myblog | Thomas Costello | Activity https://myblog.arts.ac.uk/members/21026466/activity/ Activity feed for Thomas Costello. Mon, 18 May 2026 23:09:36 +0000 https://buddypress.org/?v= en-GB 30 hourly 2 63cdaa38e7632baceaf4d163ef17b048 Thomas Costello wrote a new post on the site Tom Blog https://tomcostello.myblog.arts.ac.uk/?p=478 Fri, 19 Apr 2024 14:42:20 +0000 little beings transcending linguistic divisions Who determines the exoteric? First notes on “Technic and Magic” by Federico Campagna. Number lovers, as in […]

]]> 0 4c4536a97a833d9884cb94a214efc6ad Thomas Costello wrote a new post on the site Tom Blog https://tomcostello.myblog.arts.ac.uk/?p=469 Tue, 09 Apr 2024 16:16:27 +0000 beyond the "anthropocene" Notes on “A Billion Black Anthropocenes or None” by Kathryn Yusoff. Undoing the world. The major event of […]

]]> 0 ca4f5a354603f7ad665795be9a87ca69 Thomas Costello wrote a new post on the site Tom Blog https://tomcostello.myblog.arts.ac.uk/?p=468 Fri, 15 Mar 2024 10:43:00 +0000 https://soundcloud.com/kefny/writing-for-moby-nahorna-bay/s-DXQJdn2vo0j?si=5ca04e758226401385971259eddca08b&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing

]]> 0 6f3fc17604ceea007b92992947a8368d Thomas Costello wrote a new post on the site Tom Blog https://tomcostello.myblog.arts.ac.uk/?p=467 Tue, 12 Mar 2024 12:20:39 +0000 Notes on “Capitalocene, Waste, Race and Gender” by Francoise Verges.

“As defined by geographer Ruth Wilson Gilmore, capitalism is a global regime of vulnerability to death. The slave trade on which capitalism […]

]]> 0 eb24e7f4d73b1ee7b3a36c2ab2e1d4e9 Thomas Costello wrote a new post on the site Tom Blog https://tomcostello.myblog.arts.ac.uk/?p=466 Wed, 06 Mar 2024 17:27:07 +0000 Meanderings for WIP show next week. I will play an interview with two cleaners that I recorded last year. Preliminary ideas were to loop the interview on a small mobile speaker, attatched to some kind […]

]]> 0 4c7da51ba6e91be795f8a535e468b04c Thomas Costello wrote a new post on the site Tom Blog https://tomcostello.myblog.arts.ac.uk/?p=464 Mon, 04 Mar 2024 16:50:29 +0000 There is a strong feeling of other voices in the world around you. Those buzzy Other dimensions, flicking leaf a step beyond tethered ground.

When you don’t look they appear laughing as shaking matter, old […]

]]> 0 44d8df75d79aa5598574b21803f5b9a2 Thomas Costello wrote a new post on the site Tom Blog https://tomcostello.myblog.arts.ac.uk/?p=463 Mon, 04 Mar 2024 16:35:40 +0000 List of works related to music and walking, or walking music.

Hammons from “Going Out” anthology book and the buddha quoted by Derek Jarman in his memoirs “Modern Nature”

Hammons recognised the […]

]]> 0 14996683a7505f7ff832dd73a23e9949 Thomas Costello wrote a new post on the site Tom Blog https://tomcostello.myblog.arts.ac.uk/?p=459 Tue, 20 Feb 2024 11:07:35 +0000 First outdoor improvisation.

Sitting on a bench for one, facing Burgess park’s pond. The geese swam towards me as I started to play the melodica, then they slowly exited the pond near my feet, off away. The […]

]]> 0 a4e1544e477706f6eebeb76a0bef5f57 Thomas Costello wrote a new post on the site Tom Blog https://tomcostello.myblog.arts.ac.uk/?p=453 Tue, 20 Feb 2024 10:43:59 +0000 Notes on “One Dimensional Music Without Context or Meaning” by Mark Fell

Wear the stupid costume of music as a performance of one’s aesthetic prejudices, maybe to achieve some kind of […]

]]> 0 d70fcec7d60402f6f39998f2f8045742 Thomas Costello wrote a new post on the site Tom Blog https://tomcostello.myblog.arts.ac.uk/?p=450 Sun, 18 Feb 2024 13:53:16 +0000 Beginning meanderings for “Walking Music”, a successor to last two Summer’s “Rock Music” events; outdoor listening in public parks with a participatory sound system. “Walking Music” brings the sound system on the […]

]]> 0 88647ae563f3c60b6aabf8f91e078506 Thomas Costello wrote a new post on the site Tom Blog https://tomcostello.myblog.arts.ac.uk/?p=446 Fri, 09 Feb 2024 13:40:33 +0000 yellow road againhe must go into riveryellow road againhe must go it’s his timeI saw him looking back and smiling

Improvisation with melodica, contact microphone and voice.

