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Kyle Parry

@kyleparry.bsky.social

for my writing and such: kyleparry.info

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𝐑𝐨𝐛𝐞𝐫𝐭 𝐌𝐨𝐨𝐫@robertmoor.com · 2mo ago

File under: Books that feel written for me and my weird interests, specifically. Immediate pre-order.

Kyle Parry@kyleparry.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Preorder-able, $10 @uminnpress.bsky.social A book influenced by Ursula Le Guin's dark insights, eg "...I hope you will remember that darkness is your country, where you live, where no wars are fought and no wars are won, but where the future is. Our roots are in the dark; the earth is our country."

catalog entry for ways of seeing after dark; the book cover is followed by descriptive copy that reads: Rethinking darkness through the politics and possibilities of vision Darkness is widely misunderstood, argues Kyle Parry. We take darkness as the enemy of sight, yet we can’t see without it. We call the worst parts of our lives dark, yet we wouldn’t be here without wombs, skulls, oceans, the moon, and other shadowed places. Ways of Seeing After Dark contends that darkness is not absence but presence, shaping how worlds are sensed, inhabited, and understood. Darkness brings peril, but it is also a fundamental, if increasingly threatened, condition of living together on this planet. Tracing links between John Berger’s influential Ways of Seeing and his more poetic later writings, Parry recasts contemporary conditions defined by light pollution, digital mediation, and racialized regimes of seeing. In dialogue with artists, critics, and astronomers, Ways of Seeing After Dark examines how fear of darkness is built rather than universal and how such training intersects with broader social structures, including racism and capitalism. Showing how “felt darkness displaces physical darkness” and “brighter nights bring darker days,” Parry reveals the dark as a multifaceted phenomenon with political and perceptual significance, calling for new ways of seeing with the night.
Kyle Parry@kyleparry.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Preorder-able, $10 @uminnpress.bsky.social A book influenced by Ursula Le Guin's dark insights, eg "...I hope you will remember that darkness is your country, where you live, where no wars are fought and no wars are won, but where the future is. Our roots are in the dark; the earth is our country."

catalog entry for ways of seeing after dark; the book cover is followed by descriptive copy that reads: Rethinking darkness through the politics and possibilities of vision Darkness is widely misunderstood, argues Kyle Parry. We take darkness as the enemy of sight, yet we can’t see without it. We call the worst parts of our lives dark, yet we wouldn’t be here without wombs, skulls, oceans, the moon, and other shadowed places. Ways of Seeing After Dark contends that darkness is not absence but presence, shaping how worlds are sensed, inhabited, and understood. Darkness brings peril, but it is also a fundamental, if increasingly threatened, condition of living together on this planet. Tracing links between John Berger’s influential Ways of Seeing and his more poetic later writings, Parry recasts contemporary conditions defined by light pollution, digital mediation, and racialized regimes of seeing. In dialogue with artists, critics, and astronomers, Ways of Seeing After Dark examines how fear of darkness is built rather than universal and how such training intersects with broader social structures, including racism and capitalism. Showing how “felt darkness displaces physical darkness” and “brighter nights bring darker days,” Parry reveals the dark as a multifaceted phenomenon with political and perceptual significance, calling for new ways of seeing with the night.
Miriam Posner@miriamposner.com · 9mo ago

WE WON. I am *begging* you to take note of who did this. *Not* UCLA admin—they’re still scuttling around behind closed doors, attempting to appease—but FACULTY AND STAFF, led by AAUP.

Veena Dubal@veenadubal.bsky.social · 9mo ago

BREAKING: In AAUP et al v. Trump (wall-to-wall union lawsuit challenging the administration’s unlawful use of TItle VI to reshape the University of California system), the faculty and staff of the UC system WON!!! We were granted our preliminary injunction! @aaup.org

Democracy Now!@democracynow.org · 11mo ago

Israeli forces are pushing deeper into Gaza City as the full-fledged military ground invasion continues despite mounting international condemnation. "It's just extermination for the sake of extermination."

Miriam Posner@miriamposner.com · 11mo ago

Tomorrow the UC regents are meeting at UCSF to discuss Trump's extortion attempt. This is a defining moment for the UC system, for public education, and for the university as an institution. We demand no concession, no capitulation, no cuts.

