Nicholas Baer
@nwbaer.bsky.social
Associate Professor of German, UC Berkeley | Book: Historical Turns (UC Press, 2024) | Edited Volumes: Technics (Amsterdam UP, 2024), Unwatchable (Rutgers UP, 2019), The Promise of Cinema (UC Press, 2016)
Like so many others, I was dismayed by the recent news that the profit-driven Taylor & Francis acquired multiple book series (including our open-access "The Key Debates") as part of a transaction with Amsterdam University Press. I proudly signed this collective resignation letter.
Sale of the Amsterdam University Press (AUP) film, media and communication list to Taylor & Francis – Resignation of series editors and editorial board members
It is with great dismay that we, the undersigned, learned that the film, media and communication list of Amsterdam University Press (AUP) has been taken over by Taylor & Francis, a subsidiary of Infor...
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July 9, 2025 at 12:29 PM
Like so many others, I was dismayed by the recent news that the profit-driven Taylor & Francis acquired multiple book series (including our open-access "The Key Debates") as part of a transaction with Amsterdam University Press. I proudly signed this collective resignation letter.
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In my latest academic publication I propse to supplement the concept of dated film (Jamie Baron), which encompasses cultural and aesthetic datedness, by ideological datedness.
Films of the Soviet period now constitute our “new cinema”.
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#academicbluesky
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Films of the Soviet period now constitute our “new cinema”.
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#academicbluesky
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View of TAVA LAIME / YOUR HAPPINESS BY ADA NERETNIECE: IDEOLOGICALLY DATED FILMS AND EPISTEMIC IMPERIALISM OF DISCURSIVE FIELDS
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July 1, 2025 at 6:28 AM
In my latest academic publication I propse to supplement the concept of dated film (Jamie Baron), which encompasses cultural and aesthetic datedness, by ideological datedness.
Films of the Soviet period now constitute our “new cinema”.
1/2
#academicbluesky
culturecrossroads.lv/index.php/cc...
Films of the Soviet period now constitute our “new cinema”.
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#academicbluesky
culturecrossroads.lv/index.php/cc...
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Still thinking about #NECS2025 in Lisbon last week. It was an honor to present on the panel "Socialism Goes Global: Cold War Geopolitics Beyond Europe" with @cheryldueck.bsky.social, Deniz Göktürk, and Balázs Varga. More in Montpellier? [Photo credit: @nwbaer.bsky.social]
June 27, 2025 at 9:29 AM
Still thinking about #NECS2025 in Lisbon last week. It was an honor to present on the panel "Socialism Goes Global: Cold War Geopolitics Beyond Europe" with @cheryldueck.bsky.social, Deniz Göktürk, and Balázs Varga. More in Montpellier? [Photo credit: @nwbaer.bsky.social]
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sold out both!!! @nwbaer.bsky.social but @columbiaup.bsky.social & @ucpress.bsky.social have got all your fatal laughter AND historicist crisis needs covered!!!!
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cup.columbia.edu/book/death-b...
www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520...
June 23, 2025 at 2:44 PM
sold out both!!! @nwbaer.bsky.social but @columbiaup.bsky.social & @ucpress.bsky.social have got all your fatal laughter AND historicist crisis needs covered!!!!
cup.columbia.edu/book/death-b...
www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520...
cup.columbia.edu/book/death-b...
www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520...
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June 21, 2025 at 2:34 PM
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Looking forward to the NECS (European Network for Cinema and Media Studies) Conference tomorrow!!!! If you're in Lisbon, come to our panel on Feminist Film Practices & Historical Recovery (in the C10 spot!). 🎞️❤️ necs.org/conference
June 18, 2025 at 9:34 AM
Looking forward to the NECS (European Network for Cinema and Media Studies) Conference tomorrow!!!! If you're in Lisbon, come to our panel on Feminist Film Practices & Historical Recovery (in the C10 spot!). 🎞️❤️ necs.org/conference
excited for the NECS conference in Lisbon! Join us tomorrow (Thursday, June 19) at 9:00 for a workshop on "Creative Reuse: Navigating the Archive" with Deniz Göktürk, Grazia Ingravalle, Alexandra Schneider, and Jaap Verheul as well as a video essay by Ritika Kaushik!
necs.org/conference
necs.org/conference
June 18, 2025 at 12:00 PM
excited for the NECS conference in Lisbon! Join us tomorrow (Thursday, June 19) at 9:00 for a workshop on "Creative Reuse: Navigating the Archive" with Deniz Göktürk, Grazia Ingravalle, Alexandra Schneider, and Jaap Verheul as well as a video essay by Ritika Kaushik!
necs.org/conference
necs.org/conference
tenured and promoted to associate professor! deeply grateful for the intellectual engagement and labor of so many colleagues at Berkeley and well beyond.
June 9, 2025 at 1:50 PM
tenured and promoted to associate professor! deeply grateful for the intellectual engagement and labor of so many colleagues at Berkeley and well beyond.
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IMPORTANT ADVICE FOR AUTHORS AND SERIES EDITORS ON THE FILM/MEDIA LIST: Do not respond to the letter or accept the new contracts proposed by Taylor & Francis at htis point (unles, of course, you want to). A response is being coordinated. Additional conversations scheduled for the NECS conference.
Amsterdam University Press is sending out letters today notifying series editors and authors that they have been taken over – or shall we say: annexed? – by Taylor & Francis. Not a good day. The evil empire of academic publishing is growing.
