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...

ive watched three westerns today, but only two of them were for work. that third one was for me.

neil young wandering around in a junkyard in Journey through the Past (1973, Young)

Huge congrats to Dr. @joshuaharoldwiebe.bsky.social on becoming a doctor of cinema! www.cinema.utoronto.ca/news/congrat...

the great thing about half-caf coffee is that i can have six of them before encountering a wall of anxiety

the best special effect in the world is 3000 cows moving through a valley

defended this ol' thing yesterday, am now a doctor :)

"After AI, there will be no point to reading books," says person who never got the point to begin with

fairly certain that if i look at this postdoc application one more time it will be the last thing i ever do, the cumulative semantic satiation resulting in my eyes voluntarily and independently exploding

for his birthday, here is hegel writing on what i can only assume is german techno avant la lettre (aesthetcs 1; 249).

my western class, in an image

every day ai is tending more and more towards that episode of the x-files (blood) with william sanderson in it

They Are Afraid of Critical Theory

i just had a nectarine that was so good it made me question everything else i've eaten in the recent past

the scms statement ... not very good. hard to write one of these things that would be satisfying, admittedly, but even still, this really doesnt do much to alleviate concerns.

my wife sometimes refers to the pile of dishes she accumulates in her corner of the bedroom as her "archive"

Air Canada strike: “We’re going to stay committed to making sure that those workers can do the job that they love doing and actually be able to afford a roof over their heads, to afford caring for their families,” CUPE president just said. “If it means folks like me going to jail, then so be it.”

crazy that colour film peaked in the 40s with threestrip technicolor and we've all just been fine with diminishing returns ever since