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Read: Ole Thijs' review of Natasha Lushetich, Iain Campbell and Dominic Smith's (eds.) 'Contingency and Plasticity in Everyday Technologies'. theoryculturesociety.org/blog/review-na…

Emergency call out to Edinburgh!

my own article adds to an emerging mini-field of scholarship on John Cage's works for plant materials (cf @AnthonyGritten and others), using them as a route into thinking about musical instruments, 'nature', and some other stuff tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

as a last hurrah for my 'Future of Indeterminacy' postdoc, I've co-edited this special journal issue on the theme 'Probability and Agency' - lots of interesting stuff on statistics, data visualisation, distributed agency, biopolitics, entropy, and more tandfonline.com/toc/tpar20/cur…

good morning from the fluff cuboid

I'm pleased to see this extremely long in the works article - a couple of complete rewrites and a couple of years in the publishing queue - out in the latest Deleuze and Guattari Studies. On the notion of rhythm in Deleuze's book on Francis Bacon euppublishing.com/doi/full/10.33…

constantly innovating new ways to be bad

after enjoying a protest-filled graduation with doctorb @thrillith

sure the marking and assessment boycott is cutting my wages in half, but at least i have my publication royalties to fall back on

it’s the traditional first sign of summer - elsie contorting herself in the sunlight

i'm looking for images for the talk i'm giving later, but having seen this i now want to dedicate my day to investigating robert rauschenberg's vibes c. 1990

Edinburgh people and people with an internet connection - next Thursday I'll be speaking on John Cage's Variations VII and some as-yet-undecided balance of themes between music+technology, performance practices, and the politics of cybernetics. Come along: eventbrite.com/e/history-of-a…

@saysvera @thrillith the brand is Parastone, but I just got it from our friend Am*zon

@thrillith Hieronymus Bosch egg man where from

@SteveTromans I think Dialogues II just adds the final two essays. Why, I'm not sure - they don't obviously have anything to do with the rest

preparing for my final class before Wrestlemania weekend

Three Studies of a Belsie

this Friday (1-2pm GMT) we're having an online launch for the 'Contingency and Plasticity in Everyday Technologies' volume I co-edited - sign up to hear from people such as Franco 'Bifo' Berardi and Sha Xin Wei: eventbrite.co.uk/e/book-launch-…