Benjamin Tausig
burrata.bsky.social
Benjamin Tausig
@burrata.bsky.social
Associate professor of music and sound in Asia/anthropology. Crossword puzzle editor; TNG watcher.

Author of “Bangkok after Dark” (Duke 2025) and “Bangkok Is Ringing” (Oxford 2019).
Twitter is their new witness stand
November 26, 2025 at 9:14 PM
Sympathies. It’s hard to be on all the time.
November 23, 2025 at 8:30 PM
“Norm-al Meeting: Trump and Mamdani Hold Normal Meeting”
November 21, 2025 at 11:12 PM
I've been thinking about that for years, but idly and not with much sophistication. I've also been thinking about it in relationship to Trump since about 2017. I thought it would be helpful to mint commemorative coins for his sins to prevent them from succumbing to zone-flooding efforts.
November 21, 2025 at 12:33 AM
Pleased to learn of “disaster studies”/ certainly here for the disastrous turn
November 21, 2025 at 12:18 AM
It could wait until he's dead, but it might be practical in real-time, as a bulwark against distraction, as well of course as a space for grief.
November 21, 2025 at 12:15 AM
Just learning about your work. Congrats!
November 20, 2025 at 8:43 PM
There are some subtle indications that time has passed. Equivalent to a bit of graffiti traceable to a later stage of the Roman Empire
November 20, 2025 at 12:55 AM
Crypto isn’t only for doing crimes! It’s also a way to bring desperate people under the control of gangsters in anarchocapitalist dystopias such as Gaza may become.
November 19, 2025 at 7:38 PM
The number of Billy Joel superfans among students out here on the island would maybe not actually shock you, but it is tremendous
November 17, 2025 at 4:38 PM