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intellectual caliban (Lev)

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23. PhD student in musicology at Pitt. BA Music (UIUC, 2025). inquisitor of finite modes, perseverer of the Absolute. editor for @crittheoryworkgrp.bsky.social. banner from Soul Glo, Gold Chain Punk. Ko-Fi: https://ko-fi.com/levnekov

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intellectual caliban (Lev) @levnekov.bsky.social · Sep 5

notes to self:
- be reasonably polite to normies
- be helpful when asked
- it's ok for someone to be wrong w/o textblocking them
- your ability to make a living involves politics
- you don't have to go for the jugular every time
- strategize without becoming reliant on strategems
- touch grass

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intellectual caliban (Lev) @levnekov.bsky.social · 2h

wild career arc from looking up a fire paper I read, going from a tenure-track position to becoming an Episcopalian priest

wrinkle: somehow maintaining an interest in queer + feminist theory

wrinkle 2: being a conference founder + notable figure on top of that

intellectual caliban (Lev) @levnekov.bsky.social · 6h

finding your tulpa is always a great start to your Tuesday

intellectual caliban (Lev) @levnekov.bsky.social · 7h

I’m in a Mexican standoff between diet mystics and Foucauldians, holding a dead German’s rosary cross

intellectual caliban (Lev) @levnekov.bsky.social · 7h

between me turning 23 + a senior grad student also turning 30 today, we’re feasting good today

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intellectual caliban (Lev) @levnekov.bsky.social · 9h

ayo another music birthday???

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intellectual caliban (Lev) @levnekov.bsky.social · 10h

I turn 23 today

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Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · 20h

“ALL of Florida lost its [interlibrary loan] services as of October 1. This, of course, most harms those in rural communities. That means those with the most to lose and with the weakest access to education and entertainment materials are now wholly dependent on what their own library owns…”

The Current State of the Institute of Museum and Library Services (October 2025 Edition)

Grant money that should be going to library projects is going to state-sponsored propaganda, among other IMLS updates.

buttondown.com

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Kevin Fishbain @kfishbain.bsky.social · 19h

The Jake Moody Game.

Bears 25, Commanders 24

The Bears are 3-2

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intellectual caliban (Lev) @levnekov.bsky.social · 23h

the transcendental unity of male conception

intellectual caliban (Lev) @levnekov.bsky.social · 23h

if two dead Germans tell each other they're wrong that's an occasion for say gex NO ARCHIVE WARNING APPLIED

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intellectual caliban (Lev) @levnekov.bsky.social · 23h

i am performed violence in this callout

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intellectual caliban (Lev) @levnekov.bsky.social · 23h

what of the humble volcel

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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 1d

Bloomberg News @bloomberg.com · 1d

The Trump administration is inviting all US colleges to participate in a compact that would grant preferential federal funding in return for commitments to specific policy changes like DEI bans, according to a source

Trump Offers All Colleges Preferential Funding Plan Rejected by MIT

The Trump administration is inviting all US colleges to participate in a compact — initially rejected by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology — that would grant preferential federal funding in return for commitments to specific policy changes like DEI bans, according to a person familiar with the matter.

bloom.bg

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intellectual caliban (Lev) @levnekov.bsky.social · 1d

my totality works at Microsoft

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Chris O’Kane @budgetmotelabyss.bsky.social · 1d

Ah that fabled pessimistic turn they take after Dialectic of Enlightenment.

James Crane @jamescrane.bsky.social · 1d

Adorno & Horkheimer, 1946:

“Humanity is ripe for socialism.”

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intellectual caliban (Lev) @levnekov.bsky.social · 1d

HIPBHIP

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 1d

My latest is the story of how my community has rallied to protect and defend our neighbors in recent days, as ICE has targeted the Rogers Park neighborhood in Chicago. "This is not a story about a moment of victory, but a moment of being reminded of our power."

They Came for Our Neighbors. We Showed Up.

Before long, there were dozens, and then hundreds of people in the streets, watching and responding.

organizingmythoughts.org

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intellectual caliban (Lev) @levnekov.bsky.social · 1d

having the "lol they just played 15 innings" "scrub" morb all over Gausman is one of the funniest timelines

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Lisya Myata @lisya.cute.foxgirl.kitsuneshrine.moe · 1d

Birdbrain Teto looking around is so me

Birdbrain Teto looking at a pride flag
By: Jamie Paige and sinead(sidoopa)

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intellectual caliban (Lev) @levnekov.bsky.social · 1d

yeah I just saw this while writing my email lol!

intellectual caliban (Lev) @levnekov.bsky.social · 2d

incommensurability and ontological difference are the skill issues of being unable to fathom discomfort from within discomfort

intellectual caliban (Lev) @levnekov.bsky.social · 2d

thesis: discomfort is constitutive of, but not exhaustive of, the Absolute

intellectual caliban (Lev) @levnekov.bsky.social · 2d

intrusive thought: is there any connection between Sedgwick's Touching Feeling + the ero game Teaching Feeling

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Rob Knox @pashukanist.bsky.social · 14d

You know what no one has ever done before?

Tried to 'reclaim' patriotism for the left.

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intellectual caliban (Lev) @levnekov.bsky.social · 2d

wrote something at least five years ago:

"It couldn't happen here /
It couldn't happen here /
It shouldn't happen here /
It's really happening here."

dan sinker @dansinker.com · 2d

New levels of hell: just got an email from our local AYSO cancelling today’s youth soccer games because ICE is at the Home Depot across from the soccer fields at James Park in Evanston.