I know law means nothing anymore, if ever, but as a reminder, tear gas and its derivatives (CS gas, pepper spray, etc.) is banned by the Geneva Convention. Since the ban, the U.S. regime has never had a problem using it against its own people. The U.S. demon has never had morals.

lol first time I've ever seen myself quoted in a @letterboxd.social review. Don't tell Rudolph, but I still haven't watched the doc. I'm mortified to watch myself on film although I am perversely curious to hear Werner Herzog say my name. letterboxd.com/youknowmejt/...

I haven't produced a film since THE SUN SETS LIKE A SCAR in 2024, although I've been shooting. Today I started scriptwriting & reviewing my footage. My next film, ONLY IN COMPLETE SILENCE DO YOU HEAR THE DESERT, will be my first 2.4:1 anamorphic film. Here are sneak peeks.

What we need is a Tribunal révolutionnaire, but I guarantee you what these limpdicked politicians will try and sell us will be a Pacto del Olvido. No one will be held accountable for any of this unless we, the people, organize and do it ourselves.

If you are not unconditionally on the side of President Maduro after his illegal kidnapping, then you are on the side of the Trump regime. It's as simple as that. There is no such thing as political nuance when it comes to blatant Western imperialist aggression.

The only legitimate President currently inside the United States is Nicolás Maduro.

Good movie year for me—one of the only things keeping me sane. Watched 261 films last year (41 were shorts); an average of 5/week. Also kept up my streak of watching at least 1 movie every week since August 2023 (125 weeks!) Full stats & my 2025 Top 10 (so far!) below.

A little sneak peak at my recent translation of Bogdanov's book about science and the working class that should be coming out late next year from @iskrabooks.bsky.social Quite resonant with me personally and professionally!

Deeply sadden to hear about the passing of Victor Grossman. I had the great pleasure of working closely with him as his Editor translating his book on American volunteers in the Spanish Civil War. We at @iskrabooks.bsky.social will be posthumously publishing his book for the first time in English.

Even though I'm teaching at a community college, I am interested in serving on graduate committees. If you need (or know of a student who needs) an outside member, I've added a little blurb on my website outlining topics I'm interested in supervising. www.taylorgenovese.com#teaching

someone should invent a thing that's like a university but it's goal is to facilitate learning

Chag Sameach

Apologies to everyone following me on @letterboxd.social ...for the next few days, my diary is going to be lovingly spammed with Kiarostami!!!

Listening to Dead Kennedys while grading Final Exams. Only appropriate soundtrack.

Dutchess County locals, consider taking some classes with me at Dutchess Community College in the Spring! Syllabi are all available on my website (www.taylorgenovese.com/#teaching) And this is not just for the whippersnappers! New York has a program where senior citizens can audit tuition free!

Couldn’t Sam Altman just ask ChatGPT how to make itself profitable

🚨Release Day!🚨 📕Unequal Exchange: Past, Present, and Future-Torkil Lauesen. 📖A sweeping and authoritative study of Arghiri Emmanuel’s theory of unequal exchange, tracing its origins, evolution, and contemporary relevance. 🔗FREE PDF, and print editions available: iskrabooks.org/ue-past-pres...

Beautiful sunrise this morning.

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Snow day today! Having grown up in the Sonoran Desert, I've only experienced snow days as faculty. This is my third one since moving to NY and it's still a little exciting.

My article "The Dialectics of Melancholy and Nostalgia in Apophatic Marxism" has now been published in the latest issue of Political Theology. First-come-first-serve 50 free downloads at the link below (but it's also up on my website and PhilPapers 🤫). www.tandfonline.com/eprint/VAEJ7...

Just a reminder to grad students out there that are beginning to fill out their committees, or faculty friends who know any students who may need an outside member!

Just a reminder to grad students out there that are beginning to fill out their committees, or faculty friends who know any students who may need an outside member!

Now that #AAA2025 is a wrap—time for an award 🏆 thread! Congratulations @lmesseri.bsky.social for winning this year's Gregory Bateson Book Prize!! Awarded for In the Land of the Unreal: Virtual and Other Realities in Los Angeles. More info here @dukepress.bsky.social: dukeupress.edu/in-the-land-...

Pope Leo XIV told students not to use artificial intelligence for homework, saying that AI ‘won’t stand in authentic wonder before the beauty of God’s creation.’

My article "The Dialectics of Melancholy and Nostalgia in Apophatic Marxism" has now been published in the latest issue of Political Theology. First-come-first-serve 50 free downloads at the link below (but it's also up on my website and PhilPapers 🤫). www.tandfonline.com/eprint/VAEJ7...

