Benjamín Schultz-Figueroa
@benjaminschultzfig.bsky.social
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
https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520342347/the-celluloid-specimen
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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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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:
www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520...
www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520...
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A collection of environmental films made by Indigenous filmmakers that I've screened in Ecocinema over the years (shared today for obvious reasons):
1. It Starts with a Whisper (Shelley & Gronau Niro, 1993) vucavu.com/en/cfmdc/199...
1. It Starts with a Whisper (Shelley & Gronau Niro, 1993) vucavu.com/en/cfmdc/199...
It Starts With a Whisper
A celebration of the strength, wisdom, beauty and humour of Native women; of Native culture and people, surviving and thriving.
vucavu.com
November 27, 2025 at 4:53 PM
A collection of environmental films made by Indigenous filmmakers that I've screened in Ecocinema over the years (shared today for obvious reasons):
1. It Starts with a Whisper (Shelley & Gronau Niro, 1993) vucavu.com/en/cfmdc/199...
1. It Starts with a Whisper (Shelley & Gronau Niro, 1993) vucavu.com/en/cfmdc/199...
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Happy Thanksgiving from a slightly menacing James Cagney!
November 27, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Happy Thanksgiving from a slightly menacing James Cagney!
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Who wants to watch me lose my shit completely
November 27, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Who wants to watch me lose my shit completely
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November 27, 2025 at 8:07 PM
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From 2023, a deep dive into Polly Platt's creative labour in '70s and '80s Hollywood. It's a pricey academic book, but your library might have it! (also, I'm happy to share on request).
November 27, 2025 at 7:38 PM
From 2023, a deep dive into Polly Platt's creative labour in '70s and '80s Hollywood. It's a pricey academic book, but your library might have it! (also, I'm happy to share on request).
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I wrote a book about the animal research films made by experimental psychology. It's open-access and includes embedded videos.
Hooray for organic thinking and writing! Share yours!
www.ucpress.edu/books/the-ce...
Hooray for organic thinking and writing! Share yours!
www.ucpress.edu/books/the-ce...
November 26, 2025 at 10:25 PM
I wrote a book about the animal research films made by experimental psychology. It's open-access and includes embedded videos.
Hooray for organic thinking and writing! Share yours!
www.ucpress.edu/books/the-ce...
Hooray for organic thinking and writing! Share yours!
www.ucpress.edu/books/the-ce...
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See also. “The Indigenous art world is grappling with a new form of theft: the scraping and replication of artistic styles using AI.”
GenerativeAI, Mass-Scale Digital Art Heist & Indigenous Dispossession
— Animikii Indigenous Technology
GenerativeAI, Mass-Scale Digital Art Heist & Indigenous Dispossession
animikii.com
November 27, 2025 at 7:11 PM
See also. “The Indigenous art world is grappling with a new form of theft: the scraping and replication of artistic styles using AI.”
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If you want to help someone from Gaza in a non monetary way Reem is working on her degree in journalism and made a short video on a festival in Gaza and needs likes on it www.instagram.com/reel/DRh35XL...
Reem Osama Ismail on Instagram: "بمناسبة عيد الاتحاد الوطني لدولة الإمارات العربية المتحدة وبرعاية كريمة من دولة الإمارات العربيه المتحدة ممثله بعملية الفارس الشهم 3
تم اليوم إتمام قرعة اختيار المش...
Operation Fares Al Shaham 3, a union celebration in Gaza, brings together 48 grooms for a future filled with hope, joy, and positivity, under the patronage of the United Arab Emirates. This initiative...
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November 27, 2025 at 6:44 PM
If you want to help someone from Gaza in a non monetary way Reem is working on her degree in journalism and made a short video on a festival in Gaza and needs likes on it www.instagram.com/reel/DRh35XL...
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Acknowledging and telling the truth about our history, no matter how uncomfortable, is just one way we can honor the experiences of Indigenous peoples and decolonize Thanksgiving.
Swipe to find out more ways to honor and support Indigenous peoples today and each day after.
Swipe to find out more ways to honor and support Indigenous peoples today and each day after.
November 26, 2025 at 9:19 PM
Acknowledging and telling the truth about our history, no matter how uncomfortable, is just one way we can honor the experiences of Indigenous peoples and decolonize Thanksgiving.
Swipe to find out more ways to honor and support Indigenous peoples today and each day after.
Swipe to find out more ways to honor and support Indigenous peoples today and each day after.
A collection of environmental films made by Indigenous filmmakers that I've screened in Ecocinema over the years (shared today for obvious reasons):
1. It Starts with a Whisper (Shelley & Gronau Niro, 1993) vucavu.com/en/cfmdc/199...
1. It Starts with a Whisper (Shelley & Gronau Niro, 1993) vucavu.com/en/cfmdc/199...
It Starts With a Whisper
A celebration of the strength, wisdom, beauty and humour of Native women; of Native culture and people, surviving and thriving.
vucavu.com
November 27, 2025 at 4:53 PM
A collection of environmental films made by Indigenous filmmakers that I've screened in Ecocinema over the years (shared today for obvious reasons):
1. It Starts with a Whisper (Shelley & Gronau Niro, 1993) vucavu.com/en/cfmdc/199...
1. It Starts with a Whisper (Shelley & Gronau Niro, 1993) vucavu.com/en/cfmdc/199...
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I've never been much of a horror western guy, but I'm reading Matheson's Shadow on the Sun and it's making me think I might be ready to take the plunge. Any recommendations from folks, either books or films?
