Ger Zielinski, PhD
@nulladiessinelinea.bsky.social
Here for the scintillating discourse and robust community. Film & media scholar, lecturer & writer. Research on film festivals, queer space & cinema, and contemporary media art. Buna, mezcal & gyokuro aficionado, but not necessarily in that order.
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Welcome, friends, colleagues and the curious! 🙃
>Busy finishing a book on the early work of queer activist Rosa von Praunheim.
>Researching the intersection of film festivals, digital streaming, and environmental media studies.
>Writing on contemporary media art and cinema.
>Busy finishing a book on the early work of queer activist Rosa von Praunheim.
>Researching the intersection of film festivals, digital streaming, and environmental media studies.
>Writing on contemporary media art and cinema.
Freshly returned from the excellent 2025 NECS conference "Discovering/Uncovering: Navigating the Complexities of Screen Media," hosted by Lusófona University in Lisbon.
I greatly appreciate the productive engagement throughout the conference. #NECS2025
necs.org/conference/2...
I greatly appreciate the productive engagement throughout the conference. #NECS2025
necs.org/conference/2...
June 27, 2025 at 1:11 PM
Freshly returned from the excellent 2025 NECS conference "Discovering/Uncovering: Navigating the Complexities of Screen Media," hosted by Lusófona University in Lisbon.
I greatly appreciate the productive engagement throughout the conference. #NECS2025
necs.org/conference/2...
I greatly appreciate the productive engagement throughout the conference. #NECS2025
necs.org/conference/2...
A very useful read for those in the midst of (re)applying for a SSHRC grant, by Letitia Henville: "Peer reviewer’s perspectives: SSHRC Insight and Insight Development Grant" #UniversityAffairs Happy to have contributed. Share widely! universityaffairs.ca/career-advic...
SSHRC Insight and Insight Development Grant - University Affairs
Peer reviewer’s perspectives.
universityaffairs.ca
May 28, 2025 at 4:38 PM
A very useful read for those in the midst of (re)applying for a SSHRC grant, by Letitia Henville: "Peer reviewer’s perspectives: SSHRC Insight and Insight Development Grant" #UniversityAffairs Happy to have contributed. Share widely! universityaffairs.ca/career-advic...
MAGA meltdown. #LeoXIV
MAGA Melts Down Over New Pope's Anti-Trump, Pro-Immigrant Social Media
Donald Trump's supporters are not liking the social media of Robert Prevost, Pope Leo XIV, which includes several posts critical of the president.
www.rollingstone.com
May 8, 2025 at 9:09 PM
MAGA meltdown. #LeoXIV
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Talk to students about the error rate, environmental costs, labour, surveillance, eugenics, techno-fascism, security, so they have a say in their future; don't leave it to the AI industry to define it. None of my students used bots last term.
nymag.com/intelligence...
nymag.com/intelligence...
Everyone Is Cheating Their Way Through College
ChatGPT has unraveled the entire academic project.
nymag.com
May 7, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Talk to students about the error rate, environmental costs, labour, surveillance, eugenics, techno-fascism, security, so they have a say in their future; don't leave it to the AI industry to define it. None of my students used bots last term.
nymag.com/intelligence...
nymag.com/intelligence...
Re: Canadian federal election 2025
April 29, 2025 at 9:36 PM
Re: Canadian federal election 2025
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Lesson #13 from @timothysnyder.bsky.social: Practice Corporeal Politics.
"Get outside. Put your body in unfamiliar places with unfamiliar people. Make new friends and march with them."
Watch this. Then join us outside nationwide on April 5th: handsoff2025.com.
open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p...
"Get outside. Put your body in unfamiliar places with unfamiliar people. Make new friends and march with them."
Watch this. Then join us outside nationwide on April 5th: handsoff2025.com.
open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p...
Twenty Lessons, read by John Lithgow
Key selections from On Tyranny, for viewing and sharing
open.substack.com
March 31, 2025 at 1:11 AM
Lesson #13 from @timothysnyder.bsky.social: Practice Corporeal Politics.
"Get outside. Put your body in unfamiliar places with unfamiliar people. Make new friends and march with them."
Watch this. Then join us outside nationwide on April 5th: handsoff2025.com.
open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p...
