me, everytime i encounter some minuscule difference between products in the grocery store: "wow... so this is America."

what an insane run

So grateful for the amazing graduate students who wrote this 'Open Letter on The New School’s “Restructuring” Plans', published on @eflux.bsky.social (including link with petition to condemn admin!) @newschoolaaup.bsky.social www.e-flux.com/notes/678343...

haymarket's historical materialism book series going crazy these days (this is a really funny joke if you are a very specific person)

spent twenty minutes looking for my copy of narrative, apparatus, ideology only to find that i had left it on a blanket the same colour as the cover and one of my cats decided to cover it with his whole body

nothing like a website that gives you information like they're rupert pupkin being interrupted mid-routine

i like my clavier like i like my parental figures -- well-tempered

sipping on the last little bit of my sleepytime tea, i wondered "why does this taste so good, if not a little cold?" then realized i left the sleepytime tea over on the counter, and instead just finished the cold coffee i had leftover from the morning -- it is 1030 and i am Awake

well we're so polite, we were all built for the service economy anyhow

now that i've wrapped up teaching the western, favorite films of the class have been tallied: johnny guitar is the winner with the most votes (8), then unforgiven (5), and meek's cutoff (4). the kids are alright :)

if i were in toronto on december 3rd i would be at this event, instead i'll be in montreal, jealous

nothing says "jason takes manhattan" like "jason takes the skytrain in vancouver"

The Weekly Read is "Lexicon for a Capitalist Image" by Pietro Bianchi and Joshua Harold Wiebe. The article introduces Filming Capital, a special issue of SAQ (124:4). Read it for free through 1/31/26: buff.ly/5naaEnu

every time a store closes near our house, it inevitably becomes a barber shop. we literally have four within one block of our house. we joke about this all the time. today i went out back and overnight crudely assembled signs have popped up in the alley advertising yet another one.

unbearable world we've got going here

having a good time prepping this lecture on meek's cutoff for my western class

so funny that people get mad and call eachother snowflakes--snowflakes are so beautiful!!

all i'll say is that #1 is king of comedy

just watched the long darkness (1972, kumei)-- wow... devastated! on a pitch-black saturday afternoon! cinema!

i bought a gigantic pumpkin for halloween and now every day i make some random new pumpkin related dish. yesterday it was pumpkin + chickpea curry, the day before that it was a pumpkin crumble. today i think it'll be pumpkin gnocchi. october lives forever.

between ran, samurai rebellion, kagemusha, harakiri, the human condition, kill, kwaidan, tatsuya nakadai was in a ton of my favs -- rest in peace! variety.com/2025/film/ob...

"Filming Capital," a special issue of SAQ, examines how Marxism can be used to illuminate the problem of the visual representation of contemporary global capitalism. View the TOC and read the introduction, freely available: buff.ly/am3ZXVx

opening with a eugene debs' quote, damn

... so jealous

Hello Bluesky, Excited and grateful to be part of this fabulous issue of SAQ. Thank you @joshuaharoldwiebe.bsky.social and @pietrobianch1.bsky.social !! www.dukeupress.edu/filming-capi...

and if you weren't enticed already, here's the TOC

the thing about the blue jays and the dodgers is that they "each gradually located a different karmic thermal… watching the other glide away into different fates. Does it ever end? Of course it does. It did."

it's here! FILMING CAPITAL special issue of SAQ "Visual and film studies provide a distinctive lens through which to unravel and confront the complexities of capitalism’s elusive appearance." read.dukeupress.edu/south-atlant...

I taught Punishment Park in my Dystopian Visions class last semester, to great effect, and held a screening of La Commune for my critical theory friends, which has been on my top 4 on letterboxd ever since. RIP to one of the greats, Peter Watkins -- do yourself a favor and check out his website.

Scientists, designing that game in a laboratory: "yes... make it even more excruciating!"

Oooof

great blue jays defense is keeping my spirit alive

our issue of SAQ on "filming capital" is up! contributions from @lingzhang.bsky.social, @ernestpjl.bsky.social, @benjamincrais.bsky.social, @annakornbluh.bsky.social, patrick marshall, cassandra guan, alberto toscano bad news for haters of the good! www.dukeupress.edu/filming-capi...

me at the gramsci conference: "so you see, his father played for the montreal expos, and so 1

god obviously feels the same way

gonna need someone to check this umpire's laptop for a draftkings account

every slight against the blue jays feels like an institutional betrayal of the true, the good, and the beautiful

supremely fun to have a look at

now THAT is a face

i havent been so invested in a blue jays run since i was a literal child

devastated to learn that exercise is in fact good for depression

my mom loves doubles by the blue jays, so she's having quite the evening

weird that none of the recent job postings in media studies are in my desired subfield of ruthless criticism of all that exists, but i'll keep looking

the last time i was in vancouver, in the midst of a great strain on my spirit, i went alone to a random screening of something's gotta give, and it was such a fucking delight. rip diane keaton.

oh good

the thing that weirds me out about one battle after another is how much everybody likes it -- like, that's probably the strangest movie to have such (near) unanimous approval (which rules, to be clear)

i went to see vladdy play his second game for the jays, truly moving to see him like this

prep for my halloween horror movie marathon is really starting to amp up

always a great moment in the western class when we finally get to spend three quarters of an hour on three minutes from johnny guitar www.youtube.com/watch?v=92lw...

Mike Davis, from the 2006 preface to City of Quartz...