Trying a new set up using […]

]]> 0 e87194837492b661a1e31ba1d039fc46 Thomas Costello wrote a new post on the site Tom Blog https://tomcostello.myblog.arts.ac.uk/?p=445 Thu, 08 Feb 2024 13:43:58 +0000 Herbert Marcuse said “The incessant dynamic of technical progress has become permeated with political content, and the Logos of technics has been made into the Logos of continued servitude. The liberating force […]

]]> 0 2ffe576c054b71baa69b714d86f5b8d3 Thomas Costello wrote a new post on the site Tom Blog https://tomcostello.myblog.arts.ac.uk/?p=440 Thu, 08 Feb 2024 13:00:53 +0000 Final notes on “The Queer Art of Failure”

Halberstam’s chapter “Homosexuality and Fascism” takes a new turn in the book’s unpicking of the constructed categories of failure. In previous […]

]]> 0 5473d1bf97892ec9aac6ad6ad768d0d4 Thomas Costello wrote a new post on the site Tom Blog https://tomcostello.myblog.arts.ac.uk/?p=438 Thu, 01 Feb 2024 13:42:34 +0000 more notes from chapters “The Queer Art of Failure” and “Shadow Feminisms” from “The Queer Art of Failure” by Judith Halberstam

Is there an end to failure?

Halberstam reveals the Western […]

]]> 0 c2dca61a107695181a86fffcd0ac1e22 Thomas Costello wrote a new post on the site Tom Blog https://tomcostello.myblog.arts.ac.uk/?p=437 Thu, 25 Jan 2024 17:33:45 +0000 Failure, art, queer

Queer Art of Failure by Judith Halberstam

Notes from Chapter 2, “Dude, where’s my phallus?

Learning always requires forgetting. A loop of input and output into the […]

]]> 0 0e916ee2943cc0ef4e70df3b58bc4684 Thomas Costello wrote a new post on the site Tom Blog https://tomcostello.myblog.arts.ac.uk/?p=429 Thu, 28 Dec 2023 20:35:20 +0000 Final notes on Brandon La Belle’s “Sonic Agency”.

La Belle’s last chapter of his book, titled “The Weak”.

La Belle is outlining a politics of vulnerability and weakness, a “passionate […]

]]> 0 0dd22567c70c87daf28ccd3392cf7fe6 Thomas Costello wrote a new post on the site Tom Blog https://tomcostello.myblog.arts.ac.uk/?p=427 Wed, 27 Dec 2023 18:03:00 +0000 unlearning great

dislearning womp womp

dislearning, dis-connected to a knowing. unlearning not a return, recognising trapped energies.

there is a possibility of our dislearning, as our tools provide a […]

]]> 0 615453aec64c5de55f6da381ce89da0c Thomas Costello wrote a new post on the site Tom Blog https://tomcostello.myblog.arts.ac.uk/?p=423 Wed, 29 Nov 2023 13:31:59 +0000 The W401 is booked for a pilot of the radio show, next Thursday 7th, 5-6/7pm.

So far we don’t have a title or a clear structure of the first show. The time pressure is good so we can focus on quantity over […]

]]> 0 9b1954fa859d8440ed7b250b290fccf8 Thomas Costello wrote a new post on the site Tom Blog https://tomcostello.myblog.arts.ac.uk/?p=413 Wed, 29 Nov 2023 13:21:33 +0000 Beginning sketches of my second creative project, a music project, working title “Idiot Prayer”. Main compositional element: melody. Melody writing is a sonic practice as sound is a medium for sharing melody. One […]

