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Nick Orlando
@njorlando.bsky.social
I heard this is the place to be.

Ph.D. English, Film and Media Studies
Postdoctoral Associate, UF 🐊
Posts do not reflect the views of my employer.
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I was not surprised that Santa Ono was moving to the "less prestigious" UFlorida because Ono's vision of campus has always been as police state.

This was on display last year at UMichigan with the most aggressive strikebreaking against grad students, but it goes back to his time at UCincinnati.

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Ok I'd done all my pope jokes. Now I gotta read this MESS. I believe a friend said the regents meeting is already done so he's officially no longer the president at Michigan.

www.insidehighered.com/opinion/view...
Why I Chose University of Florida, by Santa Ono (opinion)
Santa J. Ono explains why he’s pursuing the University of Florida presidency.
www.insidehighered.com
May 8, 2025 at 6:43 PM
Maybe we need an aesthetic/media/political economic theory of hype? 🤔

futurism.com/ai-tinkerbell
AI Is Like Tinkerbell: It Only Works If We Keep Clapping So It Doesn't Die
AI is like the fairy Tinkerbell: in the story of "Peter Pan," she only continues to exist if people believe in her and clap for her.
futurism.com
February 10, 2025 at 9:42 PM
Reposted by Nick Orlando
My review of @joshshepperd.bsky.social's important and ever-so-timely book, Shadow of the New Deal, on the history of American public media has finally been published. I posted it online here:
victorpickard.com
February 8, 2025 at 3:05 AM
We’re nice.

We extended the deadline.

Friday, January 17.

🙂
For those interested, the deadline to submit abstracts for the UF Marxist Reading Group conference is tomorrow. Check/share the link: call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2024/11/...
cfp | call for papers
call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu
January 13, 2025 at 2:55 PM
If hanging with the UF MRG isn’t your thing (see last post), you could instead write an essay interrogating AppleTV+’s investments in the sci-fi genre for this special issue that I’m co-editing with two great colleagues:
call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2024/12/...
cfp | call for papers
call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu
January 9, 2025 at 10:31 PM
For those interested, the deadline to submit abstracts for the UF Marxist Reading Group conference is tomorrow. Check/share the link: call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2024/11/...
cfp | call for papers
call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu
January 9, 2025 at 1:52 PM