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www.josephcermatori.com writer, critic, editor, historian "drama and the arts of performance" - Author: Baroque Modernity: An Aesthetics of Theater (Johns Hopkins UP, 2021) - Associate Professor, Department of English, Skidmore College (NY, USA)
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Tonight, seven planets align!

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Tomorrow! Global economic blackout. No spending, no work, no school for 24 hours. #refusefascism #democracynow

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Really wishing I lived in London right now, not least of all so I could go catch Jonathan Bailey play Richard II at the Bridge Theater. I meannnnnn.... www.nytimes.com/2025/02/18/t... #williamshakespeare #theater #londontheater #jonathanbailey

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Butler: “Those who celebrate his defiance and sadism are as claimed by his logic as those who are paralyzed with outrage. Perhaps it is time to stand apart from these passions to see how they work, but also to find passions of our own.” — @theguardian.com, 6 Feb 2025 #RefuseFascism #DemocracyNow

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Useful reading, with some much needed perspective and recommendations. *9. Prepare for a long fight* “This is the fight of our generation, and it will take time.” #defenddemocracy #refusefascism

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Our oligarchs are paving the way for the next massive, taxpayer-funded bailout of the billionaire class. Those of us who remember the “Too Big to Fail” slogans of 2008 know what’s coming next.

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Spending the afternoon in editor mode, working to prepare a new collection of the nonfiction writings of Thornton Wilder. Here he is with Gertrude Stein, visiting her summer home in Bilignin, France, ca. 1937/1938. #thorntonwilder #gertrudestein #moderndrama #modernism

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New research from Microsoft and Carnegie Mellon University “finds that as humans increasingly rely on generative AI in their work, they use less critical thinking, which can ‘result in the deterioration of cognitive faculties that ought to be preserved.’” #brainrot #forreal

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Useful reading, with some much needed perspective and recommendations. *9. Prepare for a long fight* “This is the fight of our generation, and it will take time.” #defenddemocracy #refusefascism

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In honor of the birthday today of Bertolt Brecht (1898-1956)—poet, theorist, and dramatist—here’s a YouTube video adaptation of one of his short prose texts, “If Sharks Were Men.” More urgent and disturbing today than any time in recent memory, seems like. 🦈 #brecht #antifascist #refusefascism #HBD

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Opening this week in Saratoga Springs, NY, a *major* exhibition of queer lives, queer visual art, queer performances, and queer archival practices. "a field of bloom and hum" Tang Museum Feb 14-Jul 20 #queer #queerlives #queerart #queerarchives 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ Info below: ⬇️ ⬇️ tang.skidmore.edu/exhibitions/...

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Here’s the political theorist and historian of reactionary conservatism, Corey Robin, writing on Facebook about recent a recent shift in how left-liberal pundits are responding to our country’s unfolding hostile takeover. @joriegraham.bsky.social

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More details about tomorrow’s nationwide day of #protest against Project 2025 and the White House’s unfolding administrative coup. Article had embedded links to find details about what’s happening nearest you. #50501movement #democracy #democracynow #refusefascism

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Call to action: 50 protests, 50 states, one day. #3E #USprotests #endimpunity #endautogenocide #endoligarchy #Feb5

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H/t @alexanderchee.bsky.social: “They’re shortselling on our destruction.”

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John Singer Sargeant, “Piazza Navona, Rome,” 1906, watercolor, ink, and pencil on paper (21 x 17 in.)

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In 1933, fascists undertook a wholesale purge of Germany’s academic system, emptying universities of all professors who were Jewish (or leftist, or simply critical of Naziism) who were branded as “enemies” of the new regime. Reckless talk, dangerous territory. #Remember #History #ProudProf

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Little postcard from the past, from the long history of autocrats and autocracy. #otd

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“Nobody other than Raymond Chandler and Mike Davis ever nailed down a vision of Los Angeles as beautifully rendered and terrifying and complete as David Lynch did with Mulholland Drive.” — @jacobinmag.bsky.social pays tribute to the genius of #DavidLynch (1946–2025)

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“I knew one day I’d have to watch powerful men burn the world down – I just didn’t expect them to be such losers” 💣💥🔥 #requiredreading

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“Epic theater does not develop action but mirrors reality by making it strange (Verfremdung). Brecht’s theatrical images and captions, on the other hand, aim at ‘exorcizing their sensationalism.’” Worthwhile reading on Bertolt #Brecht as a visual artist. #collage #epictheater #eflux #bertoltbrecht

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RIP Richard Foreman (1937–2025), American #avant-garde playwright and #theater director extraordinaire. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/04/t... 📸: Joseph Moran/Brooklyn Rail. #newyorktheater #downtown #contemporary #performance #postdramatic #richardforeman #RIP

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