]]> 0 d075e9c48c8cbc6add1c0acb5f3fad82 Thomas Costello wrote a new post on the site Tom Blog https://tomcostello.myblog.arts.ac.uk/?p=406 Mon, 27 Nov 2023 17:29:36 +0000 First notes on “Pedagogy of the Oppressed” by Paolo Freire. Freire leans heavily on a binary of opressed/oppressor to explain his theories of domination. I do appreciate his usage of terms […]

]]> 0 e395c1d0f31f9c78269c275fdf7ad325 Thomas Costello wrote a new post on the site Tom Blog https://tomcostello.myblog.arts.ac.uk/?p=401 Fri, 17 Nov 2023 17:03:38 +0000 Notes on the first Radio Project meeting, which happened on November 16th. Informal discussions with students have happened before this.

My friend Sofia brought up the idea of a student run radio […]

]]> 0 3cc37a0ef59b9b32c9568adb06d9723e Thomas Costello wrote a new post on the site Tom Blog https://tomcostello.myblog.arts.ac.uk/?p=394 Fri, 17 Nov 2023 15:58:17 +0000 LaBelle on utilising the network for collectivising people. Sonic Agency, chpt 3.

LaBelle explores the tensions between our digital networks and political agency. He points out the […]

]]> 0 e0fd1177f6811cb424d997e3d4c9e929 Thomas Costello wrote a new post on the site Tom Blog https://tomcostello.myblog.arts.ac.uk/?p=391 Wed, 15 Nov 2023 12:16:55 +0000 Thoughts on my relationship to critical theory and the acadamic way of applying linguistic context to ? (existence?). These feelings relate to my second creative project, which is my music project. I believe in […]

]]> 0 74ec3acc00ae094d96190bf70e992851 Thomas Costello wrote a new post on the site Tom Blog https://tomcostello.myblog.arts.ac.uk/?p=390 Wed, 08 Nov 2023 15:51:32 +0000 Sketch for a part of the radio project, which promotes solidarity in the form of interviews and discussion.

Live list of ideas of who to invite

Palestine society from SOASLatinElephant ~ local struggles on […]

]]> 0 b2dfa4de50403cb7989ed3041d472a7a Thomas Costello wrote a new post on the site Tom Blog https://tomcostello.myblog.arts.ac.uk/?p=388 Mon, 06 Nov 2023 15:47:09 +0000 Thoughts in relation to my second creative project, trying to step out of contexualisation through language and start la la ing.

Erudite from oxford dictionary: having or showing great knowledge or learning. […]

]]> 0 c8242d63ab450249f832a5209df83253 Thomas Costello wrote a new post on the site Tom Blog https://tomcostello.myblog.arts.ac.uk/?p=383 Mon, 06 Nov 2023 15:24:08 +0000 Notes on “The Invisible”, chapter three of “Sonic Agency” by Brandon LaBelle.

Research for Radio Project, title tbd … (beyond the face/rallyradio)

LaBelle discusses the complex dynamics of […]

]]> 0 de4273062473a080fd58bc5d1fb64c3a Thomas Costello wrote a new post on the site Tom Blog https://tomcostello.myblog.arts.ac.uk/?p=382 Thu, 02 Nov 2023 09:22:38 +0000 An invitation to take part in a workshop and research project tackling professionalism on campus.

Theory and Introduction

We will question our listening subjectivity that channels traumatic memories and […]

]]> 0 9f7504d66442cd6e11b748f4bc51866b Thomas Costello wrote a new post on the site Tom Blog https://tomcostello.myblog.arts.ac.uk/?p=377 Mon, 30 Oct 2023 14:07:44 +0000 Demo map of Radio Project

3 hour show once a week, with four 45 minute episodes.

The four shows circulate between 8 individuals or groups connected to the university.

Each show has full agency over their […]

]]> 0 ea5e2beb8ca15ef35727360a9eddaaca Thomas Costello wrote a new post on the site Tom Blog https://tomcostello.myblog.arts.ac.uk/?p=362 Mon, 30 Oct 2023 13:47:27 +0000 When atoms come together they become a molecule.

Notes on two meetings in LCC, between students to discuss a potential for student actions on campus, that protest the commodification of our education.

So […]

]]> 0 c10b8b7a26303bd37cf552984f7d6c91 Thomas Costello wrote a new post on the site Tom Blog https://tomcostello.myblog.arts.ac.uk/?p=363 Mon, 30 Oct 2023 13:26:34 +0000 First notes on Brandon LaBelle’s “Sonic Agency: Sound and Emergent Forms of Resistance.”

