Ali Raz
@aliraz.bsky.social
High theory. Low objects. Fiction. Non. Cats. Coffee. Los Angeles.
https://1111press.com/alien
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SOCIALIZE TO ORGANIZE
make dinner for your friends, your neighbors, your colleagues, your new acquaintances.
make it weekly. commit.
a new year's resolution you can use
thanks @amandalitman.bsky.social for the how tos and the spreadsheet!
amandalitman.substack.com/p/our-year-o...
make dinner for your friends, your neighbors, your colleagues, your new acquaintances.
make it weekly. commit.
a new year's resolution you can use
thanks @amandalitman.bsky.social for the how tos and the spreadsheet!
amandalitman.substack.com/p/our-year-o...
Our year of Saturday dinners
Reporting back on our 2025 resolution and details on what we'll do for 2026
amandalitman.substack.com
December 27, 2025 at 2:59 PM
SOCIALIZE TO ORGANIZE
make dinner for your friends, your neighbors, your colleagues, your new acquaintances.
make it weekly. commit.
a new year's resolution you can use
thanks @amandalitman.bsky.social for the how tos and the spreadsheet!
amandalitman.substack.com/p/our-year-o...
make dinner for your friends, your neighbors, your colleagues, your new acquaintances.
make it weekly. commit.
a new year's resolution you can use
thanks @amandalitman.bsky.social for the how tos and the spreadsheet!
amandalitman.substack.com/p/our-year-o...
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Now playing (12:05 PM PST):
"Powwow Highway" (1989)
By Jonathan Wacks
Runtime: 91 min.
"Powwow Highway" (1989)
By Jonathan Wacks
Runtime: 91 min.
December 19, 2025 at 8:05 PM
Now playing (12:05 PM PST):
"Powwow Highway" (1989)
By Jonathan Wacks
Runtime: 91 min.
"Powwow Highway" (1989)
By Jonathan Wacks
Runtime: 91 min.
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Wow, I never knew that.
December 14, 2025 at 10:06 PM
Wow, I never knew that.
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These poor STARVÈD babies suffering from the lack of second breakfast while mother viciously ignores them to play on her phone. A cruel, cruel mother indeed to need such reminding as her babies WASTE AWAY. 🤣
December 14, 2025 at 5:52 PM
These poor STARVÈD babies suffering from the lack of second breakfast while mother viciously ignores them to play on her phone. A cruel, cruel mother indeed to need such reminding as her babies WASTE AWAY. 🤣
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John Cassavetes guest stars as a ruthless music orchestra conductor who murders a gifted pianist with whom he is having an affair. Lt. Columbo is on the case in the episode “ÉTUDE IN BLACK” (1972) dir. Nicholas Colasanto with co-stars Peter Falk, Bythe Danner and Myrna Loy
📺 Universal Television
📺 Universal Television
December 9, 2025 at 4:45 PM
John Cassavetes guest stars as a ruthless music orchestra conductor who murders a gifted pianist with whom he is having an affair. Lt. Columbo is on the case in the episode “ÉTUDE IN BLACK” (1972) dir. Nicholas Colasanto with co-stars Peter Falk, Bythe Danner and Myrna Loy
📺 Universal Television
📺 Universal Television
Ok, Gayatri C. Spivak, ok ok ok ok
December 1, 2025 at 10:34 PM
Ok, Gayatri C. Spivak, ok ok ok ok
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F/X (1986) Dir. Robert Mandel — Why this fun, slick thriller has faded from memory is beyond me. A movie-effects wizard is hired to fake a hit… then framed for a real murder. Smart, twisty, and engaging as hell. It's powered by a terrific turn from Bryan Brown and solid supporting cast. A lost gem🎞️📽️
November 24, 2025 at 8:34 AM
F/X (1986) Dir. Robert Mandel — Why this fun, slick thriller has faded from memory is beyond me. A movie-effects wizard is hired to fake a hit… then framed for a real murder. Smart, twisty, and engaging as hell. It's powered by a terrific turn from Bryan Brown and solid supporting cast. A lost gem🎞️📽️
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Happy Partially Muscled Skeleton Day to all who celebrate. Be sure to let all your screams out and then disappear.
