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When we lost Jonathan Sterne last spring I had made this list of Jonathanisms. Now that I'm sitting down to prep syllabi, I thought of him a bit this morning. Anyway, sharing it here too. bonpourlorient.tumblr.com/post/7783226...

Vincent Brown · What Universities Owe When challenged to justify past investment in slavery – or current investments in, say, fossil fuel extraction or arms...

‘Weren’t all Black people owed something for the dispossession that accumulated over generations? Or was the university’s primary function only to pursue knowledge about the history that gave rise to these questions?’

Vincent Brown reviews ‘Yale and Slavery’: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

‘No Other Land’ Co-Director Hamdan Ballal Freed, Says Yuval Abraham The filmmaker had reportedly been attacked by settlers and detained by Israeli police, sparking international outcry.

“No Other Land” Co-Director Hamdan Ballal Freed, Says Yuval Abraham

Via Deadline

Perry Anderson · Regime Change in the West? Where amid this turmoil does neoliberalism stand? In emergency conditions it has been forced to take measures –...

‘No populism, right or left, has so far produced a powerful remedy for the ills it denounces. Programmatically, the contemporary opponents of neoliberalism are still for the most part whistling in the dark.’

New: Perry Anderson on neoliberalism after the crash. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

like this is how to study technology

Farewell to Jonathan Sterne We are very sad to learn of the death of communication scholar Jonathan Sterne, after a long battle with cancer. He was 54 years old. Sterne was James McGill Professor of Culture and Technology at …

Here's a more fulsome post from the Press. So sad.
Farewell to Jonathan Sterne dukeupress.wordpress.com/2025/03/21/f...

From Carrie

Jonathan passed away quietly last night in hospice care. He left comfortably in his sleep, with Carrie by his side.

Thanks for sharing all of this Eric! it feels kinda silly in hindsight, but I think your interview in Pitchfork might be the first place I encountered Jonathan's work and read the MP3 book so many years ago. lifechanging in many quite literal ways

Thanks Emma, exited to see you too after all these years!

🗣️ Great news! The panel I co-organized with @robarcand.bsky.social, Marie Lecuyer, Owen Stewart-Robinson, and @hnnht.bsky.social has been accepted to 4S 2025 in Seattle 🥳

🗣️ Catch us this September, speaking on "Oceans of Data: Knowledge Production in Aquatic Environments" 🐬

I’ve had the pleasure of knowing Jonathan for the past 15 years or so, and I’ve admired + aimed to emulate his creativity, kindness, and generosity for my entire career. i was honored to be asked to extol his virtues in recommendation letters over the past several years. Jonathan deserves all the 🏆

Thanks Shannon for the kind words❤️

Earlier today, a group of students received word that Jonathan Sterne entered hospice care yesterday following his ongoing battle with cancer. I think there's a few of his colleagues and former students that follow me on here (he's also currently my phd advisor), more info will be coming soon

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what began as essentially a hostile takeover in its most debased form is now deploying state power to ostensibly force advertisers to continue to pay, true sign of the times www.wsj.com/business/med...

never a better time to reconnect with posting