My good friend, Victor, who is not on Bluesky has published his first book in French on the work of Radu Jude. Available to buy in French bookshops or online at 202 éditions.
Got a new google scholar notification, so I go check and find this very cool poem by Wang Jibing 王计兵, the recent Lu Xun prize winner, prefacing a PhD thesis on women migrant workers and the gig economy PhD students in all disciplines: more poems in theses please, we love to see them! ✨💫
Day 1 of the French Theory & Contemporary Screen Studies conference, in Trinity College Dublin, kicking off this morning.
Cannot recommend the department, the supervisor or the wider research community at Trinity enough!! Happy to answer any questions prospective applicants might have from the perspective of a doctoral student at TCD
Jennifer O’Meara@jomeara.bsky.social · 4mo agoHiring: 4 funded PhDs for project on Acoustics & Immersive Storytelling via the cultural space of @tcddublin.bsky.social's Long Room. I'm PI for a screen studies + digital arts project on a/v media experiences, building on modes from expanded cinema, XR & massive media. dh.tcd.ie/projects-2/f...
I haven’t seen this level of aspirational bad assery since Hepburn in the first 20 minutes of Woman of the Year.
if you work in a UK uni, drop everything and read this (not news to many of us, but sobering to have the dots joined up; the stories are outrageous and heartbreaking)
‘I see it as trafficking’: the brutal reality of life as a foreign student in the UK
The long read: Universities in Britain rely on overseas applicants paying full fees, which has given rise to some unscrupulous recruiters and left many hopefuls and their families deep in debt
theguardian.com
Jenny Holzer, Untitled ("In a Dream..."), from The Survival Series, 1983–85
I'm happy to announce you can now read my article 'Wes (AI)nderson: Fan Participation and the Auteur in the Age of Algorithmic Reproduction'. makingsjournal.com/tiktok-wes-a...
TikTok Wes (AI)nderson: Fan participation and the auteur in the age of algorithmic reproduction – Makings Journal
makingsjournal.com
"The 45-second film, made around 1897, was the first appearance on film of what might be called a robot" HELL. YES.
Lost 19th century film by Méliès discovered at the Library | Timeless
Library conservators recently made a startling discovery in a batch of decaying film reels -- a long-lost 1897 film by early cinema icon George Méliès. The French magician-turned-filmmaker's
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Please enjoy this photo of Adorno in full Halloween costume with his family.
If Fbook's purchase of Oculus in 2014 was the start of VR hype, Meta's reduction of Reality Labs is an official end of that chapter. But don't be fooled, Meta still wants to put a screen between you and the world. It's more pernicious, in the form of always-on, AI infused Ray-Bans. The cycle repeats
Meta Plans to Cut Around 10% of Employees in Reality Labs Business
nytimes.com
In case you missed it, Film @tcddublin.bsky.social & Dr Corey Cribb have a CfP out for an international conference on French Theory and Contemporary Screen Studies next June @tlrhub.bsky.social. Abstracts due in January. Please share with anyone who might be interested! www.tcd.ie/ahss/news-an...
at last an almost perfect, still lacking, sign thanks aranye fradenburg joy
acab includes whoever decided you need to enter a code to get into the ifi toilets
RIP Diane Keaton- such sad news, what an incredible talent. You probably didn't know she collected clown paintings by amateur artists, eventually publishing an entire book devoted to them
Diane Keaton created new ways for women on screen to laugh, think, cry, age, and, yes, dress. She was flinty and vulnerable and so much everything all at once. I, for one, wouldn’t be me without her.
I am so delighted to announce that my desktop documentary "Google Mapping Blow-Up: A Desktop Remediation" has been published in issue 22 of Frames Cinema Journal. I want to thank Yuanxin Chu, Rachel Ng & Camila Contreras-Langlois for their work on this issue. framescinemajournal.com/article/goog...
Google Mapping Blow-Up: A Desktop Remediation
DOI: https://doi.org/10.15664/fcj.v22.i0.2997 This desktop documentary (https://vimeo.com/1121241319) retraces the London filming locations of Michelangelo Antonioni’s Blow-Up (1966) via Google Maps…
framescinemajournal.com
Scholarly orgs based in the U.S. that purport to be "international" are going to need to come to terms with what it means to continue holding their in-person gatherings in a country many people cannot travel to or no longer feel safe visiting for all kinds of reasons.
A statement by the Historical Materialism Editorial Board on the censorship and ideological silencing with which the Historical Materialism Paris Conference has had to deal.
Statement by the Editorial Board of Historical Materialism - Historical Materialism
As the editorial board of Historical Materialism, we would like to express our condemnation, indignation and anger regarding the unprecedented forms of censorship and ideological silencing with which ...
historicalmaterialism.org
huge implications for film theory here
Gillian Branstetter@gbbranstetter.bsky.social · last yr.What a rich text
A Chicago Pope implies the existence of an MLA Pope and APA Pope
you don't need to be jacques lacan to see how desperately transmuting material loss into symbolic gain is really just slapping a fancy new signifier atop a yawning black hole but hey it doesn't hurt
