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</li>
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<a href="{{ '/links-rhizome' | relative_url }}" itemprop="sameAs" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">
<i class="fas fa-seedling" aria-hidden="true" style="margin-right: .5em;"></i>/Links Rhizome
<a href="{{ '/elsewhere' | relative_url }}" itemprop="sameAs" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">
<i class="fas fa-seedling" aria-hidden="true" style="margin-right: .5em;"></i>/Elsewhere
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<p class="notice">"The Hydrogen Jukebox" was my college radio show's name for years on KUCR, then WRUR. Consider this <a href="{{ '/categories/#photonic-jukebox' | relative_url }}">Photonic Jukebox series</a> a remix that still boosts sounds I want to share.</p>
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<div><a class="btn btn--primary btn--large" aria-describedby="notes-desc" href="{{ site.url }}/notes/">Notes</a><br><span id="notes-desc">My digital garden.</span></div>
<div><a class="btn btn--primary btn--large" aria-describedby="reading-desc" href="{{ site.url }}/Reading/">Reading</a><br><span id="reading-desc">What I'm reading.</span></div>
<div><a class="btn btn--primary btn--large" aria-describedby="colophon-desc" href="{{ site.url }}/colophon/">Colophon</a><br><span id="colophon-desc">How I make this site.</span></div>
<div><a class="btn btn--primary btn--large" aria-describedby="links-rhizome-desc" href="{{ site.url }}/links-rhizome/">Links Rhizome</a><br><span id="links-rhizome-desc">I am also here.</span></div>
<div><a class="btn btn--primary btn--large" aria-describedby="elsewhere-desc" href="{{ site.url }}/elsewhere/">Elsewhere</a><br><span id="elsewhere-desc">I am also here.</span></div>
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<h2>Featured Posts</h2>
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date: 2023-11-12
last_modified_at: 2024-01-21
last_modified_at: 2024-01-28
reading: true
reading-books: true
excerpt: "Lee explores the history of how various cultural formations around literature and information grew through the 19th Century Information Revolution."
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permalink: /elsewhere/
title: "Elsewhere"
date: 2022-12-31
last_modified_at: 2024-01-30
# header:
# image: /assets/images/pocket-notebooks.jpg
# image_description: "ryan's pocket notebooks"
toc: true
---
Here are some of the places I've [rhizomatically]({{ '/links-rhizome' | relative_url }}) popped up online, around this site and beyond.

## Sections of This Site
{: style="font-size: 1.7rem;"}

<ul class="list-unstyled" role="list">
<li role="listitem">
<a href="{{ '/posts' | relative_url }}" itemprop="sameAs" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="btn btn--primary btn--x-large" style="display: block;">
<i class="fas fa-comment-dots" aria-hidden="true" style="margin-right: .5em;"></i>My Blog Posts
</a>
</li>
<li role="listitem">
<a href="{{ '/notes' | relative_url }}" itemprop="sameAs" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="btn btn--primary btn--x-large" style="display: block;">
<i class="fas fa-seedling" aria-hidden="true" style="margin-right: .5em;"></i>My Notes / Digital Garden
</a>
</li>
<li role="listitem">
<a href="{{ '/now' | relative_url }}" itemprop="sameAs" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="btn btn--primary btn--x-large" style="display: block;">
<i class="fas fa-user-clock" aria-hidden="true" style="margin-right: .5em;"></i>My `/Now` Page
</a>
</li>
<li role="listitem">
<a href="{{ '/reading' | relative_url }}" itemprop="sameAs" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="btn btn--primary btn--x-large" style="display: block;">
<i class="fas fa-book-open" aria-hidden="true" style="margin-right: .5em;"></i>My `/Reading` Page
</a>
</li>
<li role="listitem">
<a href="{{ '/uses' | relative_url }}" itemprop="sameAs" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="btn btn--primary btn--x-large" style="display: block;">
<i class="fas fa-book-open" aria-hidden="true" style="margin-right: .5em;"></i>My `/Uses` Page
</a>
</li>
</ul>

## Social Media
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<ul class="list-unstyled" role="list">
<li role="listitem">
<a href="https://hcommons.social/@ryanrandall" itemprop="sameAs" rel="me nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="btn btn--primary btn--x-large" style="display: block;">
<i class="fab fa-mastodon" aria-hidden="true" style="margin-right: .5em;"></i>Mastodon (Mostly public at HCommons.Social)
</a>
</li>
<li role="listitem">
<a href="https://scholar.social/@foureyedsoul" itemprop="sameAs" rel="me nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="btn btn--primary btn--x-large" style="display: block;">
<i class="fab fa-mastodon" aria-hidden="true" style="margin-right: .5em;"></i>Mastodon (Mostly private at Scholar.Social)
</a>
</li>
</ul>

