Joshua Harold Wiebe

Inherent Vice!!!!

i like my clavier like i like my parental figures -- well-tempered

sipping on the last little bit of my sleepytime tea, i wondered "why does this taste so good, if not a little cold?" then realized i left the sleepytime tea over on the counter, and instead just finished the cold coffee i had leftover from the morning -- it is 1030 and i am Awake

i feel like exnomination needs to get back into the discourse!!

well we're so polite, we were all built for the service economy anyhow

now that i've wrapped up teaching the western, favorite films of the class have been tallied: johnny guitar is the winner with the most votes (8), then unforgiven (5), and meek's cutoff (4).

the kids are alright :)

if i were in toronto on december 3rd i would be at this event, instead i'll be in montreal, jealous

nothing says "jason takes manhattan" like "jason takes the skytrain in vancouver"

sameee

Cover of The South Atlantic Quarterly, Volume 124, Number 4, October 2025. Features the theme “Filming Capital” with minimalist artwork showing a black square and a tilted red square on a white background against a black and red layout.

The Weekly Read is "Lexicon for a Capitalist Image" by Pietro Bianchi and Joshua Harold Wiebe. The article introduces Filming Capital, a special issue of SAQ (124:4). Read it for free through 1/31/26: buff.ly/5naaEnu

Thanks so much!!

every time a store closes near our house, it inevitably becomes a barber shop. we literally have four within one block of our house. we joke about this all the time. today i went out back and overnight crudely assembled signs have popped up in the alley advertising yet another one.

any chance i can get a look at that syllabus??

unbearable world we've got going here

having a good time prepping this lecture on meek's cutoff for my western class

damn, looks great

so funny that people get mad and call eachother snowflakes--snowflakes are so beautiful!!

all i'll say is that #1 is king of comedy

yeah wow this is beautiful

just watched the long darkness (1972, kumei)--

wow... devastated! on a pitch-black saturday afternoon! cinema!

i bought a gigantic pumpkin for halloween and now every day i make some random new pumpkin related dish. yesterday it was pumpkin + chickpea curry, the day before that it was a pumpkin crumble. today i think it'll be pumpkin gnocchi. october lives forever.

Tatsuya Nakadai, Japanese Film Legend That Starred in ‘Ran,’ ‘Harakiri’ and ‘The Human Condition’ Trilogy, Dies at 92 Tatsuya Nakadai, one of Japan's most celebrated actors who was a frequent collaborator of Akira Kurosawa and Masaki Kobayashi, died. He was 92.

between ran, samurai rebellion, kagemusha, harakiri, the human condition, kill, kwaidan, tatsuya nakadai was in a ton of my favs -- rest in peace!

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great taste

Cover of The South Atlantic Quarterly, Volume 124, Number 4, October 2025. Features the theme “Filming Capital” with minimalist artwork showing a black square and a tilted red square on a white background against a black and red layout.

"Filming Capital," a special issue of SAQ, examines how Marxism can be used to illuminate the problem of the visual representation of contemporary global capitalism. View the TOC and read the introduction, freely available: buff.ly/am3ZXVx

wow this rules

opening with a eugene debs' quote, damn

... so jealous

Filming Capital

Hello Bluesky,

Excited and grateful to be part of this fabulous issue of SAQ. Thank you @joshuaharoldwiebe.bsky.social and @pietrobianch1.bsky.social !!

www.dukeupress.edu/filming-capi...

This post is a jumpscare on my timeline.

and if you weren't enticed already, here's the TOC