Scott Singeisen
@scottsingeisen.bsky.social
Philomath. Disciplinary Flaneur.
Associate Professor of Architecture, NCCU.
Duke Digital Humanities Fellow.
Representation, Drawing, Technology, History, Gender, Digital Humanities.
Associate Professor of Architecture, NCCU.
Duke Digital Humanities Fellow.
Representation, Drawing, Technology, History, Gender, Digital Humanities.
Reposted by Scott Singeisen
Prof. Dan-el Padilla Peralta’s work has inspired me and so many other young scholars across disciplines. It was a privilege to be able to organize an interdisciplinary gathering at UNC to engage with his current and forthcoming publications!
englishcomplit.unc.edu/2025/11/crit...
englishcomplit.unc.edu/2025/11/crit...
Critical Speaker Series welcomes Prof. Dan-el Padilla Peralta - UNC English & Comparative Literature
For the inaugural event of the 2025–26 academic year, the Critical Speaker Series of Department of English & Comparative Literature (ECL) partnered with the Department of Classics to welcome Dan-el Pa...
englishcomplit.unc.edu
November 11, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Prof. Dan-el Padilla Peralta’s work has inspired me and so many other young scholars across disciplines. It was a privilege to be able to organize an interdisciplinary gathering at UNC to engage with his current and forthcoming publications!
englishcomplit.unc.edu/2025/11/crit...
englishcomplit.unc.edu/2025/11/crit...
I need someone to psychoanalyze why I can't decide between these two cars...comments are open
September 24, 2025 at 3:41 PM
I need someone to psychoanalyze why I can't decide between these two cars...comments are open
Only 39 months of this left to go.
September 21, 2025 at 9:55 PM
Only 39 months of this left to go.
Reposted by Scott Singeisen
Thrilled to be included among fabulous contributors to the latest edition of Dilettante Army, “Ekphrasis.”
Read on for speculations about AI boyfriends, avant-garde burlesque shows, killer machines, and the Freudian death drive.
dilettantearmy.com/articles/ekp...
Read on for speculations about AI boyfriends, avant-garde burlesque shows, killer machines, and the Freudian death drive.
dilettantearmy.com/articles/ekp...
Ekphrasis Ex Machina: Desire and the Death Drive in the Age of AI
Emily Singeisen contextualizes AI, a technologically novel way of exploiting language, within some very old fantasies.
dilettantearmy.com
September 9, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Thrilled to be included among fabulous contributors to the latest edition of Dilettante Army, “Ekphrasis.”
Read on for speculations about AI boyfriends, avant-garde burlesque shows, killer machines, and the Freudian death drive.
dilettantearmy.com/articles/ekp...
Read on for speculations about AI boyfriends, avant-garde burlesque shows, killer machines, and the Freudian death drive.
dilettantearmy.com/articles/ekp...
Reposted by Scott Singeisen
Me, a comparatist, when Reviewer 2 tells me my work isn’t art historical enough to be art history, classical enough to be classics, or literary enough to be lit crit:
a man singing into a microphone with the words that 's the thing i 'm sensitive about below him
ALT: a man singing into a microphone with the words that 's the thing i 'm sensitive about below him
media.tenor.com
August 20, 2025 at 12:36 AM
Me, a comparatist, when Reviewer 2 tells me my work isn’t art historical enough to be art history, classical enough to be classics, or literary enough to be lit crit:
Mail in ballots: pen on paper
Polling booth: digitally scanned paper
Which one is more likely to be easily manipulated and then hidden? Yeah.
#elections #2026elections #trump
Polling booth: digitally scanned paper
Which one is more likely to be easily manipulated and then hidden? Yeah.
#elections #2026elections #trump
August 20, 2025 at 12:32 AM
Mail in ballots: pen on paper
Polling booth: digitally scanned paper
Which one is more likely to be easily manipulated and then hidden? Yeah.
#elections #2026elections #trump
Polling booth: digitally scanned paper
Which one is more likely to be easily manipulated and then hidden? Yeah.
#elections #2026elections #trump
Reposted by Scott Singeisen
“Copenhagen reported that 62% of its residents are now commuting to work or school by bike — an increase from 52% in 2015 & 36% in 2012, when the City Council launched a 14-year-plan to improve the quality, safety & comfort of cycling.”