## Professional Presences Elsewhere
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<ul class="list-unstyled" role="list">
<li role="listitem">
<a href="https://hcommons.org/members/foureyedsoul/" itemprop="sameAs" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="btn btn--primary btn--x-large" style="display: block;">
<i class="fas fa-university" aria-hidden="true" style="margin-right: .5em;"></i>Humanities Commons
</a>
</li>
<li role="listitem">
<a href="https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4499-7255" itemprop="sameAs" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="btn btn--primary btn--x-large" style="display: block;">
<i class="ai ai-orcid" aria-hidden="true" style="margin-right: .5em;"></i>ORCID
</a>
</li>
<li role="listitem">
<a href="http://www.inthelibrarywiththeleadpipe.org/about/editorial-board/ryan-randall/" itemprop="sameAs" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="btn btn--primary btn--x-large" style="display: block;">
<i class="ai ai-open-access" aria-hidden="true" style="margin-right: .5em;"></i>In the Library with the Lead Pipe
</a>
</li>
<li role="listitem">
<a href="https://www.credly.com/users/ryan-randall.95ecfee0" itemprop="sameAs" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="btn btn--primary btn--x-large" style="display: block;">
<i class="fas fa-certificate" aria-hidden="true" style="margin-right: .5em;"></i>Quality Matters Certificates
</a>
</li>
<li role="listitem">
<a href="https://hacklibschool.wordpress.com/author/ryanprandall/" itemprop="sameAs" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="btn btn--primary btn--x-large" style="display: block;">
<i class="fas fa-pencil-alt" aria-hidden="true" style="margin-right: .5em;"></i>Hack Library School Posts
</a>
</li>

</ul>

## Shared Reading Elsewhere
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<ul class="list-unstyled" role="list">
<li role="listitem">
<a href="https://www.zotero.org/ryanprandall" itemprop="sameAs" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="btn btn--primary btn--x-large" style="display: block;">
<i class="ai ai-zotero" aria-hidden="true" style="margin-right: .5em;"></i>Zotero
</a>
</li>
<li role="listitem">
<a href="https://bookwyrm.social/user/foureyedsoul" itemprop="sameAs" rel="me nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="btn btn--primary btn--x-large" style="display: block;">
<i class="fas fa-fw fa-book" aria-hidden="true" style="margin-right: .5em;"></i>BookWyrm
</a>
</li>
<li role="listitem">
<a href="http://goodreads.com/user/show/2077359-ryan" itemprop="sameAs" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="btn btn--primary btn--x-large" style="display: block;">
<i class="fas fa-fw fa-book" aria-hidden="true" style="margin-right: .5em;"></i>Goodreads
</a>
</li>
</ul>

## Tinkerings Elsewhere
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<ul class="list-unstyled" role="list">
<li role="listitem">
<a href="https://github.com/ryan-p-randall" itempromp="sameAs" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="btn btn--primary btn--x-large" style="display: block;">
<i class="fab fa-fw fa-github" aria-hidden="true" style="margin-right: .5em;"></i>Github
</a>
</li>
</ul>
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title: "Links Rhizome"
date: 2022-12-31
last_modified_at: 2023-12-08
last_modified_at: 2024-01-30
# header:
# image: /assets/images/pocket-notebooks.jpg
# image_description: "ryan's pocket notebooks"
toc: true
toc: false # true
---
Here are some of the places I've popped up online.

## Elsewhere On This Site
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As of 2024-01-30, I've moved this page to [my `/elsewhere` page]({{ '/elsewhere' | relative_url }}).

<ul class="list-unstyled" role="list">
<li role="listitem">
<a href="{{ '/posts' | relative_url }}" itemprop="sameAs" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="btn btn--primary btn--x-large" style="display: block;">
<i class="fas fa-comment-dots" aria-hidden="true" style="margin-right: .5em;"></i>My Blog Posts
</a>
</li>
<li role="listitem">
<a href="{{ '/notes' | relative_url }}" itemprop="sameAs" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="btn btn--primary btn--x-large" style="display: block;">
<i class="fas fa-seedling" aria-hidden="true" style="margin-right: .5em;"></i>My Notes / Digital Garden
</a>
</li>
<li role="listitem">
<a href="{{ '/now' | relative_url }}" itemprop="sameAs" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="btn btn--primary btn--x-large" style="display: block;">
<i class="fas fa-user-clock" aria-hidden="true" style="margin-right: .5em;"></i>My `/Now` Page
</a>
</li>
<li role="listitem">
<a href="{{ '/reading' | relative_url }}" itemprop="sameAs" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="btn btn--primary btn--x-large" style="display: block;">
<i class="fas fa-book-open" aria-hidden="true" style="margin-right: .5em;"></i>My `/Reading` Page
</a>
</li>
<li role="listitem">
<a href="{{ '/uses' | relative_url }}" itemprop="sameAs" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="btn btn--primary btn--x-large" style="display: block;">
<i class="fas fa-book-open" aria-hidden="true" style="margin-right: .5em;"></i>My `/Uses` Page
</a>
</li>
</ul>
Why the switch? Basically, I've noticed the `/elsewhere` page is becoming a new convention, much like [`/now`]({{ '/now' | relative_url }}) & [`/uses`]({{ '/uses' | relative_url }}) pages.