"Get outside. Put your body in unfamiliar places with unfamiliar people. Make new friends and march with them."
Watch this. Then join us outside nationwide on April 5th: handsoff2025.com.
open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p...
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Big welcome to Jason Stanley, @timothysnyder.bsky.social , and @marcishore.bsky.social, among likely others, to Toronto! Definitely Canada's gain, as evidence of a possible brain drain appears.
dailynous.com/2025/03/25/s...
dailynous.com/2025/03/25/s...
Stanley from Yale to Toronto - Daily Nous
Jason Stanley, currently professor of philosophy at Yale University, will be moving to the Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy at the University of Toronto (with a partial appointment in T...
dailynous.com
March 27, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Big welcome to Jason Stanley, @timothysnyder.bsky.social , and @marcishore.bsky.social, among likely others, to Toronto! Definitely Canada's gain, as evidence of a possible brain drain appears.
dailynous.com/2025/03/25/s...
dailynous.com/2025/03/25/s...
Enlightening analysis from anthropologist and FT columnist Gillian Tett. #GillianTett #KingsCollege #CambridgeU
"Fourth, even if Trump’s actions are alienating allies, his advisers hope to force compliance with any accord through tariff shocks and other threats."
www.ft.com/content/fba8...
"Fourth, even if Trump’s actions are alienating allies, his advisers hope to force compliance with any accord through tariff shocks and other threats."
www.ft.com/content/fba8...
What a Mar-a-Lago accord could look like
Trump’s team consider financial policy interventions to be crucial in a grand reordering of global finance and trade
www.ft.com
March 14, 2025 at 10:32 PM
Enlightening analysis from anthropologist and FT columnist Gillian Tett. #GillianTett #KingsCollege #CambridgeU
"Fourth, even if Trump’s actions are alienating allies, his advisers hope to force compliance with any accord through tariff shocks and other threats."
www.ft.com/content/fba8...
"Fourth, even if Trump’s actions are alienating allies, his advisers hope to force compliance with any accord through tariff shocks and other threats."
www.ft.com/content/fba8...
Congrats to Bruce LaBruce, Kent Monkman, Clive Robertson, Thaddeus Hołownia, Sandra Rodriguez & Jin-me Yoon, all recipients of the #GGArts Award for 2025! canadacouncil.ca/press/2025/0...
2025 GGArts Winners Revealed
The Canada Council for the Arts reveals the 2025 winners of the Governor General’s Awards in Visual and Media Arts (GGArts).
canadacouncil.ca
March 6, 2025 at 2:23 AM
Congrats to Bruce LaBruce, Kent Monkman, Clive Robertson, Thaddeus Hołownia, Sandra Rodriguez & Jin-me Yoon, all recipients of the #GGArts Award for 2025! canadacouncil.ca/press/2025/0...
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Union Square rally.
February 17, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Union Square rally.
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Portuguese editorial cartoonist Zez Vaz reaches back to Tiananmen Square to call on American defiance.
February 15, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Portuguese editorial cartoonist Zez Vaz reaches back to Tiananmen Square to call on American defiance.
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Once more for the folks in the back www.techpolicy.press/anatomy-of-a...
Anatomy of an AI Coup | TechPolicy.Press
DOGE is gutting federal agencies to install AI across the government. Democracy is on the line, writes Tech Policy Press fellow Eryk Salvaggio.
www.techpolicy.press
February 13, 2025 at 9:18 PM
Once more for the folks in the back www.techpolicy.press/anatomy-of-a...
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Removes much that deals with foreign disinformation. And other important topics. This is deliberate state self-destruction under the pretext of removing DEI.
1. EXCLUSIVE
Today, the NSA is planning a "Big Delete" of websites and internal network content that contain any of 27 banned words, including "privilege," "bias," and "inclusion," a NSA source tells Popular Information.
The massive purge is creating chaos, taking down "mission-related" work
Today, the NSA is planning a "Big Delete" of websites and internal network content that contain any of 27 banned words, including "privilege," "bias," and "inclusion," a NSA source tells Popular Information.
