Dominic Pettman
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Media Theory / Posthumanities (NYC) Extimacy Coordinator www.dominicpettman.com
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Someone should write about traveling theater troupes on screen: from Naruse to Bergman to SHAKESPEARE-WALLAH to STATION ELEVEN.
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Who wants to join my new doo-wop band, Anxious Frank and the Self Soothers?
5 days ago
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"Dear colleague. I look forward to responding to your email as soon as you have rephrased it more respectfully."
5 days ago
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Happy User Agreement Update season to all!
6 days ago
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7 days ago
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Puritan Valentine's Day card
8 days ago
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The direct link between engorged petrostates and enlarged prostates.
8 days ago
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Manstream media
9 days ago
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Vale Harold. You've finally gone to reunite with Maude.
10 days ago
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Fantastic to see
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putting this essential collection of writings back in print, by Lulu herself.
www.upress.umn.edu/978081663731...
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Lulu In Hollywood
Essential writings by this icon of the silent era—rereleased in print and now available as an e-book 100 years after Louise Brooks arrived in HollywoodLulu...
https://www.upress.umn.edu/9780816637317/lulu-in-hollywood/
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Come ghost with me!
event.newschool.edu/booktalkdomp...
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https://event.newschool.edu/booktalkdompettman
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I should probably get a mnemonic tattoo on my wrist that simply says: "musn't grumble."
11 days ago
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Looks like I need to add a new epilogue.
12 days ago
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"Exercises for Men" . . . in Nancy Henley, "Body Politics: Power, Sex, and Non-Verbal Communication" (1977)
13 days ago
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Dasein within reach
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" . . . and now, smiling and waving - heading up the delegation from New Jersey - is the traditional Parade of the Goomahs . . ."
15 days ago
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I wasn't expecting this blood-soaked 20 minute homage to Dario Argento and giallo - featuring the surviving members of Goblin - during this Winter Olympics opening ceremony.
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2026 . . . are you ok?
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#SadPlanets
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/30/w...
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Born of a Factory Mistake, This Sad Toy Horse Captures China’s Mood
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/30/world/asia/crying-horse-toy-china.html?unlocked_article_code=1.JFA.jzWU.EikKC0LSD03B&smid=url-share
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"Show Cat": Mediated Pedagogy, Domestic Exposure, and Vicarious Creaturely Intimacy
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"It’s not a documentary, Melania said. 'It is a creative experience that offers perspectives, insights, and moments.'" Looks like I have new go-to language for all future course descriptions and/or book proposals.
20 days ago
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Thanks to the super-silly new movie ANACONDA, we have a new phrase: "Buffalo sober." In honor of the plucky town in upstate New York, Buffalo sober means only beer and wine.
21 days ago
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Lana del Reification
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Forget the glistening hard-bodies of HEATED RIVALRY. The most compelling gay couple on TV right now are Banjo & Ro - two Australians trying to renovate a derelict grand hotel on an island off an island off the coast of Scotland with practically no money.
25 days ago
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Mamdani introduces new eco-friendly system to provide steam heat to the city.
26 days ago
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Awoke from a dream in which my employer announced it would fire any faculty member who used the word "episteme" in a published work.
29 days ago
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"CDC announces new vaccines are 100% ranch dressing."
30 days ago
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Apparently there is an oversupply.
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An extract from my latest in PSYCHE magazine.
psyche.co/ideas/why-be...
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Why being ghosted is inevitable and being a ghoster is too | Psyche Ideas
Being ghosted can feel shocking. But we need to get used to it because there’s no other way to cope with our world
https://psyche.co/ideas/why-being-ghosted-is-inevitable-and-being-a-ghoster-is-too
about 1 month ago
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There is surely a German word for that feeling when you impatiently order a dozen books or so, but then lose all enthusiasm for the chosen titles as soon as they arrive.
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It's only a terrible time to be alive if you care about stuff.
about 1 month ago
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In case you need yet more evidence that we're living in a Robocop timeline.
about 1 month ago
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Maybe it's time to finally buy this
about 2 months ago
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Finally finished decorating my man cave.
about 2 months ago
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boomers: dig me! gen x: free me! millennials: see me! gen z: diagnose me!
about 2 months ago
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If anyone feels like buying me a belated xmas present.
www.abebooks.com/Collected-St...
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The Collected Strange Stories I & II by Robert Aickman: Fine Hardback (1999) Limited Edition | Hyraxia Books. ABA, ILAB
Limited Edition - Hardback - Tartarus Press, Leyburn - 1999 - Condition: Fine - Near Fine - Leyburn, Tartarus Press, 1999. Limited Edition. Hardback. A fine set of books in near fine jacket. Limted to...
https://www.abebooks.com/Collected-Strange-Stories-II-Robert-Aickman/30428220027/bd
about 2 months ago
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What's your favorite show-within-a-show?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=WZLk...
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30 Rock: Homonym!
YouTube video by Baba
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WZLkcFns8Ks
about 2 months ago
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Going in to 2026 thusly . . .
about 2 months ago
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Speaking of music, how many of you can remember buying some kind of book or magazine that came with a flexi disk? And if so, what was it?
about 2 months ago
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reposted by
Dominic Pettman
Polity
about 2 months ago
As this year comes to an end, we're looking back at some of our 2025 highlights. Featured in Best Books round-ups in The Spectator and Financial Times, and reviewed in The Guardian, The Sunday Times, and New Scientist, these books are not to be missed! See more:
www.politybooks.com/blog-detail/...
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One of my resolutions for 2026: Listen to more albums from start to finish, and try to chill on the whole random shuffle button thing.
about 2 months ago
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Happy Mamdani Day for those who celebrate. Looking out my window and I can already see Wall Street Types losing their top hats, chased down the street by gangs of singing orphaned immigrant children, shepherded gently into adequately heated re-education centers run by implacable polyfaith queers.
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I asked ChatGPT what it has learned about humans from all these billions of interactions. The answer was pretty wild.
open.substack.com/pub/dominicp...
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The Top Ten Things ChatGPT has Gleaned About Humans
A tact-free portrait of our species
https://open.substack.com/pub/dominicpettman/p/the-top-ten-things-chatgpt-has-gleaned?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web
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reposted by
Dominic Pettman
Krish Raghav
about 2 months ago
Favourite books of 2025.
@dominicpettman.bsky.social
and Eugene Thacker's "Sad Planets" was a revelation, "More and More and More" should be compulsory reading to understand our energy systems,
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's "More Bugs" really lingered with me, and I love every Sofia Samatar book.
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