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Joel Neville Anderson @joelnanderson.bsky.social · 8h

👟 The Last 10, a beautiful NYC Marathon tradition. Good luck next week, runners!

Empty stands at partially constructed NYC Marathon finish line.

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J. Mijin Cha @jmijin.bsky.social · 2d

This is so depressing and their intent is so obvious. I need all the, "AI is here to stay, we need to adapt to it," to read this and tell me what is the end game? It's definitely not improving student learning outcomes!

Higher Ed’s Rush To Adopt AI Is About So Much More Than AI | Defector

If you don’t work at a university or have college-age kids, you may have missed the flurry of news stories and social media banter about AI adoption in higher ed, stories which have snowballed into th...

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Manan Ahmed @sepoy.bsky.social · 4d

India's denial of entry to Prof Francesca Orsini is another marker in the grave threats to academic freedom globally.

Globally Renowned Scholar of Hindi Deported from Delhi Airport Despite Valid Visa

Francesa Orsini is perhaps the fourth foreign scholar with a valid visa to be denied entry in recent years.

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Ritika @suninthebelly.bsky.social · 4d

LA folks, don't miss this Thursday's screening of short experimental films from India: 'Nation and its Fragments' co-curated by Sean Batton and me at the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures.

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johnedwinmason @johnedwinmason.bsky.social · 5d

Teach at my alma mater! Great city. Great school. And you'll have a great mix of students. I especially appreciated all my first-gen classmates & classmates who were returning to school after being in the workforce or military. That's how it was at least. Hope it still is.

Rebecca Wingo @rebeccawingo.bsky.social · 6d

It's been a while, but I have exciting news! Our department is hiring a Digital Historian with a specialization in Early America. Help us spread the word by sharing this opportunity within your networks. #DigitalHistory #DH #HigherEdJobs

jobs.uc.edu/job/Cincinna...

Assistant Professor in Digital and Early American History, Department of History, College of A&S

jobs.uc.edu

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Joel Neville Anderson @joelnanderson.bsky.social · 5d

Han Kang’s “We Do Not Part” has a very moving approach to narratives of war and violence in which the boundaries between dreams, the living, the dead, literature, and documentary are unclear. The use of birds in a few specific portions is incredible—would love to know what you think.

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Joel Neville Anderson @joelnanderson.bsky.social · 6d

MASS MoCA artist and writer studio residency program (due Nov. 1, 2025) massmoca.org/studios/

The Studios at MASS MoCA | MASS MoCA

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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 8d

‘What I do with my body is none of your business’: musician Beverly Glenn-Copeland on trans rights, cult stardom and living with dementia

His music was ignored for decades. Now, at 81, he is collaborating with pop stars. He and his wife talk about his extraordinary life – and facing severe illness

www.theguardian.com

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Ian Carrillo @iansociologo.bsky.social · 7d

Put this in the history books.

Julie Cohen ❌👑 @filmmakerjulie.bsky.social · 7d

MSNBC Live coverage: @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social interviewing a pink unicorn on live television is giving me life. #NoKings

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Joel Neville Anderson @joelnanderson.bsky.social · 7d

Ran into more Ghibli fans during today’s jog #NoKings

Person wearing t-shirt with an illustration of Porco Rosso featuring a quote from Hayao Miyazaki’s titular 1992 anime: “Better a pig, than a fascist”

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Heba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social · 7d

As promised, if you’re inspired by the march today but don’t know how else to get involved, how to sustainably fight fascism, that can look a few different ways. Here’s a thread of thoughts, short of nationwide withholding of labor / sustained protest:

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Shelley Stamp @shelleystamp.bsky.social · 9d

⭐️Poetics and Politics returns to UC Santa Cruz! Organized by my wonderful colleagues. CFP below. Join us in the redwoods!⭐️
poeticsandpolitics.ucsc.edu

Poetics and Politics | A Documentary Research Symposium | May 14-17, 2026

poeticsandpolitics.ucsc.edu

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Nontheatrical Film and Media Scholarly Interest Group SCMS @nontheatricalscms.bsky.social · 11d

CFP — “The Amateur Reconsidered: Media, Labor, Publics”
Spectator Special Issue (Volume 46.2 Fall 2026)

Essay submissions due December 1, 2025.

See images with alt text here and in thread for CFP details. 1/

Spectator Special Issue: The Amateur Reconsidered: Media, Labor, Publics (Volume 46.2 Fall 2026)

The category of the “amateur” has long been marked by instability. Etymologically linked to love (amator), the amateur historically signified passion and connoisseurship, yet in modern usage it has oscillated between devotion and dilettantism. This semantic tension has shaped how amateur practice has been positioned within aesthetic discourse, labor history, and the formation of the public sphere.
Cinema and media studies has repeatedly returned to amateurism to both dismiss it and laud its critical and creative possibilities. Accounts of home movies and small-gauge film cultures once considered them part of the marginalia of personal or domestic life, but scholarship has since demonstrated their aesthetic, social, and historical significance. Scholarship, including Patricia Zimmermann’s foundational work, has situated amateur media within broader institutional and discursive frameworks, from the formation of aesthetic norms in clubs and contests to the intersections of labor history, expertise, and the public/private divide. Simultaneously, amateur practice has been examined as a counter-aesthetic and an alternative mode of production, as in Maya Deren’s “Amateur Versus Professional” (1959), which framed amateur film as resistant to the industrial logics of Hollywood. Yet amateurism has also been understood as politically mobilized: Soviet avant-garde circles and interwar Japanese movements such as Prokino envisioned the amateur as a figure of collectivism, workers’ culture, and social transformation. These diverse trajectories indicate that amateurism has never been a singular phenomenon, but rather a contested and heterogeneous category that both reflects and unsettles the boundaries of cultural production and consumption.

