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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This sounds like the median MAGA account on here at this point
When I did a 1990 interview with Byron De La Beckwith, who killed Mississippi NAACP leader Medgar Evers in 1963, most Americans bristled at Beckwith’s beliefs. Now, 35 years later, the assassin is dead, but some of the views he promulgated are reemerging in new forms.…
well at least this means they are actually in 4K lol
the new 4K transfer of mad men on HBO somehow does not have any of the post-production edits added in, which means you get stuff like this where you can see the crew member manning the puke machine after Roger has too many oysters lmao
Online at @nybooks, the introduction to my new book, Algorithm of the Night nybooks.com/online/2025/12…
I do think it’s funny that we (rightfully) sound the alarm on Israel’s “Samson Option” but I think we fail to recognize that Israel is probably not an outlier. Do you really think a truly revolutionary force could take power in a nation like the US or Britain or India, etc. and…
This is a pretty big deal. Summers banned from the economics professional association for life. aeaweb.org/news/aea-state…
Just unbelievable what’s going on right now
Trump administration to take equity stake in former Intel CEO chip startup Xlight; administration agrees to inject up to 150 million in startup -WSJ
eh, I wouldn’t worry about it
Breakdown of the Black Friday data tells us: -Consumer is weakening. -95% of sales volume was financed. -67% of that intends not to pay off within 30 days. -Roughly $1B was spent using BNPL models which are the worst debt. This points to a *really* unhealthy economy.
There’s a chance this White House ballroom is going to be the most important work of American architecture in the century
“Trump as lame duck” is a very big story, but the most important consequence may be less “the GOP is looking past him” and more him not caring about public opinion anymore and just rewarding friends/family, punishing enemies, and pursuing ever wilder pet projects with abandon
It’s not a contest
You’re not going to convince me Gen Z is suffering under some uniquely devastating circumstance that overshadows anything that’s happened before. Heck, even Millenials came of age during 9/11, multiple wars, and the 2008 financial collapse. Do you know how much that sucked?
Looking Good Sir!
Today in Current Affairs, professor Ron Purser exposes how AI's destruction of the university is even worse than you think, and goes well beyond students cheating with ChatGPT: currentaffairs.org/news/ai-is-des…
i think what’s really being litigated is whether trans people have a right to exist in academia specifically and the public broadly
There’s something deeply bizarre about mass-litigating an individual student’s grades.
the literary form of the modern American conservative movement, the mold by which Samantha's writing seems to have been shaped, is the Facebook comment section
Well-meaning but pure rhetoric. Both Benn and Livingstone had some very good socialist economist working for them who came up with credible plans. The entirely nationalised economies in the former Soviet Union and China (Cuba too) simply did not work simplyt did not work. WE had…
Zarah Sultana says we should "nationalise the entire economy." I asked her what meant in practise.
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…
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