## Social Media
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Instead of just making this page automagically send you to my `/elsewhere` page, I'd prefer to elaborate the "rhizome" idea a bit further.

<ul class="list-unstyled" role="list">
<li role="listitem">
<a href="https://hcommons.social/@ryanrandall" itemprop="sameAs" rel="me nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="btn btn--primary btn--x-large" style="display: block;">
<i class="fab fa-mastodon" aria-hidden="true" style="margin-right: .5em;"></i>Mastodon (Mostly public at HCommons.Social)
</a>
</li>
<li role="listitem">
<a href="https://scholar.social/@foureyedsoul" itemprop="sameAs" rel="me nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="btn btn--primary btn--x-large" style="display: block;">
<i class="fab fa-mastodon" aria-hidden="true" style="margin-right: .5em;"></i>Mastodon (Mostly private at Scholar.Social)
</a>
</li>
</ul>
I really appreciate Dave Cormier's idea of [rhizomatic education](https://davecormier.com/edblog/2008/06/03/rhizomatic-education-community-as-curriculum/). My [#Rhizo15 posts](https://www.ryanpatrickrandall.com/tags/#rhizo15) were some of the first I wrote on here that went beyond school assignments. The notion of [rhizomatic learning](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhizomatic_learning) remains very compelling!

## Professional Presences
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Deleuze and Guattari's image of a [rhizomatic network](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhizome_(philosophy))—a jumble of multiplicities and possibilities rather than a single narrative or hierarchical arrangement—also is very generative!

<ul class="list-unstyled" role="list">
<li role="listitem">
<a href="https://hcommons.org/members/foureyedsoul/" itemprop="sameAs" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="btn btn--primary btn--x-large" style="display: block;">
<i class="fas fa-university" aria-hidden="true" style="margin-right: .5em;"></i>Humanities Commons
</a>
</li>
<li role="listitem">
<a href="https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4499-7255" itemprop="sameAs" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="btn btn--primary btn--x-large" style="display: block;">
<i class="ai ai-orcid" aria-hidden="true" style="margin-right: .5em;"></i>ORCID
</a>
</li>
<li role="listitem">
<a href="http://www.inthelibrarywiththeleadpipe.org/about/editorial-board/ryan-randall/" itemprop="sameAs" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="btn btn--primary btn--x-large" style="display: block;">
<i class="ai ai-open-access" aria-hidden="true" style="margin-right: .5em;"></i>In the Library with the Lead Pipe
</a>
</li>
<li role="listitem">
<a href="https://www.credly.com/users/ryan-randall.95ecfee0" itemprop="sameAs" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="btn btn--primary btn--x-large" style="display: block;">
<i class="fas fa-certificate" aria-hidden="true" style="margin-right: .5em;"></i>Quality Matters Certificates
</a>
</li>
<li role="listitem">
<a href="https://hacklibschool.wordpress.com/author/ryanprandall/" itemprop="sameAs" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="btn btn--primary btn--x-large" style="display: block;">
<i class="fas fa-pencil-alt" aria-hidden="true" style="margin-right: .5em;"></i>Hack Library School Posts
</a>
</li>
But ultimately, as much as I like counterposing all these images and influences and gardening metaphors to [that one "link in bio" service with "tree" in its name](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linktree), I like making things more understandable for my site's visitors!

</ul>
Even—or perhaps especially—after all my years enjoying dadaism, surrealism, and critical theory, it's difficult to anticipate when to make language an intentional site for interventions that disrupt our expectations. One person's illuminating disruption can often be another person's inaccessible barrier or unproductively alienating experience.

## Shared Reading
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So on balance, I've decided to retain this page as an elaboration of the "link rhizome" idea, instead of hoping that the phrase alone will set a thousand mental buds blooming as people scroll quickly around these pages.

