Nilanjana Bhattacharjya
@nilanjana.bsky.social
Teaching professor at a large public university in Arizona. I start more books than I finish and write on music and films. (I also photograph trees.)
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Happy 85th birthday Wendy Carlos, who revolutionised the synth with Bob Moog, made electronic music before Eno & Kraftwerk, & composed scores for Tron, Clockwork Orange and The Shining. A trans icon, Carlos gave few interviews but this BBC one features her beloved cat www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z3ca...
November 14, 2024 at 7:22 AM
Happy 85th birthday Wendy Carlos, who revolutionised the synth with Bob Moog, made electronic music before Eno & Kraftwerk, & composed scores for Tron, Clockwork Orange and The Shining. A trans icon, Carlos gave few interviews but this BBC one features her beloved cat www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z3ca...
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Loved being able to share this amazing video essay with my students today.
youtu.be/jz7nOzBv7eE?...
youtu.be/jz7nOzBv7eE?...
Irani Bag / کیف ایرانی by Maryam Tafakory
YouTube video by maryam tafakory
youtu.be
November 13, 2024 at 7:28 PM
Loved being able to share this amazing video essay with my students today.
youtu.be/jz7nOzBv7eE?...
youtu.be/jz7nOzBv7eE?...
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"Sorrow is composed of a heart in autumn."
A few notes on translating Xin Qiji's short lyric that I had a written a while back. (yes, it's on my substack, only bc I needed to find a place to park it after the original publishing site disappeared...) open.substack.com/pub/chowleen...
A few notes on translating Xin Qiji's short lyric that I had a written a while back. (yes, it's on my substack, only bc I needed to find a place to park it after the original publishing site disappeared...) open.substack.com/pub/chowleen...
One of my favorite poems since childhood, and a poem I share every #autumnequinox.
By the 12thc warrior poet Xin Qiji 辛棄疾, sidelined during peacetime, demoted, drifting through a decade of minor posts in remote lands.
Poetry, then, is that which is left unsaid.
“My, what a cool and lovely autumn.”
By the 12thc warrior poet Xin Qiji 辛棄疾, sidelined during peacetime, demoted, drifting through a decade of minor posts in remote lands.
Poetry, then, is that which is left unsaid.
“My, what a cool and lovely autumn.”
November 13, 2024 at 4:49 PM
"Sorrow is composed of a heart in autumn."
A few notes on translating Xin Qiji's short lyric that I had a written a while back. (yes, it's on my substack, only bc I needed to find a place to park it after the original publishing site disappeared...) open.substack.com/pub/chowleen...
A few notes on translating Xin Qiji's short lyric that I had a written a while back. (yes, it's on my substack, only bc I needed to find a place to park it after the original publishing site disappeared...) open.substack.com/pub/chowleen...
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Please join the South Asian film and media studies community here! Please add friends and colleagues, and let me know if you'd like to be included. go.bsky.app/7n3AdXG
November 14, 2024 at 12:32 PM
Please join the South Asian film and media studies community here! Please add friends and colleagues, and let me know if you'd like to be included. go.bsky.app/7n3AdXG
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“Let me speak plainly: It is not antisemitic to demand justice for all Palestinians living in their ancestral lands.”
Love this whole article.
Love this whole article.
December 29, 2023 at 9:41 PM
“Let me speak plainly: It is not antisemitic to demand justice for all Palestinians living in their ancestral lands.”
Love this whole article.
Love this whole article.
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December 24, 2023 at 3:59 PM
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Eric Drott’s “Streaming Music, Streaming Capital” analyzes the political economy of online music streaming platforms. Read the free intro & pre-order the book for 50% off with coupon CYBER23! www.dukeupress.edu/streaming-mu...
December 7, 2023 at 4:36 PM
Eric Drott’s “Streaming Music, Streaming Capital” analyzes the political economy of online music streaming platforms. Read the free intro & pre-order the book for 50% off with coupon CYBER23! www.dukeupress.edu/streaming-mu...
🎉It's our 2023 book list, featuring historians working off the tenure track around the world 🎉
2023 Contingent Book List
When you’re shopping for books this season, consider a contingent scholar.
contingentmagazine.org
November 28, 2023 at 11:58 AM
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"I was sitting there on the edge of my chair with a decision to make—pass on the war.. or climb the stairs, go to sleep.. read the score in the morning..