Beyond the self with courage: The individual space is a space held tightly together by an increasing […]

]]> 0 4ce84b6d8356ea33fe23955be7445107 Thomas Costello wrote a new post on the site Tom Blog https://tomcostello.myblog.arts.ac.uk/?p=356 Mon, 23 Oct 2023 18:07:00 +0000 Notes on “Decolonizing Listening to Decolonize Memory” by Francis Sosta

“Decolonial memory as the ongoing project of unpacking the ways official historical records racialised, silenced and […]

]]> 0 d599ae50f7e76d80274085e5fc8ffa47 Thomas Costello wrote a new post on the site Tom Blog https://tomcostello.myblog.arts.ac.uk/?p=349 Sat, 21 Oct 2023 10:08:29 +0000 More notes on “Out of the Ruins: The Emergence of Radical Informal Learning Spaces”.

Crack capitalism theory by John Holloway. Contradicts the idea of total domination present in common […]

]]> 0 20dca392b329fe903de0497a0a10aab3 Thomas Costello wrote a new post on the site Tom Blog https://tomcostello.myblog.arts.ac.uk/?p=348 Sat, 14 Oct 2023 13:44:56 +0000 Notes on “Creating Transformative Anarchist Geographic Learning Spaces” by Farhang Rouhani

Neoliberalisation can be understood as the institutional erasure of place based identities. This kind of placelessness […]

]]> 0 6a161762a296009ed023712bef275c5b Thomas Costello wrote a new post on the site Tom Blog https://tomcostello.myblog.arts.ac.uk/?p=347 Sat, 14 Oct 2023 13:23:21 +0000 Research question idea: Can anarchist-pedagogical theories inform listening practices to encourage anti-hierarchical and anti-professional communication, collaboration and connection within a university […]

]]> 0 5bb1e74643f052047613d4ff00111449 Thomas Costello wrote a new post on the site Tom Blog https://tomcostello.myblog.arts.ac.uk/?p=342 Wed, 11 Oct 2023 17:16:54 +0000 Back to anarchism. I was engaged in anarchist activism in Amsterdam back in 2019. It’s interesting to return to this way of thinking through the critique of our university…

Dominant culture […]

]]> 0 57b606fcf955fd2ecc3a10c680191323 Thomas Costello wrote a new post on the site Tom Blog https://tomcostello.myblog.arts.ac.uk/?p=335 Fri, 29 Sep 2023 10:17:57 +0000 Final notes on “Mushroom at the End of the World” by Anna Tsing and meanderings on atomisation ~ privatisation in university.

“The edges of alientation is the latent commons.” Latent […]

]]> 0 50ba7d1fae13124839f94f8d14b051c7 Thomas Costello wrote a new post on the site Tom Blog https://tomcostello.myblog.arts.ac.uk/?p=325 Thu, 25 May 2023 11:59:26 +0000 demo album

6 tracks so far, this is my sound submission for the Contemporary Issues in Sound Art module. I have been writing these compositions over the last few months in alignment with my theoretical […]

]]> 0 61c2846cffd0fda9f6b5e828aab19316 Thomas Costello wrote a new post on the site Tom Blog https://tomcostello.myblog.arts.ac.uk/?p=321 Mon, 08 May 2023 18:33:24 +0000 Ancient immersivity.

I organised group listening workshops before a performance evening in Spanners, Brixton from my collective Roca. We thought by meeting outside in a park and then walking to the club […]

]]> 0 ab5806295e9b788cab58ecf37a38b35f Thomas Costello wrote a new post on the site Tom Blog https://tomcostello.myblog.arts.ac.uk/?p=310 Fri, 05 May 2023 13:58:45 +0000 Further notes on “The Soul At Work” by Bifo

In this chapter Bifo forms a great analysis of the affects of cognitive labour on our bodies, psyches and social relationships. Bifo loosely determines cognitive […]

]]> 0 a18610876cacee17273d318773fff252 Thomas Costello wrote a new post on the site Tom Blog https://tomcostello.myblog.arts.ac.uk/?p=300 Thu, 20 Apr 2023 09:49:02 +0000 An exploration on forming a definition for the heart/humanity, and notes on “The Soul At Work” by Franco “Bifo” Berardi.