The massive purge is creating chaos, taking down "mission-related" work
The NSA's "Big Delete"
Today, the National Security Agency (NSA) is planning a "Big Delete" of websites and internal network content that contain any of 27 banned words, including "privilege," "bias," and "inclusion." The "...
popular.info
February 10, 2025 at 6:48 PM
Removes much that deals with foreign disinformation. And other important topics. This is deliberate state self-destruction under the pretext of removing DEI.
FYI "A dozen radical responses to Trump’s economic warfare that go beyond Canadian counter-tariffs" from the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives #CCPA
A dozen radical responses to Trump’s economic warfare that go beyond Canadian counter-tariffs | CCPA
The belief that economic integration with the United States—epitomized by the 1989 Canada-U.S. Free Trade Agreement, the 1994 North American Free Trade Agreement and finally the Trump-led 2016 Canada-...
www.policyalternatives.ca
February 10, 2025 at 1:14 AM
FYI "A dozen radical responses to Trump’s economic warfare that go beyond Canadian counter-tariffs" from the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives #CCPA
Some things never change.
February 4, 2025 at 11:27 PM
Some things never change.
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The logic of the coup that is going on now. And how to resist it.
snyder.substack.com/p/the-logic-...
snyder.substack.com/p/the-logic-...
The Logic of Destruction
And how to resist it
snyder.substack.com
February 2, 2025 at 6:50 PM
The logic of the coup that is going on now. And how to resist it.
snyder.substack.com/p/the-logic-...
snyder.substack.com/p/the-logic-...
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Similar to Russia's anti-LGBT law, which seeks to suppress the portrayal of the LGBT community as a normal part of society, Meta is now reversing course and removing product features that provide visibility to LGBTQ+ users on its platforms. www.404media.co/meta-deletes...
Meta Deletes Trans and Nonbinary Messenger Themes
Amid a series of changes that allows users to target LGBTQ+ people, Meta has deleted product features it initially championed.
www.404media.co
January 10, 2025 at 6:36 PM
Similar to Russia's anti-LGBT law, which seeks to suppress the portrayal of the LGBT community as a normal part of society, Meta is now reversing course and removing product features that provide visibility to LGBTQ+ users on its platforms. www.404media.co/meta-deletes...
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"Everything I say leaks," Zuckerberg says in leaked meeting audio. "It sucks"
www.404media.co/zuckerberg-s...
www.404media.co/zuckerberg-s...
Zuckerberg Says 'Everything I Say Leaks' in Leaked Meeting Audio
"There are a bunch of things that I think are value-destroying for me to talk about, so I’m not going to talk about those."
www.404media.co
January 30, 2025 at 9:42 PM
"Everything I say leaks," Zuckerberg says in leaked meeting audio. "It sucks"
www.404media.co/zuckerberg-s...
www.404media.co/zuckerberg-s...
Nice to see my piece "MM Serra's Living Legacy, her Films, Gardens, & Turtles," among all the impressive others, in the recent volume of Framework 65 (1&2), a Festschrift dedicated to NYC artist-filmmaker MM Serra, edited by Ronald Gregg and Drake Stutesman.
DOI: lnkd.in/gRAFHDkp
DOI: lnkd.in/gRAFHDkp
January 24, 2025 at 1:38 AM
Nice to see my piece "MM Serra's Living Legacy, her Films, Gardens, & Turtles," among all the impressive others, in the recent volume of Framework 65 (1&2), a Festschrift dedicated to NYC artist-filmmaker MM Serra, edited by Ronald Gregg and Drake Stutesman.
DOI: lnkd.in/gRAFHDkp
DOI: lnkd.in/gRAFHDkp
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Baudrillard could at least verify the simulation. These days, not even that.
January 21, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Baudrillard could at least verify the simulation. These days, not even that.
Happy to see my chapter ‘Steps to a Greener Film Festival Studies’ in the open-access book Shaping Film Festivals in a Changing World: Practice and Methods, edited with care by Tamara Falicov and Dorotka Ostrowska. OA Download at library.oapen.org/handle/20.50...
January 17, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Happy to see my chapter ‘Steps to a Greener Film Festival Studies’ in the open-access book Shaping Film Festivals in a Changing World: Practice and Methods, edited with care by Tamara Falicov and Dorotka Ostrowska. OA Download at library.oapen.org/handle/20.50...