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Benjamín Schultz-Figueroa @benjaminschultzfig.bsky.social · 16h

Glad I included Mad Max: Fury Road (George Miller, 2015) in Ecocinema. I assigned it because I thought students would like it, but now I'm also reminded it's a fascinating depiction of petromasculinity, which it both reviles and adores. Hoping it'll set up the later session on petrocultures well.

The Bullet Farmer from Mad Max, wearing a ridiculous wig made out of high caliber bullets.

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Benjamín Schultz-Figueroa @benjaminschultzfig.bsky.social · Feb 7

Periodic reshare:

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Juan Meneses | Postpolitics and the Aesthetic Imagination @dissentum.bsky.social · 1h

Stater pack!

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Northwest Film Forum @nwfilmforum.bsky.social · 2h

THIS HALLOWEEN come start the scariest night of the year off right with another newly restored block of some of the BEST cartoons from Fleischer studios. You’ll laugh, cry, shriek, and shiver, as some of Dave Fleischer’s craziest characters and ideas grace our screen in quality unseen until now!

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Benjamín Schultz-Figueroa @benjaminschultzfig.bsky.social · 2h

That said, the discussion of race in the video does make me think there's ample space to explore this type of generalized, uncertain apocalypse from other socioeconomic positions.

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Benjamín Schultz-Figueroa @benjaminschultzfig.bsky.social · Sep 5

Watching Take Shelter (Jeff Nichols, 2011) and it's evoking Kurosawa's film, as well as Safe (Todd Haynes, 1995). The genre of uncertain Apocalyptic films is definitely an interesting one.

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Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 3h

A reminder that Ben Gvir was set to be sanctioned by the United States government in February 2024 but was personally taken off the list by President Biden.

ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 4h

Itamar Ben Gvir is a real monster www.aftonbladet.se/nyheter/a/25...

Greta Thunberg: “They kicked me every time the flag touched my face”

– Greta Thunberg on her days in Israeli captivity Beating, kicking, and threats of being gassed in cages. Greta Thunberg and several others from the flotilla ar

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Chicago Film Archives @chicagofilmarchives.org · 22h

Join us at the University of Chicago's Film Studies Center this Friday at 7pm for a FREE screening of films by Chicago-based photographer, writer, filmmaker, and man-about-town Bill Stamets, who will be appearing in person!

Small Gauge, Big Shoulders: Films by Bill Stamets - Chicago Film Archives

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Benjamín Schultz-Figueroa @benjaminschultzfig.bsky.social · 5h

Thinking all Republicans are racist has long been a go-to example of woke overreach for opinion columnists. Unfortunately, it also happens to be entirely correct.

Politico @politico.com · 1d

EXCLUSIVE: Thousands of leaked messages show leaders of Young Republican groups joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape in a private Telegram chat.

Inside rising GOP leaders’ racist chats — obtained by POLITICO and spanning more than 7 months👇

‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat

Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

www.politico.com

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Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social · 4h

"Everything they do is extremely violent."

Greta Thunberg on Israel:

Excerpt of greta thunberg article in link below

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Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 4h

Greta Thunberg: “Israeli soldiers hit, kicked, starved, and tortured me”

• They placed a flag next to me, and anytime the flag touched me, they kicked me
• Whenever I raised my head to look at Ben-Gvir, I was kicked
• She was filmed while stripped naked

Aftonbladet: tinyurl.com/a33vxatc

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Benjamín Schultz-Figueroa @benjaminschultzfig.bsky.social · 4h

This is also a useful video about the film (though I think the points about race seem a little under-cooked). Does a good job positioning the climate and economic dynamics of the film.

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There is a Storm Coming by Julia Leyda and Kathleen Loock

This video essay explores the storm as a metaphor and structuring device in the 2011 film Take Shelter and links it to the U.S. housing crisis, extractivism, and…

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Benjamín Schultz-Figueroa @benjaminschultzfig.bsky.social · 5h

Yeah. I also think there's are a ton of people that are just totally checked out of politics (often for understandable reasons) who just don't know much about either party.

Benjamín Schultz-Figueroa @benjaminschultzfig.bsky.social · 5h

I should probably qualify this. I don't think everyone who voted for Republicans is a racist. There's a ton of misinformation out there. But anyone who works in politics and is a Republican is 100% a racist.

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Benjamín Schultz-Figueroa @benjaminschultzfig.bsky.social · 5h

Thinking all Republicans are racist has long been a go-to example of woke overreach for opinion columnists. Unfortunately, it also happens to be entirely correct.

