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Excited that "Proximities: Reading With Judith Butler," our special issue of @rep_journal is out today, open access. Fantastic essays by Saidiya Hartman, @TavNyongo, Jack Halberstam, Maggie Nelson, Jasbir Puar, Lee Edelman, @KadjiAmin and more online.ucpress.edu/represent…
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this issue is now open access and it's really very very good.
brilliant essays by
@annashechtman -"the voice" of the internet
@kukukadoo -emblems as the ur-meme
@immanenceftw -meme as compression
@genevieveyue -chatbots +dogs
+ super intro by @HowManyCooks, @miaminjungyou
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Out today! Meme Aesthetics, co-edited w Stephen Best and @miaminjungyou. Available open access for a short time.
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The #WeeklyRead is "Revisiting Postmodernism: An Interview with Fredric Jameson" with Nico Baumbach, Damon R. Young, and Genevieve Yue. The interview was published in a special issue of Social Text (127). Read the interview for free: ow.ly/ajjt50Txxyh
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10th anniversary issue of Porn Studies out today with a series of sparkling pieces revisiting the work of Linda Williams and developing new theories. My introduction, “The Fantasy of Pornography,” is open access.
tandfonline.com/toc/rprn20/1…
Berkeley Film & Media is also seeking an assistant professor working in any area of film or media history/historiography:
aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF04…
Berkeley Film & Media is seeking an assistant professor of Native American/Indigenous media, which could be in terms of production/art practice and/or history and theory.
aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF04…
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in which they failed to defend crucial values of academic freedom, the police action seems like capitulation to forces outside the university that would like to curtail academic freedom and freedom of expression. (10/16)
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Third, the decision to call the police into campus violated also the important principle of protecting free expression on campus. Coupled with the testimony given by the President Shafik and members of the Board of Trustees in Congress, (9/16)
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As quoted in the Columbia Spectator, the NYPD Chief asserted that “the students that were arrested were peaceful, offered no resistance whatsoever, and were saying what they wanted to say in a peaceful manner.” (5/16)
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i reviewed Doppelgänger by
@NaomiAKlein
the book has already received a lot of press but i explored the politics of social media in ways i haven’t seen done elsewhere
bookforum.com/politics/how-n…
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SPECIAL ISSUE: Critique and the Moving Image I
Nico Baumbach discusses interpretations and how, though there are many interpretations of film, not all are equal.
mediacommons.org/imr/content…
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Israel claimed there’s a Hamas command and control center under Al-Shifa hospital in Gaza. US media repeated the claims. Once it was clear this wasn’t true, everyone moved on. Palestinians died based on these lies, including ICU patients. This is akin to Iraq WMDs reporting.
Revisiting Linda Williams' work on pornography as a "body genre," mode of mass entertainment, nexus of political debates, and aesthetic form.
Next Tues Dec 5, 2-5pm in person at the Brower Center in Berkeley, or register for online streaming at bit.ly/UCB-Williams
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HAPPENING NOW IN CALIFORNIA
More than 700 Bay Area Jews & allies taking over the Oakland federal building, demanding a ceasefire in Gaza.
We are not leaving, we demand an end to this bloodshed, we will not see Jewish grief used to perpetuate genocide.
Stop this now.
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perfect encapsulation of KG's culture that this is what their "most snatched today" ebook list looks like. i hope this place never changes
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"How to grieve, what meaning to give those tears, is cruelly a political question whether we like it or not," @gabrielwinant writes. dissentmagazine.org/online_a…
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We are hiring an Assistant Professor in Film and Moving Image Studies (w/ a focus on race, ethnicity, indigeneity, among other intersectional approaches)
concordia.ca/finearts/about/…
