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Daniel Wyche

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Professor of religious studies, Musician, Curator, and other stuff. Mostly here to talk about records. Academics: https://danielwyche.weebly.com/ Arts: www.wyche.org

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Daniel Wyche @danielwyche.bsky.social · Mar 4

A lot of hard things going on personally, professionally, and politically, but one thing I am happy about is that my book will be out with Columbia University Press on May 20th.

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The Care of the Self and the Care of the Other | Columbia University Press

What is the relationship between the ethical transformation of the self and the political transformation of the world? This book explores the ways several tw... | CUP

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WIRED @wired.com · 8h

Protesting this weekend? Law enforcement has more tools than ever to track your movements and access your communications. Here’s how to protect your privacy.

How to Protest Safely in the Age of Surveillance

Law enforcement has more tools than ever to track your movements and access your communications. Here’s how to protect your privacy if you plan to protest.

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Daniel Wyche @danielwyche.bsky.social · 8h

Also like, that response to that game is so fucking psychotic. I love video games, and my brother-in-law is in the game industry, but people that take playing games that seriously *in that specific way* are incomprehensible to me.

Daniel Wyche @danielwyche.bsky.social · 8h

It’s really interesting. I do think just off the top of my head that there is still a difference between the kind of masculinity at a punk show and the kind that you find among gamers. Both can be very reactionary but I still think there are different in substance.

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Kathleen Belew @kathleenbelew.bsky.social · 9h

They tear gassed 13 Chicago police officers. Please watch this footage of federal officers throwing tear gas canisters into crowds of people who are simply observing and recording on their phones. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/u...

ICE Is Cracking Down on Chicago. Some Chicagoans Are Fighting Back.

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Daniel Wyche @danielwyche.bsky.social · 8h

I feel like there is a good article in here!

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Daniel Wyche @danielwyche.bsky.social · 9h

Definitely. I mean in the case of Bikini Kill, it definitely matters in so far as it directly informs what they’re doing and the way that they talk about it, right? Like “girls to the front” isn’t just a response, and it isn’t even just preemptive, it’s an explicit way of constituting the space.

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Daniel Wyche @danielwyche.bsky.social · 9h

For sure, but I think what’s interesting is the details of how these things play out right? Like there’s more to the story than a yes or no here, especially for them as a Canadian band I think it could be an interesting contrast.

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Daniel Wyche @danielwyche.bsky.social · 9h

Seriously.

Daniel Wyche @danielwyche.bsky.social · 9h

the first thing you do when you walk in the door is kick everyone’s puppy? That person only lasted a year as dean but they got tenure and now they’re stuck with them. And I assure you that is not their worst view, these things seem to go hand-in-hand.

Daniel Wyche @danielwyche.bsky.social · 9h

When I was in graduate school, they hired a *horrible* person as dean of the dept., gave them tenure and everything, and the first thing they tried to do was destroy the student café. I don’t know how many alarm called in saying they would never donate again, people went nuts, like

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Jack Probst @jackprobst.com · 11h

Holy shit. New Sugar! 🙏

House of Dead Memories by Sugar on Apple Music

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Daniel Wyche @danielwyche.bsky.social · 9h

Right! I don’t know which of them made me more angry. “Well Jazz you see…” come on man. Or just the “blah blah blah strategic partnerships.”

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Daniel Wyche @danielwyche.bsky.social · 9h

Black Messiah was easily the record of that decade and—and I don’t say this lightly— definitely one of the greatest of my lifetime. A generational talent.

Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 1d

D'Angelo has died after a battle with pancreatic cancer, his former manager says. He was 51

D'Angelo Dead at 51

Grammy-winning R&B soul singer D'Angelo is dead from pancreatic cancer ... TMZ has learned.

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Daniel Wyche @danielwyche.bsky.social · 9h

Highly recommend the book “Girls to the Front” if you haven’t read it already. Also if you want, re: Propagandhi, I can ask Sulynn next time we see them.

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Daniel Wyche @danielwyche.bsky.social · 9h

But there are people who think we need *this* as a counterbalance to something?

Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 21h

Here are the little darlings they’ve created. Horrifying.

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‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat

Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

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Daniel Wyche @danielwyche.bsky.social · 19h

And the other guy trying to fucking Jazz-wash this whole thing!

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Daniel Wyche @danielwyche.bsky.social · 19h

This entire exchange is so infuriating on so many levels. The sort of dead eyed blankness of the president, especially when she’s lying about the one guy being fired and he actually calls it and she just sits there. Where did they get these people?

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Daniel Wyche @danielwyche.bsky.social · 23h

I really loved this show, especially the final season.

Jean-Thomas Tremblay @jttremblay.bsky.social · 1d

Happy anniversary of the Sudden Departure to all who celebrate. For an @atpost45.bsky.social cluster edited by @ericafretwell.bsky.social and @annakrauthamer.bsky.social, I wrote about the trauma of living to tell (and retell) the tale.

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Daniel Wyche @danielwyche.bsky.social · 1d

A generational talent.

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dr. jentleman and a scholar 🐱 @jenfoster.bsky.social · 2d

Hey remember when Brian Leiter said philosophy grad students on Twitter had “job prospects de minimus” ? Anyway I’m a Dr. now and I co-wrote some philosophy about Twitter blogs.cardiff.ac.uk/openfordebat...

An Epistemic Environmentalist Analysis, From Twitter to X

Exploring the changing nature of public debate

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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 4d

Extinguishing MLK's Eternal Flame is both outrageous and a hell of a metaphor for right now www.wsbtv.com/news/local/a...

Eternal flame at Martin Luther King Jr.’s Atlanta burial site destroyed

Police say the man also urinated in the reflective pool.

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Sarah Osment @smosment.bsky.social · 8d

I lived in 6 states (UT, AZ, OH, RI, MA, FL) before moving to Chicago and I've never felt safer or more connected to my neighbors than I do here

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Daniel Wyche @danielwyche.bsky.social · 8d

Agree!

Daniel Wyche @danielwyche.bsky.social · 10d

Any friends or colleagues in NY, my book launch event with Bernard Harcourt is this Tuesday, 10/7, at Book Culture: cccct.law.columbia.edu/content/dani...

Daniel Louis Wyche with Bernard Harcourt | Contemporary Critical Thought

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Nikita Gill @nikitagill.bsky.social · 13d

I can’t begin to tell you how damaging “the world isn’t fair, get used to it” line has been to every child’s psyche growing up and therefore has led to a world that stays unfair. If we teach children to get used to an unfair world, we are destroying the possibility of a better world.

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