November 14, 2025 at 11:28 AM
Happy Partially Muscled Skeleton Day to all who celebrate. Be sure to let all your screams out and then disappear.
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Making fun of our neighborhoods and communities is disgusting.
Greg Bovino and his masked agents are not here to make Chicago safer. As children are tear gassed and U.S. citizens detained, they are posing for photo ops and producing reality TV moments. blockclubchicago.org/2025/11/10/b...
Greg Bovino and his masked agents are not here to make Chicago safer. As children are tear gassed and U.S. citizens detained, they are posing for photo ops and producing reality TV moments. blockclubchicago.org/2025/11/10/b...
Border Patrol Agents Pose At The Bean For Apparent Photo Op
The photo op came after agents tear-gassed a Little Village street and were spotted in the area numerous times. At the Bean, one agent shouted, "Everyone say, 'Little Village!'"
blockclubchicago.org
November 10, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Making fun of our neighborhoods and communities is disgusting.
Greg Bovino and his masked agents are not here to make Chicago safer. As children are tear gassed and U.S. citizens detained, they are posing for photo ops and producing reality TV moments. blockclubchicago.org/2025/11/10/b...
Greg Bovino and his masked agents are not here to make Chicago safer. As children are tear gassed and U.S. citizens detained, they are posing for photo ops and producing reality TV moments. blockclubchicago.org/2025/11/10/b...
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Now playing (10:45 AM PST):
"Cold Water" (1994)
By Olivier Assayas
Runtime: 96 min.
"Cold Water" (1994)
By Olivier Assayas
Runtime: 96 min.
November 10, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Now playing (10:45 AM PST):
"Cold Water" (1994)
By Olivier Assayas
Runtime: 96 min.
"Cold Water" (1994)
By Olivier Assayas
Runtime: 96 min.
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it’s syllabus query time of year!
The Culture Industries
stab at primary objects to span most decades 1890-2020; anglo context; to stage an aesthetics-economics conflict and merger in each decade; would love to hear supplements and objections
The Culture Industries
stab at primary objects to span most decades 1890-2020; anglo context; to stage an aesthetics-economics conflict and merger in each decade; would love to hear supplements and objections
November 7, 2025 at 2:23 PM
it’s syllabus query time of year!
The Culture Industries
stab at primary objects to span most decades 1890-2020; anglo context; to stage an aesthetics-economics conflict and merger in each decade; would love to hear supplements and objections
The Culture Industries
stab at primary objects to span most decades 1890-2020; anglo context; to stage an aesthetics-economics conflict and merger in each decade; would love to hear supplements and objections
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"How are we to understand ... the neo- and hyper-colonial futures through which “peace” and “reconstruction” in Gaza are being framed and implemented?"
portolan-journal.org?post=propert...
portolan-journal.org?post=propert...
November 7, 2025 at 6:54 AM
"How are we to understand ... the neo- and hyper-colonial futures through which “peace” and “reconstruction” in Gaza are being framed and implemented?"
portolan-journal.org?post=propert...
portolan-journal.org?post=propert...
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No one reads D. A. Miller’s
The Novel and the Police
anymore but they should, and it’s very beautiful.
The Novel and the Police
anymore but they should, and it’s very beautiful.
November 7, 2025 at 4:07 AM
No one reads D. A. Miller’s
The Novel and the Police
anymore but they should, and it’s very beautiful.
The Novel and the Police
anymore but they should, and it’s very beautiful.
A piece about having Big Feelings about Mamdani. @mid-theory.bsky.social was a dream to work with 💖
Now glueing myself to election coverage. 🍺📺
Now glueing myself to election coverage. 🍺📺
On the day of the NYC mayoral election, Ali Raz pens a gorgeous essay reflecting on how Mamdani's rhetoric evinces a poetics of the Universal and convokes a shared commons united by labor and by the rhythms of life spent working in cities most of us cannot afford.
mid-theory.com/2025/11/04/m...
mid-theory.com/2025/11/04/m...
