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phd candidate at university of toronto's cinema studies institute | contract instructor for bishop's university | living in montréal marx, labour, cinema, aesthetics
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oh good, more snow

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

Another giant of cinema departs. Souleymane Cissé is best known for Yeelen (1987), which is a pretty magnificent film, but Baara (1978) is an absolute favourite. If one is interested in factory labour on screen, then one must, at some point, watch Baara and be awed.

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

had a moment where i thought about applying to teach this anime course at my university, but then had two realizations: 1) i dont like anime 2) i can't be a guy with the last name "wiebe" who teaches anime

submitted 4 days ago • 2 comments

predictably excellent

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

every time im seated on a long bus ride near someone who wont stop talking on the phone, i feel in my heart that it is karmic retribution for being so annoying as a teenager

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

the first time you read volume one, you're like "oh look, vampires and werewolves and ghosts! so fun!" the second time, you're like "all i want to understand is the logic, i need to understand the logic, fuck this vampire shit" the third time, you're like "the vampires are the logic"

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

no matter what unbearable turns the world takes, idiocracy will still be a bad movie that shouldn't have been made in the first place

submitted 10 days ago • 2 comments

i have spent the whole day trying to write a new introductory paragraph to a piece only to question if i have ever written a good sentence

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

Alexander Kluge on his book collection

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments

watching the superbowl to find out how kendrick censors "certified pedophile"

submitted 13 days ago • 1 comment

MECW 1: 215

submitted 14 days ago • 0 comments

truly at the lowest of the lows (regularly watching canadian news)

submitted 15 days ago • 1 comment

the tackiness of everything is really having an outsized affective impact on me

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

submitted 17 days ago • 1 comment

both trudeau and pollievre talking about the invasion of afghanistan as if it represents the glory days of the relationship b/w canada + the us is truly fucking disgusting

submitted 21 days ago • 1 comment

good stuff, mom

submitted 22 days ago • 0 comments

saturday mornings spent scrolling through 292 screencaps from araya (1959, benacerraf)

submitted 22 days ago • 0 comments

happy birthday to my favorite actor of all time, gene hackman, who i will one day write a prolonged tribute to

submitted 23 days ago • 1 comment

my copy of vol 1 has officially gone from "lovingly worn" to "unusably fragile"

submitted 24 days ago • 1 comment

the real virtue of academia, for me anyhow, has been collecting a wide variety of freaks and, simultaneously, being collected as a particular type of freak by those freaks

submitted 27 days ago • 0 comments

The good thing about this platform is that billionaire nazis do not currently own it. The bad thing about this platform is that it is dripping with the worst takes by complacent liberal apologists for settler colonial genocide

submitted 28 days ago • 0 comments

vivre sa vie, passion of joan of arc, half a minute of vivre sa vie, back to joan of arc, back to vivre sa vie

submitted 30 days ago • 1 comment

At the capital volume one reading group there are the hegel losers and there are the art losers and then theres me, synthesizing away

submitted 30 days ago • 2 comments

weird little stray thought i had in a seminar in 2020, submitted the paper in july 2022, revisions accepted in october 2023, and now it's out there, thinking itself www.euppublishing.com/doi/abs/10.3...

submitted 31 days ago • 1 comment

mother fuckers

submitted 32 days ago • 1 comment