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We are hiring an Assistant Professor in Film and Moving Image Studies (w/ a focus on race, ethnicity, indigeneity, among other intersectional approaches) concordia.ca/finearts/about…

"How to grieve, what meaning to give those tears, is cruelly a political question whether we like it or not," gabrielwinant writes. dissentmagazine.org/online_article…

perfect encapsulation of KG's culture that this is what their "most snatched today" ebook list looks like. i hope this place never changes

HAPPENING NOW IN CALIFORNIA More than 700 Bay Area Jews & allies taking over the Oakland federal building, demanding a ceasefire in Gaza. We are not leaving, we demand an end to this bloodshed, we will not see Jewish grief used to perpetuate genocide. Stop this now.

Israel claimed there’s a Hamas command and control center under Al-Shifa hospital in Gaza. US media repeated the claims. Once it was clear this wasn’t true, everyone moved on. Palestinians died based on these lies, including ICU patients. This is akin to Iraq WMDs reporting.

Revisiting Linda Williams' work on pornography as a "body genre," mode of mass entertainment, nexus of political debates, and aesthetic form. Next Tues Dec 5, 2-5pm in person at the Brower Center in Berkeley, or register for online streaming at bit.ly/UCB-Williams

SPECIAL ISSUE: Critique and the Moving Image I Nico Baumbach discusses interpretations and how, though there are many interpretations of film, not all are equal. mediacommons.org/imr/content/in…

i reviewed Doppelgänger by Naomi Klein the book has already received a lot of press but i explored the politics of social media in ways i haven’t seen done elsewhere bookforum.com/politics/how-n…

As quoted in the Columbia Spectator, the NYPD Chief asserted that “the students that were arrested were peaceful, offered no resistance whatsoever, and were saying what they wanted to say in a peaceful manner.” (5/16)

Third, the decision to call the police into campus violated also the important principle of protecting free expression on campus. Coupled with the testimony given by the President Shafik and members of the Board of Trustees in Congress, (9/16)

in which they failed to defend crucial values of academic freedom, the police action seems like capitulation to forces outside the university that would like to curtail academic freedom and freedom of expression. (10/16)

Berkeley Film & Media is seeking an assistant professor of Native American/Indigenous media, which could be in terms of production/art practice and/or history and theory. aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF04490

Berkeley Film & Media is also seeking an assistant professor working in any area of film or media history/historiography: aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF04533

10th anniversary issue of Porn Studies out today with a series of sparkling pieces revisiting the work of Linda Williams and developing new theories. My introduction, “The Fantasy of Pornography,” is open access. tandfonline.com/toc/rprn20/11/…

The #WeeklyRead is "Revisiting Postmodernism: An Interview with Fredric Jameson" with Nico Baumbach, Damon R. Young, and Genevieve Yue. The interview was published in a special issue of Social Text (127). Read the interview for free: ow.ly/ajjt50Txxyh Social Text Journal

Out today! Meme Aesthetics, co-edited w Stephen Best and Mia You. Available open access for a short time.

this issue is now open access and it's really very very good. brilliant essays by Anna Shechtman -"the voice" of the internet katie kadue -emblems as the ur-meme Jason LaRiviere -meme as compression genevieve yue -chatbots +dogs + super intro by Damon Young, Mia You