Tyler

To my followers: I don’t know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.

These debates usually go nowhere because of a bad tendency to slide between “consciousness,” “intelligence,” and “cognition” as if they all are basically the same thing.

Language can be a decisive, qualitative leap forward for the development of distinctly human, discursive intelligence without being a “foundation” for all forms of intelligence.

It was cool seeing a real VistaVision print, and it’s undeniable that PTA is obviously an incredibly skilled filmmaker. But I can’t shake the feeling that this is just the latest flashy, post-classical auteur film. I just don’t see anything particularly innovative about it.

The new PTA movie was kinda meh

We’re watching every major institution and check on executive power fall like a house of cards, and no one knows how to do anything about it.

Kracauer’s From Caligari to Hitler hits harder every year I teach it.

What I'm saying is: I wish the people who thunder about the classics so much had actually read them and taken them seriously. (The tell is if they use the word "Western Civilization" with deep seriousness.)

It is shocking how much this minority has managed to alter our collective memory about the pandemic.

Oh he’s like really doing bad

I don’t make mistakes, I ontologize failure.

Apparently you can become the director of the CDC with only a degree in the humanities. Clearly we aren't capitalizing enough on our amazing versatility and relevance to increase our department budgets a hundredfold.

Phones are poison in a classroom and should be banned from that space. I’m slamming my gavel here.

The lack of solidarity here also boggles the mind: It’s delusional to think this will lead to more full-time positions! All this will do is force an already exploited group into an even more precarious position.

It pisses me off so much when TT folks say “But adjuncting was never supposed to be a career!” The fact is, for lots of people it is. These people relied on our labor for years, and now they’re perfectly happy to throw us under the bus and ruin lives as long as it doesn’t affect them. But it will!

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I shouldn’t be but I’m a little shocked by the comment section here. Once again, the attitude towards adjuncts is: We desperately need you but also we hate your guts for taking this position and accepting low wages.
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A performance of The Bacchae but with the It’s Always Sunny cast.

This is insane, but I suspect it is coming for us all.

I hope I’m wrong, but I’m pretty confident that no matter what the right is going to stick with Trump and this will all blow over in a year.

Holy shit that is insane

I’ve had multiple conversations with older folks this summer - elder millennials, boomers, gen x - who casually mentioned that they can no longer read books and rely on YouTube summaries and audiobooks. A few even got agitated at the suggestion that they should keep trying. We are cooked.

I don’t usually do this kind of thing, but my friend is fighting an insane battle with AirBNB owners who have taken over his HOA and deserves whatever support people can give. The video barely scratches the surface of what he’s been dealing with for years. Chip in if you can. It’s a worthy cause.

Absolutely crucial point here. “Exploitation” is the genus and not a mere synonym of surplus value “extraction”

If your loved one is having a crisis and failing to get help, you are constantly told that the system can’t help them unless they want help, and that whatever happens to them in the meantime is financially and morally your responsibility.

Everyone laughs at psychoanalysis for blaming everything on parents and family, but believe me when I say that modern psychiatry is much more effective at blaming and shaming the family of those experiencing a crisis than psychoanalysis ever was.

I suspect my dad is in the early stages of another mental health episode, so expect more posts from me about Lacanian theories of psychosis as I feel more and more powerless to do anything about it.

Can someone explain to me why this isn’t being treated as a major crisis by every major outlet?

You can listen to me ramble about slow cinema with my bud @matthiasellis.com, if you’re into that sort of thing.

This one I'm really excited about: we were joined by film theorist @ebdim9.bsky.social to discuss Zhangke's STILL LIFE (2006). We discuss slow(ish) cinema, the paradoxes of digital realism, China's neoliberal turn, historical memory, and fight over frame rates podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/d...

Glad we had all those hair-splitting academic arguments about "is it fascism?" over the past decade.