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Brian Jacobson @bleudeciel.bsky.social · 4d

criticalinquiry.uchicago.edu/parker_stens...

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Brian Jacobson @bleudeciel.bsky.social · 18d

Did you ever post the enviro course list? I’d love to see that one too

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Brian Jacobson @bleudeciel.bsky.social · Aug 29

Kleptomania, family feuds and Europe’s tallest dam: the strange story of Jean-Luc Godard’s debut film

In desperation at his antisocial behaviour, the mother of the French new wave pioneer sent him to work in ‘purgatory’. It was to inspire Operation Concrete, Godard’s only documentary

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Brian Jacobson @bleudeciel.bsky.social · Aug 13

call me humanist deadweight, but if you think it is an objectively logical and effective argument to equate how the humanities and sciences have, for centuries, shared a mission within the university with the 2000 AOL/Time Warner merger, you might need remedial humanities training, not "unyoking"

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James Leo Cahill @jamesleocahill.bsky.social · Aug 12

Discourse 46.3 is live! It features an absolutely essential piece reflecting on fascist times by Georges Didi-Huberman: "Why Obey?," skillfully translated by Heath Valentine from the short book Pour Quoi Obéir. Every piece in this issue is fantastic.

Table of contents for Discourse 46.3. Georges Didi-Huberman and Heath Valentine, "Why Obey?"; Basil Bababneh, "Negotiating Queer Arab Formalism," Jamie Chambers, "Fabulation, Magical Transformation and Montage," Christopher Peterson, "The Beekeeper's Ghost," Travis Alexander, "Those things you see through," and Matthew Hubbell, "Revolutionary Postures," plus more!

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Brian Jacobson @bleudeciel.bsky.social · Aug 11

shout out to The Cinema of Extractions in this review of work I wish I could get to Trondheim to see www.frieze.com/article/liv-...

Mythologies of a Green Petrostate: Liv Bugge’s ‘Umbilical Fire’

The artist’s show at Kunsthall Trondheim probes the stories we tell ourselves about oil – and proposes new ones

www.frieze.com

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Brian Jacobson @bleudeciel.bsky.social · Jul 29

Oh yeah of course, it’s great stuff

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Brian Jacobson @bleudeciel.bsky.social · Jul 28

they offer so many good options, it's hard to choose

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Brian Jacobson @bleudeciel.bsky.social · Jul 28

(and the rest of the wonderful essays in that issues by Debashree Mukherjee, Weihong Bao, Katerina Korola, and Yuri Furuhata - they are all so terrific): online.ucpress.edu/representati...

Volume 157 Issue 1 | Representations | University of California Press

online.ucpress.edu

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Brian Jacobson @bleudeciel.bsky.social · Jul 28

Jennifer Fay's essay about Baichwal (et al)'s 2018 Anthropocene The Human Epoch, which I know a lot of people have problems with, but that is precisely what Fay's essay takes up: online.ucpress.edu/representati...

Do I Know the Anthropocene When I See It?

Anthropocene: The Human Epoch (2018) is a film that gives rise to productive confusion about the sight and state of our planet and the inadequacy of our current concepts and aesthetic categories. The ...

online.ucpress.edu

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Brian Jacobson @bleudeciel.bsky.social · Jul 28

two more shoutouts: Jennifer Peterson's @jenniferpete.bsky.social essay about watching old films from the perspective of the so-called Anthropocene: online.ucpress.edu/representati...

An Anthropocene Viewing Condition

This essay explores what I call an Anthropocene viewing condition, a contemporary spectator position in which images of nature, particularly moving images of natures past, resonate with present and fu...

online.ucpress.edu

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Brian Jacobson @bleudeciel.bsky.social · Jul 28

lareviewofbooks.org/article/big-...

Big Oil’s High-Risk Love Affair with Film | Los Angeles Review of Books

Big oil and Hollywood came of age together.

lareviewofbooks.org

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Brian Jacobson @bleudeciel.bsky.social · Jul 28

Two short and (I think) very undergrad ready essays about these kinds of films: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1...

