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J Hoberman @jhoberman.bsky.social · 3d

Ken Jacobs (1933-2025)

A great artist, a wonderful teacher, & speaking personally, a close friend for over 50 years. Linking to a piece I wrote to mark his 80th birthday.

www.nytimes.com/2013/05/19/m...

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nico baumbach @nicobaumbach.bsky.social · 17d

fredric jameson died one year ago today. i wrote this about him earlier this year:
www.parapraxismagazine.com/articles/the...

The Last Good Dad — Parapraxis

On Fredric Jameson’s pedagogy Nico Baumbach

www.parapraxismagazine.com

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nico baumbach @nicobaumbach.bsky.social · Aug 30

you're replying to a post of mine from 2 months ago to call me an antisemite? want to explain yourself?

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Student Workers of Columbia @swcolumbia.bsky.social · Aug 27

Prof @nicobaumbach.bsky.social at Columbia:

CU "needs to support its graduate students. It should not be eliminating an important source of funding to undermine the union. This is very disturbing, unfair to our students, and sure to undermine the quality of the university in the long run.” 3/5

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nico baumbach @nicobaumbach.bsky.social · Aug 12

(inspired by seeing Weapons)

has anyone written about the simultaneous post-cold war fantasy (and anxiety) about humans becoming computers (programmable) and computers becoming human (sentient)?

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nico baumbach @nicobaumbach.bsky.social · Jul 7

mainstream legacy media then reinforces its manufacturing of consent aground all the popular "crazy" stuff on online media.
the "crazy" stuff can be qanon or socialism. no doubt some version of this dynamic existed in relation to alternative media before social media. but it seems amplified.

nico baumbach @nicobaumbach.bsky.social · Jul 7

less evident on gentle bluesky but algorithms aid group formation and conformity around provocation and conspiracism that is often grounded in the grain of truth that mainstream legacy media is biased towards elites

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nico baumbach @nicobaumbach.bsky.social · Jul 7

need a revised version of chomsky/herman on how consent gets manufactured on social media around generalized suspicion of the manufacturing of consent of legacy media and then again in response to the suspicion of that suspicion

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nico baumbach @nicobaumbach.bsky.social · Jun 12

yes. they are the same apparently

nico baumbach @nicobaumbach.bsky.social · Jun 12

as a professor at columbia, i feel the need to keep repeating that this claim (in a brand new statement from columbia's acting president claire shipman) is not true.
this simple fact is not a fact. don't believe it

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nico baumbach @nicobaumbach.bsky.social · May 23

i recently bought this...

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Hannah Zeavin @hzeavin.bsky.social · Apr 29

you can order it directly from
@mitpress.bsky.social, or at bookshop: bit.ly/3EMU2zZ; you can request it at your library; it would make a good mother's day present for yourself or your friend or your mom.

Mother Media: Hot and Cool Parenting in the Twentieth Century

Hot and Cool Parenting in the Twentieth Century

bit.ly

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nico baumbach @nicobaumbach.bsky.social · Apr 25

to be clear, def not implying you're responsible--just curious if you have thoughts?

nico baumbach @nicobaumbach.bsky.social · Apr 25

Jim, the film has had a very successful commercial run in NYC. why no NYTIMES review?

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J Hoberman @jhoberman.bsky.social · Apr 22

Packed screening w emotional intro by School of the Arts dean, got prolonged standing o. Film is strong stuff--unbearable footage of Gaza carnage--but a testament to the students' resourceful idealism. They honored Columbia, the administration did not and still seeks to curry favor w Trump regime.

nico baumbach @nicobaumbach.bsky.social · Apr 20

as columbia still refuses to say the names of its abducted students and accepts Trump's narrative about antisemitism on campus, i'm happy to bring this counter-narrative to campus. tomorrow night if no one shuts it down:

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nico baumbach @nicobaumbach.bsky.social · Apr 20

as columbia still refuses to say the names of its abducted students and accepts Trump's narrative about antisemitism on campus, i'm happy to bring this counter-narrative to campus. tomorrow night if no one shuts it down:

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nico baumbach @nicobaumbach.bsky.social · Mar 3

dm'd you on X

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Michael H Whitworth @profmhwhitworth.bsky.social · Feb 10

“Pedagogy,” [Fredric Jameson] said in an interview, “is not inflicting discipline but awakening interest.”

Excellent account of Jameson’s relation to the reified binaries of contemporary politics, of the place of slogans in his writing, and much else.

www.parapraxismagazine.com/articles/the...

The Last Good Dad — Parapraxis

On Fredric Jameson’s pedagogy Nico Baumbach

www.parapraxismagazine.com

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M. Beatrice Fazi @mbfazi.bsky.social · Feb 10

Great essay on “the desire called ‘Fredric Jameson’,” — @nicobaumbach.bsky.social on the pages of @parapraxismag.bsky.social 📖🖊️⚡️✨

www.parapraxismagazine.com/articles/the...

The Last Good Dad — Parapraxis

On Fredric Jameson’s pedagogy Nico Baumbach

www.parapraxismagazine.com

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parapraxismag.bsky.social @parapraxismag.bsky.social · Feb 10

“Let’s add some more slogans or lessons. Wrest the collective from the individual. Wrest the political from moralism.”—
@nicobaumbach.bsky.social's memoriam on Fredric Jameson’s pedagogy:

www.parapraxismagazine.com/articles/the...

www.parapraxismagazine.com

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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · Feb 9

"Marxism, for Jameson, never provided some orthodox solution or ready-to-hand explanation for understanding our world but provided interpretive problems that always needed to be reinvented and reimagined."

www.parapraxismagazine.com/articles/the...

The Last Good Dad — Parapraxis

On Fredric Jameson’s pedagogy Nico Baumbach

www.parapraxismagazine.com

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nico baumbach @nicobaumbach.bsky.social · Dec 27

is this it - the strokes (2001)

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nico baumbach @nicobaumbach.bsky.social · Nov 21

this is new and now open access.
an analysis of the politics and psychology of social media. i would be grateful for people to read and engage with this essay:
online.ucpress.edu/representati...

Sameness-Machines: On the Political Unconscious of Memes

To try to say something of interest about memes means to be confronted with a certain conceptual incoherence. Even if we stick to the vernacular definition of meme as a specific kind of internet objec...

online.ucpress.edu

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nico baumbach @nicobaumbach.bsky.social · Dec 6

you can email me [email protected] and i can send you a pdf

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nico baumbach @nicobaumbach.bsky.social · Dec 6

he starts with illiterate and ends with morally degenerate. the right has to be seen as below him. anything to avoid analyzing politics. or aesthetics for that matter

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