Elijah S. Levine

PhD student in English (he/him)

[Elijah S. Levine @eslevinee]

rip Not Sidney Poitier’s adoptive guardian 🙏

[CNN Breaking News @cnnbrk]

Ted Turner, the billionaire media entrepreneur and philanthropist who launched the 24-hour cable TV news revolution when he founded CNN in 1980, has died. He was 87. https://t.co/61G2Kuh8Vz

[Elijah S. Levine @eslevinee]

i wrote something about the proliferation of lists in/as music criticism and their increasing tendency to foist legitimacy for the rankings onto the list’s very audience

https://t.co/K0tCsmTqYP

[Zwide @zwideservesbass]

D’Angelo singing Soundgarden’s Black Hole Sun

[Zwide @zwideservesbass]

D’Angelo singing Mothership Connection by Parliament. 1996. 22 years old.

[Elijah S. Levine @eslevinee]

@MilestoneFilms That’s great! Is there an email where I can send a PDF?

[Elijah S. Levine @eslevinee]

My article on Charles Burnett’s 1978 film Killer of Sheep and the labor of black aesthetics in the long 1970s is out now in Black Camera! Let me know if you want to read it.

[Elijah S. Levine @eslevinee]

https://t.co/805rNIIJKF

[Elijah S. Levine @eslevinee]

me and matt’s music blog, Sudden Grooves, is back with a new series. i wrote about d’angelo, roberta flack, roy ayers, and spinoza

[Tobi Haslett @tobihaslett]

RIP Fredric Jameson

[Charlie 😍 @BerlantBro]

Lauren Berlant on infantile citizenship and “adult citizens” who have “learned how to forget” (1997).

[Edge Effects @edgeeffectsmag]

Today on Edge Effects podcast, @eslevinee speaks with Celeste Winston about marronage as a Black placemaking practice, which can shape our imagination of a world without police. Listen/read more: https://t.co/amGurUTBJH

[Elijah S. Levine @eslevinee]

deadline is friday!

[Elijah S. Levine @eslevinee]

some friends and i put together a panel on wynter’s black metamorphosis for the political ecology working group next february. send us your abstracts! https://t.co/IRLIJlL99Q

[Elijah S. Levine @eslevinee]

some friends and i put together a panel on wynter’s black metamorphosis for the political ecology working group next february. send us your abstracts! https://t.co/IRLIJlL99Q

[gathara @gathara]

Americans are amazing. They think freedoms are dependent on the goodwill of rulers but still believe it's a democracy. Their elections keep getting stolen and they think they'll fix it by voting. And their famed system is now giving a choice between a genocidaire and a fascist.

[julia dupuis @juliaxdupuis]

The struggle playing out in Atlanta is a fight for the future. If the state is successful in its prosectuion, then this will set a terrifying precedent going forward. No act of protest is protected, and no one is safe.

[Millennials Are Killing Capitalism @MAKCapitalism]

10/26 - 4pm ET

Fanonian psychoanalysis, settler colonialism, and Palestinian Resistance with Lara Sheehi and Stephen Sheehi
https://t.co/AMTAunUPkx

[wendy trevino @prolpo]

from a friend:

[David Klion @DavidKlion]

For @nplusonemag, I wrote about how we're living through the post-9/11 period all over again, in all the worst ways https://t.co/bcPkardnIz

[Elijah S. Levine @eslevinee]

what’s something i should do w a few days in seattle around uw?

[Elijah S. Levine @eslevinee]

a structural, not an individual problem

[Elijah S. Levine @eslevinee]

i think it could be a problem that there (seems to be) a desire for financial success, celebrity notoriety, mainstream platforming etc. to be both evidence of and reward for having good politics and/or being a good person