elena razlogova
@erazlogo.bsky.social
media historian. mastodon: @erazlogo@assemblages.es web: http://elenarazlogova.net/
The Summer 2026 issue of LCD, WFMU's magazine/program guide, is out! If you donated $75 or more during our fundraiser or are a Swag for Life member living in the US you will automatically receive a copy. Everyone else: You can order a copy at iwantmylcd.com. Questions? Email lcd@wfmu.org.
Vicki Wickham helped shape the British Invasion, helped Dusty find her way to Memphis, helped birth Labelle and was Nona’s beloved partner for 60 plus years. Sing her name! RIP www.nytimes.com/2026/08/01/a...
Vicki Wickham, Behind-the-Scenes Force in Pop Music, Dies at 87 (Gift Article)
She managed artists like Labelle and Dusty Springfield, and helped run the influential 1960s British TV showcase “Ready Steady Go!”
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Honored to be on the bill with such illustrious WFMU DJs! Thanks to @amnazz.bsky.social for the invitation. On Aug 26, come hear a deep cut or two from WFMU’s past.
Vocal Fry on WFMU@vocalfry.bsky.social · 2w agoHey! The @wfmu.bsky.social Literary Guild is back! It's a quarterly reading series at the Red Room at KGB Bar featuring WFMU DJs reading essays, poems, short stories + more. Hear work @davethespazz.bsky.social, @erazlogo.bsky.social (writing a history of WFMU), me & @saltzshaker.bsky.social, +???
Whoa! @creamocoyl.bsky.social w/ a guide to Big Blood, today on @bandcamp.com! ht Michele with one L on @wfmu.bsky.social <3
Trust the Music: A Guide to the Big Blood Family
Tracing the history of the underground's most unique family band.
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"The internet... cld have been a global 🧠, an end to monopoly capitalism, a liberation of free speech. How did we get from there to here: to surveillance capitalism + data colonialism, facing an extractive AI industry + a fragmented social media landscape powered by misinformation + advertising?"
The Internet We Could Have Had
The Internet We Could Have Had, What happened to the internet we could have had? Can we remember a future that did not come to pass? The Internet We Could Have Had takes up the challenge, revisiting t...
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Great essay by my brilliant friend
Carl Wilson@carlzoilus.bsky.social · 2w agoPhoebe Bridgers’ double-shot of TV clips with kid & senior backing bands last week might have looked like a gimmick. But really they peel back subtexts of “Lost Boys” and her own feelings about her life in music at almost-32 that may otherwise be submerged. carlwilson.substack.com/p/this-machi...
toronto! come help me celebrate the launch of my book, A Nation of Tinkerers. i'll be in conversation with Melissa Vincent to talk about the book's subjects and themes, and @dianachanmcnally.bsky.social will be treating us all to some CanCon disco classics. 7:30pm, July 28th at Osler Records.
"White" is implied in all of these choices, of course. Reminds me of Laura Garbes on race and voice standards at NPR press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
Dave Mandl@dmandl.bsky.social · 4w agoA menu of AI voices to build your robot podcast. This is as much an indictment of radio as it is of AI. Mainstream radio/podcasts have reached a point where most of the hosts might as well be lab-created. The fact that a list like this exists says something about contemporary radio/podcasts.
Excellent, expert people work at the National Museum of American History. My fellowship there was pivotal to my work as a U.S. media historian. Among other things, I learned about WFMU at NMAH. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/05/a...
White House Criticizes Smithsonian Museum for ‘Extreme Political Activism’
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my 13 years at bandcamp are coming to an end - i’ve been laid off along with most of the remaining engineers. best job i’ve ever had, working with the best people you could ever work with. unceremonious end to quite a ride.
One more vote and the mayor's signature and DC will have the toughest ticketing reform bill in the country.
Councilmember Charles Allen@cmcharlesallen.bsky.social · last mo.The RESALE Act has passed first vote *unanimously* with: 1) a 10% cap restored on how much a ticket can be marked up when being resold; 2) a ban on reselling tickets you don’t possess: 3) list the original cost of the ticket; 4) requires all-in pricing upfront on all sales.