The Shadow of Progress and the Cultural Markers of the Anthropocene | Environmental History: Vol 24, No 1

www.journals.uchicago.edu

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Brian Jacobson @bleudeciel.bsky.social · Jul 28

Self interested, but this is short, aims to be easy to read, and was fun to write (I’ve heard from folks who had success teaching it last year): online.ucpress.edu/fq/article/7...

Evil Does Not ExistDownstream Environmental Form

Ryūsuke Hamaguchi’s Evil Does Not Exist (2023) takes a formal approach to environmental criticism that this article names the “downstream.” Delivered audio-visually and thematically, Hamaguchi’s techn...

online.ucpress.edu

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Brian Jacobson @bleudeciel.bsky.social · Jul 28

I have had success teaching corporate oil shorts, especially BP’s Shadows of Progress. They tend to blow the students’ minds. Shell’s Climate of Concern is another good one

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Brian Jacobson @bleudeciel.bsky.social · Jul 28

Evil Does Not Exist

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Brian Jacobson @bleudeciel.bsky.social · Jul 6

Sad but true

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Brian Jacobson @bleudeciel.bsky.social · Jul 5

Imperfect, but I would take one Jia film for every ten of the films on The NY Times’s Jia-less list

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Brian Jacobson @bleudeciel.bsky.social · Jun 2

Have we also been trained—and trained our grads—that we only have time to read books’ introductions, which are often available online? Why buy the book if you only “need” to read the first 25 pgs? We need a culture of deeper reading practices, but that seems antithetical to the academic horse race

Ken Wissoker @kwissoker.bsky.social · Jun 2

Here's a long thread on an issue dear to my heart. This Tuesday evening I’m doing an Intellectual Publics with Macarena Gomez-Barris on publishing. Like last year’s conversation with Denise Cruz, or the prior year’s with Racquel Gates, we will talk about how to find a publisher, turn a thesis... 1/

Intellectual Publics @intellpublics.bsky.social · May 12

Remember to register!
Ken Wissoker in conversation with Macarena Gómez-Barris
Tues June 3rd at 6:30pm ET via Zoom
bit.ly/impossibleti...

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James Leo Cahill @jamesleocahill.bsky.social · Jun 1

Okay LA... @bleudeciel.bsky.social is bringing the gang back together. Join us at Cal Tech on June 5-6 if you can, I'll be speaking on the 5th about Perut and Osnovikoff's Los Reyes, how to lie (down) like a dog, and the grundwerk of the great derangement of the senses.

Brian Jacobson @bleudeciel.bsky.social · May 29

LA-area folks, please join us next week, June 5-6, at Caltech, for a meeting of the Anthropocene Media Working Group with 2 days of talks and conversation. Details and registration here:
www.hss.caltech.edu/news-and-eve...

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Brian Jacobson @bleudeciel.bsky.social · May 29

LA-area folks, please join us next week, June 5-6, at Caltech, for a meeting of the Anthropocene Media Working Group with 2 days of talks and conversation. Details and registration here:
www.hss.caltech.edu/news-and-eve...

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Brian Jacobson @bleudeciel.bsky.social · May 28

Here's the game and artist's statement: www.invisibleculturejournal.com/pub/patil-th...

The Price to Live

www.invisibleculturejournal.com

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Brian Jacobson @bleudeciel.bsky.social · May 28

One of our terrific undergrads turned Super Mario Brothers into a critique of American healthcare and published it in @invisibleculture.bsky.social
magazine.caltech.edu/post/the-pri...

The Price to Live: A Video Game Takes on Healthcare — Caltech Magazine

By Cynthia Eller  In the winter of 2024, Pranav Patil (BS ’24) had an epiphany. A Caltech computer science major from San Diego, Patil was considering which classes he should take in his final ...

magazine.caltech.edu

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Brian Jacobson @bleudeciel.bsky.social · May 14

Coming up on May 29 at Caltech Visual Culture, I will be speaking with our current artist in residence, Jessica Segall about art, energy, and extraction
www.caltech.edu/campus-life-...

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Brian Jacobson @bleudeciel.bsky.social · Apr 28

The deadline for the special section of Leonardo about Art and Electric Light I am co-editing is coming up on June 2. Note that the submission word count is short: 2,500-5,000. Happy to answer questions.

leonardo.info/opportunity/...

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