At a moment when digital platforms both amplify non-professional production and intensify regimes of credentialization, amateurism demands renewed critical scrutiny. How might the consideration of amateur practice illuminate shifting conceptions of authorship, expertise, and creativity? In what ways does amateurism negotiate or contest the professionalization of cultural life? And how might the figure of the amateur reframe our understandings of mediation, publicness, and the politics of work and play?

This special issue of Spectator seeks contributions that interrogate amateurism as a theoretical and historical category across media forms and cultural contexts. We welcome essays that draw from diverse archives and methodologies, including studies of amateur film and video, domestic and vernacular media, digital platforms, and transnational amateur practices.

Possible topics include, but are not limited to:
Histories and theories of amateur media
Digital platforms and amateur media
Amateur media in a transnational/global context
The politics of amateurism
The aesthetics of amateur media
Leisure, hobbies, audienceship, and labor
Home movies
Fandom
Preservation and archival practices regarding amateur media
Pedagogical approaches to amateur media
Book reviews of recent scholarship examining amateur media

Deadline for Submission: December 1, 2025

Spectator is a biannual publication by the University of Southern California, School of Cinematic Arts, Division of Cinema & Media Studies.
Manuscripts to be considered for publication should be sent to:

Issue Editor: Wakae Nakane
USC School of Cinematic Arts
900 W. 34th St. Suite 320
Los Angeles, CA-90089
wnakane@usc.edu

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Lori Emerson @loriemerson.net · 17d

if you were to teach a class on the pre/history of AI in terms of key concepts ideas, what would they be? the mind/body problem? abstraction vs materialism? history of the database? automation?

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Joel Neville Anderson @joelnanderson.bsky.social · 14d

So many good ideas here. I'll add Anita Say Chan's "Networking Peripheries: Technological Futures of Digital Universalism."

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Joel Neville Anderson @joelnanderson.bsky.social · 14d

Autumn running in NYC 🍂👟❤️

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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 14d

The promotion of pseudoscience about a supposed “cause” or “cure” of autism and the destruction of special education (and all of public education, really) are part of the same project. It is a fascist attempt to expel certain people from the body politic, based in eugenics.

Sara Partridge, PhD @sarapartridge.bsky.social · 14d

There are reports that the *entire* office of special education at the US Dept of Education has been cut. These hardworking folks ensure kids with disabilities get equal access to a quality education.

America’s children deserve better than this.

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Makia Matsumura @unpianistique.bsky.social · 14d

Preparation underway at @japansociety.org for tonight’s Ozu screening with live accompaniment! 📽️🎞️🎹 @jsfilmnyc.bsky.social

“That Night’s Wife” (その夜の妻), showtime at 6pm, for more info & tickets: japansociety.org/events/that-...

#yasijiroozu #小津安二郎
#shigehikohasumi #蓮實重彦
#silentfilm #livemusic

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 17d

repost this if an editor has ever saved you from yourself

violent alien @blipstress.bsky.social · 17d

An actual hot take: Too many authors are afraid of editors watering down their voice or whatever and not afraid enough of editors letting you put any old slop on the page.

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SCMS Queer and Trans Caucus @scmsqtc.bsky.social · 18d

The Board of the SCMS Queer and Trans Caucus is seeking submissions for the 2025 Chris Holmlund Graduate Student Writing Prize!

Nov 15, 2025 - All Submissions Due
Dec 15, 2025 - Winner Selected
Mar 15, 2026 - Winner Article Revised for Publication

MORE INFO: drive.google.com/file/d/1ZICp...

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Digital Ecologies @digicologies.bsky.social · 19d

🌐🚨 CALL FOR PAPERS 🚨🌐

'The Visual Politics of Digital Ecologies'

🗓️ 2-3 February 2026
📍 @oxfordgeography.bsky.social

We invite one-word titles (e.g. hallucinating, zooming, obscuring, glitching, generating)

Deadline: 14th November

Full info: digicologies.com/cfp

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J Hoberman @jhoberman.bsky.social · 19d

Ken Jacobs (1933-2025)

A great artist, a wonderful teacher, & speaking personally, a close friend for over 50 years. Linking to a piece I wrote to mark his 80th birthday.

www.nytimes.com/2013/05/19/m...

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Frameline @framelinefestival.bsky.social · Sep 25

No need to pull an all-nighter...we've extended the Completion Fund deadline to October 10!

Put the final touches on your LGBTQ+ film and submit it ASAP at frameline.org/completionfund 🏁🏳️‍🌈

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New Left Review @newleftreview.bsky.social · Aug 28

For Sidecar, Erika Balsom on Kamal Aljafari’s new film 'With Hasan in Gaza':

'Against all these crimes of extermination, every second of this documentary is an archive of presence, demanding recognition and remembrance.'

newleftreview.org/sidecar/post...

Erika Balsom, No More — Sidecar

Kamal Aljafari’s ‘With Hasan in Gaza’.

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Marc Steinberg @msteinbrg.bsky.social · 23d

Anyone writing a book on platforms right now, there's new series for you! Edited by some of the finest people (and editors!) in platform studies, consider publishing with Platform Societies:
link.springer.com/series/60334

Platform Societies

This new Palgrave series recognises the need for a book series dedicated to critical and cutting-edge research on digital platforms’ potential and power to ...

link.springer.com

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