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Budget Motel Abyss
10 days ago
less a book launch and more a stimulating discussion of how to develop a properly marxian critical theory of totality with Rob and Sam IMHO
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Cominsitu
8 days ago
new Substack with excerpts, drafts, translation notes on Günther Anders, all in preparation for a forthcoming book 2027 … subscribe and stay tuned!!
substack.com/@anderscene?...
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Notes from the Anderscene | Substack
Translations and curation of texts by GĂĽnther Anders. Selected writings of GĂĽnther Anders forthcoming in English from Wirklichkeit books.
https://substack.com/@anderscene?r=98t2t&utm_medium=ios&utm_source=stories&shareImageVariant=light
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James Crane
9 days ago
btw! for those who’ve been asking, the recordings from the Interdisciplinary Marxism Working Group seminar series on Adorno & Communism—with Chris O’Kane & myself—are up on YouTube!
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Ill Will
3 months ago
New article by Phil A. Neel examining the post-2020 political order, arguing that liberal myths about law, elections, and restraint function as counterinsurgency in an era of open state violence.
illwill.com/lies
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James Crane
3 months ago
some exciting news!
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Corinne Blalock
3 months ago
a hero and a martyr
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veronica
4 months ago
finally got my hands on the complete Narrow Margin (so far), a v cool new magazine containing some of the best recent writing on film out there. Vol 1 on Luc Moullet and Vittorio Cottafavi, and vol 2 on the supremely underrated cinema of Diagonale. grab a copy!!
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John Winn
4 months ago
My film “Redwood Souvenirs” included
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www.screenslate.com/articles/bes...
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John Winn
6 months ago
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on the greatest of all cinephilic perverts, João César Monteiro:
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João César Monteiro: Symphonies of a Libertine
A brief account of a three-minute film: A spindly, well-dressed man strolls down a lamp-lit Lisbon street. As he reaches his apartment, the soundtrack of the most romantic scene from Nicholas Ray’s Jo...
https://www.screenslate.com/articles/joao-cesar-monteiro-symphonies-libertine
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John Winn
7 months ago
my recent film Redwood Souvenirs premieres at RPM festival on Oct. 11! it's a film i assembled from old footage from my time house-sitting for Fred from 2020-22, made after his death as a memento for myself and others
revolutionsperminutefest.org/2025_10_11_P...
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John Winn
8 months ago
Made a film with
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—something like a re-staging of Ray's On Dangerous Ground that traverses some of Ray's actual haunts (nyc in the 30s, upstate ny in the 70s). premiering sep. 12 at I Mille Occhi, truly wild programming:
www.imilleocchi.com/1000occhi_programma25_online.pdf
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https://www.imilleocchi.com/1000occhi_programma25_online.pdf
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BRUISER
10 months ago
it’s never “let me tell you how things are” but rather “where am I? where are we (in history)?” Whitney Strub and Benjamin Crais correspond on Robert Kramer and John Douglas’ MILESTONES
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Sam WM
11 months ago
”I saw a film by… who is the official British film director?” “…Mike Leigh?” “Yes, him.”
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Joshua Harold Wiebe
12 months ago
cannot express how excited I am for this special issue of SAQ that
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& I edited to be in the world!!! filled to the brim with brilliant pieces by brilliant people! coming in october!! hope the world is still around to see it!
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John Winn
about 1 year ago
Genevieve Yue reviewing this year’s Cosmic Rays film fest, with some remarks on Ode to R.G. Springsteen!
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about 1 year ago
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Corinne Blalock
about 1 year ago
tfw you go uptown to the Jameson memorial but you also get to stop by your old apt to get the issue of Parapraxis on Economies you accidentally mailed there đź’… * also
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did a fantastic job !!
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some of jameson’s impressions of israel (“and then it came to me: that israel is california”)
about 1 year ago
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Joshua Harold Wiebe
about 1 year ago
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a few words on masao adachi’s gushing prayer for
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www.screenslate.com/articles/gus...
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Gushing Prayer
In the summer of 1949, several months after joining the youth wing of the national communist party, the 17-year-old poet Nagasawa Nobuko took her own life with poison. Two decades later, Nagasawa’s po...
https://www.screenslate.com/articles/gushing-prayer
about 1 year ago
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Columbia University Press
over 1 year ago
In this episode of Film Comment, Clinton Krute and Michael Blair invited Erika Balsom and Benjamin Crais, two noted critics who each proudly own original Milestones posters, to discuss Robert Kramer’s life and work.
https://buff.ly/408Szf3
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The Film Comment Podcast: The Films of Robert Kramer
Starting places: critics Erika Balsom and Benjamin Crais join to discuss the undersung filmmaker’s richly heterogenous, and endlessly fascinating, body of work
https://buff.ly/408Szf3
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veronica
over 1 year ago
Wasn't on bluesky when it came out, so I didn't advertise it over here but looking back on 2024 I'm very grateful to have had the opportunity to work on a special issue of Polygraph 29, "Narrative and Crisis," together with my colleagues & friends
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wrote about the cinema of the portuguese revolution for film comment
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over 1 year ago
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