matthew ellis
@matthiasellis.com
wandering academic, currently teaching film/media/theory at Portland State
cinejourneys guide @cinejourneys.bsky.social
writing www.historiesofthepresent.com
podcast @tpnwicmfp.bsky.social
cinejourneys guide @cinejourneys.bsky.social
writing www.historiesofthepresent.com
podcast @tpnwicmfp.bsky.social
Trump is sleeping through briefings, the shutdown is going poorly and duped working voters are starting to freak out, realizing that cutting government waste doesn't just impact Inner City "Gangbangers" or whatever. If you can stomach it, read the replies to this tweet x.com/JDVance/stat...
November 8, 2025 at 2:43 AM
Trump is sleeping through briefings, the shutdown is going poorly and duped working voters are starting to freak out, realizing that cutting government waste doesn't just impact Inner City "Gangbangers" or whatever. If you can stomach it, read the replies to this tweet x.com/JDVance/stat...
The perpetual present of the TL makes periodizing memory difficult, but remember something: the "Trump is dying!" stuff was happening in early September--here's an article from the 2nd. Charlie Kirk is shot on September 10th. Imagine you're on the right and you see these two things, back to back.
November 8, 2025 at 2:04 AM
The perpetual present of the TL makes periodizing memory difficult, but remember something: the "Trump is dying!" stuff was happening in early September--here's an article from the 2nd. Charlie Kirk is shot on September 10th. Imagine you're on the right and you see these two things, back to back.
(this is so much longer than I anticipated, lol sorry. But I think it's important!). So I think this is largely how Fuentes' antisemitism started to shift away from semiotic play and into an actual commitment, with *real* causes. Note that even CHRISTOPHER RUFO doesn't want to accept this
November 8, 2025 at 1:53 AM
(this is so much longer than I anticipated, lol sorry. But I think it's important!). So I think this is largely how Fuentes' antisemitism started to shift away from semiotic play and into an actual commitment, with *real* causes. Note that even CHRISTOPHER RUFO doesn't want to accept this
Look at these pre-and-post 2020 numbers for Twitch alone. The thing that gave rise to the blogosphere and created figures like Ben Shapiro and Charlie Kirk was happening again for a new generation, with a new media technology they adopted early. Millennials grew up, accepted into the establishment!
November 8, 2025 at 1:33 AM
Look at these pre-and-post 2020 numbers for Twitch alone. The thing that gave rise to the blogosphere and created figures like Ben Shapiro and Charlie Kirk was happening again for a new generation, with a new media technology they adopted early. Millennials grew up, accepted into the establishment!
A few days left to register before Tuesday's first meeting! I won't have time to "teach" this in the limited Cinejourneys format, but while prepping the syllabus I've come across some great new research, like Paul Dobryden's The Hygenic Apparatus nupress.northwestern.edu/978081014496...
November 6, 2025 at 10:55 PM
A few days left to register before Tuesday's first meeting! I won't have time to "teach" this in the limited Cinejourneys format, but while prepping the syllabus I've come across some great new research, like Paul Dobryden's The Hygenic Apparatus nupress.northwestern.edu/978081014496...
The News doesn't know what to do w/this; they only know how to identify political coalitions by identity, or the handful of abstract political ideas campaign strategists accept as legitimate. What really divides Cuomo's voters from Zohran's is far simpler: the former have capital
November 5, 2025 at 8:50 PM
The News doesn't know what to do w/this; they only know how to identify political coalitions by identity, or the handful of abstract political ideas campaign strategists accept as legitimate. What really divides Cuomo's voters from Zohran's is far simpler: the former have capital
The "Democratic Tea Party" thing is fun for setting up an antagonistic relationship to party establishment. But as materialists, we should be cautious: these are two radically different class coalitions, w/conflicting relationships to the capital relation www.cbsnews.com/news/tea-par...
November 5, 2025 at 8:47 PM
The "Democratic Tea Party" thing is fun for setting up an antagonistic relationship to party establishment. But as materialists, we should be cautious: these are two radically different class coalitions, w/conflicting relationships to the capital relation www.cbsnews.com/news/tea-par...
We’re about a week out from the first meeting of my @cinejourneys.bsky.social class on Weimar Cinema. There are still seats available! I’d love to have you—$100 gets you access to the materials and the meetings, held over Zoom on Tuesday evenings. Sign up here: cinejourneys.com/weimar-cinem...
November 3, 2025 at 10:31 PM
We’re about a week out from the first meeting of my @cinejourneys.bsky.social class on Weimar Cinema. There are still seats available! I’d love to have you—$100 gets you access to the materials and the meetings, held over Zoom on Tuesday evenings. Sign up here: cinejourneys.com/weimar-cinem...
