A bit too perfect
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American Association of University Professors (AAUP) statement "Against Anticipatory Obedience"
https://www.aaup.org/report/against-anticipatory-obedience
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The Hidden Histories Lost in the Los Angeles Fires https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-weekend-essay/the-hidden-histories-lost-in-the-los-angeles-fires
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"The best new science fiction books of February 2025" from New Scientist
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2466471-the-best-new-science-fiction-books-of-february-2025/
[#]SFF #books #bookstodon
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Director Denis Villeneuve steps into the Criterion Closet to choose and talk about a few of his favorite films, including Krzysztof Kieślowski’s Three Colors trilogy, Steven Soderbergh’s Che, and Seven Samurai. At one point, he says, “We all look like Smurfs next to Fellini.”
[#]film #cinemastodon
https://kottke.org/25/01/denis-villeneuves-criterion-closet-picks
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Sasha"Frere-Jones is a cool dude and cultural critic
https://mastodon.social/@sashafrerejones/113898043887113710
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Gill Hornby: ‘Jane Austen created the six best novels in the English language’
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/jan/25/gill-hornby-miss-austen-novel-tv-adaptation-jane-austen-created-the-six-best-novels-in-the-english-language?CMP=share_btn_url
[#]books #bookstodon
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See Wim Wenders' PINA in 3D in Los Angeles
https://boingboing.net/2025/01/25/see-wim-wenders-pina-in-3d-in-los-angeles.html
[#]film
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Mel Gibson's Flight Risk is a full-blown stinker and the first truly awful movie of 2025
https://www.slashfilm.com/1770918/mel-gibson-crime-thriller-flight-risk-2025-first-awful-movie/
[#]film
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The backspinning b-boy spiders are a revelation. And the larger than life silkworm oozing along the ground, the stage a dimly lit cave, as if we’re witnessing the beginnings of life itself. In this visual feast of a piece, Italian company Dewey Dell embrace the fierce and brooding score of Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring – one of the most frequently revisited in dance – in a way that feels both fantastical and resonant.
https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2025/jan/24/the-rite-of-spring-review-stravinsky-dewey-dell-southbank-centre
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Awards season connoisseurs know how, in the world of bland streaming content, films that are different, which get Oscar voters excitedly alerting each other to their unusualness – without being too unusual – can generate their own momentum.
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2025/jan/23/oscars-groupthink-pushes-emilia-perez-the-weakest-nominee-to-a-record-breaking-lead?CMP=share_btn_url
[#]film #cinemastodon
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Peter Kennard is an expert in the obvious. His art – if that is the word – seems all polemic and assertion, with little in the way of ambiguity, connotation or aesthetic import. Photomontage, which has been his primary form for more than fifty years, is always in focus, its borrowed elements (however grainy, stark or blurred) arrayed on the same legible plane, all to the point and on the nose.
[#]Art #London
https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v47/n01/brian-dillon/at-the-whitechapel
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‘He made me feel I didn’t need to fit in’: readers’ tributes to David Lynch – and their most Lynchian photograph
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2025/jan/22/readers-tributes-to-david-lynch-and-their-most-lynchian-photograph?CMP=share_btn_url
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"Read Books - Punch Nazis" t-shirts, with profits to a good cause
https://www.bonfire.com/read-books-punch-nazis/?utm_source=copy_link&utm_medium=thanks_page_share_modal&utm_campaign=read-books-punch-nazis&utm_content=default
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Agnes Callard in Conversation
with Judith Butler
Thurs Jan 30 | 5 pm
315 Wheeler and Online
In connection with the publication of her new book, Open Socrates: The Case for a Philosophical Life, Agnes Callard (Philosophy, Univ of Chicago) talks with Judith Butler (Comparative Literature) about how we can use the work of Socrates to answer — and ask — life’s most important questions.
https://townsendcenter.berkeley.edu/events/case-philosophical-life
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Is western civilisation being destroyed by its own decadence? Was the Roman empire? And does a preference for Lord of the Rings over The Matrix indicate that we are all doomed? Our critic tries to sift fact from fiction …
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2025/jan/21/orgies-vampires-tortoises-myths-decadence-art
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Star Wars: Skeleton Crew Fumbles Its Finale “The Real Good Guys”
https://reactormag.com/star-wars-skeleton-crew-fumbles-its-finale-the-real-good-guys/
[#]StarWars
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Dan and Becky Okrent spent seven years on the Met Project, a labor of love that took them from ancient Sumer to Synchronism https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/01/27/traversing-the-metropolitan-museums-eight-hundred-galleries-one-by-one
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Making jollof rice with chicken for a late lunch...
[#]cooking
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