Alexander Luckmann
@aluckmann.bsky.social
PhD candidate, German & US modern architecture @ UCSB | religion, preservation, environment | he/him views mine
With jazz and conversation
From the foot of Mount Belzoni
With jazz and conversation
From the foot of Mount Belzoni
Pinned
Alexander Luckmann
@aluckmann.bsky.social
· Mar 11
Time to bring a twitter series to Bluesky: Given the incredible number of 20th-century churches in Northrhine-Westphalia (the topic of my dissertation), I’m going post one or two every day. None of these images are mine, they're all credited in the alt text, and I'll take any down if asked
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I gotta be the only one up reading Woolgar’s Science: the very idea (1988) with a glass of côtes du rhône rn
November 24, 2025 at 10:08 PM
I gotta be the only one up reading Woolgar’s Science: the very idea (1988) with a glass of côtes du rhône rn
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Oh hey my book is part of this sale: yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300...
If you’ve been thinking ‘I wonder what I should get my sister’s short husband* this year,’ let me recommend this beauty of a book!
*or any similarly sized relative
If you’ve been thinking ‘I wonder what I should get my sister’s short husband* this year,’ let me recommend this beauty of a book!
*or any similarly sized relative
November 24, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Oh hey my book is part of this sale: yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300...
If you’ve been thinking ‘I wonder what I should get my sister’s short husband* this year,’ let me recommend this beauty of a book!
*or any similarly sized relative
If you’ve been thinking ‘I wonder what I should get my sister’s short husband* this year,’ let me recommend this beauty of a book!
*or any similarly sized relative
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CNN interviewing James Carville in 2026 about the midterms
February 25, 2025 at 3:05 PM
CNN interviewing James Carville in 2026 about the midterms
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Tonight we let HER do the talking
November 23, 2025 at 2:46 AM
Tonight we let HER do the talking
9 AM today!
Very excited for "Chapels: the Practices and Politics of Small Spaces," a panel @lisaby.bsky.social and I co-organized at #aarsbl2025! We have a great group of scholars to approach the (increasing?) role of chapels in religious practice. Sunday 9-11 AM, Marriott Copley Place, Tufts room
November 23, 2025 at 12:10 PM
9 AM today!
Tonight we let HER do the talking
November 23, 2025 at 2:46 AM
Tonight we let HER do the talking
The main takeaway from my latest transatlantic trip is that somebody needs to write an ethnography of fans attending NFL-in-Europe games
November 22, 2025 at 7:44 PM
The main takeaway from my latest transatlantic trip is that somebody needs to write an ethnography of fans attending NFL-in-Europe games
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Thinking a lot lately about the simple fact that college allows people to spend about 15 weeks immersed in a disciplinary conversation with an expert in that field. And what a special thing that is.
November 21, 2025 at 1:33 PM
Thinking a lot lately about the simple fact that college allows people to spend about 15 weeks immersed in a disciplinary conversation with an expert in that field. And what a special thing that is.
Irgendwie beruhigend, dass trotz der Inflation in der USA und Deutschland die Schweiz weiterhin unfassbar teuer ist
November 21, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Irgendwie beruhigend, dass trotz der Inflation in der USA und Deutschland die Schweiz weiterhin unfassbar teuer ist
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JUST IN: A federal judge says one of the Venezuelan men — illegally deported to El Salvador in March before he was swapped back to Venezuela in a prisoner exchange — is now missing, possibly a victim of the violence he was seeking asylum from. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
November 21, 2025 at 11:55 AM
JUST IN: A federal judge says one of the Venezuelan men — illegally deported to El Salvador in March before he was swapped back to Venezuela in a prisoner exchange — is now missing, possibly a victim of the violence he was seeking asylum from. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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Cornell are having a 44% off sale until December 5th! Buy books including mine… www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501...
November 21, 2025 at 11:44 AM
Cornell are having a 44% off sale until December 5th! Buy books including mine… www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501...