Back during my archaeology days before I my Dark Turn™️ to sociocultural, I used to knap all the time. I still have my leather, antlers, stones, and a stash of cores somewhere around... I even made an atlatl and spears to throw them with too. This is probably the best point I made out of basalt.

Course name poll. Which do you think will attract early career undergraduate students? 1. Life Beyond Earth: Astrobiology and the Philosophy of Outer Space 2. Cosmic Others: Philosophy of Astrobiology and Space Exploration (Or feel free to tell me other ideas or combos)

For the love of God stop calling capitalism “Technofeudalism.” This is not a mutant regression off the track of benign capitalism’s progress to utopia. This is capitalism doing capitalism.

My goal in the next few years is to develop 2-4 new courses since my college only has intros to philosophy, ethics, & major religions. Currently crafting syllabi for Philosophy of: Mysticism & Magic Astrobiology & Space Exploration Time & Time Travel Radical Political Thought

Not even in my most angst-filled, irreverent undergrad phase would I think it's appropriate to send an email to a professor who told me to read the syllabus for an answer to my question with an email that just says "?" Some Gen-Z students have been so conditioned to entitlement.

Benzodiazepines are the only reason I'm probably still alive being forced to live in this regime, especially for the past 15 years or so. I wish there was a way to escape this place that didn't create even more instability and anxiety. This world that was created for us is beyond cruel.

Filled my @letterboxd.social milestones a few days ago. Pretty interesting spread.

“I don’t want to live the wrong life and then die.” Rewatching Station Eleven is sending me into existential crises 😭 I love this miniseries so much…

Our inaugural conference for SPINE was absolutely amazing yesterday. Incredible conversations, multimodal & politically disciplined proposals for moving forward in our current times, and many networking connections being made. Join us: www.spine.ju.mp

Those of us who lived through 2008 know the kind of suffering that is on the horizon—and this looks like it'll be even worse; not just quantitatively, but also due to the regime's planned incompetence that is purposefully ill prepared to keep capitalism and the state in tact.

In the online section of my introductory philosophy class of 26 students, all but one (1) student used AI on my Midterm. We're toast.

Are there journals out there that publish article-length translations? I've translated Bogdanov's “Between Man and Machine: About Taylor’s System" which I'd love to see in the English speaking world. It speaks to a lot of what's going on technologically as well.

Dug a visual essay project out of mothballs to start working on again that's a very different kind of photography than I've done in the past. I feel like I'm back working in archives!

New profile pic courtesy of @dajveism.bsky.social. I'm always being a weird little guy perched on the side of a cliff with my camera.

I've been using the Hobonichi Techo as a diary since 2023 & I use the My 100 page to record my first-watch films & miniseries for the year. I always fill it up before I get to December (e.g. watched my 100th yesterday) but I like being able physically flip through past watches.

there it is again that funny feeling.

The zeal in which most of the professors that I work with implicitly want to put themselves out of a job with AI is staggering and made my soul leave my body today in a committee meeting.

Register before October 1st for our hybrid conference! See you in Philly (with a table full of Iskra books 👀)

Getting hyped! My chapter in this important book—"The Enchanted Biopolitics of Dark Cosmism"—will be published by MIT Press in May. I've also heard it will be published open-access, so despite the high book price, everyone should be able to have access. mitpress.mit.edu/978026205367...

Created a @letterboxd.social list of the films that we'll be watching for my Radical Aesthetics independent study (syllabus here: trgenovese.github.io/syllabi/PHI2...) letterboxd.com/trgenovese/l...

My short film on Lenin in eastern Germany, using Langston Hughes' poem as an anchor, has ended its festival run and can now be watched for free! Watch it here: vimeo.com/893084975?sh... Log and rate it here: letterboxd.com/film/the-sun...

Some privileged filmmaker problems, I know, but it has been a nightmare trying to switch back to, and relearn, FCP after using Premiere for 15+ years. I learned to edit on FCP 6 in film school but that was in 2008... Maybe I'll watch some YouTube tutorials.

Today is the birthday of my main man Aleksandr Bogdanov, born today in 1873! One of my proudest achievements is bringing "Art and the Working Class" into English for the first time. You can download it for free from @iskrabooks.bsky.social or get a low-cost pb! www.iskrabooks.org/art-and-the-...

The above quote from @taylorgenovese.com's translation of 'Art and the Working Class', available as FREE PDF or beautiful pocket book - www.iskrabooks.org/art-and-the-...