It’s very saddening to see that Star Wars Insider will be ending soon. Print Media has been slowly dying over the last decade, but still features some of the best in-depth, well researched and important journalism out there. SWI always did a great job at sharing a spotlight on the folks who…

channeling my inner Andre Bazin...

for Halloween this year, I'm going as someone with strong opinions on Clairo's latest album...

Just had one of my former students email me to help them identify an Edward Hopper reference in The Simpsons. Made my week and reminded me why I got into academia.

whenever i see posts regarding cops supporting the NK protests, it just feels like an anime when the villain who murdered a bunch of ppl in season one is now like totally chill in season two...

no kangs

That same guy then stands up at faculty meetings and wonders when we're gonna start shuttering these smaller departments

Always nice when it works out that I get to teach Foucault on Foucault's birthday...

#PhilSky #philosophy

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Got the last signed copy of Absolution at the Harverd Book Store. @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social

It’s wild how much hate people get for pointing out that Taylor Swift’s mass market lyricism and artistry about white heterosexual womanhood do in fact reflect and contribute to the sociopolitical culture we all share. Certain types of fandom are actively hostile to cultural critique!

Going to start calling my philosophy degree a “what if you started fucking thinking” degree.

I will always repost this scene. I’ve shown it in a bunch of classes.

John Cage intensifies.

Instead of doing another Pynchon adoption, Paul Thomas Anderson should direct the Infinite Jest movie. It will never get finished and will become famous for the making of documentary titled There Will Be Water.

i only existed for half of the 90s. what was everyone taking that made the world look green and blue?

I love how when you actually read the classics of continental philosophy the first chapter is always like 'I am quite fond of asking whether the ground's grounding of the grounded grounds the ground's grounding of the grounded'

from Wilson and Philips' "Hold On." one of the great music vids of the early 90s.

As a younger millennial I often hear how we all grow up to be cynical and disillusioned Squidwards. However, the older I get the more I realize I've become more like Spongebob with my toxic and obsessive relationship to work.

teachers! excited to share a new website at this late date of Aug 15 to try to help us collectively prepare for back to school in the interpretative humanities classroom assaulted by the AI grift, so we don't have to go it alone. take a look, share, + most importantly: CONTRIBUTE against-a-i.com

I would like an AI assistant. And by that I don't mean an AI app that fails at assisting me. But rather a human who assists me in removing AI from from my life...

Google knows. 🤔

Can't wait for the new version of chat-gbt to drop. It will be just like talking to a PhD in humanities and will have really strong opinions about the difference between west vs east IPAs.

one last visit to the USF library before I move.

So happy there's this new translation of Breton's NADJA from @nyrb-imprints.bsky.social classics. A 100 year-old autofiction. Breton is insufferable sometimes but he has his moments. Trying to revolutionize life and art with the tools of the time.

Wish I could find someone who looks at me the same way Vivian Sobchack looks at the Maltse Falcon.

doing exactly what i wanted to avoid but my final section for a new article will give an object-oriented ontolgial reading of Billie Eilish's music videos...

Every so often, I just think about "Larry, I'm on Duck Tales." youtu.be/76HijAoXi6k?...

RIP youtu.be/ojQUYq21G-o?...

Regular reminder that "the male gaze" is a way of constructing scenes for viewers of narrative film and not anything about an essential way that men look at the world.

Happy 133rd Birthday to Walter Benjamin who was born on this day in Berlin

tomorrow!

Going to finish up Moonlighting at some point in the coming weeks. I really hope at some point there will be a Frank Grimes-esque character who comes to the office and calls everyone out for anabling a toxic relationship/workplace.The episode concludes with Maddie and David causing him to go insane.

chub chubbin'

My cartoon in this weeks @newyorker.com

Posting my top films of the 21st century only because I'm seeing way too many lists that include Inception and not enough that mention Paprika. Morvern Callar Mulholland Dr Climax Dawson City Frozen Time Momento Certain Women Paprika The Century of the Self Miami Vice The Piano Teacher

Check out this brilliant new essay by @amyrust74.bsky.social. I promise you'll never look at cinematic props again in the same way.

Holding out for 28 Centuries Later.

I do.

Working on a project looking at the prop in music videos. This looks promising. @cinemiasma.bsky.social

I am once again pitching my romantic comedy: - two academics start dating - discover they are each other's terrible reviewer - hijinks ensue Working title: Love is Double-Blind

perfect reading for the start of hurricane season.

Film bros make jokes about Tarantino having a foot fetish. Cinephiles make witty observations about Bresson revealing the perfection of the human hand.

SHE'S HERE! Predating Carol J Clover's Men Women and Chain Saws by 2 years, this out of print gem has too long been denied its rightful place in the history of horror studies. This reprint is a miracle, thanks in large part to the amazing @danieljsheppard.bsky.social www.uwp.co.uk/book/games-o...

Jesus: "the meek will inherit the Earth." Nietzsche: "the meek will inherit the Earth (derogatory)."

Trying to collect neonoir-esque music videos for a side project. youtu.be/JLvFbBR4XOg?...