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Brian Jacobson

@bleudeciel.bsky.social

The Cinema of Extractions (2025), Media Climates (2022), In the Studio (2020), Studios Before the System (2015) Writing about Art, Media, Energy, Environment. Next book: oil, gas, and media culture in France+empire Caltech Professor of Visual Culture

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Brian Jacobson@bleudeciel.bsky.social · 3d ago

People often ask me what I teach Caltech students in Visual Studies/Culture. This article describes a class about groundwater loss in California’s Central Valley and how we approach that issue from a variety of angles, including images and their history, and especially going to the valley to see it

Caltech Course Takes on Central Valley Water Issues — Caltech Magazine

This spring, students in the Visual Culture and the California Environment course took a field trip to immerse themselves in the landscapes they had been studying. By Katie Neith The Central Vall...

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Brian Jacobson@bleudeciel.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Two decades ago I started working on the architecture and infrastructure of moving images. Didn’t put “infrastructure” in the title so it seems to have gotten lost in the era of keyword-search scholarship, but this was the first big product of that project cup.columbia.edu/book/studios...

Studios Before the System | Columbia University Press

By 1915, Hollywood had become the epicenter of American filmmaking, with studio "dream factories" structuring its vast production. Filmmakers designed Hollyw... | CUP

cup.columbia.edu

Anna Kornbluh@annakornbluh.bsky.social · 8mo ago

PROMOTE YOUR BOOKS! EVERYONE WANTS TO HEAR ABOUT YOUR PUBLISHED BOOKS! gonna be reposting your books because hoo you made a book! www.versobooks.com/products/303...

Brian Jacobson@bleudeciel.bsky.social · 12mo ago

call me humanist deadweight, but if you think it is an objectively logical and effective argument to equate how the humanities and sciences have, for centuries, shared a mission within the university with the 2000 AOL/Time Warner merger, you might need remedial humanities training, not "unyoking"

James Leo Cahill@jamesleocahill.bsky.social · 12mo ago

Discourse 46.3 is live! It features an absolutely essential piece reflecting on fascist times by Georges Didi-Huberman: "Why Obey?," skillfully translated by Heath Valentine from the short book Pour Quoi Obéir. Every piece in this issue is fantastic.

Table of contents for Discourse 46.3. Georges Didi-Huberman and Heath Valentine, "Why Obey?"; Basil Bababneh, "Negotiating Queer Arab Formalism," Jamie Chambers, "Fabulation, Magical Transformation and Montage," Christopher Peterson, "The Beekeeper's Ghost," Travis Alexander, "Those things you see through," and Matthew Hubbell, "Revolutionary Postures," plus more!
Brian Jacobson@bleudeciel.bsky.social · last yr.

Have we also been trained—and trained our grads—that we only have time to read books’ introductions, which are often available online? Why buy the book if you only “need” to read the first 25 pgs? We need a culture of deeper reading practices, but that seems antithetical to the academic horse race

Ken Wissoker @kwissoker.bsky.social · last yr.

Here's a long thread on an issue dear to my heart. This Tuesday evening I’m doing an Intellectual Publics with Macarena Gomez-Barris on publishing. Like last year’s conversation with Denise Cruz, or the prior year’s with Racquel Gates, we will talk about how to find a publisher, turn a thesis... 1/

James Leo Cahill@jamesleocahill.bsky.social · last yr.

Okay LA... @bleudeciel.bsky.social is bringing the gang back together. Join us at Cal Tech on June 5-6 if you can, I'll be speaking on the 5th about Perut and Osnovikoff's Los Reyes, how to lie (down) like a dog, and the grundwerk of the great derangement of the senses.

Brian Jacobson@bleudeciel.bsky.social · last yr.

LA-area folks, please join us next week, June 5-6, at Caltech, for a meeting of the Anthropocene Media Working Group with 2 days of talks and conversation. Details and registration here: www.hss.caltech.edu/news-and-eve...

Brian Jacobson@bleudeciel.bsky.social · last yr.

One of our terrific undergrads turned Super Mario Brothers into a critique of American healthcare and published it in @invisibleculture.bsky.social magazine.caltech.edu/post/the-pri...

The Price to Live: A Video Game Takes on Healthcare — Caltech Magazine

By Cynthia Eller  In the winter of 2024, Pranav Patil (BS ’24) had an epiphany. A Caltech computer science major from San Diego, Patil was considering which classes he should take in his final ...

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Philip Leventhal@philipleventhal.bsky.social · last yr.

In an excellent interview w/ @thr.com, Brian Jacobson (@bleudeciel.bsky.social) talks about Hollywood's longstanding relationship to the oil industry and his new book, THE CINEMA OF EXTRACTIONS. www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/bus... @columbiaup.bsky.social

Hollywood Has Always Gushed About Fossil Fuels

From the silent era to the oil-crazed '50s to today, the two industries have been inextricably linked, says the author of the book 'Cinema of Extractions.'

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