Politico @politico.com · 1d

EXCLUSIVE: Thousands of leaked messages show leaders of Young Republican groups joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape in a private Telegram chat.

Inside rising GOP leaders’ racist chats — obtained by POLITICO and spanning more than 7 months👇

‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat

Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

www.politico.com

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Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 6h

Local NJ media not impressed by Booker's nonsensical non answers and whataboutism on Israel-Palestine

elenore @dropthatphone.bsky.social · 6h

It won the subject line in today’s newsletter from down-the-middle New Jersey monitor. Doubt he’ll comment further. His answer to any question of consequence is always “I’m too busy doing THE WORK to answer that” and meanwhile “the work“ seems to be just going on IG live saying he’s doing the work.

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Cory Booker: The hosts of podcast I've Had It grilled Sen. Cory Booker over his support of Israel during the war in Gaza and found something that personally irks myself and many other members of the press:
Some politicians refuse to answer a yes-or-no question, and with Booker there's a particular way he refuses to answer a straight question that frustrates. Here's the first part of that exchange:
Jennifer Welch (host): "Do you think he's a war criminal, Benjamin Netanyahu? Do you think he's a war criminal?"
Booker: "I, again, these are questions that a lot of people think are the important litmus tests that are loaded and hot. My urgency is to be an effective leader in bringing an end to this crisis. And I get these questions all the time that, to me, undermine my urgency."

It undermines his urgency, ladies!!! Welch then expressed frustration that the Democratic Party's leaders don't answer yes-or-no questions, even on that particularly loaded topic. Booker interrupted her to say this: "Here's the yes-or-no that you want. Do I think Netanyahu's worse than Trump? Yes." You should listen to the whole segment. I look forward to the next time Booker gives a reporter from New Jersey 40 minutes of his time (lol).

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Benjamín Schultz-Figueroa @benjaminschultzfig.bsky.social · 16h

It's interesting to watch right after Take Shelter, which is also a film that seems in love with and horrified by a certain type of masculinity as it relates to resource extraction (the main character works for a sand mining company).

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Benjamín Schultz-Figueroa @benjaminschultzfig.bsky.social · 6h

So many good lines!

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Benjamín Schultz-Figueroa @benjaminschultzfig.bsky.social · 6h

I love the line about bullets as death seeds. "You plant them, and watch something die."

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Benjamín Schultz-Figueroa @benjaminschultzfig.bsky.social · 7h

Oh, wow. Did not know about this.

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 14h

I just checked and this is real. It's on Border Patrol's official Instagram (I don't see it on Facebook) and is being celebrated by Nazis on Twitter, as you can see in the screenshot.

The clip is just 13 seconds long too, so it's a very intentional thing. We've got a Nazi government.

Twitter account: Uncensored @HmanQuotes1945: Official border patrol Facebook page is posting with the banned lyrics of Michael Jackson's song.
"Jew me sue me... Kick me k*ke me."
Epic

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 17h

I wish everyone talked to all of them like this all the time

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 19h

"What do you have to say about the capitulation that you participated in?"

Cory Booker clearly wasn't expecting the pushback he got from @ivehaditpodcast.bsky.social

Full interview: youtu.be/HLfzsOVjlxc

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Benjamín Schultz-Figueroa @benjaminschultzfig.bsky.social · 15h

Time does go by fast!

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Benjamín Schultz-Figueroa @benjaminschultzfig.bsky.social · 16h

It's interesting to watch right after Take Shelter, which is also a film that seems in love with and horrified by a certain type of masculinity as it relates to resource extraction (the main character works for a sand mining company).

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Benjamín Schultz-Figueroa @benjaminschultzfig.bsky.social · 16h

Glad I included Mad Max: Fury Road (George Miller, 2015) in Ecocinema. I assigned it because I thought students would like it, but now I'm also reminded it's a fascinating depiction of petromasculinity, which it both reviles and adores. Hoping it'll set up the later session on petrocultures well.

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Benjamín Schultz-Figueroa @benjaminschultzfig.bsky.social · 21h

Mine, but for film (stolen from Walter Benjamin): The experience of laughing, crying, or screaming with an audience full of strangers is a model form of solidarity. We just need to be sure we're laughing at rich people being beaten/humiliated; screaming at their horrors; and crying at their triumphs

John Wiswell @wiswell.bsky.social · 1d

Tell me your most life-affirming literary opinion.

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