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Vinzenz Hediger

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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 · 5h

French Theory for the win

Judah Grunstein @judah-grunstein.bsky.social · 8h

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 · 1d

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 · 1d

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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Vinzenz Hediger @vinzenzhediger.bsky.social · 1d

Yung Lin-Wang wrote a wonderfully detailed and generous review of "Accidental Archivism. Shaping Cinema's Future with Remnants of the Past" (edited by Stefanie Schulte Strathaus and myself and published in open access by meson press meson.press/books/accide...) in "Synoptique".

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Hustendoktor🫁 @hustendoktor.bsky.social · 2d

Solange AOK, Barmer, diverse BKK und IKK und die Techniker noch Leistungen in der Homöopathie bezahlen, möchte ich nix, aber auch gar nix über notwendige Sparmaßnahmen oder Beitragserhöhungen im Gesundheitssystem mehr hören

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Franziska Fay @franzifa.bsky.social · 2d

1 Postdoc position OPEN in our newly funded Research Training Group *Technologies of Witnessing* at @unimainz.bsky.social . Deadline: 17. October. *please share widely*

stellenboerse.uni-mainz.de#/jgu/job/50726

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Franziska Fay @franzifa.bsky.social · 2d

10 PhD positions OPEN in our newly funded Research Training Group *Technologies of Witnessing* at @unimainz.bsky.social . Deadline: 17. October. *please share widely*

stellenboerse.uni-mainz.de#/jgu/job/50416

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Vinzenz Hediger @vinzenzhediger.bsky.social · 2d

True. But pop radio did that before AI was a thing.

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Roland Meyer @bildoperationen.bsky.social · 2d

So-called #genAI means the abolition of the future through the proliferation of endless streams of stochastically rendered generic pasts. Having turned large parts of the cultural archive into training data, it now traps us in a foreverized pastness, a 24/7 nostalgia for a past that never existed

QuoProQuid @quoproquid.bsky.social · 2d

have just come across a YouTube account that has been using Sora to upload reels of fake, AI-generated “90s sitcoms” every few hours

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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 2d

John Stuart Mill failed to consider that creepy loser men would not react well to other people's liberty.

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Vinzenz Hediger @vinzenzhediger.bsky.social · 2d

Everything. This being France the title would have been „Roland Emnerich, Eco-Reactionary Blockbuster Auteur“.

Vinzenz Hediger @vinzenzhediger.bsky.social · 2d

I had a conversation with a program officer at the Goethe Insitut in Lyon once about a possible Emmerich-as-reactonary-German-Ecologist retrospective once, but the project didn't really move beyond the bar talk stage.

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Vinzenz Hediger @vinzenzhediger.bsky.social · 2d

Emmerich is from Stuttgart, in the Southwest German heartland of reactionary ecologism.

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 2d

"lying silver-tongued charlatan runs to the US, attempts to reinvent himself, turns out to be pretty good at an important job" this is like one of the foundational American Stories www.nytimes.com/2025/10/05/u...

The Superintendent’s Bio Seemed Too Good to Be True. It Was.

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Vinzenz Hediger @vinzenzhediger.bsky.social · 3d

Genauer: Die Vorgaben des Landes lassen uns die Wahl zwischen Frohnarbeit und Zufinanzierung der gesetzlich mandatierten Lehre aus Drittmitteln. Anders wäre der populärste Studiengang in den Geisteswissenschaften nicht studierbar. R: Innenansicht des Instituts für TFM an der @goetheuni.bsky.social

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 3d

you constantly see the extraction class go on media acquisition sprees confidently thinking they're making a discourse domination play (see: AT&T) only to have the whole debt-addled venture implode in a sad, soggy whimper

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Vinzenz Hediger @vinzenzhediger.bsky.social · 3d

Maybe we could solve the self-inflicted funding crisis of the German University by sucking up to right-wing billionaires, too? But then again, maybe that's the plan?

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

France's problem right now is that it is waiting for an homme providentiel who won't come.

From Bonaparte to Godot.

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Roland Meyer @bildoperationen.bsky.social · 3d

I am still processing the many impressions, insights and ideas that emerged from our conference. Many heartfelt thanks to all the speakers for their inspiring contributions and the intensive discussion—it was great to welcome you all to Zurich, and I hope we'll be able to continue the conversation!

digital cultures and arts @digitalculturesandarts.ch · Sep 9

From 02–04 October 2025, our conference «React & Respond. Image Cultures under Platform Capitalism» will take place in Zurich.

Across three locations and with contributions by scholars and artists, the conference will analyze today's economies of networked image cultures.

Program & Registration:

International Conference: «React & Respond. Image Cultures under Platform Capitalism»

Bringing together scholars and artists from a range of fields and backgrounds, the international conference «React & Respond» aims to map and analyze these contemporary economies of networked image cu...

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Vinzenz Hediger @vinzenzhediger.bsky.social · 3d

Curious how Condé Nast traveller have apparently never heard of Lagos, Nigeria, and Djakarta, Indonesia.

www.cntraveller.de/artikel/groe...

Welche ist die größte Stadt der Welt? Die Top 10 im Ranking

Megastädte wachsen rasant! Doch welche Stadt ist aktuell die größte der Welt? Wir werfen einen Blick auf die Top 10

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Vinzenz Hediger @vinzenzhediger.bsky.social · 3d

Film and medias studies bluesky community:
@mjewitt.bsky.social is now on here. Strong recommendation to follow. Michael Witt has a book on all the films Godard never made coming out soon, which will change the way we think about and write film history.

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Vinzenz Hediger @vinzenzhediger.bsky.social · 3d

Humanities professor here – humanities degrees: one more thing these people have in common with a good number of key figures in Putin's inner circle.

Vinzenz Hediger @vinzenzhediger.bsky.social · 4d

*capabilities*

Vinzenz Hediger @vinzenzhediger.bsky.social · 4d

Can't really hold it against her as she is a primatologist but Jane Goodall seems to have an overly optimistic notion of the capabitilties of Elon Musk's space ships.

KOJAMF🤘🖤🤘 @kojamf.bsky.social · 4d

Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.

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Vinzenz Hediger @vinzenzhediger.bsky.social · 4d

Man fragt sich dann jeweils, von wem er sich dafür Zustimmung verspricht, und welche Belohnung er sich erhofft. Es gibt ja durchaus den Professorentypus des sitzengebliebenen Strebers.