Not yet immune to the real-real, I sat and watched with such anxiety, such nausea—it seemed.. immoral to go to sleep"
Dionne Brand, The Blue Clerk
Not yet immune to the real-real, I sat and watched with such anxiety, such nausea—it seemed.. immoral to go to sleep"
Dionne Brand, The Blue Clerk
October 11, 2023 at 1:15 PM
"I was sitting there on the edge of my chair with a decision to make—pass on the war.. or climb the stairs, go to sleep.. read the score in the morning..
Not yet immune to the real-real, I sat and watched with such anxiety, such nausea—it seemed.. immoral to go to sleep"
Dionne Brand, The Blue Clerk
Not yet immune to the real-real, I sat and watched with such anxiety, such nausea—it seemed.. immoral to go to sleep"
Dionne Brand, The Blue Clerk
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Academic friends, please spread the word about a postdoc opportunity at the Center for Advanced Research in Global Communication at Annenberg/Penn. www.asc.upenn.edu/news-events/...
November 7, 2023 at 3:50 PM
Academic friends, please spread the word about a postdoc opportunity at the Center for Advanced Research in Global Communication at Annenberg/Penn. www.asc.upenn.edu/news-events/...
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I asked a bunch of my favorite music journalists what they thought about Gannett's new Taylor Swift reporter/the state of music journalism/etc. Here's what they had to say: www.readtpa.com/p/8-writers-...
8 Writers on Taylor Swift and the State of Music Journalism
"In the future, we will cut through the sludge of history and the sideview will show a landscape of dinosaur bones under this bright layer of neon and sparkles."
www.readtpa.com
November 8, 2023 at 5:44 PM
I asked a bunch of my favorite music journalists what they thought about Gannett's new Taylor Swift reporter/the state of music journalism/etc. Here's what they had to say: www.readtpa.com/p/8-writers-...
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I'm on the board of intersectional feminist journal MAI, which looks at various aspects of visual culture, and our latest issue is fresh off the virtual presses. Best of all, it's a special issue on Agnès Varda! Viva Varda! maifeminism.com/issues/focus...
MAI Focus Issue 12: Reframing Varda
In this issue of MAI, we asked authors to start with an image from Agnès Varda’s work and present an analysis guided by their close reading.
maifeminism.com
November 7, 2023 at 5:48 PM
I'm on the board of intersectional feminist journal MAI, which looks at various aspects of visual culture, and our latest issue is fresh off the virtual presses. Best of all, it's a special issue on Agnès Varda! Viva Varda! maifeminism.com/issues/focus...
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A random screencap from today's research: this poor dyed or painted dog masquerading as a wolf or hyena in Nosferatu (1922).
Pretty sure it's still a good dog, @darthbluesky.bsky.social.
Pretty sure it's still a good dog, @darthbluesky.bsky.social.
November 7, 2023 at 6:19 PM
A random screencap from today's research: this poor dyed or painted dog masquerading as a wolf or hyena in Nosferatu (1922).
Pretty sure it's still a good dog, @darthbluesky.bsky.social.
Pretty sure it's still a good dog, @darthbluesky.bsky.social.
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A reminder for Americans that the 5Calls app makes it trivially easy to call your representatives. I’ve been using it daily. 5calls.org
5 Calls
Spend 5 minutes. Make 5 calls. Make your voice heard.
5calls.org
November 7, 2023 at 6:44 PM
A reminder for Americans that the 5Calls app makes it trivially easy to call your representatives. I’ve been using it daily. 5calls.org
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Fully funded PhD position @uvahumanities.bsky.social in international history of sound vacatures.uva.nl/UvA/job/PhD-...
PhD Researcher 'Sound and Foreign Affairs from a Digital History Approach, 1700-1990'
PhD Researcher 'Sound and Foreign Affairs from a Digital History Approach, 1700-1990'
vacatures.uva.nl
October 6, 2023 at 9:53 AM
Fully funded PhD position @uvahumanities.bsky.social in international history of sound vacatures.uva.nl/UvA/job/PhD-...