November 27, 2025 at 12:27 AM
I've never been much of a horror western guy, but I'm reading Matheson's Shadow on the Sun and it's making me think I might be ready to take the plunge. Any recommendations from folks, either books or films?
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Administrators gave themselves uncapped "performance" raises while the rest of us have a 4/4 load, no research or travel support, and no way to fill lines left empty by retirements.
Administrators got housing stipends while most of us can't afford to live near the institutions we work at.
Administrators got housing stipends while most of us can't afford to live near the institutions we work at.
November 25, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Administrators gave themselves uncapped "performance" raises while the rest of us have a 4/4 load, no research or travel support, and no way to fill lines left empty by retirements.
Administrators got housing stipends while most of us can't afford to live near the institutions we work at.
Administrators got housing stipends while most of us can't afford to live near the institutions we work at.
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I wrote a book about the many ways emotion is necessary for science, secularism, and atheism
November 27, 2025 at 4:19 PM
I wrote a book about the many ways emotion is necessary for science, secularism, and atheism
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Maybe this tragedy can be a moment to reflect on how war inflicts enduring horror and suffering on us all
November 27, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Maybe this tragedy can be a moment to reflect on how war inflicts enduring horror and suffering on us all
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Came out last year between Christmas and the inauguration, so was definitely at top of everyone's mind...
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November 27, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Came out last year between Christmas and the inauguration, so was definitely at top of everyone's mind...
utppublishing.com/doi/book/10....
utppublishing.com/doi/book/10....
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mine is available for preorder! bsky.app/profile/did:...
My book CONTROL SCIENCE is out in May-- a four-century history of labor control & economic thought, from Caribbean plantations to Zambian mines to Amazon warehouses, it explains how cynicism became economic common sense. It's also a call to do better today
www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/804714...
www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/804714...
November 27, 2025 at 3:06 PM
mine is available for preorder! bsky.app/profile/did:...
Happy Thanksgiving from a slightly menacing James Cagney!
November 27, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Happy Thanksgiving from a slightly menacing James Cagney!
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Do people who work in tech reporting or study contemporary rightwing thought have suggestions for the best writing on 4chan? Especially interested in the history of the /pol/ or "politically incorrect" board. TIA!
November 27, 2025 at 5:41 AM
Do people who work in tech reporting or study contemporary rightwing thought have suggestions for the best writing on 4chan? Especially interested in the history of the /pol/ or "politically incorrect" board. TIA!
Do people who work in tech reporting or study contemporary rightwing thought have suggestions for the best writing on 4chan? Especially interested in the history of the /pol/ or "politically incorrect" board. TIA!
November 27, 2025 at 5:41 AM
Do people who work in tech reporting or study contemporary rightwing thought have suggestions for the best writing on 4chan? Especially interested in the history of the /pol/ or "politically incorrect" board. TIA!
For a small fee, I will go to your enemy's conference presentation and ask "Why does everyone always have to make everything about [their topic] these days?"
For a small fee, I will go to your historian enemy’s seminar presentation and say “I guess I’m just wondering what the “so what” of this paper is?”
November 27, 2025 at 4:01 AM
For a small fee, I will go to your enemy's conference presentation and ask "Why does everyone always have to make everything about [their topic] these days?"
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How about not yet published but coming soon (in early 2026)?! @briwok.bsky.social & my edited collection Keywords/Keyimages in Graphic Medicine.
November 27, 2025 at 2:52 AM
How about not yet published but coming soon (in early 2026)?! @briwok.bsky.social & my edited collection Keywords/Keyimages in Graphic Medicine.
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honestly proud of this weird title (argument: table of contents)
www.upress.umn.edu/978151790527...
all eyes on grinding out book 3, but until then, HNtMaH is still my favorite baby
www.upress.umn.edu/978151790527...
all eyes on grinding out book 3, but until then, HNtMaH is still my favorite baby
November 26, 2025 at 10:58 PM
honestly proud of this weird title (argument: table of contents)
www.upress.umn.edu/978151790527...
all eyes on grinding out book 3, but until then, HNtMaH is still my favorite baby
www.upress.umn.edu/978151790527...
all eyes on grinding out book 3, but until then, HNtMaH is still my favorite baby
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I watched All That Breathes (Shaunak Sen, 2022) twice in the past two days. I feel that in many ways it's the film I was trying to unearth in my writing about Kedi (Ceyda Torun, 2016). An ambivalent attempt to document the monstrous changes in animal life (including humans) caused by climate change.
November 26, 2025 at 4:37 AM
I watched All That Breathes (Shaunak Sen, 2022) twice in the past two days. I feel that in many ways it's the film I was trying to unearth in my writing about Kedi (Ceyda Torun, 2016). An ambivalent attempt to document the monstrous changes in animal life (including humans) caused by climate change.
Those are some good looking pies. (Made by my wife, not me!)
November 27, 2025 at 1:42 AM
Those are some good looking pies. (Made by my wife, not me!)
I've never been much of a horror western guy, but I'm reading Matheson's Shadow on the Sun and it's making me think I might be ready to take the plunge. Any recommendations from folks, either books or films?
November 27, 2025 at 12:27 AM
I've never been much of a horror western guy, but I'm reading Matheson's Shadow on the Sun and it's making me think I might be ready to take the plunge. Any recommendations from folks, either books or films?