sbwatter.bsky.social
new york, ny | author of The Human Figure on Film (SUNY, 2023) and of articles on film, media, the human sciences, psychiatry
substack: https://prognosisnegative.substack.com/
scholarly writing here: https://nyu.academia.edu/sethbarrywatter
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Prolific Poster
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Same, but in my case, it was the album art for "Smell the Glove" by Spinal Tap
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Works on so many levels, since JD stands for juvenile delinquency in the pulp fiction marketplace
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Keyword searches? I used the phrase "RFK Jr." today and got followed by something junky within 5 minutes
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Of course, the idea of modern work farms is a terribly misguided one. History shows that institutional solutions, no matter how much fresh country air they come with, are totally ineffective in combating social ills in addition to being incredibly expensive. Which is why they mostly disappeared.
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It's hard not to think of Ricky Gervais at the end of The Office begging "Please don't make me redundant." Of course I'll miss the luxury hotel rooms, sumptuous meals, and passionate exchanges of the conference circuit.
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I'll have to get a copy of this to really read and absorb it, but it looks helpful. Thanks! Admittedly, I'm no connoisseur of American literature, but I wasn't very impressed by my first reading of Howells recently...
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Heather Love gave a talk recently on "Infrastructure and Intimacy," but I don't know if/when it will be published. I'm trying to recall some of her main reference points: Gayle Rubin's "Geologies of Queer Studies" and Samuel Delaney's "Times Square Red, Times Square Blue" stood out.
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This is an ongoing problem with a certain kind of cinephilia, obviously; cf. the Hitchcock/Truffaut film.
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Also one of the first schools to end DEI statements