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Pietro Bianchi
@pietrobianch1.bsky.social
Living between Gainesville (Florida) and Bergamo (Italy) | Assistant Professor in Film Studies and Critical Theory at the University of Florida | film critic at e-flux, Cineforum, Doppiozero, DinamoPress
My second and final dispatch from Cannes is out today on @eflux.bsky.social This time on Ari Aster,Spike Lee, Christian Petzold, Fatima Hassouna, the Tabor Collective, Jafar Panahi, Kleber Mendonça Filho and Bi Gan. See you next year Cannes. You’ve been good this time www.e-flux.com/notes/673042...
Cannes 2025 Dispatch, Pt. 2 - Notes - e-flux
Pietro Bianchi reflects on the unlikely endurance of the image, in the second of two reports from Cannes 2025.
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My first dispatch from Cannes is out today on @eflux.bsky.social : some initial reflections on the festival, along with thoughts on Mascha Schilinski’s and Pedro Pinho’s films. So far, so good but more to come early next week www.e-flux.com/notes/671976...
Cannes 2025 Dispatch, Pt. 1 - Notes - e-flux
Pietro Bianchi reflects on the “festival film,” in the first of two reports from Cannes 2025.
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FILMING CAPITAL special issue of SAQ, coming in fall, thanks to excellent editors @pietrobianch1.bsky.social and @joshuaharoldwiebe.bsky.social some of everything you ever wanted to know about cinema and phantasmagoria, migrant worker documentaries, hollywood finance, and of course, HEISTS !
cannot express how excited I am for this special issue of SAQ that @pietrobianch1.bsky.social & I edited to be in the world!!! filled to the brim with brilliant pieces by brilliant people! coming in october!! hope the world is still around to see it!
ETICA & POLITICA ETHICS & POLITICS XXVII, 2025, 1 www.units.it/etica First of two Symposia I am co-editing with #StefanoBreda on #MichaelHeinrich #ScienceofValue Italian edition Bianchi; Cesarale; Consolati; Engster; Munro; Redolfi Riva & Taccola; Schimmenti; Turano; Turchetto; Vertova; Heinrich
I contributed a piece on a sexy topic like “abstract labor” on a symposium on Michael Heinrich “Science of Value” in the latest issue of Ethics&Politics sites.units.it//etica/2025_...
Today on @eflux.bsky.social Notes I wrote about “Story of a Communist,” the first of three volumes of Toni Negri’s autobiography that has just been published in English. It is also a tribute, a little over a year after his passing. Viva Toni! www.e-flux.com/notes/663953...
In Praise of a Dinosaur: Toni Negri - Notes - e-flux
Pietro Bianchi reviews the first volume of Antonio Negri’s autobiography.
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On April 11 in Gainesville, FL Organized by me and @alialtafmian.bsky.social Poster generously provided by Cabot Cove
@sbrodsky.bsky.social making me blush
@pietrobianch1.bsky.social is one of our greatest living thinkers and analysts of film, video, television. I could listen to him anytime, anywhere, he always makes me see and imagine more and better. A perfect example, here!—
The recording of my talk at @eflux.bsky.social is now online. If you want the misfortune of hearing me rambling about psychoanalysis, the optical unconscious, the gaze and the digital image for more than an hour, here is your chance. vimeo.com/1058822880/7...
2/27/25 - Pietro Bianchi
This is "2/27/25 - Pietro Bianchi" by e-flux on Vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the people who love them.
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at an academic conference in columbus OH now. few hundred registered participants, 20% are not presenters. they are social service providers, endocrinologists, amazon wearhouse workers, here to soak up knowledge. people hunger for ideas, meaning, togetherness. fight for the freedom to learn!
Walz: I think they hate public education because it’s easier to run an authoritarian government if you don’t have a population that knows.
In person and in Italian, but if you’re around Bologna (I’ll be online from Gainesville)
I'll give a talk at e-flux titled "The Optical Unconscious in the Digital Age". It's on Feb 27 at 7pm. If you're in New York hit me up www.e-flux.com/events/65204...
Pietro Bianchi: The Optical Unconscious in the Digital Age - Events - e-flux
A lecture by Pietro Bianchi on the framework of the optical unconscious in our contemporary digital universe.
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