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This Saturday in New York at Film-Makers' Coop: a celebration of MM Serra, coinciding with the release of the special issue of Framework (65, nos. 1-2) dedicated to her work. There will be films.

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As someone who teaches at Hunter, I just lost any respect for Hochul I was developing.

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Somehow I had hoped that Crossing Delancey would transcend the kind of cheesiness I expected from the cover of this VHS that my parents used to own. Sadly, it was exactly that level of cheese.

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This Saturday in New York at Film-Makers' Coop: a celebration of MM Serra, coinciding with the release of the special issue of Framework (65, nos. 1-2) dedicated to her work. There will be films.

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Hocus Pocus had ICE's number a long time ago: an extremely stupid white man who thinks you should never have moved here, but is also happy to steal your shoes and Halloween candy before you leave

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Shopworn (Nick Grinde, 1932)

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"Selfishness is the twin-screw motive power of the human steamer. It drives unchangingly, unpoetically on. Its one danger is that of miscalculation." (Theodore Dreiser, Sister Carrie)

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20 years ago, when i was in college, we lobbied for gender neutral bathrooms and won. tear this shit down

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Still enjoying some extremely DEI content in the classroom today

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The only king of New York that I answer to

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The votes are in and our new mission statement is live! TY to Jennifer Blaylock, Sophia Gräfe, Tanya Goldman, + Florian Hoof for spearheading the rewrite + several members who provided incisive feedback. We hope this description makes us legible to nonspecialists! www.cmstudies.org/page/groups_...

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Sometimes you come across a book that describes your personality so thoroughly and accurately, it's kind of uncanny

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Maybe I should just start wearing my yellow star now. Save our overlords the trouble

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I guess this is ultimately the point, though -- using "security" as an excuse to crush anything like robust intellectual exchange. It's always terrible when people gather.

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Not only is Columbia University still committed to its inane security protocols over a year later, they now find these protocols too "onerous" to administer so that people can actually go to talks there

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Fuck it, I'm going to the sauna

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How long until NYU Stern is renamed the Trump Business School?

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At some point, I thought about turning off Wirecutter notifications, but these days I'm grateful for emails beginning with "This is (still) the best nonstick pan"

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Anyone who has spent some time in Switzerland, even a few months, won't be surprised at how receptive the country seems now to the Trump-Vance line. They banned burqas while I lived there. Ten years before that, it was minarets.

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It's interesting to see Burnett's The Annihilation of Fish so long after it was first made; its basic idea that two seriously mentally ill people could make it on their own, with a little love and support, seems so utterly foreign now amid the homelessness crisis and "bring back the asylum" rhetoric

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I'm sorry everyone, but I've been living a lie for the last 3 months. I'm not really a lower-case name person. I thought it might give me a dash of whimsy. But now I can see that I've just been "working out feelings I haven't got."

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The way this story was first reported and later shared strikes me as a trifle misleading. In the original clip, I saw no evidence that RFK Jr. has plans to eliminate SSRIs--just a half-hearted suggestion that people on them could go to a "wellness farm" "if they want to." Or am I missing something?

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Every day I feel like I'm waking up to the fact that what I took for the paranoid rantings of boomer relatives 6 months ago was 💯 percent true

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Any favorite criticism/analysis of Samuel Fuller, and Shock Corridor especially?

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Imagine living in a decade when you could begin by saying "As Foucault has shown" or "As Foucault teaches us" and the rest of the essay would just write itself. What a time to be alive

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"They’re each made with two chicken tenders — which might better be called chicken toughs." Somehow Guy Fieri brings out the best in food critics

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An excerpt from something I'm just starting to work on -- a poetics of the asylum in the style of Bachelard. Forthcoming: "The Corridor"

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"What's the worst that could happen -- he'll show me his penis? It's not like I haven't seen it already"

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An excerpt from something I'm just starting to work on -- a poetics of the asylum in the style of Bachelard. Forthcoming: "The Corridor"

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I've avoided Theodore Dreiser for years because I had always heard he was a very poor stylist. Now 50 pages into Sister Carrie, I simply don't understand. Nearly every page is dramatic, vivid, full of detail & with an interesting variety of sentence lengths. How do shibboleths like this get started?

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Admittedly curious about a film whose language on IMDB is given as "French, Gibberish"

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When I did "Tik Tok" for karaoke last night, I was genuinely moved by Ke$ha's enthusiasm for what even in 2010 seems like legacy media ("playin' our favorite CDs")

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I put on a Kraan live album and immediately started getting ribbed by @asugarhigh.bsky.social: "Uh oh... it's sounding a little jammy in there"

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Apparently I'm very good at karaoke, which I think means just affecting a bit of a sneer when doing Anthony Kiedis voice

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You know things are desperate when liberals start trotting out Adam Kinzinger

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Life, 3/3/1947: a curious attempt to reconcile psychoanalysis w/ biological psychiatry. One panel explains: "overbearing conscience (left) represses impulse (bottom), disrupts judgment (right) and executive function (top)." It only just occurred to me how much the superego looks in death like Marat.

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I'm surprised Criterion couldn't dig up a single woman to include in their promo for this month's Keaton sidebar. It's all white men, and pretty old ones at that. The quotes aren't even interesting. "He is one of the inventors of cinema" (Herzog). "He was a real exciting hero" (Tarantino). Really?

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Teaching with the flu on Zoom today

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I suppose research must be going well when I have no desire to post here

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I did this once, except it was by accident and the recipient was a friend from grad school

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Still trying to figure out the concept behind this one. Is the bottom-right corner meant to be what the man is imagining, in the rearview mirror of his mind's eye? Is it the same woman as the one beside him? or another whom he plans to visit later? So many questions, all likely to remain unanswered.

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