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matthew ellis

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wandering academic. media studies, history of capitalism, theory. pod @pnwmoviefilm. LB: http://letterboxd.com/mattellis blog: http://historiesofthepresent.com

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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!

matthiasellis's tweet image. Looking Good Sir!

President Trump has invited Israeli PM Netanyahu to the White House for a fifth visit in 10 months. Trump has invited Netanyahu to the White House roughly every 2 months since his inauguration. Follow: @AFpost

AFpost's tweet image. President Trump has invited Israeli PM Netanyahu to the White House for a fifth visit in 10 months.

Trump has invited Netanyahu to the White House roughly every 2 months since his inauguration.

Follow: @AFpost


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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…

NathanJRobinson's tweet image. 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…

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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.



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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

Samantha’s Essay (4of5)

TurningPointOU's tweet image. Samantha’s Essay (4of5)
TurningPointOU's tweet image. Samantha’s Essay (4of5)
TurningPointOU's tweet image. Samantha’s Essay (4of5)
TurningPointOU's tweet image. Samantha’s Essay (4of5)


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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.



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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

lakeeater's tweet image. 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

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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…



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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…

_RajPatel's tweet image. 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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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

man they don’t even trust the *student newspaper* because they think it exists to “protect people in power”

cszabla's tweet image. man they don’t even trust the *student newspaper* because they think it exists to “protect people in power”
cszabla's tweet image. man they don’t even trust the *student newspaper* because they think it exists to “protect people in power”


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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…

nikhil_palsingh's tweet image. 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…


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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)

DavidAstinWalsh's tweet image. 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)

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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.



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Institutions responsible for enforcing standards belatedly realising that failing to enforce standards for fashionable antinomian reasons negates their whole institutional mission.


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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…


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