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was a keynote speaker at a symposium on film strips in Stockholm, where St. Andrews postdoc researcher Anushrut Agrwaal also presented his research. Stay tune to the website for more updates on this significant interlude in media history.

filmstrips from the Soviet era. With this meeting we also started to lay the groundwork for our main deliverable, a virtual exhibition to be produced in cooperation with the Deutsches filminstitut & Filmmuseum. The week before project leader Tom Rice / relocatingfilmstrips.eu/news/interna...

power point and tiktok videos at the link. Last week we discussed standards for the preservation and presentation of filmstrips with a great group of archivist from across Europe, including Ukraine, where the Dovzhenko center houses a large collection of /

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Our new AHRC-@dfg.de research project "Relocating Filmstrips, Remapping Europe", a cooperation between
@uniofstandrews.bsky.social and @goetheuni.bsky.social
now has a website, designed by the brillant Mathias Bär.

Learn all about the lost and forgotten predecessor of /

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is as egregious a breach of Horkheimer's "don't be Mengele" oath as I have ever seen. @goetheuni.bsky.social should move to revoke Mr. Karp's PhD title without delay.

anti-Mengele oath. Josef Mengele, of Auschwitz fame, was a postdoc at Frankfurt university's Institut für Rassenhygiene in the 1930s. Alex Carp earned his PhD in social psychology from @goetheuni.bsky.social in 2002. His proposal to make war crimes constitutional because it is good for business /

Palantir CEO Says Making War Crimes Constitutional Would Be Good for Business Alex Karp vows to use his

Max Horkheimer, as rector of @goetheuni.bsky.social, formulated an oath which every PhD candidate has to swear after their defense. The oath committs the PhDs to high ethical standards and respect for the law in their future work. We often refer to it as the /

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Nius kriegt sich nicht mehr ein vor Freude. Das Ganze ist ein absurder und gefährlicher Angriff nicht nur gegen @carlomasala1.bsky.social , sondern gegen Wissenschaft und Expertentum generell.

Die Stadt Bern ist die grösste linke WG der Schweiz Als einzige Stadt hat Bern die Erbschaftssteuer-Initiative der Juso angenommen. Das ist spektakulär, aber wenig verwunderlich. Bern suhlt sich schon lange in rot-grüner Selbstzufriedenheit und ist eig...

Nicht schlecht, dieser Text, aber im Vergleich mit den hasstriefenden Tiraden von Peter Übersax selig gegen Tamilen, die TV-Serie „Motel“ und den grauen Pullover von Madeleine Hirsiger aus dem BLICK der 1980er greisenhaft und zahnlos. Wann darf der BLICK endlich wieder BLICK werden?

Perhaps apropos. In a 1939 internal note, NBC regretted *not* censoring announcer Walter Winchell after he called Hitler a "madman".

or until the fat lady cooks.

Long Thread

Ich will mal was erzählen, was mit dem Sprechen über Rechts zu tun hat. Beschäftigt mich viel.

Ich hab neulich einen Workshop zu Digitalfaschismus gegeben.

Vor mir war ein Redner der über völkische Siedlerbewegungen informiert.

Ceebu Jën, a culinary art of Senegal - UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage Ceebu jën is a dish that originated in the fishing communities on the Island of Saint-Louis in Senegal. Although recipes vary from one region to the next, the dish is typically made with fish steak, broken rice, dried fish, mollusc and seasonal vegetables such as onions, parsley, garlic, chilli pepper, tomatoes, carrots, eggplant, white cabbage, cassava, sweet potato, okra and bay leaf. The quali...

True, but the jollof rice wars are, sadly, over. Ghana and Nigeria fought them. Senegal won. ich.unesco.org/en/RL/ceebu-...

Back in the late 1980s I visited the New Orleans zoo and noticed that they collected albino animals, including an albino alligator. A remarkable focus on whiteness which, I am certain, had nothing at all to do with the region's history.

Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries: “Strong floor, no ceiling”

Colombian President Gustavo Petro: “A clan of pedophiles wants to destroy our democracy.”

Against Lists - Another Gaze Lists of films will not save you. Lists of films will not save films. Lists of films will not reorganise...

"Who will ask Barbara Hammer, Kathleen Collins, Kira Muratova, and Sara Gómez for their lists?" www.anothergaze.com/elena-gorfin...

Everyone has to accept that the time of hiding is over. War is upon us. We have to fight and this means literally to fight.

they’ll do anything to avoid being woke

The AEA has banned Larry Summers for life

It is very much welcome to see a man who breached the most foundational rules of professional conduct facing serious and actual consequences for his actions

#EconSky

@theonion.com

My great-uncle was born in the Russian Empire and wrote God Bless America

Great culture can save lives. Literally.

Amazing letter in today’s @thetimes.com about Tom Stoppard

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Der Ministerpräsident von Hessen diffamiert auf der Nazi-Plattform twitter meinen Sohn, einen deutschen Staatsbürger, der am Samstag in Gießen von seinen Grundrechten Gerbrauch gemacht hat. Ein rechter Tiefpunkt.

Es muffelt.

Als jemand, dessen Familie inklusive des sechsjährigen extrem Kino- und Comicsbegeistert ist: Ich spring gleich an die Decke hier

Rolex, Gold Gifts to Trump Spur Call for Swiss Investigation Swiss politicians have urged the the country’s top prosecutor to open a criminal investigation into the gifting of a Rolex table clock and an engraved gold bar to US President Donald Trump by business...

Swiss politicians filed a criminal complaint with the country’s top prosecutor over a Rolex table clock and an engraved gold bar presented to US President Donald Trump by business executives shortly before he agreed to cut tariffs on the country’s exports. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

A Network of Media in the Baťa Corporation and the Town of Zlínin in the 1930s", which offers a great introduction to Stoppard's home town at the time of his birth and can be found in "Films That Work. Industrial Film and the Productivity of Media" at the link.
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Realized only today that Tom Stoppard was born Tomáš Sträussler, the son of a doctor in the service of the Bat'a shoe factory, in Zlín, Moravia. This is as good a time as any to redirect lovers of drama, media and modernity to Petr Szczepanik' brillant essay "Modernism, Industry, Film. /

Is Donald Trump About to Launch a Denaturalization Purge? Mass denaturalization could be used to move the country toward the MAGA movement’s larger goal of a white Christian nationalist United States.

“Naturalized citizens are the obvious next category to be added to the purge, and, unlike some of Trump’s other brash eviscerations of due process that his administration is considering, the legal architecture for stripping people of their citizenship already exists.“