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Film scholar @ Goethe Uni Frankfurt. Research: http://konfigurationen-des-films.de http://ceditraa.net https://age-c.eu/ Editor of https://meson.press/series-page/configurations-of-film/ https://www.aup.nl/en/series/film-theory-in-media-history

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Vinzenz Hediger @vinzenzhediger.bsky.social · Aug 10

“In essence, the 2025 festival reaffirmed the central role of cultural memory in shaping Nigeria’s creative future.” @daadworldwide.bsky.social @goetheuni.bsky.social @goetheinstitut-mtl.bsky.social

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Decasia 2025: Breathing new life into Nigeria’s cinematic memory

THE third edition of Decasia, a heritage film festival jointly organised by the Nigerian Film Corporation (NFC) and its international partners, concluded on a high note in Lagos. Held from July 27 …

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Vinzenz Hediger @vinzenzhediger.bsky.social · 9h

Die Rede ist hier vom Träger des Frank-Schirrmacher-Preises 2021.

Old White Nepo Hat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 14h

Every time someone makes me read something Peter Thiel said it’s like “Scrooge McDuck is Jesus Christ and Huey, Dewey, and Louie are Gabriel, Raphael, and Uriel and Daisy is Mary Magdalene and that’s why women voting has lowered American sperm count.”

Vinzenz Hediger @vinzenzhediger.bsky.social · 9h

It's called "underground film" for a reason.

the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 17h

In 2004, Parisian police were conducting a training exercise in the french catacombs and found, after moving past a desk and a tape playing audio of snarling dogs, a fully functional movie theater and bar. When they returned 3 days later, the equipment was gone, with a note: “Do not try to find us.”

Members of the force's sports squad, responsible
- among other tasks - for policing the 170 miles of tunnels, caves, galleries and catacombs that underlie large parts of Paris, stumbled on the complex while on a training exercise beneath the Palais de Chaillot, across the Seine from the Eiffel Tower.
After entering the network through a drain next to the Trocadero, the officers came across a tarpaulin marked: Building site, No access.
Behind that, a tunnel held a desk and a closed-circuit TV camera set to automatically record images of anyone passing. The mechanism also triggered a tape of dogs barking, "clearly designed to frighten people off," the spokesman said.
Further along, the tunnel opened into a vast 400 sq metre cave some 18m underground, "like an underground amphitheatre, with terraces cut into the rock and chairs".

There the police found a full-sized cinema screen, projection equipment, and tapes of a wide variety of films, including 1950s film noir classics and more recent thrillers. None of the films were banned or even offensive, the spokesman said.
A smaller cave next door had been turned into an informal restaurant and bar. "There were bottles of whisky and other spirits behind a bar, tables and chairs, a pressure-cooker for making couscous," the spokesman said.
"The whole thing ran off a professionally installed electricity system and there were at least three phone lines down there."
Three days later, when the police returned accompanied by experts from the French electricity board to see where the power was coming from, the phone and electricity lines had been cut and a note was lying in the middle of the floor: "Do not," it said, "try to find us."

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 1d

Men would rather collapse a government than go to therapy

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Vinzenz Hediger @vinzenzhediger.bsky.social · 17h

No frills massage, Chinatown, NYC

Vinzenz Hediger @vinzenzhediger.bsky.social · 18h

Glad to see we agree on Luther. Also with you on everything else here.

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Judah Grunstein @judah-grunstein.bsky.social · 19h

Patti LaBelle's go to 11.

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Vinzenz Hediger @vinzenzhediger.bsky.social · 1d

Paul Thomas Anderson can glue you the screen but can’t write women.

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Justin LaLiberty @jlalibs.com · 1d

What an absolute treasure Diane Keaton was. Her wit never tired, nor did her style.

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Vinzenz Hediger @vinzenzhediger.bsky.social · 1d

*have*

Vinzenz Hediger @vinzenzhediger.bsky.social · 1d

Your occasional reminder that the president does not, in fact, the authority to impose tariffs.

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Shawn Micallef @shawnmicallef.bsky.social · 2d

Our boy's going full Liberation Theology maybe, which is bad for everybody because I will start talking about my MA thesis incessantly.

Pope Leo blasts elitism, indifference toward poor in first major document

"I am convinced that the preferential choice for the poor is a source of extraordinary renewal both for the church and for society," the pope wrote in Dilexi Te.

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Vinzenz Hediger @vinzenzhediger.bsky.social · 1d

Wenn alle Bücher aus einem Buchmesse-Gastland von derselben Übersetzerin ins Deutsche übertragen wurden:

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„Auf keinen Fall die koloniale Geste des Überschreibens wiederholen“

Die Philippinen sind Gastland bei der am 14. Oktober eröffnenden Frankfurter Buchmesse. Aus dem Filipino ins Deutsche übertragen hat die Bücher alle die Schweizer Schriftstellerin Annette Hug

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Vinzenz Hediger @vinzenzhediger.bsky.social · 2d

Just the classics

Vinzenz Hediger @vinzenzhediger.bsky.social · 2d

One month in of my current residency at Dartmouth I can report that the United States of America are pretty great, were it not for those who wish to make it great again.

Vinzenz Hediger @vinzenzhediger.bsky.social · 2d

I am in the US right now and find it very confusing that there is a soccer game between the same country.

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Matthew L Reznicek @drreznicek.bsky.social · 3d

The Reverend Mother of Antifa

a woman is standing in a field of grass with mountains in the background .

ALT: a woman is standing in a field of grass with mountains in the background .

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Vinzenz Hediger @vinzenzhediger.bsky.social · 2d

She dedicated the prize to Trump in a twitter post.

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Ned Richardson-Little @historyned.bsky.social · 2d

The German government is currently trying to get people to work more while also not properly funding childcare to actually give people time to do that work. Similar to underfunding public transit and killing bike lanes to be pro-car when its just pro-traffic. Some systemic thinking would be nice...

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Vinzenz Hediger @vinzenzhediger.bsky.social · 2d

So it's really Nobel Peace Prize for extrajudicial murders of Caribbean fishermen.

Vinzenz Hediger @vinzenzhediger.bsky.social · 2d

Germany also made an offer which was that they could pay for their institute themselves but would get free Exzellenz stickers for their office doors.

Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 2d

Immigrant Nobel Prize winners exiting the United States

Florian Scheuer @florianscheuer.bsky.social · 2d

I am delighted to share that Nobel laureates Esther Duflo and Abhijit Banerjee will join our Department of Economics @econ.uzh.ch at the University of Zurich on July 1, 2026, as Lemann Foundation Professors of Economics.

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 4d

repost this if an editor has ever saved you from yourself

violent alien @blipstress.bsky.social · 4d

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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Vinzenz Hediger @vinzenzhediger.bsky.social · 3d

French Theory for the win

Judah Grunstein @judah-grunstein.bsky.social · 3d

If you wanted to script a scenario to perfectly vindicate the work of Jean Baudrillard, it would be Trump II.

A simulacra of a president running a simulation of a presidency, based on simulacra of news broadcast by simulations of news media.

Baudrillard is to Trump II what Foucault was to GWB.

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Vinzenz Hediger @vinzenzhediger.bsky.social · 4d

Sounds like a plan.

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

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Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social · 4d

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

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