Brian Jacobson

Next week in New York: Petroleum in (and out of) the Visual Arts

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Today! All old and new books in @columbiaup.bsky.social's Film & Culture series are 50% off, including NOMADIC CINEMA by Alison Griffiths; MAN OF TASTE, by Rob King; THE CINEMA OF EXTRACTIONS by @bleudeciel.bsky.social; and DEATH BY LAUGHTER, by @hennefem.bsky.social! bit.ly/4rupQx9 #CyberMonday

The Cinema of Extractions | Columbia University Press From the petroleum used to make film stock to the carbon and tungsten needed for studio lights and theater projectors, every movie relies on extractive proce... | CUP

This new book extends the project to more explicit connections between infrastructural forms and image forms, in part to ask what place visual/formal/textual analytic approaches have after the turn to what I call Raw Materialism

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This book expanded the historical and geographic scope of the infrastructure-image project with essays by 12 scholars working from early cinema to television and avant-garde new media - and infrastructure from iron/glass and rail to electrical grids and FTZs
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Two decades ago I started working on the architecture and infrastructure of moving images. Didn’t put “infrastructure” in the title so it seems to have gotten lost in the era of keyword-search scholarship, but this was the first big product of that project

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Twelve great essays on the infrastructure of film and media images:

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Twelve great essays on the infrastructure of film and media images:

www.ucpress.edu/books/in-the...

Photoplay (Apr - Sep 1918) : Chicago, Photoplay Magazine Publishing Company : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

one source is here: archive.org/details/pho1...

We are hiring in American History - TT open rank search
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Did you ever post the enviro course list? I’d love to see that one too

call me humanist deadweight, but if you think it is an objectively logical and effective argument to equate how the humanities and sciences have, for centuries, shared a mission within the university with the 2000 AOL/Time Warner merger, you might need remedial humanities training, not "unyoking"

Table of contents for Discourse 46.3. Georges Didi-Huberman and Heath Valentine, "Why Obey?"; Basil Bababneh, "Negotiating Queer Arab Formalism," Jamie Chambers, "Fabulation, Magical Transformation and Montage," Christopher Peterson, "The Beekeeper's Ghost," Travis Alexander, "Those things you see through," and Matthew Hubbell, "Revolutionary Postures," plus more!

Discourse 46.3 is live! It features an absolutely essential piece reflecting on fascist times by Georges Didi-Huberman: "Why Obey?," skillfully translated by Heath Valentine from the short book Pour Quoi Obéir. Every piece in this issue is fantastic.

Mythologies of a Green Petrostate: Liv Bugge’s ‘Umbilical Fire’ The artist’s show at Kunsthall Trondheim probes the stories we tell ourselves about oil – and proposes new ones

shout out to The Cinema of Extractions in this review of work I wish I could get to Trondheim to see www.frieze.com/article/liv-...

Oh yeah of course, it’s great stuff

they offer so many good options, it's hard to choose

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...

Jennifer Fay's essay about Baichwal (et al)'s 2018 Anthropocene The Human Epoch, which I know a lot of people have problems with, but that is precisely what Fay's essay takes up: online.ucpress.edu/representati...

two more shoutouts: Jennifer Peterson's @jenniferpete.bsky.social essay about watching old films from the perspective of the so-called Anthropocene: online.ucpress.edu/representati...

Big Oil’s High-Risk Love Affair with Film | Los Angeles Review of Books Big oil and Hollywood came of age together.

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The Shadow of Progress and the Cultural Markers of the Anthropocene | Environmental History: Vol 24, No 1

Two short and (I think) very undergrad ready essays about these kinds of films: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1...

Self interested, but this is short, aims to be easy to read, and was fun to write (I’ve heard from folks who had success teaching it last year): online.ucpress.edu/fq/article/7...

I have had success teaching corporate oil shorts, especially BP’s Shadows of Progress. They tend to blow the students’ minds. Shell’s Climate of Concern is another good one

Evil Does Not Exist

Sad but true

Imperfect, but I would take one Jia film for every ten of the films on The NY Times’s Jia-less list

Have we also been trained—and trained our grads—that we only have time to read books’ introductions, which are often available online? Why buy the book if you only “need” to read the first 25 pgs? We need a culture of deeper reading practices, but that seems antithetical to the academic horse race

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.