Joshua Harold Wiebe
@joshuaharoldwiebe.bsky.social
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visiting assistant professor in film+media studies critical theory, labour, cinema, aesthetics
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our issue of SAQ on "filming capital" is up! contributions from
@lingzhang.bsky.social
,
@ernestpjl.bsky.social
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@benjamincrais.bsky.social
,
@annakornbluh.bsky.social
, patrick marshall, cassandra guan, alberto toscano bad news for haters of the good!
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Filming Capital
https://www.dukeupress.edu/filming-capital
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preparing my first powerpoint for canadians in months, so happy to be back to writing "labour" instead of the vulgar, disgusting, totally inadequate "labor"
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just fyi "biopic" is not a synonym for "movie that involves a historical figure"
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reviewing my notes from watching a movie the other day, one of them just says "Mitchum breathing out"
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watched the trailer for the odyssey, against my better judgment: can't believe they have all those shots of the sea and not a single one is wine-dark
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something that strikes me about the recent spate of academic media (the chair, the guadagnino, vladimir, rooster, lucky hank) is that none of them seem to have any idea as to why anyone would want to teach, or even learn, in these institutions
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Top 15 John from Cincinnati
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13 days ago
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how humiliating to have to write the words "TikTok" or "4Chan" while trying to be a serious person
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very excited to start pushing this week-long summer school (seminars, workshops, presentations, screenings) that i've been putting together with some friends which will be held here at lafayette college in late august -- so many cool people are going to come through, i literally cannot oversell
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If this book is anything like hearing Matt talk about dolphins off the cuff, we're all in for a treat
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about 1 month ago
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i would like the dialectic to stop -- i need to get out
about 1 month ago
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get to screen this one today, hope everybody's geared up to have their lives changed
about 1 month ago
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just learned that the last track from touki bouki (1973, mambety) is this italian library song from giorgio carnini, and am all the better for it
www.youtube.com/watch?v=abAZ...
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Giorgio Carnini - Beat Requiem
YouTube video by The Armagideon Times
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=abAZAeR7LOQ
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Kracauer is so funny
about 1 month ago
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insect tv: "how i met your moth"
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my wife is on her way to the airport so i'm comforting myself in the only way i know how -- by going to the nearby town of wind gap pennsylvania to watch three kung fu movies on 35mm in a row
about 2 months ago
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so happy to finally have drafts
2 months ago
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Acla tomorrow!
3 months ago
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splitting the difference between caligari and calgary
3 months ago
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finally sent something in that i've been trying to finish since november, have ostensibly cleared my plate, can finally get back to work on The Book
3 months ago
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me, everytime i encounter some minuscule difference between products in the grocery store: "wow... so this is America."
3 months ago
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what an insane run
5 months ago
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Joshua Harold Wiebe
Natasha Lennard
5 months ago
So grateful for the amazing graduate students who wrote this 'Open Letter on The New Schoolâs âRestructuringâ Plans', published on
@eflux.bsky.social
(including link with petition to condemn admin!)
@newschoolaaup.bsky.social
www.e-flux.com/notes/678343...
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Open Letter on The New Schoolâs âRestructuringâ Plans - Notes - e-flux
Signed by hundreds of faculty, students, and supporters, this letter refutes the claim that a radical ârestructuringâ of the The New School for Social Research is financially necessary.
https://www.e-flux.com/notes/6783432/open-letter-on-the-new-school-s-restructuring-plans
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haymarket's historical materialism book series going crazy these days (this is a really funny joke if you are a very specific person)
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5 months ago
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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
5 months ago
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nothing like a website that gives you information like they're rupert pupkin being interrupted mid-routine
5 months ago
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i like my clavier like i like my parental figures -- well-tempered
5 months ago
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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
6 months ago
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well we're so polite, we were all built for the service economy anyhow
6 months ago
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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 :)
6 months ago
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if i were in toronto on december 3rd i would be at this event, instead i'll be in montreal, jealous
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6 months ago
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nothing says "jason takes manhattan" like "jason takes the skytrain in vancouver"
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6 months ago
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reposted by
Joshua Harold Wiebe
Duke University Press
6 months ago
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
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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.
6 months ago
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unbearable world we've got going here
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6 months ago
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having a good time prepping this lecture on meek's cutoff for my western class
6 months ago
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so funny that people get mad and call eachother snowflakes--snowflakes are so beautiful!!
6 months ago
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all i'll say is that #1 is king of comedy
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6 months ago
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just watched the long darkness (1972, kumei)-- wow... devastated! on a pitch-black saturday afternoon! cinema!
6 months ago
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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.
6 months ago
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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...
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Tatsuya Nakadai, Japanese Film Legend That Starred in âRan,â âHarakiriâ and âThe Human Conditionâ Trilogy, Dies at 92
Tatsuya Nakadai, one of Japan's most celebrated actors who was a frequent collaborator of Akira Kurosawa and Masaki Kobayashi, died. He was 92.
https://variety.com/2025/film/obituaries-people-news/tatsuya-nakadai-dead-japanese-ran-harakiri-1236574628/
6 months ago
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reposted by
Joshua Harold Wiebe
Duke University Press
6 months ago
"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
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opening with a eugene debs' quote, damn
6 months ago
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... so jealous
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6 months ago
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Joshua Harold Wiebe
Patrick Marshall
6 months ago
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...
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Filming Capital
https://www.dukeupress.edu/filming-capital
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and if you weren't enticed already, here's the TOC
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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."
6 months ago
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reposted by
Joshua Harold Wiebe
Anna Kornbluh
6 months ago
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 capitalismâs elusive appearance."
read.dukeupress.edu/south-atlant...
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Volume 124 Issue 4 | South Atlantic Quarterly | Duke University Press
https://read.dukeupress.edu/south-atlantic-quarterly/issue/124/4?fbclid=IwY2xjawN0W3BleHRuA2FlbQIxMABicmlkETFwb1NvOVpjbHZMa0NMSWxHAR5NckKPPx4oyAWw85nyBfYY2IV3TozcOeDHAg0Gvg42CkIJK6w8HMh69QunZg_aem_lf_bscoHjpfdHFsLK9s9fA
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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.
6 months ago
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Scientists, designing that game in a laboratory: "yes... make it even more excruciating!"
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Oooof
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