mynt marsellus

We Should All Become The Joker

‘The Death of the Author’ and Ordinary Language Philosophy Visit the post for more.

My essay in the latest issue of Barthes Studies is out!

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This year’s volume features:

Hilary Thompson on Roland Barthes and Sumana Roy;
Mynt Marsellus on Barthes and Ordinary Language Philosophy;
Lennard J. Davis and Trevor Pateman on studying with Barthes in the 1970s;
David Johnson on inspiration, photography, notebooks,
and the beginning of writing.

Lithgow played both Roosevelt and Churchill on tv.

This actually helps, thank you

it is 5am in Paris and I am watching via anxiously refreshing the game page/bluesky

two frames: - first frame: lady yells "Why can't you be normal?" - second frame: Game 7 of the World Series with the caption "[screaming]"

so, the Louvre, yeah, 100% worth spending an entire day developing deep blisters to see as much as you can

A treasure trove!

Bob Hoskins and Helen Mirren in a publicity still for the 🇬🇧British gangster movie "THE LONG GOOD FRIDAY" (1980) dir. John Mackenzie

Misanthropic Thoughts What follows is not quite something I believe, nor even something I fear. It is something I fear I believe, my worst tendencies as a think...

Here are my worst socio-political thoughts. I hope I am not really the person who believes these things.

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YouTube video by OCT "TikTok Baby!" FULL SONG (Leaking Our Own Track)

There's been a lot of great music this year, but it's pretty likely at this point that my favourite song of the year is this: youtu.be/6dcfVnz9Mg8?...

Is Idris Elba the first actor to play both the Prime Minister of the UK and the President of the United States in the same calendar year (or ever??)

1) Know your values, frame the debate

2) Repetition is key to persuasion

3) Communication, public speaking, and on-camera performance are skills you need to train at to be good at bsky.app/profile/theb...

My favourite part of the NYC mayoral campaign has to be how progressive New Yorkers look at Sliwa and say "Yeah he's an idiot, but he's our idiot! That man is a true New Yorker."

Desire for Life: Stanley Cavell, Martin Scorsese and the Gangster Genre | Film-Philosophy This article argues that cinema studies should return to Stanley Cavell's conception of genre-as-medium for its promise as a method for engaging with film genre philosophically. Through a reading of C...

My first peer reviewed publication just dropped at Film Philosophy - talking about genre, Cavell and Scorsese's gangster films doi.org/10.3366/film...

I'm wondering this exact thing.

it's funny how when I tell friends that I started rewatching the walking dead on a whim recently everyone just completely understands why

kinda want to mess around and write about the strangest album of the 2000s pop punk moment - Sum 41's Chuck

okay but it should be

gonna need to hold on to this!

I screened this in today’s class on action cinema, and the response it got from my students just blew me away. 😲✊🏻

There's definitely a market for this!

the purple category in connections today is embarassing

Michael Haneke back with an idea for a new Funny Games remake

reproductive futurism

More Arendt for the moment re Disney/ABC et al: “It was precisely the members of respectable society, who had not been touched by the intellectual and moral upheaval in the early stages of the Nazi period, who were the first to yield. They simply exchanged one system of values against another”

David Caruso's last episode of NYPD Blue involves Sipoiwicz having to move a dead body all over town... feels like a metaphor

I'm glad Coates is roasting Klein, maybe he can actually knock some sense into him.