If the heart is impure, contaminated by otherness, then what could it possibly signify? […]

]]> 0 2a63be332c5f30ceada51e73f31bc328 Thomas Costello wrote a new post on the site Tom Blog https://tomcostello.myblog.arts.ac.uk/?p=299 Fri, 14 Apr 2023 21:42:26 +0000 Notes on “Critiqiue of Accelerationism” by Michael E Gardiner.

Gardiner engages left-accelerationist thought with philosopher Franco Bifo Berardi to explore a potential critique of accelertionism.

Gardiner […]

]]> 0 8c26a6f2fcaf45a7e2e4141881531561 Thomas Costello wrote a new post on the site Tom Blog https://tomcostello.myblog.arts.ac.uk/?p=290 Thu, 06 Apr 2023 11:08:13 +0000 Further notes on “The Mushroom at the End of the World” by Anna Tsing.

“Landscapes more generally are products of unintentional design… overlapig world making activities of many […]

]]> 0 360784014f6a7fe23a0c82420c706c44 Thomas Costello wrote a new post on the site Tom Blog https://tomcostello.myblog.arts.ac.uk/?p=288 Thu, 06 Apr 2023 10:37:07 +0000 Different holy states remain undiscovered in your now world. Hunt it with open wings and pores, shifting your position so the light tastes different. The end of the world is not enough to put your heart out… if […]

]]> 0 03925b1743e14de1b3dfa97173c670ae Thomas Costello wrote a new post on the site Tom Blog https://tomcostello.myblog.arts.ac.uk/?p=287 Wed, 29 Mar 2023 09:47:05 +0000 From Anna Tsing’s “Mushroom at the End of the World”.

“Lead firms amass capital without controlling the conditions under which commodities are produced.”

In exploring the matsutake mushroom, Tsing shows the […]

]]> 0 3b32d86744b994df05271b8cee71a03c Thomas Costello wrote a new post on the site Tom Blog https://tomcostello.myblog.arts.ac.uk/?p=286 Wed, 29 Mar 2023 09:29:53 +0000 Listening with machine. Holding the walls open.Arms strong.Listening through capital for the persistence of soul.Lucky to have arms, ears, a question.

Is the soul underneath, or is it throughout? Neither arms […]

]]> 0 924a449f9a10299a2095aabfacb4dbf1 Thomas Costello wrote a new post on the site Tom Blog https://tomcostello.myblog.arts.ac.uk/?p=262 Sun, 05 Mar 2023 11:56:20 +0000 Notes on “Psychopolitics” by Byung-Chul Han.

~ Neoliberalism and new technologies of power. ~

The self is now deemed free of external limitations. The self now […]

]]> 0 04ef4e0fe773592ca9f298f8370a49f2 Thomas Costello wrote a new post on the site Tom Blog https://tomcostello.myblog.arts.ac.uk/?p=260 Sun, 05 Mar 2023 10:31:32 +0000 Stringing the web. Letting go of sound studies for a while. Thinking about music as a practice to explore these questions

]]> 0 31fb3905c7c2b6392eac158bff2b7790 Thomas Costello wrote a new post on the site Tom Blog https://tomcostello.myblog.arts.ac.uk/?p=251 Wed, 15 Feb 2023 12:08:29 +0000 Transversal : cutting a system of lines.

“Transversal politics recognizes the different power positions among participants/groups in the dialogue, but it approaches these differences with equal respect and […]

]]> 0 dee734cb68d683bc8aef55fecbdd7ec2 Thomas Costello wrote a new post on the site Tom Blog https://tomcostello.myblog.arts.ac.uk/?p=246 Mon, 23 Jan 2023 16:59:57 +0000 Reflection on my emerging practice. What is happening in your creative work? My process at the moment feels contemplative as I am engaging in a never-ending cycle of text. One question leads to another document. […]

]]> 0 0788f930dee266ff87505173015c493c Thomas Costello wrote a new post on the site Tom Blog https://tomcostello.myblog.arts.ac.uk/?p=231 Mon, 23 Jan 2023 16:36:48 +0000 Notes and thoughts related to the discussion of participatory art and the politics of the spectacle in “Artificial Hells” by Claire Bishop.

@ the National Encounter of Avant-Garde Art in 1968, the reception […]

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