Mamdani Feelings
Starting from a place of extreme negativity, political speech can brush the bright membrane that forms literature’s impossible horizon. The rent is too high in Los Angeles. Consider a number: “One …
mid-theory.com
November 4, 2025 at 8:25 PM
A piece about having Big Feelings about Mamdani. @mid-theory.bsky.social was a dream to work with 💖
Now glueing myself to election coverage. 🍺📺
Now glueing myself to election coverage. 🍺📺
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Good morning.
I don't know who did this, but I love you.
I don't know who did this, but I love you.
November 3, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Good morning.
I don't know who did this, but I love you.
I don't know who did this, but I love you.
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Genuinely delighted to download a PhD thesis from a university repository where the author has neglected to remove the words "BITCH THIS IS YOUR THESIS" from the filename.
October 30, 2025 at 8:21 AM
Genuinely delighted to download a PhD thesis from a university repository where the author has neglected to remove the words "BITCH THIS IS YOUR THESIS" from the filename.
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I find it v difficult to put into words how honored and lucky i feel to have edited this issue on feminist historical methods, to have had so many important pieces of writing and thinking entrusted to me over these last few years. 1/
online.ucpress.edu/fmh/issue/11/4
online.ucpress.edu/fmh/issue/11/4
Volume 11 Issue 4 | Feminist Media Histories | University of California Press
online.ucpress.edu
October 30, 2025 at 1:15 AM
I find it v difficult to put into words how honored and lucky i feel to have edited this issue on feminist historical methods, to have had so many important pieces of writing and thinking entrusted to me over these last few years. 1/
online.ucpress.edu/fmh/issue/11/4
online.ucpress.edu/fmh/issue/11/4
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I made my students a little “book” (just using Google slides) to show them how you all answered my question about how you take notes for research. Just to show the variety.
How Do Scholars Take Notes?
How do scholars take notes? I like seeing examples of different people’s notetaking, so I asked scholars to show me how they take notes for research.
docs.google.com
October 25, 2025 at 4:14 PM
I made my students a little “book” (just using Google slides) to show them how you all answered my question about how you take notes for research. Just to show the variety.
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Now playing (06:15 PM PST):
"Female Perversions" (1997)
By Susan Streitfeld
Runtime: 115 min.
"Female Perversions" (1997)
By Susan Streitfeld
Runtime: 115 min.
October 23, 2025 at 1:15 AM
Now playing (06:15 PM PST):
"Female Perversions" (1997)
By Susan Streitfeld
Runtime: 115 min.
"Female Perversions" (1997)
By Susan Streitfeld
Runtime: 115 min.
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Dancing frogs have become a symbol of resistance in the USA.
Interestingly, over a decade ago David Graeber wrote a piece on the power of such symbols in protest movements.
The piece is called - On the Phenomenology of Giant Puppets. Here is an extract.
Interestingly, over a decade ago David Graeber wrote a piece on the power of such symbols in protest movements.
The piece is called - On the Phenomenology of Giant Puppets. Here is an extract.
October 22, 2025 at 1:21 AM
Dancing frogs have become a symbol of resistance in the USA.
Interestingly, over a decade ago David Graeber wrote a piece on the power of such symbols in protest movements.
The piece is called - On the Phenomenology of Giant Puppets. Here is an extract.
Interestingly, over a decade ago David Graeber wrote a piece on the power of such symbols in protest movements.
The piece is called - On the Phenomenology of Giant Puppets. Here is an extract.
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After having listened to @danieldenvir.bsky.social double episode interview with Melinda Cooper (which I can't recommend highly enough), I was reminded to renew my annual contribution to @thedigradio.bsky.social thedigradio.com/podcast/coun... So grateful for this podcast.
Counterrevolution w/ Melinda Cooper
Featuring Melinda Cooper on Counterrevolution: Extravagance and Austerity in Public Finance. Neoliberalism remade the American economy into an engine for the appreciation of assets stretching from the...
thedigradio.com
October 21, 2025 at 6:55 PM
After having listened to @danieldenvir.bsky.social double episode interview with Melinda Cooper (which I can't recommend highly enough), I was reminded to renew my annual contribution to @thedigradio.bsky.social thedigradio.com/podcast/coun... So grateful for this podcast.