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Doctoral candidate in cinema studies at the university of Toronto - studying authorship and ordinary language philosophy. https://myntmarsellus.wordpress.com

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We Should All Become The Joker

We Should All Become The Joker

14.11.2025 18:14 β€” πŸ‘ 1964    πŸ” 338    πŸ’¬ 31    πŸ“Œ 25
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β€˜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!

sites.cardiff.ac.uk/barthes/arti...

12.11.2025 13:27 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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.

30.10.2025 19:48 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Lithgow played both Roosevelt and Churchill on tv.

12.11.2025 04:43 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

This actually helps, thank you

02.11.2025 04:25 β€” πŸ‘ 1084    πŸ” 196    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

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

02.11.2025 03:56 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
two frames:
- first frame: lady yells "Why can't you be normal?"
- second frame: Game 7 of the World Series with the caption "[screaming]"

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

02.11.2025 03:49 β€” πŸ‘ 3188    πŸ” 609    πŸ’¬ 16    πŸ“Œ 11

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

30.10.2025 15:51 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

A treasure trove!

27.10.2025 18:22 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Bob Hoskins and Helen Mirren in a publicity still for the πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§British gangster movie "THE LONG GOOD FRIDAY" (1980) dir. John Mackenzie

26.10.2025 09:17 β€” πŸ‘ 905    πŸ” 78    πŸ’¬ 46    πŸ“Œ 8
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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.

sootyempiric.blogspot.com/2025/10/misa...

25.10.2025 19:57 β€” πŸ‘ 267    πŸ” 51    πŸ’¬ 38    πŸ“Œ 22
"TikTok Baby!" FULL SONG (Leaking Our Own Track)
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?...

26.10.2025 03:04 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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??)

26.10.2025 00:12 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

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...

17.10.2025 05:27 β€” πŸ‘ 2406    πŸ” 155    πŸ’¬ 17    πŸ“Œ 7

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."

17.10.2025 02:47 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
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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...

16.10.2025 12:50 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I'm wondering this exact thing.

10.10.2025 21:54 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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

09.10.2025 15:59 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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

09.10.2025 02:41 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

okay but it should be

06.10.2025 21:16 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

gonna need to hold on to this!

05.10.2025 23:21 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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

03.10.2025 15:57 β€” πŸ‘ 14    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

There's definitely a market for this!

01.10.2025 19:01 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

the purple category in connections today is embarassing

29.09.2025 12:58 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Michael Haneke back with an idea for a new Funny Games remake

28.09.2025 01:34 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

reproductive futurism

22.09.2025 16:04 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

More Arendt for the moment re Disney/ABC et al: β€œIt 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”

21.09.2025 11:45 β€” πŸ‘ 145    πŸ” 52    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 1

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

21.09.2025 02:24 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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

16.09.2025 19:25 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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