My most reactionary opinion is that thematically explicit music should not be played in public places because I should not be in the Frankfurt airport at 10 AM hearing “How many hoes in the club right now/ I’m nasty”
November 21, 2025 at 9:03 AM
My most reactionary opinion is that thematically explicit music should not be played in public places because I should not be in the Frankfurt airport at 10 AM hearing “How many hoes in the club right now/ I’m nasty”
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Offener Brief gegen die zunehmende unkritische Nutzung von KI an deutschen Hochschulen und Forschungseinrichtungen - bitte teilen! openletter.earth/gegen-die-un...
Gegen die unkritische Anwendung und Implementierung sog. Künstlicher Intelligenz (KI) in der deutschen Wissenschaft und im Hochschulalltag
openletter.earth
November 20, 2025 at 1:08 PM
Offener Brief gegen die zunehmende unkritische Nutzung von KI an deutschen Hochschulen und Forschungseinrichtungen - bitte teilen! openletter.earth/gegen-die-un...
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What I've been noticing lately in convos with students is that they *despise* the AI-slopification of everything as much or even more than I do. And yet our universities & their admin seem to believe that students for some reason want it integrated into everything. THEY DON'T.
“To be sat there with this material in front of you that is just really not worth anyone’s time, when you could be spending that time actually engaging with something worthwhile, is really frustrating,” he said.
‘We could have asked ChatGPT’: students fight back over course taught by AI
Staffordshire students say signs material was AI-generated included suspicious file names and rogue voiceover accent
www.theguardian.com
November 20, 2025 at 2:38 PM
What I've been noticing lately in convos with students is that they *despise* the AI-slopification of everything as much or even more than I do. And yet our universities & their admin seem to believe that students for some reason want it integrated into everything. THEY DON'T.
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My friends on Bluesky:
November 21, 2025 at 7:47 AM
My friends on Bluesky:
Hab der DB nicht getraut, jetzt hab ich sechs Stunden im Flughafen was nun
November 21, 2025 at 7:22 AM
Hab der DB nicht getraut, jetzt hab ich sechs Stunden im Flughafen was nun
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Pleasure reading thread 2035 #26: Geoff Dyer, But Beautiful [A Book About Jazz]
This is the best book I’ve read all year. Heartbreaking, gorgeous. Everyone needs to read it
This is the best book I’ve read all year. Heartbreaking, gorgeous. Everyone needs to read it
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November 14, 2025 at 8:46 PM
Pleasure reading thread 2035 #26: Geoff Dyer, But Beautiful [A Book About Jazz]
This is the best book I’ve read all year. Heartbreaking, gorgeous. Everyone needs to read it
This is the best book I’ve read all year. Heartbreaking, gorgeous. Everyone needs to read it
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Very excited for "Chapels: the Practices and Politics of Small Spaces," a panel @lisaby.bsky.social and I co-organized at #aarsbl2025! We have a great group of scholars to approach the (increasing?) role of chapels in religious practice. Sunday 9-11 AM, Marriott Copley Place, Tufts room
November 18, 2025 at 9:52 PM
Very excited for "Chapels: the Practices and Politics of Small Spaces," a panel @lisaby.bsky.social and I co-organized at #aarsbl2025! We have a great group of scholars to approach the (increasing?) role of chapels in religious practice. Sunday 9-11 AM, Marriott Copley Place, Tufts room
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this is where I post from
November 20, 2025 at 5:46 PM
this is where I post from
German regional train is delayed by an hour, everyone’s getting grumpy but behaving well, suddenly from the very end of the train car in a thick German accent: “Arr you telling me a shrimp fried zis reis???”
November 20, 2025 at 5:47 PM
German regional train is delayed by an hour, everyone’s getting grumpy but behaving well, suddenly from the very end of the train car in a thick German accent: “Arr you telling me a shrimp fried zis reis???”
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#170: Peter Rieck, St. Anna, St. Augustin-Hangelar (1970-72)
November 19, 2025 at 6:11 PM
#170: Peter Rieck, St. Anna, St. Augustin-Hangelar (1970-72)
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Die Existenz der Zeche Rheinpreußen impliziert die Existenz der Schlemme Rhausbayern
November 20, 2025 at 7:14 AM
Die Existenz der Zeche Rheinpreußen impliziert die Existenz der Schlemme Rhausbayern