Professor of Sociology. Interests include publics, assemblages, middlebrow culture, where Europe & the new world meet. Mann, Bolano, Charlie Parker, Virginia Woolf.
Associate Editor of the International Journal of Press/Politics and Sociologica.
(he/him).
I’m from New York, live in Bologna, Italy, and work in Milan. There’s a lot of stuff I miss about the USA and a lot I don’t. I miss cornmeal and Mexican food primarily.
Just saw the really sad news that @stevesilberman has died, and at a shockingly young age.
The news makes me really sad- and really angry, for the first time in a long time (I've mostly gotten over it), at Elon Musk.
Steve and I were the kind of "friends" that only existed on Twitter in the early 2010s. We never met, and he became super famous, but we definitely hung out in that early Twitter way. What a weird feeling.
After 18 years, I'm saying goodbye X on Sep 1. I can't in good conscience stay on Twitter as a for-profit, closed source platform when there are democratic alternatives to strengthen! I'm here and on bsky.
Happy for any advice on how to make the transition from those who have fully!
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The insane history of Dr. Kellogg and his war against masturbation and human 'deviancy' is one the most succinctly American forms of batshit lunatic normalcy I've ever stumbled across.
This fuckless nutless madman could be the poster child for the 1900-1920's "Progressive Movement' - and think of him every time I see bizarre ideas like anti-vaxers, raw water or sun bleaching; I imagine some ghost of the doctor nodding and mumbling about how it's all about 'proper healthful practices'.
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