Look at what just arrived at my doorstep! ROCK STAR/MOVIE STAR’s official release date is 9/15. It can be ordered online via @OxUniPress or retailers like @Bookshop_Org If you’re faculty, please consider asking your library to pick up a copy :)

@acroandr I recommend contacting a librarian at your institution

I'll prolly come back here now and again when I need to promote stuff, but spending more time at the other place really drives home how much this one is a rotting shell of its former self. Come find me there if you haven't already:

As time churns on, Soderbergh's Contagion looks more and more like a utopian portrait of responsible governance

Tomorrow!

Where I’m at right now is that, for the foreseeable future, electoral politics is not a pathway for building a society that values kindness, justice, and civic care. Structural change will only take place, if it ever does, upstream from the communities we make.

@its_vee_zee

Seems like an environment in which Juror No. 2 could do just fine under a distributor that made any effort

Me on my last 5pm walk under daylight saving time

love the extra soupçon of dread that a pre-election halloween brings

Very much looking forward to this. Please join us Friday, November 15 at 2pm Eastern/1pm Central US time!

@davidehrlich Oh how I miss that theater

Thanks @petecanttweet for this fun conversation about, among other things, David Bowie, Madonna, rock stars as commodities and laborers, and my (not-so-new) book on these topics for @NewBooksNetwork

@davidehrlich Most people don't get around to taking a photo like this until their 50s, so HBD!

Talkies in these earliest years could indeed be dull. But talkies were only one type of sound film in this interesting experimental period before Hollywood standardized a balance of sound elements.

@jenholt13 @mitpress Great news!