Matthew Noble-Olson

die hard schmie hard

for the real ones

EYES WIDE SHUT is a christmas movie

Raiders, Back to the Future, and Aliens would be in my 100+ views.

Too late capitalism is the new news.

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“American Academy of Arts&Sciences reports 96.3% of humanities grads age 23-32 fully employed. Earnings in humanitiess comparable to social/life sciences, job satisfaction levels too. A serious mismatch bw actual employment for hum grads +general perception."
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Behemoth : the structure and practice of national socialism 1933-1944 : Neumann, Franz L. (Franz Leopold), 1900-1954 : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive xvi, 649 pages

Franz Neumann’s Behemoth: The Structure and Practice of National Socialism, 1933-1945.

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Hell yes

But I don’t understand your defense of it as a tool.

If most of your publications are articles then they likely wouldn’t appear in Worldcat, which aren’t really catalogued there. And there are numerous examples of LLMs producing made up sources. That seems like a much bigger problem than the fact that no database contains everything.

Square cut Detroit style is a thing of beauty in a different way.

I’m teaching my class on Detroit again this fall and so I am collecting material for my opening lecture on the evolving and varied identity of the city: from the Motor City to the Arsenal of Democracy to Motown to the capital of the twentieth century to the Dirty D to Techno City and more.

I have had students who have assumed that what we were reading was by the guy who created STAR WARS.

Later, Duke works for Donald Trump and after Tiananmen he sends Duke to Beijing to extract Honey who was arrested as a dissident. This is also how Duke and Honey end up married.

In a more recent vein, Three Kings depicts Iraqi Kurds (I believe they are specified as such but they may just be Iraqi dissidents) in a positive and heroic manner. And 13 Hours depicts some of the allied Libyan militias as perhaps heroic?

Detroit Opera Steps Into Trump’s Cross Hairs With ‘Central Park Five’ The Pulitzer Prize-winning opera features Donald J. Trump, whose 1989 full-page newspaper ad sought to demonize the young men wrongly accused of rape.

I’m unable to actually see this but I’m curious to see what kind of reaction it gets: www.nytimes.com/2025/04/28/a...

Define cinema with gif.

To be fair, he was also a producer on Fury Road.

A film that takes place where you’re from

RIP

Fuck. He was my MA advisor. So smart and so generous.

Knock knock
Who’s there
La promesse du bonheur
La promesse du bonheur who
[no answer]

It is.

Hell yeah. I need to design a course that would allow me to teach this.

Teaching today, experimental and expanded cinema edition: "What was Dada in regard to cinema was not a specific film, but the performance, not a specific set of techniques or textual organization, but the spectacle."

I taught action cinema last semester and it is remarkable the degree to which that material is essential for understanding the present.

Tony is much the better director of the Scott brothers and Eyes Wide Shut is far superior to A Clockwork Orange.

Indeed. Tony is much the better director of the Scott brothers and Eyes Wide Shut is far superior to A Clockwork Orange.

A blue-haired woman says "Silencio"

RIP

I’m loving this recent mini series of Adorno archive finds.