Academic folks who spent not so small fortunes on the books from the library you needed but could never keep during the 1990s and 2000s, have you ever considered where you want your books to go after you pass? Most grad students today don’t want your physical books. Nor do most univ. libraries.
November 5, 2023 at 1:21 AM
Academic folks who spent not so small fortunes on the books from the library you needed but could never keep during the 1990s and 2000s, have you ever considered where you want your books to go after you pass? Most grad students today don’t want your physical books. Nor do most univ. libraries.
Four years in, being widowed still doesn’t feel like being single, which my divorced friends rarely understand. (I spent last weekend organizing dozens of boxes of my late husband’s research materials with one of his colleagues.) This piece rings true: www.nytimes.com/2023/11/03/s...
A Marriage Problem That Can’t Be Solved
My husband and I haven’t spoken in more than a year. It can’t go on like this, but it will.
www.nytimes.com
November 4, 2023 at 5:26 AM
Four years in, being widowed still doesn’t feel like being single, which my divorced friends rarely understand. (I spent last weekend organizing dozens of boxes of my late husband’s research materials with one of his colleagues.) This piece rings true: www.nytimes.com/2023/11/03/s...
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Many publications have misguided policies that restrict the civic participation of their journalists on the spurious logic that such actions would jeopardize the publication’s reputation & veneer of neutrality—outcomes that are always more frequently & efficiently achieved by publishing hot garbage.
This was already a stupid policy but when it loses you Jazmine Hughes, hoo boy you fucked up
New York Times Writer Resigns After Signing Letter Protesting the Israel-Gaza War
The writer, Jazmine Hughes, who has won awards for her work, had signed another letter of protest this year.
www.nytimes.com
November 4, 2023 at 4:11 AM
Many publications have misguided policies that restrict the civic participation of their journalists on the spurious logic that such actions would jeopardize the publication’s reputation & veneer of neutrality—outcomes that are always more frequently & efficiently achieved by publishing hot garbage.
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Why Norway — the poster child for electric cars — is having second thoughts
Electric cars are crucial, but not enough to solve climate change. We can’t let them crowd out car-free transit options.
www.vox.com/future-perfe...
Electric cars are crucial, but not enough to solve climate change. We can’t let them crowd out car-free transit options.
www.vox.com/future-perfe...
November 4, 2023 at 3:43 AM
Why Norway — the poster child for electric cars — is having second thoughts
Electric cars are crucial, but not enough to solve climate change. We can’t let them crowd out car-free transit options.
www.vox.com/future-perfe...
Electric cars are crucial, but not enough to solve climate change. We can’t let them crowd out car-free transit options.
www.vox.com/future-perfe...
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Holy shit. What an article; kudos to Nolan for sharing his experience. https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/08/california-vehicular-homelessness-car-dwelling-los-angeles/674901/
The UCLA Students Who Live in Their Cars
The widespread, poorly understood phenomenon of vehicular homelessness
www.theatlantic.com
August 3, 2023 at 8:25 PM
Holy shit. What an article; kudos to Nolan for sharing his experience. https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/08/california-vehicular-homelessness-car-dwelling-los-angeles/674901/
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Upcoming deadline for this TT job in Black feminisms and/or Black feminist theory at UMass-Amherst; please share with anyone you know who may be interested www.h-net.org/jobs/job_dis...
www.h-net.org
October 30, 2023 at 4:37 PM
Upcoming deadline for this TT job in Black feminisms and/or Black feminist theory at UMass-Amherst; please share with anyone you know who may be interested www.h-net.org/jobs/job_dis...
I never understood the six feet separation rule. It doesn’t make sense. Scientists revisiting the distinction between airborne and aerosols have discovered why it makes no sense.
This may be the most important piece of journalism in the entire pandemic. Brilliant detective work by scientists; compellingly told.
www.wired.com/story/the-te...
www.wired.com/story/the-te...
The 60-Year-Old Scientific Screwup That Helped Covid Kill
All pandemic long, scientists brawled over how the virus spreads. Droplets! No, aerosols! At the heart of the fight was a teensy error with huge consequences.
www.wired.com
November 3, 2023 at 3:22 PM
I never understood the six feet separation rule. It doesn’t make sense. Scientists revisiting the distinction between airborne and aerosols have discovered why it makes no sense.