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Berkeley prof and author

Joined May 2022
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this issue is now open access and it's really very very good. brilliant essays by @annashechtman -"the voice" of the internet @kukukadoo -emblems as the ur-meme @immanenceftw -meme as compression @genevieveyue -chatbots +dogs + super intro by @HowManyCooks, @miaminjungyou
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Out today! Meme Aesthetics, co-edited w Stephen Best and @miaminjungyou. Available open access for a short time.
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The #WeeklyRead is "Revisiting Postmodernism: An Interview with Fredric Jameson" with Nico Baumbach, Damon R. Young, and Genevieve Yue. The interview was published in a special issue of Social Text (127). Read the interview for free: ow.ly/ajjt50Txxyh @STCollective
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10th anniversary issue of Porn Studies out today with a series of sparkling pieces revisiting the work of Linda Williams and developing new theories. My introduction, “The Fantasy of Pornography,” is open access. tandfonline.com/toc/rprn20/1…
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this is great, and helpful thx!
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Replying to @bungarsargon
batya, when did you decide to make a career out of saying things you know to be untrue? i hope you have a good analyst.
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Berkeley Film & Media is also seeking an assistant professor working in any area of film or media history/historiography: aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF04…
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Berkeley Film & Media is seeking an assistant professor of Native American/Indigenous media, which could be in terms of production/art practice and/or history and theory. aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF04…
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Replying to @Eve_Barlow
“rat tunnels”? Are you aware “rats” is an antisemitic trope you are deploying against Palestinians? (Can you recognize the existence of Palestinians or as anything other than “terrorists” - or “rats”?) From a grandchild of Holocaust survivors : Learn from history please.
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in which they failed to defend crucial values of academic freedom, the police action seems like capitulation to forces outside the university that would like to curtail academic freedom and freedom of expression. (10/16)
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Third, the decision to call the police into campus violated also the important principle of protecting free expression on campus. Coupled with the testimony given by the President Shafik and members of the Board of Trustees in Congress, (9/16)
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As quoted in the Columbia Spectator, the NYPD Chief asserted that “the students that were arrested were peaceful, offered no resistance whatsoever, and were saying what they wanted to say in a peaceful manner.” (5/16)
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Absolutely craven misquotation, Batya. What happened to you?
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i reviewed Doppelgänger by @NaomiAKlein the book has already received a lot of press but i explored the politics of social media in ways i haven’t seen done elsewhere bookforum.com/politics/how-n…
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today! 2-5pm PST
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SPECIAL ISSUE: Critique and the Moving Image I Nico Baumbach discusses interpretations and how, though there are many interpretations of film, not all are equal. mediacommons.org/imr/content…
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Israel claimed there’s a Hamas command and control center under Al-Shifa hospital in Gaza. US media repeated the claims. Once it was clear this wasn’t true, everyone moved on. Palestinians died based on these lies, including ICU patients. This is akin to Iraq WMDs reporting.
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