Benjamín Schultz-Figueroa

Benjamín Schultz-Figueroa

@benjaminschultzfig.bsky.social

Associate Professor of Film and Media Studies at Seattle University. Author of The Celluloid Specimen: Moving Image Research into Animal Life available from UC Press here: https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520342347/the-celluloid-specimen

10,199 Followers 6,331 Following 10,763 Posts Joined Nov 2023
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Earth’s days are getting longer at an unprecedented rate. Climate change is to blame Rising sea levels are slowing Earth’s rotation, lengthening days by 1.33 milliseconds per century

great. now we will also get to work 1.33 extra milliseconds every century. www.scientificamerican.com/article/eart...

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Sometimes I think those of us pushing SCMS to accept BDS were asking too much and responding too harshly to their refusals. But then I see the outrage members of ASA are expressing now and think maybe it's just that the field of film and media studies is more conservative than we like to admit.

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3 hours ago

Here’s my take on birth rate discourse.

Maybe these folks should shut the fuck up until they do something about maternal mortality, particularly among women of color.

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6 hours ago

@prisonculture.bsky.social's zine arrived this morning and it's truly a thing of beauty!

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4 hours ago

Sometimes I think those of us pushing SCMS to accept BDS were asking too much and responding too harshly to their refusals. But then I see the outrage members of ASA are expressing now and think maybe it's just that the field of film and media studies is more conservative than we like to admit.

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5 hours ago

Sociologists for Palestine have asked members to send us the letters they have written to @asanews.bsky.social.

We are sharing them here as evidence of how unpopular this decision is with the ASA membership.

Please amplify this thread & any letters that resonate with your position.

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6 hours ago

Thanks for putting this together. It's great!

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@prisonculture.bsky.social's zine arrived this morning and it's truly a thing of beauty!

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7 hours ago

Fascinating that the US is burning down its own regional system for really just nothing at all

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1 day ago

Just put together a little introduction for someone who wanted to replicate this at their school and I thought I'd share it in case others are interested:

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Opinion | Colleges Face Widespread Closures. So Why Are They Still Resisting Change? Transformation is no longer optional.

i’ll save y’all the trouble: luddite faculty are scared of bold changes so it’s all their fault.

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8 hours ago

Hot take: I actually think faculty have amazing ideas for saving higher ed and the specificity of local knowledge to save their individual institutions. But they are not ultimately the decision makers, even with “shared governance”

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9 hours ago

Here is my best Habermas story.

I am grad student waiting in LONG line for Habermas talk. There is a tall man waiting in front of me. Line moves so we are eventually visible to organizers, a woman looks over & makes horrified face. Runs out: "Prof Habermas! You don't have to wait in line!"

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9 hours ago

I once sat in on a simulation test for OR nurses in training and a problem they had to solve in one of the scenarios was what to do when the surgeon is a pompous ass who won't listen to them.

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What Walter Benjamin Knew A new biography of the Berlin-born philosopher emphasizes his combination of stubborn unworldliness and startling prescience.

"He seemed to believe... that to abandon his work meant giving in to what fascism wanted for him: an existence so devoid of value + meaning that it would be indistinguishable from death. He held on to his briefcase not until it was too late but because it was too late."

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RIP Jürgen Habermas, a giant among giants whose lifelong defense of equality and democracy remains a beacon of hope in an increasingly dark and desolate landscape. I have disagreed with him on almost everything, but I've never stopped learning from him and being inspired by his example.

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Ghost Elephants | Official Trailer | National Geographic Documentary Films YouTube video by National Geographic

Wait, Werner Hertzog has a new film about elephants??

www.youtube.com/watch?v=YoOD...

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‘This was forged’: Residents deny sending emails pushing Bay Area air policy change At least 10 people listed as sending letters in favor of an air quality policy change said they have no recollection of doing so and weren’t even aware of the proposal in the Bay Area.

🚨 A new frontier of coordinated disinformation.

Fossil fuel industry front groups are using AI platforms to flood clean air regulators with fake public comments—submitted under real residents' names, without their consent.

@robbonta.bsky.social

www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/arti...

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21 hours ago

One new program has been announced: a “center for the American experience” which is semi-privately funded, housed at the provost’s office, and exists to invite more conservative thinkers to the university

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21 hours ago

Did you know it's a student film made by one of Laura Mulvey's students?

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22 hours ago
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The Mark of Lilith — Black Film Archive The Mark of Lilith When Lillia encounters Zena (Pamela Lofton), a Black lesbian vampire, who is studying goddess across time and the horror genre, Lilla, a white...

Unfortunately I only found out about this short AFTER I released my lesbian vampire zine, a bummer because it's so great and I wish I had known to write about it. So, I'll share it! This is a really cool short, introduced to me via the great Black Film Archive. blackfilmarchive.com/The-Mark-of-...

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THE SAVAGE EYE a film by BEN MADDOW, SIDNEY MEYERS & JOSEPH STRICK A free, curated platform streaming one film every week.

Free to watch worldwide for one week only, @severinfilms.bsky.social 4k restoration of THE SAVAGE EYE plays on Le Cineclub in special collab w Severin and Betsy Strick www.lecinemaclub.com/now-showing/...

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23 hours ago

Mind you this man congratulating bestie @asanews.bsky.social President for her bravery in squashing the leftists is the very same who posted this in response to the first letter condemning genocide

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“But, as you see, it's a beautiful day, the Strait of Hormuz is open and people are having a wonderful time.”

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23 hours ago

Do you have an active AAUP chapter?

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This spring we will make a difficult but necessary further workforce reduction of approximately 15% across faculty and staff.

The New School announces a faculty and staff bloodbath

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Trump Admin Drops the Olive Branch from U.S. Seal on New Dime Coins, Keeps the Arrows A new dime coin entering circulation in 2026 is sparking conversation after eagle-eyed Americans noticed a small but significant detail in its design

I had assumed the headline was a joke. But no.

people.com/new-dime-coi...

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One thing about kids no one warned me about: even if it’s very important to you to be reliable and be seen as reliable…sometimes it’s just not possible.

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I make good money. Why do I still feel like this? The middle class was a policy project. Every piece of it has been unbundled and repriced — and now two very different groups are living two very different nightmares.

"If you earn roughly $50K to $100K, have no generational wealth, maybe some college — you’re experiencing what I’d call material precarity." open.substack.com/pub/yourbrai... [I found this very good]

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well

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