matthew ellis
@matthiasellis
wandering academic. media studies, history of capitalism, theory. pod @pnwmoviefilm. LB: http://letterboxd.com/mattellis blog: http://historiesofthepresent.com
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actually "maoist standard english" has its origins in the countercultural wing of the new left and black nationalism of the same period--the "maoist" groups that came slightly after them didnt use it! but when 2010s leftbook dug up memes from 2000s "MTWists" like LLCO and MIM, th
The real enemy of reading is the internet, a great gray amorphous mass in which everything will finally be equal to everything else.
“I’m 12”
Rewatched "No Country for Old Men" yesterday, and I am placing my head under the guillotine here by saying this, but making movies with ambiguous endings is terrible art because it shows the director's and writer's lack of decisiveness in making, defending and completing their…
Naomi Klein is in brilliant form in her latest essay, linking surrealism, Zionism, Zohran and a vision for the antithesis of fascism in Equator: equator.org/articles/surre…
short form video has essentially hacked our evolutionary adaptation to seek out trustworthiness in people we speak to face-to-face in order to sell us stuff and spread a wide variety of insane lies
wrote about this a little in the newsletter but you see this with “China envy” which is in part the recognition that China looked at our dysfunctional political economy (laissez faire, socialize every possible cost, let tech capitalists seize state apparatus) and said “No thanks”
Isn't one of the most obvious features of China's success that it's built on capacity to discipline its capitalist firms - including the "inevitable chiselers in their ranks." Brings to mind this observation from FDR, seemingly lost to Western posterity. presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/mess…
Hey, if you liked the first four pages of my book -- or even if you hated them -- you should subscribe to @BostonReview, where I write a bimonthly column! New subscriptions are half off for Black Friday! (Link below)
there were five and a half years between "attention is all you need" and the release of chatGPT. another three years have passed since. i've spent most of today trying to string together words that somehow make sense of these years. when "attention" dropped i was 19 working in…
today we launched ChatGPT. try talking with it here: chat.openai.com
David Bordwell, “Intensified Continuity: Visual Style in Contemporary American film,” and Steven Shaviro, “Post-Continuity: An Introduction”
Sort of confirms my theory that Lynch is spiritually connected to Cronenberg, because these scenes are edited almost exactly like the action in A History of Violence, especially the quick staccato close ups.
Institutions responsible for enforcing standards belatedly realising that failing to enforce standards for fashionable antinomian reasons negates their whole institutional mission.
I take Wikipedia for granted. But reading this interview with @jimmy_wales reminded me what a remarkable and important creation it is. A true pillar of civilization. And costs only $200 million a year. Requires our support. I’m finally donating. Gift link: nytimes.com/2025/10/18/mag…
Harassment campaigns like the ‘professor watch list’ are core to Turning Point’s brand and fundraising. I would even bet this student/TPUSA chapter specifically targeted a trans professor. All of this was common knowledge when Ezra praised them.
Academic governance by right-wing social media mob: coming soon to a non-union campus near you
Rereading my writing sample for a couple of job apps I just submitted. I appear to have missed a "(WORD BETTER)" note to myself in the text lmfao...................
A few notes on Northwestern's deal with the Trump admin, beyond the headline of extorting $75m in exchange for reneging on the deal that led to the end of the encampments 🧵 tldr: The deal is a big step backward, in a few respects the worst one so far
there’s actually a woke and leftist way to cite God that I teach all my students and his name is Walter Benjamin
latest article is on the extremely disturbing warrantless, illegal spying made possible by "Flock Safety," a policing surveillance startup that gives local cops (and even some corporations) an AI-enabled camera network—so that they can follow individual drivers all around a city.
Flock’s vast license-plate camera network tracks drivers nationwide, sharing data with police. Critics call it invasive, insecure, and unconstitutional—fueling a growing grassroots push to ban or restrict the system’s reach. truthout.org/articles/a-vas…
Two strains of American anti-intellectualism, that of rightwing religious populism and that of tech
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