<ul class="list-unstyled" role="list">
<li role="listitem">
<a href="https://www.zotero.org/ryanprandall" itemprop="sameAs" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="btn btn--primary btn--x-large" style="display: block;">
<i class="ai ai-zotero" aria-hidden="true" style="margin-right: .5em;"></i>Zotero
</a>
</li>
<li role="listitem">
<a href="https://bookwyrm.social/user/foureyedsoul" itemprop="sameAs" rel="me nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="btn btn--primary btn--x-large" style="display: block;">
<i class="fas fa-fw fa-book" aria-hidden="true" style="margin-right: .5em;"></i>BookWyrm
</a>
</li>
<li role="listitem">
<a href="http://goodreads.com/user/show/2077359-ryan" itemprop="sameAs" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="btn btn--primary btn--x-large" style="display: block;">
<i class="fas fa-fw fa-book" aria-hidden="true" style="margin-right: .5em;"></i>Goodreads
</a>
</li>
</ul>

## Tinkerings
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<ul class="list-unstyled" role="list">
<li role="listitem">
<a href="https://github.com/ryan-p-randall" itempromp="sameAs" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="btn btn--primary btn--x-large" style="display: block;">
<i class="fab fa-fw fa-github" aria-hidden="true" style="margin-right: .5em;"></i>Github
</a>
</li>
</ul>
Hope you see you elsewhere!
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title: Weekly Assemblage for 2023 Week 49
modified:
modified: 2024-01-30T12:36:26-7:00
categories: [weekly-assemblage]
excerpt: 'Writing with Executive Dysfunction webinar. A WorkingOnIt group. Links Rhizome and other site updates.'
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### Links Rhizome

I toyed around a little this week with the CSS on my Linktree-inspired [Links Rhizome page]({% link _pages/links-rhizome.md %}), with the goal of making both the headings and buttons more prominent.
I toyed around a little this week with the CSS on my Linktree-inspired [Links Rhizome page]({% link _pages/elsewhere.md %}), with the goal of making both the headings and buttons more prominent. **edit on 2024-01-30:** I've renamed this "Links Rhizome" page to just "Elsewhere," as I'm starting to see more people use that convention.

If you've already got a website of your own, why not emulate that sort of "I exist… here" type of directory, instead of relying on yet another platform?

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title: Acid Jeep's Clock Rhythm
# modified:
categories: [photonic-jukebox]
excerpt: 'Tough electro with bouncy rhythms and squiggly synths.'
tags:
- techno
# header:
# image: /assets/images/weekly-assemblage.png
# caption: 'Photo credit: [**Unsplash**](https://unsplash.com)'
published: true
toc: false # true
comments: true
date: 2024-01-30T10:30:38-7:00 # 2024-01-30T00:43:30-7:00
---

[_Clock Rhythm_](https://texasrecordingsunderground.bandcamp.com/album/clock-rhythm) by Acid Jeep distills a distinct flavor of "let's rock some tough electro, but make the synths squigglier" bounce.

Warmly overdriven but not harshly distorted. Intense but not claustrophobic. Driving but not frenetic. _Clock Rhythm_ keeps the balance right—and surprisingly fresh—at the intersection of genres that can veer rapidly into excessive or derivative sounds in the hands of other musicians.

I'm impressed by how much variety this album contains, while still remaining distinctly in the "electro" and "acid" realms of the adjacent techno possibilities.

Acid Jeep often avoids "pad" sounds, background layers of synth notes, and clear chord progressions. The resulting sleekness and syncopation feels a lot closer to a rhythm box equivalent of a ESG-style dance-punk band with bass, drums, and a single lead instrument than the lushness other home listening techno brings.

Sequencing "[Noise Source](https://texasrecordingsunderground.bandcamp.com/track/noise-source)" and "[Tape Overwrite](https://texasrecordingsunderground.bandcamp.com/track/tape-overwrite)" back-to-back deftly juxtaposes tension and spacious bounce.

This album also makes room for compelling detours into relatively chilled-out-but-not-quite Boards of Canada or Black Moth Super Rainbow pastoral places and other more dubby techno spaces. "[Syncussion](https://texasrecordingsunderground.bandcamp.com/track/syncussion)" in particular uses restraint and sound design to arrive somewhere very different than it starts, and the closing "Growth and Decay" manages to feel like a coherent part of the album despite not having any recognizable drum sounds.

<abbr>RIYL</abbr> (recommended if you like): AFX's "Analogue Bubblebath"; Aphex Twin's "Classics"; Drexciya's "The Journey Home"; Autodidact's "Time Flex"; imagining if ESG hung out with Daft Punk to play [Wipeout](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wipeout_(video_game_series)) and got inspired by Meco's extended drumline interplay on "Other Galactic Funk".

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