Oh yeah of course, itβs great stuff
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they offer so many good options, it's hard to choose
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Volume 157 Issue 1 | Representations | University of California Press
(and the rest of the wonderful essays in that issues by Debashree Mukherjee, Weihong Bao, Katerina Korola, and Yuri Furuhata - they are all so terrific): online.ucpress.edu/representati...
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I have had success teaching corporate oil shorts, especially BPβs Shadows of Progress. They tend to blow the studentsβ minds. Shellβs Climate of Concern is another good one
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Evil Does Not Exist
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Sad but true
06.07.2025 00:49 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Imperfect, but I would take one Jia film for every ten of the films on The NY Timesβs Jia-less list
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Have we also been trainedβand trained our gradsβthat we only have time to read booksβ introductions, which are often available online? Why buy the book if you only βneedβ to read the first 25 pgs? We need a culture of deeper reading practices, but that seems antithetical to the academic horse race
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Okay LA... @bleudeciel.bsky.social is bringing the gang back together. Join us at Cal Tech on June 5-6 if you can, I'll be speaking on the 5th about Perut and Osnovikoff's Los Reyes, how to lie (down) like a dog, and the grundwerk of the great derangement of the senses.
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LA-area folks, please join us next week, June 5-6, at Caltech, for a meeting of the Anthropocene Media Working Group with 2 days of talks and conversation. Details and registration here:
www.hss.caltech.edu/news-and-eve...
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The Price to Live
Here's the game and artist's statement: www.invisibleculturejournal.com/pub/patil-th...
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Coming up on May 29 at Caltech Visual Culture, I will be speaking with our current artist in residence, Jessica Segall about art, energy, and extraction
www.caltech.edu/campus-life-...
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The deadline for the special section of Leonardo about Art and Electric Light I am co-editing is coming up on June 2. Note that the submission word count is short: 2,500-5,000. Happy to answer questions.
leonardo.info/opportunity/...
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Hollywood Has Always Gushed About Fossil Fuels
From the silent era to the oil-crazed '50s to today, the two industries have been inextricably linked, says the author of the book 'Cinema of Extractions.'
In an excellent interview w/ @thr.com, Brian Jacobson (@bleudeciel.bsky.social) talks about Hollywood's longstanding relationship to the oil industry and his new book, THE CINEMA OF EXTRACTIONS. www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/bus... @columbiaup.bsky.social
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Very excited to host @emmywaldman.bsky.social at Caltech Visual Culture next week
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Hollywood Has Always Gushed About Fossil Fuels
From the silent era to the oil-crazed '50s to today, the two industries have been inextricably linked, says the author of the book 'Cinema of Extractions.'
For The Hollywood Reporter's new Sustainability issue, I talked to @degenpener.bsky.social about The Cinema of Extractions @columbiaup.bsky.social @thr.com
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Hollywood Has Always Gushed About Fossil Fuels
From the silent era to the oil-crazed '50s to today, the two industries have been inextricably linked, says the author of the book 'Cinema of Extractions.'
For The Hollywood Reporter's new Sustainability issue, I talked to @degenpener.bsky.social about The Cinema of Extractions @columbiaup.bsky.social @thr.com
22.04.2025 17:51 β π 15 π 6 π¬ 0 π 0
iamhist.net/journal/ π
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Hollywoodβs Climate Crisis A Very Short History Brian Jacobson - Columbia University Press Blog
Brian Jacobson highlights how Hollywood's financialization and resource dependency have exacerbated ecological crises.
"American cinemaβs relationship to the climate crisis that threatens Hollywood ... w/ nearly annual bouts of dangerous wildfire is both deeply material and as old as film itself." -- Brian Jacobson (@bleudeciel.bsky.social), author of THE CINEMA OF EXTRACTIONS bit.ly/4ioli5I @columbiaup.bsky.social
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Jobs (Getty Trust)
JOB POSTING: Prints and Drawings Curator, Getty Research Institute
An exciting opportunity to work with and shape a dynamic collection in a research-focused arts environment in the city of Los Angeles.
Please consider applying + amplify and circulate widely!
jobs-getty.icims.com/jobs/4581/cu...
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In good company
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Disappointed to have missed this roundtable, it sounds great
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Next week at Caltech Visual Culture
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PhD researcher in hydropolitics π§ποΈ questioning knowledge as power, expert discourses, and (neo)colonialities in African water governance π musing about ethics, positionality, and reflexivity in π¬π§ / π«π· / πͺπΈ (all views mine) he/him π³οΈβπ
Associate Professor in Film Studies @ University of Sussex
Occasional film critic, Columbia adjunct, old VV staff writer
π Bridge of Light: Yiddish Film Between Two Worlds, The Red Atlantis: Communist Culture in the Absence of Communism, 3 books on Hollywood & the Cold War
πEverything is Now: NYC 60s Avantgarde
Guardian Australia's film critic, chief critic of Flicks.com.au and "The VR Critic" (thevrcritic.com). PHD in virtual reality. Creator of Nicolas Cage fan site The Cage Gauge: https://www.flicks.com.au/cagegauge/
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anarchist, prof. He/him. Work on Treaty 7 territory, Hellberta. www.michaeltruscello.com #horror #anarchism
Free PDF of my book, Infrastructural Brutalism: https://direct.mit.edu/books/oa-monograph/4884/Infrastructural-BrutalismArt-and-the-Necropolitics
Historian of religion, visual culture, sexuality
Mostly nerdy academic stuff & whippet pics
Provoking Religion: Sex, Art, & the Culture Wars (OUP 2025)
After the Wrath of God: AIDS, Sexuality, & American Religion (OUP 2015)
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PhD in Film Studies at University of Sussex. Media historian researching policing, cinema & urbanism. Writer and film critic, the TLS and Another Gaze.
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Career academic and cinephile. Picturegoer. Vitagraph enthusiast. Phantasmagourmand. Rarebit fiend. Supporter of civil liberties.
Sociology Professor. Author Digital Feudalism, Getting Signed, Streaming Culture and more. Editor Fast Capitalism
Film Studies & Science Fiction. Lecturer in English, Universidad de Zaragoza (Spain). Member of the @spacescinema.bsky.social research project
Lecturer at Rensselaer Polytechnic, Contributing editor @ ASAP/J, William Gibson and the Futures of Contemporary Culture https://t.co/eVTDsrcgtv. Opinions my own.
PhD History and Theory of Photography @Folkwang University of the Arts, Essen | Research Fellow @Deutsche Fotothek Dresden | Co-Founder forum foto+album https://fotoalbum.hypotheses.org | https://judith-riemer.com | Views my own
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Assistant Professor and University Fellow at the University of Salford
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Host of the award-winning History on Film Podcast. Cultural history and media studies thinker-abouter.
Currently writing about: 1950s juvenile delinquency exploitation films, generational media literacy, and early internet fandom.
Assistant Professor in English at University of Miami starting August 2026; until then, VAP modern and contemporary literature at Virginia Tech; graphic narrative & other things
PhD Student, Cinema and Media Studies at UChicago. Thinking and, hopefully, writing about digital gatekeeping (CAPTCHA, 2FA, password, and cryptography) and materiality of AI (memory, GPU, CNN)
Podcast strategist + story editor. I help people make good podcasts for good reasons. Passions include: Storytelling, journalism, climate, and ways for media makers to thrive.
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