#Copenhagen chose. They keep choosing even better every year.
#Copenhagen chose. They keep choosing even better every year.
Copenhagen has taken bicycle commuting to a whole new level
Cycling has been a part of that good life in Copenhagen for decades. In recent years, it has enjoyed yet another unfathomable surge in popularity — taken to the next level thanks to constantly improvi...
www.latimes.com
August 17, 2025 at 10:08 PM
“Copenhagen reported that 62% of its residents are now commuting to work or school by bike — an increase from 52% in 2015 & 36% in 2012, when the City Council launched a 14-year-plan to improve the quality, safety & comfort of cycling.”
#Copenhagen chose. They keep choosing even better every year.
#Copenhagen chose. They keep choosing even better every year.
Would someone with more scientific experience please explain our egg with two yolks? @esing.bsky.social #STEM
August 13, 2025 at 12:43 AM
Would someone with more scientific experience please explain our egg with two yolks? @esing.bsky.social #STEM
Reposted by Scott Singeisen
The numbers are shocking: in the USA in 2013, 46,728 died from firearms. 40,901 died from car crashes. And 47,206 died from falls. But hey, most of them were old, so it's not news, even though most of them are victims of dangerous design.
Falls kill more people than guns or cars, but nobody wants to talk about it.
But we are going to start talking about it right here in a series about dangerous design.
lloydalter.substack.com
August 6, 2025 at 11:09 AM
The numbers are shocking: in the USA in 2013, 46,728 died from firearms. 40,901 died from car crashes. And 47,206 died from falls. But hey, most of them were old, so it's not news, even though most of them are victims of dangerous design.
Before Napster, this was peer-to-peer sharing
July 29, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Before Napster, this was peer-to-peer sharing
I can’t wait for Colbert to join Letterman on ‘My Next Guest’ to discuss CBS.
July 18, 2025 at 3:04 AM
I can’t wait for Colbert to join Letterman on ‘My Next Guest’ to discuss CBS.
Reposted by Scott Singeisen
If any of my #rarebooks friends have done research at Princeton Firestone Library, I would love to ask you a couple of logistical questions about visiting as an out-of-towner! Simple Q’s but the library phone number redirects to the website and I can’t find the info I’m looking for…
July 12, 2025 at 11:18 AM
If any of my #rarebooks friends have done research at Princeton Firestone Library, I would love to ask you a couple of logistical questions about visiting as an out-of-towner! Simple Q’s but the library phone number redirects to the website and I can’t find the info I’m looking for…
August 1
Architecton | Official Trailer HD | A24
YouTube video by A24
youtu.be
July 3, 2025 at 4:26 PM
August 1
Reposted by Scott Singeisen
Who needs coffee when you have Academia to make you feel white hot rage before 8 a.m.?
June 28, 2025 at 11:52 AM
Who needs coffee when you have Academia to make you feel white hot rage before 8 a.m.?
Reposted by Scott Singeisen
Octavia Butler’s Parable of the Sower was published in 1993 and starts in 2024—a 31-year leap. Are creators imagining futures that are closer or further away?
Explore a *new* dataset of 2.5k narrative works set in the future, each tagged with its release year and setting.
doi.org/10.18737/552...
Explore a *new* dataset of 2.5k narrative works set in the future, each tagged with its release year and setting.
doi.org/10.18737/552...
June 25, 2025 at 9:01 AM
Octavia Butler’s Parable of the Sower was published in 1993 and starts in 2024—a 31-year leap. Are creators imagining futures that are closer or further away?
Explore a *new* dataset of 2.5k narrative works set in the future, each tagged with its release year and setting.
doi.org/10.18737/552...
Explore a *new* dataset of 2.5k narrative works set in the future, each tagged with its release year and setting.
doi.org/10.18737/552...
Reposted by Scott Singeisen
To celebrate the release of 'Herald of a Restless World' in paperback, I am doing a BOOK GIVEAWAY.
For a chance to win and find out why a philosopher's lectures caused the first ever traffic jam on Broadway share this post and tag someone in the comments!
I'll announce the winner a week from now!
For a chance to win and find out why a philosopher's lectures caused the first ever traffic jam on Broadway share this post and tag someone in the comments!
I'll announce the winner a week from now!
