Tim Richardson

In our sound course today we performed much of Paragraph 7 of Cardew's "The Great Learning." I didn't record; it was just for us. And it was at times goofy and occasionally seriously lovely.

When I was working at a Hastings Records in 1987 or 88, an old guy came in looking for Zamfir records. I took him to the correct bin, and he pulled out an album, gazed at it admiringly, and said, “You know, a lot of people play the pan flute, but he’s the MASTER.”

How universities created NPR and PBS with Josh Shepperd - American Campus Podcast How public universities gave rise to public mediaReferences and suggested readings:Josh Shepperd. 2023. Shadow of the New Deal: The Victory of Public Broadcasting. University of Illinois Press.Laura G...

Thanks to American Campus, the podcast about the history of higher education, for featuring my book. We talk about how NPR and PBS emerged from equal access to education discourses. And how Media Studies originated as a strategy of public media activism.

Great piece by William Robin - I especially love the John Adams quote "...it was also marvelously provocative, giving an R. Crumb middle finger to the crabbed, pedantic world of academic modernism.”

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Tell Me Where to Go by The Big Cats Stream and Pre-save Tell Me Where to Go - Distributed by DistroKid

Welp, it’s really gonna happen. The Big Cats (my band) are releasing an album next month.

It IS great

ChatGPT tells me that Voltaire said “The happiest of all lives is a busy solitude,” and it occurs to me that the promise of agential ai is that it gets rid of both.

morning patch to get gathered
(long version here: youtu.be/a7SIr4De6CU?... )

AAA estimates the average cost of owning a car is $12,297 a year, and recommends drivers spend no more than 10 percent of their income on car costs. This means you should make 120K to afford the average cost. Median *household* income in the US is $77K. The math just doesn't work.

For a Student Who Used AI to Write a Paper Now I let it fall back in the grasses. I hear you. I know this life is hard now. I know your days are precious on this earth. But what are you trying to be free of? The living? The miraculous task of it? Love is for the ones who love the work. —Joseph Fasano

For a Student Who Used AI to Write a Paper

Took a few days off and this happened. Now time to pull the patch and it’s back to work tomorrow. Full thing here youtu.be/kKE4MYNaHMc?...

Column: The Corporation for Public Broadcast is ‘winding down.’ What does that mean for public radio and TV? The Corporation for Public Broadcasting announced it is “wind-down” operations. What does this mean for public radio and TV?

I gave an in-depth interview with my hometown Chicago Tribune about what’s going to happen to NPR and PBS, and how cutting public media is part of a broader anti-democratic ideological project.

Column: The Corporation for Public Broadcast is ‘winding down.’ What does that mean for public radio and TV? The Corporation for Public Broadcasting announced it is “wind-down” operations. What does this mean for public radio and TV?

Column: The Corporation for Public Broadcast is ‘winding down.’ What does that mean for public radio and TV?

I talk with media studies professor and public media expert Josh Shepperd for an explainer. In short, it's dire

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few outcomes, except for 99% of FDA-approved drugs, 174 recipients of 104 Nobel Prizes, training ~30K MDs and ~10K PhDs per year to enter the workforce, and a 34% reduction in age-adjusted cancer deaths since 1990 -- the largest decrease in history

The fallacye that "higher ed degree must leade to a job wyth same name" ys deeplye harmful to present-daye societye. A philosophye major kan do businesse just as well as a businesse major. Yn some wayes perhaps even bettir. Thys fallacye ys useful onlye to those who seeke to kill higher ed.

Allow me to just say that if you were able to accumulate a billion dollars, then business is, in fact, easy there.

Clawback of $1.1B for PBS and NPR puts rural stations at risk – and threatens a vital source of journalism Public broadcasting has long been a target of conservative Republicans.

What will defunding NPR, PBS, and public media affiliates mean for democratic media, and how will the rescission bill affect First Nations communications? I wrote a concise analysis with Allison Perlman (UC-Irvine).

I'd like my first-year students to spend time exploring how the act of reading words compares to engaging with other forms of content (audio, video, etc.). Do you have any favorite readings / content / activities on that topic that you've used in class?

Imitating the future, breaking the present Tech companies are only pretending to innovate, through copying futuristic aesthetics from science fiction without understanding their purpose.

"The trouble with all this junk is that it lacks purpose. While people have found uses for tools marketed as AI, they are not designed to be purposeful. They show up in our lives through a corporate mandate, and we must expend energy on finding a place where they can fit."

There are people who will do everything they can to prove to others that they’re not afraid. Those folks scare me.

It was such a blast and honour having the opportunity for this exchange with Peter. Big thanks to him and @thequietus.com

Time to drop the really big bomb:

The unconscious is the discourse of the Other.

Have a nice day!

The Flower of Rhetoric The Flower of Rhetoric documents a data sonification/sound art project that gives both a body and voice to keywords from across the required texts of a graduate seminar titled Ambience and Rhetoric.

Hyperrhiz 28 is out and includes video, images, and documentation for my data sonification / sound art piece The Flower of Rhetoric

hyperrhiz.io/hyperrhiz28/...

Book number 40 in the Palgrave Lacan Series (if my maths is right), maintaining our mission to publish high quality monographs from the best new and established voices in the Lacanian field.

TROUBLE WITH PEOPLE is live on Spotify, Apple Music, etc. The album starts ambient, dark, and noisy, but the 5th track marks a change and it all gets…various after that. Made it to be listened to straight through, but feel free to jump around. I hope there’s something there for everyone.