matthew ellis
@matthiasellis
cinema and media, capitalism, theory, history, politics LB: letterboxd.com/mattellis/ www.historiesofthepresent.com
look at this set of a train station used for an episode of ONE STEP BEYOND (1959-61)
Night two in LA: evacuating my apartment because the fucking penthouse suite caught fire lmao
Ready Player One was prescient in identifying the limited options for liberalism to combat the logics of reaction: lets call it the No True Fan fallacy
"This is probably the silliest thing that has ever happened to me" is a line right up there with Albert Brooks and Dan Castellaneta's improvised "Ever see a guy say goodbye to a shoe?" "(chuckles) Just once..." from "You Only Move Twice"
PDX folks--I'm giving a talk on MODERNISM on June 11th at SOCIETY (above Mother Foucaults). It's free. Please come! I'd love to see you there (societysocietysociety.com)
This week's @tpnwicmfp.bsky.social is a special one for me, thinking as I am about endings and beginnings in this season of change. We discuss Antonioni's L'ECLISSE, one of the five or so films that I can say have altered the trajectory of my life upon first watch podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/l...
This is being written right when a good deal of the media archaeological end-of-cinema stuff was being written, all very interesting and useful but largely devoid of any kind of structuring center of a theory of capitalism. We’re back at this moment now
every time I teach this i'm dumfounded at how prescient it was, and wonder what would have happened had it been published right after the financial crisis instead of the final moments of the End of History Bush years
quick liquidity that gets spent before it can form into anything as stable as an institution that the party can absorb. Doesn't this sound familiar? Like every other institution in our society, the right is passing hot potatoes and the players are increasingly reminiscent of these guys
Just saw Laraaji play Ambient 3 at Ambient Church’s Portland tour date. Spectacular show, catch this if it comes to town
love firing up my new music friday playlists to see how musicians are feeling about the state of the world
two interesting temporal "maps" to make sense of the unfolding crisis in Alexander Zevin's latest for NLR: on the one hand, a Baudrillardian layer of the technological mediation of the market, structured by microtransactions and reels, on the other Arrighi's signal crises rearing their head
i have to show you the title slide i just came up with for this lmfao
(R)eal venturing beyond never goes into the mere vacuum of an In-Front-of-Us, merely fanatically, merely visualizing abstractions. Instead, it grasps the New as something that is mediated in what exists and is in motion, although to be revealed the New demands the most extreme effort of will.
I mean this is just classic shock doctrine/economic reorganization of society stuff like Thatcher and Reagan undertook in the 80s with finance capital and telecommunications; it just so happens the place to do it in Hungary was auto manufacturing www.europeanpressprize.com/article/how-...
Would anybody be interested in doing a reading group for Volume 1 of Albert Boime's A Social History of Modern Art over the next few months?
what is detailed in this article, written from someone who has known Platner since the 90s, containing on the ground, local reporting, details much of that responsive structure themainemonitor.org/graham-platn...
This is because that style constitutively functions by believing in its ability to shape outcomes. And my point in the thread is that the author still believes this, he seems to think the only reason for Platner's success is because some "progressive intelligentsia" decided to take a gamble on him