June 19, 2025 at 7:41 AM
To celebrate the release of 'Herald of a Restless World' in paperback, I am doing a BOOK GIVEAWAY.
For a chance to win and find out why a philosopher's lectures caused the first ever traffic jam on Broadway share this post and tag someone in the comments!
I'll announce the winner a week from now!
For a chance to win and find out why a philosopher's lectures caused the first ever traffic jam on Broadway share this post and tag someone in the comments!
I'll announce the winner a week from now!
Reposted by Scott Singeisen
For academics & scholars who've uploaded papers to Academia, this message I received this morning should be of major concern. I'll delete my account, but I assume damage is done & they've already scraped everything of mine. Should stand as a warning about sharing one's work on commercial websites
June 24, 2025 at 12:39 PM
For academics & scholars who've uploaded papers to Academia, this message I received this morning should be of major concern. I'll delete my account, but I assume damage is done & they've already scraped everything of mine. Should stand as a warning about sharing one's work on commercial websites
"Philosophy is an intensity that arises when someone is taken hostage by their own questions.", Emanuele Coccia
June 23, 2025 at 12:41 PM
"Philosophy is an intensity that arises when someone is taken hostage by their own questions.", Emanuele Coccia
A cloud is both a world and a passing shape. It escapes the map, the drawing, the measure.
No two clouds are the same — though we learn to draw them as if they were.
No two clouds are the same — though we learn to draw them as if they were.
May 2, 2025 at 1:42 AM
A cloud is both a world and a passing shape. It escapes the map, the drawing, the measure.
No two clouds are the same — though we learn to draw them as if they were.
No two clouds are the same — though we learn to draw them as if they were.
In April, I was invited to join the #CLOUD project, which stands for Clouds Lent Out Use Discipline. It may not look like much yet, but it’s been a long journey to get here—and I still have 24 hours to refine my cloud before handing it off to the next collaborator. Stay tuned!
April 29, 2025 at 9:19 PM
In April, I was invited to join the #CLOUD project, which stands for Clouds Lent Out Use Discipline. It may not look like much yet, but it’s been a long journey to get here—and I still have 24 hours to refine my cloud before handing it off to the next collaborator. Stay tuned!
Reposted by Scott Singeisen
This Day in Labor History: April 14, 1816. Bussa’s Rebellion began in Barbados, when 5,000 slaves rose up against the evil system of slavery the British had placed them into, part of the broader labor system of colonization. This failed, but laid the groundwork for British emancipation!
April 14, 2025 at 12:38 PM
This Day in Labor History: April 14, 1816. Bussa’s Rebellion began in Barbados, when 5,000 slaves rose up against the evil system of slavery the British had placed them into, part of the broader labor system of colonization. This failed, but laid the groundwork for British emancipation!
In the early-to-mid 20th century, factories thrived because they were deeply tied to their immediate environment: proximity to resources, labor, and infrastructure. That connection shaped everything from local economies to cultural attitudes about ‘good jobs’ and industrial progress. 1/3
April 10, 2025 at 11:49 PM
In the early-to-mid 20th century, factories thrived because they were deeply tied to their immediate environment: proximity to resources, labor, and infrastructure. That connection shaped everything from local economies to cultural attitudes about ‘good jobs’ and industrial progress. 1/3
“You employ stone, wood, and concrete, and with these materials, you build houses and palaces. That is construction. Ingenuity is at work. But suddenly you touch my heart, you do me good, I am happy and I say: ‘This is beautiful.’ That is Architecture. Art enters in.”
—Le Corbusier (1887–1965)
—Le Corbusier (1887–1965)
April 3, 2025 at 2:07 PM
“You employ stone, wood, and concrete, and with these materials, you build houses and palaces. That is construction. Ingenuity is at work. But suddenly you touch my heart, you do me good, I am happy and I say: ‘This is beautiful.’ That is Architecture. Art enters in.”
—Le Corbusier (1887–1965)
—Le Corbusier (1887–1965)
It’s funny how much time I spend chasing money owed to me as a university professor. It’s like I’m instead a small business owner with bad customers #academicsky
April 2, 2025 at 11:48 PM
It’s funny how much time I spend chasing money owed to me as a university professor. It’s like I’m instead a small business owner with bad customers #academicsky