...
In the United States, ['built'] is used with much more latitude than in England. There, as Fenimore Cooper puts it, everything is BUILT. The priest BUILDS up a flock; the speculator a fortune...
June 26, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Not expecting a response but why not try. Anyone know what Cooper sentence or passage this paraphrases?
In the United States, ['built'] is used with much more latitude than in England. There, as Fenimore Cooper puts it, everything is BUILT. The priest BUILDS up a flock; the speculator a fortune...
In the United States, ['built'] is used with much more latitude than in England. There, as Fenimore Cooper puts it, everything is BUILT. The priest BUILDS up a flock; the speculator a fortune...
Moten: “The beautiful that’s inseparable from the terrible—that’s too nasty to be sublime, too flavorful to be in good taste, too syncopic to get fixed, too different to be one, too twenty-one to be nineteen, too then to be now, too open and close to be proximate—is what we share, in study.”
June 19, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Moten: “The beautiful that’s inseparable from the terrible—that’s too nasty to be sublime, too flavorful to be in good taste, too syncopic to get fixed, too different to be one, too twenty-one to be nineteen, too then to be now, too open and close to be proximate—is what we share, in study.”
absolutely packed bus, on the way to Dolores Park, young kid with mom boards with sign that says Trump Has Small Dick-tator Energy, people settle, brief silence, someone at the front: “Way to go San Francisco!” woooooooo
June 14, 2025 at 6:27 PM
absolutely packed bus, on the way to Dolores Park, young kid with mom boards with sign that says Trump Has Small Dick-tator Energy, people settle, brief silence, someone at the front: “Way to go San Francisco!” woooooooo
writing about memes again, hope i don't blow it
June 12, 2025 at 2:47 PM
writing about memes again, hope i don't blow it
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There are now more than 2000 #NoKings events scheduled for all 50 states, DC, Puerto Rico, Guam and about a dozen foreign countries.
RSVPs are skyrocketing, which is particularly worth noting because a lot of people are very understandably dead set against RSVPing.
We will not back down.
RSVPs are skyrocketing, which is particularly worth noting because a lot of people are very understandably dead set against RSVPing.
We will not back down.
June 11, 2025 at 9:09 PM
There are now more than 2000 #NoKings events scheduled for all 50 states, DC, Puerto Rico, Guam and about a dozen foreign countries.
RSVPs are skyrocketing, which is particularly worth noting because a lot of people are very understandably dead set against RSVPing.
We will not back down.
RSVPs are skyrocketing, which is particularly worth noting because a lot of people are very understandably dead set against RSVPing.
We will not back down.
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I will allow myself one armchair protest tactics take re: LA
this rules
this rules
A full Tejano band in a big truck rolled into the Olvera St, the lead singer has a Fuck ICE shirt on, and this protest is now a dance party
June 9, 2025 at 9:59 PM
I will allow myself one armchair protest tactics take re: LA
this rules
this rules
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really proud to live in Los Angeles right now
fuck these assholes, this city is great
fuck these assholes, this city is great
June 9, 2025 at 1:34 AM
really proud to live in Los Angeles right now
fuck these assholes, this city is great
fuck these assholes, this city is great
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This Rümeysa Öztürk hearing is radicalizing.
I've been a court reporter for many years, and I've never covered anything like this: A student deeply committed to her studies, imprisoned solely over writing an op-ed, being made to testify under oath for her own freedom.
Dark, dark stuff.
I've been a court reporter for many years, and I've never covered anything like this: A student deeply committed to her studies, imprisoned solely over writing an op-ed, being made to testify under oath for her own freedom.
Dark, dark stuff.
May 9, 2025 at 3:20 PM
This Rümeysa Öztürk hearing is radicalizing.
I've been a court reporter for many years, and I've never covered anything like this: A student deeply committed to her studies, imprisoned solely over writing an op-ed, being made to testify under oath for her own freedom.
Dark, dark stuff.
I've been a court reporter for many years, and I've never covered anything like this: A student deeply committed to her studies, imprisoned solely over writing an op-ed, being made to testify under oath for her own freedom.
Dark, dark stuff.
A generous 📕 review:
"[a] ground-breaking and much-needed work . . . A Theory of Assembly: From Museums to Memes undertakes the prodigious task of establishing a system of several shifting lenses through which many facets of the contemporary mediascape become visible as an interconnected whole…
"[a] ground-breaking and much-needed work . . . A Theory of Assembly: From Museums to Memes undertakes the prodigious task of establishing a system of several shifting lenses through which many facets of the contemporary mediascape become visible as an interconnected whole…
April 29, 2025 at 3:51 PM
A generous 📕 review:
"[a] ground-breaking and much-needed work . . . A Theory of Assembly: From Museums to Memes undertakes the prodigious task of establishing a system of several shifting lenses through which many facets of the contemporary mediascape become visible as an interconnected whole…
"[a] ground-breaking and much-needed work . . . A Theory of Assembly: From Museums to Memes undertakes the prodigious task of establishing a system of several shifting lenses through which many facets of the contemporary mediascape become visible as an interconnected whole…