Sometimes it became as simple as showing this graph, one of the most efficient ways to dismantle the ideological function of capitalism's work ethic, protestant or otherwise. Throughout modernity, that concept equated productive work w/economic growth, in *both* markets and the fruits of one's labor
October 30, 2025 at 12:54 AM
Sometimes it became as simple as showing this graph, one of the most efficient ways to dismantle the ideological function of capitalism's work ethic, protestant or otherwise. Throughout modernity, that concept equated productive work w/economic growth, in *both* markets and the fruits of one's labor
The main goal of the forces underpinning the right is to abolish the entire 20th Century. Not just revenge for electing a Black president. Not Woke, or "cutting taxes." The entire liberal state. Of course they would decide a bizarro multiterm FDR is the way to get that (h/t @weisenthal.bsky.social)
October 24, 2025 at 10:23 PM
The main goal of the forces underpinning the right is to abolish the entire 20th Century. Not just revenge for electing a Black president. Not Woke, or "cutting taxes." The entire liberal state. Of course they would decide a bizarro multiterm FDR is the way to get that (h/t @weisenthal.bsky.social)
Hey! Have you signed up for my Weimar Cinema/France in the 1960s @cinejourneys.bsky.social courses yet? Weimar Begins November 11th, and France starts on Jan 6. I'm really excited about these two classes and I think I've got something here that I haven't seen offered in this way before. Links below:
October 23, 2025 at 9:23 PM
Hey! Have you signed up for my Weimar Cinema/France in the 1960s @cinejourneys.bsky.social courses yet? Weimar Begins November 11th, and France starts on Jan 6. I'm really excited about these two classes and I think I've got something here that I haven't seen offered in this way before. Links below:
holy shit you guys........I've made it
October 21, 2025 at 8:00 PM
holy shit you guys........I've made it
Harvard news got you down? Completely unrelatedly in preparing for my own version of that apocalypse, my second class over at @cinejourneys.bsky.social is now open for registration, on French criticism and film theory in the 1960s/70s cinejourneys.com/the-birth-of...
October 21, 2025 at 7:16 PM
Harvard news got you down? Completely unrelatedly in preparing for my own version of that apocalypse, my second class over at @cinejourneys.bsky.social is now open for registration, on French criticism and film theory in the 1960s/70s cinejourneys.com/the-birth-of...
Fascinating bit in this piece from the Washington Times (!) that reveals the extent to which Hegseth and Weiss both suffer from the same narcissism of stunted development that plagues our broader society. This is the kind of stuff that happens when you stop reproducing institutions!
October 21, 2025 at 6:39 PM
Fascinating bit in this piece from the Washington Times (!) that reveals the extent to which Hegseth and Weiss both suffer from the same narcissism of stunted development that plagues our broader society. This is the kind of stuff that happens when you stop reproducing institutions!
One thing we *do* share with Weimar is a society entering a profound transformation crisis, experienced by its inhabitants through new media technology. I think most of the liberal Weimar analogies are *really* just talking about this because media is how we engage in history now
October 20, 2025 at 10:26 PM
One thing we *do* share with Weimar is a society entering a profound transformation crisis, experienced by its inhabitants through new media technology. I think most of the liberal Weimar analogies are *really* just talking about this because media is how we engage in history now
So in this class we'll be reading some key literature and watching films and clips from across Weimar--not just the METROPOLISES and CALIGARIS, but also slices of life in a culture radically made new by artists and progressive forces later stamped out by fascism
October 20, 2025 at 10:20 PM
So in this class we'll be reading some key literature and watching films and clips from across Weimar--not just the METROPOLISES and CALIGARIS, but also slices of life in a culture radically made new by artists and progressive forces later stamped out by fascism
As a result, the literature has often resulted in a linear story about the inter-war period that seems to have "won" the arg. But what many of these foundational texts did not have access to was the world of 2025, where the Weimar analogy has returned to make sense of the present
October 20, 2025 at 10:19 PM
As a result, the literature has often resulted in a linear story about the inter-war period that seems to have "won" the arg. But what many of these foundational texts did not have access to was the world of 2025, where the Weimar analogy has returned to make sense of the present
Weimar was a central focus for the scholars who founded the discipline in the 70s-90s, and the literature is vast, ranging from formal studies of Expressionism as a response to the horrors of WWI to social histories of Weimar as a "laboratory" of modernity that led to disaster
October 20, 2025 at 10:09 PM
Weimar was a central focus for the scholars who founded the discipline in the 70s-90s, and the literature is vast, ranging from formal studies of Expressionism as a response to the horrors of WWI to social histories of Weimar as a "laboratory" of modernity that led to disaster
Okay everyone, I'm stoked to announce my next @cinejourneys.bsky.social course on Weimar Cinema. It will be held on Zoom on Tuesday evenings 8-9:30 PM Eastern from Nov 11-Dec 9 (skipping Thxgiving week). Registration is $100, and you can sign up here: cinejourneys.com/weimar-cinem...
October 20, 2025 at 10:02 PM
Okay everyone, I'm stoked to announce my next @cinejourneys.bsky.social course on Weimar Cinema. It will be held on Zoom on Tuesday evenings 8-9:30 PM Eastern from Nov 11-Dec 9 (skipping Thxgiving week). Registration is $100, and you can sign up here: cinejourneys.com/weimar-cinem...
Our entire society is set up to benefit the interests of this person. Everything--our tax system, the political coalitions both parties respond to, the Fed's interest rate targets, property laws and regulations, commodity supply chains, you name it. That's what's so powerful about Zohran's campaign
October 19, 2025 at 7:57 PM
Our entire society is set up to benefit the interests of this person. Everything--our tax system, the political coalitions both parties respond to, the Fed's interest rate targets, property laws and regulations, commodity supply chains, you name it. That's what's so powerful about Zohran's campaign
On Monday I'll be posting links to sign up for my two upcoming @cinejourneys.bsky.social classes: one on Weimar Cinema, the other on France in the 1960s, which I'm thinking about calling "The Birth of Cinephilia." Stay tuned!
October 18, 2025 at 12:17 AM
On Monday I'll be posting links to sign up for my two upcoming @cinejourneys.bsky.social classes: one on Weimar Cinema, the other on France in the 1960s, which I'm thinking about calling "The Birth of Cinephilia." Stay tuned!
I think I found a third one
October 17, 2025 at 6:51 AM
I think I found a third one
we're so fucked man www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/10...
October 12, 2025 at 11:19 PM
we're so fucked man www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/10...