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Benjamín Schultz-Figueroa

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Associate Professor of Film and Media Studies at Seattle University. Author of The Celluloid Specimen: Moving Image Research into Animal Life available from UC Press here: https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520342347/the-celluloid-specimen

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Benjamín Schultz-Figueroa @benjaminschultzfig.bsky.social · Nov 29

Obligatory book promotion post for the new platform. Check out my @ucpress.bsky.social book THE CELLULOID SPECIMEN: MOVING IMAGE RESEARCH INTO ANIMAL LIFE for free here:

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The Celluloid Specimen

A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press’s Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. In The Celluloid Specimen, ...

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Dolly Jørgensen @dollyjorgensen.bsky.social · 10d

Apply for this free PhD course on Energy Humanities in Stavanger, Norway!

Please pass the opportunity on to students you know. Students from anywhere are welcome.

#envhum #envhist

Melina Antonia Buns @melinabuns.bsky.social · 26d

I am really excited to announce the call for the PhD Course in Energy Humanities!

Held at the @greenhouseuis.net from 1-5 December.

Applications are welcome until 24 October.

#envhum #envhist #energyhistory

Poster showing a wind turbine from frog perspective. The picture is in light pink and blue nuances and announces a PhD course in energy humanities. More information can be found in this website. https://www.uis.no/en/research/collaboration/the-greenhouse-centre-for-environmental-humanities/humanities/apply-for-phd

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The Ignyte Awards @theignyteawards.bsky.social · 13h

Congratulations @soniasulaiman.bsky.social on winning the #2025IgnyteAwards in Outstanding Anthology/Collected Works for THYME TRAVELERS: AN ANTHOLOGY OF PALESTINIAN SPECULATIVE FICTION

2025 Winner Outstanding Anthology/Collected Works - THYME TRAVELLERS: AN ANTHOLOGY OF PALESTINIAN SPECULATIVE FICTION edited by Sonia Sulaiman

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Ole Birk Laursen @olebirklaursen.bsky.social · 2d

I have uploaded the Swedish anarchist periodicals "Röda Fanor" and "Under Röd Flagg" to archive.org. They will soon be linked to the list of digitized anarchist periodicals (LIDIAP) website as well.

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

Then read @johnlangan.bsky.social's shoet story "Technicolor" that's partially about Masque of the Red Death. It's so good!

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

I think the questions of who can beat Trump, etc al. and who will make them face consequences need to be disambiguated. I can actually see Schumer and Jeffries' approach winning electorally next time, but, as we saw with Biden, that will not be the same as defeating American fascism.

Graham Platner for Senate @grahamformaine.bsky.social · 16h

We have armed secret police kidnapping people off the street based on the color of their skin.

When we win: we will haul them before a Senate committee. The masks will come off. There will be consequences.

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Benjamín Schultz-Figueroa @benjaminschultzfig.bsky.social · 10h

*"et al." Darn autocorrect!

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Graham Platner for Senate @grahamformaine.bsky.social · 16h

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

Absolutely

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

*"be" not "ve"

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

It would ve exciting to see an institution really constructed to facilitate academic work in this landscape. One that was run by academics explicitly to facilitate generative conversation and, yes, networking. As it is, this usually only happens despite the platforms themselves.

Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 16h

Ya, I agree. I’m profoundly ambivalent bc this was very much the academic moment I grew up in and obviously I value the conversations like this one we’re having that emerge from the network landscape.

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

Right! I do think it's important to note that so much of the exciting work I see is being done by people who are not in the traditional centers of academia. For instance, very little ivy league profs are doing interesting work in these areas (IMO).

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

I agree. And yet, I also think there are some very dynamic new communities being built around subfields. For instance, the work I see in documentary studies, nontheatrical film, and operational cinema seem to be engaging in a coherent, generative conversation between a cohort of scholars.

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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 19h

Feels like in the 2000-2010s there was this sea change in academia where young scholars were supposed to brand themselves in this or that way to be competitive on the market, but 3 market collapses later it feels like the pivot simply led to atomized individualistic approaches to illegible fields

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Benjamín Schultz-Figueroa @benjaminschultzfig.bsky.social · 17h

Howard Hughes with giant beard and homemade shoes

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Benjamín Schultz-Figueroa @benjaminschultzfig.bsky.social · 1d

Speaking of, a question I left with was whether folk horror from countries outside Europe and North America follow the same general storyline of modern ppl entering remote wilderness/community to be overtaken by old gods and belief systems. All the examples I can think of don't have this structure.

Benjamín Schultz-Figueroa @benjaminschultzfig.bsky.social · 1d

Just finished my first Adam L.G. Neville book, The Ritual. Feeling exhilarated and frantic. Reading Cunning Folk next.

a pink and white frog with a wig on its head is sitting in the grass

ALT: a pink and white frog with a wig on its head is sitting in the grass

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Benjamín Schultz-Figueroa @benjaminschultzfig.bsky.social · 18h

Yes, I'm sure they are in fact very different people.

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Benjamín Schultz-Figueroa @benjaminschultzfig.bsky.social · 1d

I am notoriously bad at identifying celebrities and I think today is the first time I realized Jared Leto and Jake Gyllenhaal are different people.

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Benjamín Schultz-Figueroa @benjaminschultzfig.bsky.social · 19h

Interesting to think about this in the context of climate change, which so many theorists have argued is reinserting the real.

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Eryk Salvaggio @eryk.bsky.social · 1d

“If it makes you laugh, who cares if it’s AI?” Well, I care because my laughter and aesthetic pleasure is not how I determine whether a thing is ethical or good for society. I like how the sun bounces off of oil slicks in parking lots, does not mean I want oil spills everywhere.

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Benjamín Schultz-Figueroa @benjaminschultzfig.bsky.social · 1d

I sure hope this is true, but I find it very easy to imagine many of the same people that are outraged now returning to being pro-police if the Democrats win back power

Benjamín Schultz-Figueroa @benjaminschultzfig.bsky.social · 1d

Yeah. I mean, I get it, but I'm not really a big Oscars watcher either. Also, I may have been *slightly* overstating things for effect. It's more that I need to take time to remind myself which is which whenever I see them.

Benjamín Schultz-Figueroa @benjaminschultzfig.bsky.social · 1d

Ha! I am! But my areas of study don't really have much to do with celebrities, thankfully.

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Benjamín Schultz-Figueroa @benjaminschultzfig.bsky.social · 1d

Presumably? Though I haven't really seen any convincing evidence.

Benjamín Schultz-Figueroa @benjaminschultzfig.bsky.social · 1d

I am notoriously bad at identifying celebrities and I think today is the first time I realized Jared Leto and Jake Gyllenhaal are different people.

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Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 1d

Blinken should not be allowed in respectable company and should have been prosecuted as a war criminal.

Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 1d

Incredible that this man thinks he can gaslight us into thinking he couldn’t have stopped the genocide, that he wasn’t a collaborator par excellence.

Blinken:

(2/12) First, what changed to make this breakthrough possible? Hamas is finally and fully isolated. Arab states and Turkey have said “enough.” The misery Hamas provoked and would allow to persist has delegitimized it among most Gazans. And Hamas realized that the cavalry (Iran, Hezbollah, the Houthis) are not coming to the rescue.

(3/12) Israel has long since achieved its war aims -- destroying Hamas as an organized military force so October 7 can never be repeated and eliminating those responsible for its horrors – but at terrible cost to Palestinian civilians caught in a crossfire they did not start and were powerless to stop. Only the hostages remained. Israelis want them home and the war to end, putting pressure on the Israeli government to take the deal, not move the goalposts.

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