No Concessions, No Capitulation, No Cuts On September 16 at 2pm, we are joining the AAUP and CUCFA for a rally at the William J. Rutter Center at UCSF, 1675 Owens Street, San Francisco, to demand No Concessions, No Capitulation, and No Cuts to our University of California. Please join us!
Kyle Parry@kyleparry.bsky.social · 11mo ago

rich article on "DeepTok noise" animating "memetic ensembles that are purposefully out of sync"; TikTok as a "metadata machine"; (+ selfishly helps me link my diff recent projects, on metadata, on assembly) Noise in sonic social media: Memetic soundscapes of Deep TikTok Elena Pilipets, Jason Chao

Kyle Parry@kyleparry.bsky.social · 11mo ago

maybe the undergrad class is a core thing (e.g. light) complicated (e.g. light not just x but also y, z) but also organized (e.g light in art = light as a, b, c, d) but also urgent (e.g. light as power) but also tangible/fun (e.g. light all around you) but also not the whole story (e.g. darkness)

Kyle Parry@kyleparry.bsky.social · 11mo ago

recent reads: - Extractive Capitalism / L Khalili - The Vegetarian + The White Book / Han Kang - Otherlands: A Journey Through Earth's Extinct Worlds / T. Halliday - The Invention of Clouds / R Hamblyn - The Left Hand of Darkness / U K Le Guin - Tyranny of the Minority / L + Z keeping it eclectic

Kyle Parry@kyleparry.bsky.social · last yr.

Can’t put words to it, but reading/holding John Berger’s notebooks is moving, prismatic, fascinating. Also: didn’t expect to find him writing 11 pages of detailed notes on (from what I can tell) Isaac Asimov’s The Universe. Quasars and all. Bits in British Library for my new book or something else

Kyle Parry@kyleparry.bsky.social · last yr.

Han Kang: “There is none of us whom life regards with any partiality. Sleet falls as she walks the streets, holding this knowledge inside of her.” Reading now The White Book, having just finished The Left Hand of a Darkness. Works somehow.

Kyle Parry@kyleparry.bsky.social · last yr.

Not expecting a response but why not try. Anyone know what Cooper sentence or passage this paraphrases? In the United States, ['built'] is used with much more latitude than in England. There, as Fenimore Cooper puts it, everything is BUILT. The priest BUILDS up a flock; the speculator a fortune...

Kyle Parry@kyleparry.bsky.social · last yr.

Moten: “The beautiful that’s inseparable from the terrible—that’s too nasty to be sublime, too flavorful to be in good taste, too syncopic to get fixed, too different to be one, too twenty-one to be nineteen, too then to be now, too open and close to be proximate—is what we share, in study.”

Kyle Parry@kyleparry.bsky.social · last yr.

absolutely packed bus, on the way to Dolores Park, young kid with mom boards with sign that says Trump Has Small Dick-tator Energy, people settle, brief silence, someone at the front: “Way to go San Francisco!” woooooooo

Joe Katz@joekatz45.bsky.social · last yr.

There are now more than 2000 #NoKings events scheduled for all 50 states, DC, Puerto Rico, Guam and about a dozen foreign countries. RSVPs are skyrocketing, which is particularly worth noting because a lot of people are very understandably dead set against RSVPing. We will not back down.

#NoKings and its crossed-out crown logo against a blue background with the words No Kings repeated.
Cristian Farias@cristianfarias.com · last yr.

This Rümeysa Öztürk hearing is radicalizing. I've been a court reporter for many years, and I've never covered anything like this: A student deeply committed to her studies, imprisoned solely over writing an op-ed, being made to testify under oath for her own freedom. Dark, dark stuff.

Kyle Parry@kyleparry.bsky.social · last yr.

A generous 📕 review: "[a] ground-breaking and much-needed work . . . A Theory of Assembly: From Museums to Memes undertakes the prodigious task of establishing a system of several shifting lenses through which many facets of the contemporary mediascape become visible as an interconnected whole…

Democracy Now!@democracynow.org · last yr.

Mahmoud Khalil “was abducted before [his wife’s] very eyes" and "disappeared,” says Ramzi Kassem, CUNY professor of law. Kassem is the founder of the legal clinic CLEAR, which is contesting Khalil's "baseless" detention and Louisiana transfer in New York court.