Fantastic piece on UT Austin radio by Jason Cohen, with key pitch for the medium: “Noncommercial radio frequencies in general, and college radio specifically, are a community asset, just like… alcalde.texasexes.org/2026/06/for-...
For Decades, UT’s Student-Run Radio Station KVRX Has Introduced Listeners to What’s Next
Cassidy Shultz, aka DJ hippiestank, KVRX's public relations director. It’s often said that football is the “front porch” of a University, the thing that everybody sees and knows, both on campus and ac...
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Resurfacing online to mention: my book on the history of Speech Rec, NLP, and data-driven AI is coming out in a couple of weeks! Just got my author's copy from @uchicagopress.bsky.social and it finally feels real! press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
Divination Engines
A revealing and surprising origin story, showing how attempts to render human speech and language computable led from the era of big data to today’s AI. Since the advent of computers, society has fant...
press.uchicago.edu
you there! would you like to see the excessive number of fonts available at the Stanford AI Lab in 1976? including multiple elvish options? www.saildart.org/allow/pdf/fi...
Tidal says it won't monetize AI-generated music
Tidal Says It Won't Monetize AI-Generated Music
This year, streaming services are tackling the problem of AI-generated music. In January, Bandcamp announced they were banning it; in March, Apple Music introduced AI transparency tags. Today, Tidal r...
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The Routledge Companion to Social Media Influencers is out! Next up: The Routledge Handbook of AI Slop.
Renato Rosaldo, Anthropologist Who Disrupted His Discipline, Dies at 85 www.nytimes.com/2026/06/18/s...
Renato Rosaldo, Anthropologist Who Disrupted His Discipline, Dies at 85
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Heidi Grundmann, Robert Adrian, "Toward a Definition of Radio Art", 1998. Manifesto; written on the occasion of ImmersiveSound/kunst in der stadt II/ Bregenz 1998
some of you not naming names could be said to be interested in music that is an "agitation of the atmospheric air" (Abraham Moles 1966) #cybernetics
AI has started blocking the Wayback Machine from chronicling the web. Considering that nearly 40% of websites disappear after 10 years, this will enforce a giant loss in collective memory.
AI’s biggest casualty could be history itself
The Internet Archive is a vital resource that has helped the search for truth in more than one global event, writes Anthony Cuthbertson, but it is in danger of becoming the latest collateral damage of...
the-independent.com
RIP Carlo Ginzburg, an extraordinary historian. His work on serendipity explains a lot about freeform radio. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/17/b...
Carlo Ginzburg, Who Told the History of the Obscure, Dies at 87
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When I interviewed Pat Brodie last month about his co-edited collection, I realized that he actually had ANOTHER book out this year with @dukepress.bsky.social. So of course we had to talk about that too. Check out "Wild Tides: Media Infrastructure and Financial Crisis in Ireland," it's a keeper.
Patrick Brodie, "Wild Tides: Media Infrastructure and Financial Crisis in Ireland" (Duke UP, 2026) - New Books Network
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Six years ago I published a book that engaged machine learning in terms of the politics of text, language & the impossibility of definitive authorship. Are any of the men writing now on LLMs, authorship, and text citing my 2020 work?…. No, reader, they are not.
Read the World Humanities Report. Vanderbilt report is fake news.
Michael Bérubé@michael-berube.bsky.social · 2mo agoI *so* wish that awesome World Humanities Report had gotten even one percent of the attention it deserved. Kudos to Sara Guyer and CHCI for putting it together-- over six years! worldhumanitiesreport.org
Will assign this to my students, for their first day of class. AI writing is just bad, embarrassing writing. www.newyorker.com/books/page-t...
Did a Chatbot Write a Prize-Winning Story? Does It Matter?
A Commonwealth Prize-winning short story appears to have been generated with A.I. The response exposes larger fears about honesty, motivation, and expectation in literary writing.
newyorker.com