@douglaskahn.bsky.social
Writer, historian and theorist of the arts, focus on sound and energies, with STS-ish background. Books: Energies in the Arts (2019), Earth Sound Earth Signal (2013), Noise Water Meat (1999).
For those not following the drama earlier, it's for sharing this piece advocating for nonviolence (but not being judgy about how targeted people respond either). And saying some things about governmental/ institutional violence.
11.06.2025 09:44 — 👍 997 🔁 239 💬 47 📌 42
Claudia Arozqueta's groundbreaking book available for preorder from MIT Press.
13.03.2025 02:55 — 👍 8 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Rare Giant Mantis spotted in the Blue Mountains.
09.03.2025 04:27 — 👍 15 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
I'm one of several US-based historians interviewed for this piece 🗃️
www.france24.com/fr/am%C3%A9r...
Just got an email from the Fulbright Association. As of right now, funding has been cut off to 12,500 US citizens currently abroad and and more than 7,400 foreigner scholars and students in the United States
07.03.2025 22:46 — 👍 6337 🔁 3260 💬 212 📌 624
Aix-Marseille University in France will provide 15 million Euros over 3 years to 15 American scientists who feel threatened or hindered in their research by the orange manbaby.
06.03.2025 07:49 — 👍 912 🔁 295 💬 20 📌 38So - I've actually led Ebola outbreak response at USAID.
This is bunk from Elon. They have laid off most of the experts, they're bankrupting most of the partner orgs, have withdrawn from WHO, and muzzled CDC.
What's left is a fig-leaf effort to cover their asses politically.
26.02.2025 22:30 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Khaled Sabsabi's Thank You Very Much is very familiar to me, given my cut-up Reagan Speaks for Himself having gone "viral" during Reagan's candidacy and reign. In the Senate hearing there was a banal assumption that it was "shocking," etc., when it was very straightforward in the context of 2006.
25.02.2025 11:22 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 010:03 pm: resignation requested
25.02.2025 11:04 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0This morning at Dept of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) HQ in DC as mandatory return to office began, this video played on loop for ~5 mins on screens throughout the building, per agency source.
Building staff couldn’t figure out how to turn it off so sent people to every floor to unplug TVs.
Can Australian arts orgs just stop with all this bullshit, everyone is over it.
Grow the fuck up. Quit it with the censorship. Let artist art, or we'll just turn around and art harder to spite you.
Hard to believe that some Australians take this guy seriously. #peterdutton
19.02.2025 07:44 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Apple, meet bowerbird.
15.02.2025 02:43 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
12.02.2025 08:31 — 👍 10 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Aqua tweezers, from the people who brought you Chladni figures. Intro vid from Nature.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=XKgH...
New Starter Pack list --> go.bsky.app/QkzdKZR
05.02.2025 09:23 — 👍 56 🔁 14 💬 1 📌 0Check out the chapter on Matter and Radiation in Bachelard's The New Scientific Spirit. CVR is prominently featured.
02.02.2025 21:42 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Have you checked out C. V. Raman, Raman scattering and spectroscopy? Energetic basis for materials science, but Raman resonance also brought into play for live subcellular imaging. For me, he's the sweet spot between energy and matter.
02.02.2025 09:08 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Techbros quick in with the new circuitry of coordination/Gleichschaltung.
20.01.2025 06:29 — 👍 6 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Livestock methane fire.
10.01.2025 08:36 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
What is an Ecopath? I wrote this during the 2019-2020 Australian bush fires burning on both sides of the ridge I live on. Photo by Lynn Robb of remnants of the fires in Malibu.
sydneyreviewofbooks.com/essays/what-...
Her full, eloquent explanation here: anntelnaes.substack.com/p/why-im-qui...
04.01.2025 01:08 — 👍 1203 🔁 428 💬 23 📌 36
Insect yoga.
27.12.2024 04:38 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
In 2005 I was bumped up to business on a flight from Chicago to Sacramento. I sat next to a major software firm CTO who was also a born-again Christian. We talked for the entire trip. He told me about using his wealth to fund The Creation Museum. Here's Adam in Garden of Eden with a penguin.
04.12.2024 08:09 — 👍 7 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
My new podcast with Lucy Lippard is out and I am delighted to share it. Have a listen (and watch, because the video is great too)
26.11.2024 23:46 — 👍 77 🔁 23 💬 6 📌 1
Can anyone help parse this poster? The top reads WORLD ALLIANCE, the next rung LEAGUE OF NATIONS, and then ONE UNIT, ONE FORCE, ONE SPEECH, ONE PRAYER, ONE TAX... and then the star with clusters of...? He's Australian chemist and musician Alexander Hector in 1950. #hist
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Musk building new cancer alleys in Black cities. It’s exactly as bad as you think
15.11.2024 23:14 — 👍 403 🔁 179 💬 5 📌 7
Two-page ad in the Scientific American special issue on Energy and Power (1971). Per power, both George Shultz and Caspar Weinberger from Bechtel would join the Reagan cabinet.
#envhist #energyhum