June 6, 2025 at 12:54 PM
IMPORTANT ADVICE FOR AUTHORS AND SERIES EDITORS ON THE FILM/MEDIA LIST: Do not respond to the letter or accept the new contracts proposed by Taylor & Francis at htis point (unles, of course, you want to). A response is being coordinated. Additional conversations scheduled for the NECS conference.
Super grateful to @mharrabin.bsky.social for this eloquent and insightful review of Historical Turns in the new issue of Oxford German Studies!
Pleased to see my review of @nwbaer.bsky.social's latest book Historical Turns: Weimar Cinema and the Crisis of Historicism' out in Oxford German Studies today - www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Historical Turns: Weimar Cinema and the Crisis of Historicism
Published in Oxford German Studies (Vol. 54, No. 1, 2025)
www.tandfonline.com
June 4, 2025 at 10:22 AM
Super grateful to @mharrabin.bsky.social for this eloquent and insightful review of Historical Turns in the new issue of Oxford German Studies!
honored to keynote the 20th CMS grad student conference at UChicago next weekend on “Failing Media." Join us for two days of panels along with a faculty roundtable and performance by Gibson + Recoder. Many thanks to Hugo Ljungbäck and Nat Modlin for organizing!
voices.uchicago.edu/failingmedia/
voices.uchicago.edu/failingmedia/
April 19, 2025 at 5:13 PM
honored to keynote the 20th CMS grad student conference at UChicago next weekend on “Failing Media." Join us for two days of panels along with a faculty roundtable and performance by Gibson + Recoder. Many thanks to Hugo Ljungbäck and Nat Modlin for organizing!
voices.uchicago.edu/failingmedia/
voices.uchicago.edu/failingmedia/
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Every year goes by too quickly! We're here for a few more hours at #SCMS25 so drop by for one last chance to view our latest books in cinema and media studies.
Our SCMS website where you can save 40% on all books on display will remain open for you: www.ucpress.edu/book-lists/s...
Our SCMS website where you can save 40% on all books on display will remain open for you: www.ucpress.edu/book-lists/s...
April 6, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Every year goes by too quickly! We're here for a few more hours at #SCMS25 so drop by for one last chance to view our latest books in cinema and media studies.
Our SCMS website where you can save 40% on all books on display will remain open for you: www.ucpress.edu/book-lists/s...
Our SCMS website where you can save 40% on all books on display will remain open for you: www.ucpress.edu/book-lists/s...
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#SCMS25 has just started! Kicking off with a great roundtable co-chaired by @nwbaer.bsky.social, expanding on themes from his #OpenAccess book,Technics
www.aup.nl/en/book/9789....
You can also check it out at the AUP table (Exhibit Hall) from tomorrow! See you there for a chat!
www.aup.nl/en/book/9789....
You can also check it out at the AUP table (Exhibit Hall) from tomorrow! See you there for a chat!
April 3, 2025 at 9:22 PM
#SCMS25 has just started! Kicking off with a great roundtable co-chaired by @nwbaer.bsky.social, expanding on themes from his #OpenAccess book,Technics
www.aup.nl/en/book/9789....
You can also check it out at the AUP table (Exhibit Hall) from tomorrow! See you there for a chat!
www.aup.nl/en/book/9789....
You can also check it out at the AUP table (Exhibit Hall) from tomorrow! See you there for a chat!
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Standing room only at the Technics roundtable!! #SCMS25 @nwbaer.bsky.social
April 3, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Standing room only at the Technics roundtable!! #SCMS25 @nwbaer.bsky.social
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Beautiful piece on Linda Williams (1946-2025 💔) in the NY Times. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/30/a...
Linda Williams, Who Introduced Pornography to Academia, Dies at 78
One of the first to write seriously about a fraught subject, she also played a major role in developing the field of film studies and feminist film theory.
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March 31, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Beautiful piece on Linda Williams (1946-2025 💔) in the NY Times. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/30/a...
Join us this Thursday at the @scmstudies.bsky.social conference for a roundtable on technics and media with Yijun Sun, Tom Gunning, @ranjodhdhaliwal.com, @profmamamama.bsky.social, and @sconce.bsky.social! Thanks to @scmsmst.bsky.social for sponsoring. #SCMS25
March 30, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Join us this Thursday at the @scmstudies.bsky.social conference for a roundtable on technics and media with Yijun Sun, Tom Gunning, @ranjodhdhaliwal.com, @profmamamama.bsky.social, and @sconce.bsky.social! Thanks to @scmsmst.bsky.social for sponsoring. #SCMS25
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It is with profound sadness that we mourn the passing of Jonathan Sterne, an extraordinary scholar whose groundbreaking work transformed the fields of sound studies, media theory, and the cultural study of technology.
March 21, 2025 at 11:41 PM
It is with profound sadness that we mourn the passing of Jonathan Sterne, an extraordinary scholar whose groundbreaking work transformed the fields of sound studies, media theory, and the cultural study of technology.
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Friends in Philly: I'll be sharing my work at Penn this Wednesday at noon. Would love to see you there!
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March 16, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Friends in Philly: I'll be sharing my work at Penn this Wednesday at noon. Would love to see you there!
cinemastudies.sas.upenn.edu/events/2025/...
cinemastudies.sas.upenn.edu/events/2025/...
Linda Williams led a truly extraordinary life—a model of fearless inquiry, principled struggle, and joie de vivre. I'm grateful beyond measure for her pathbreaking scholarship and rigorous mentorship over the years. Her words continue to resonate.
March 13, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Linda Williams led a truly extraordinary life—a model of fearless inquiry, principled struggle, and joie de vivre. I'm grateful beyond measure for her pathbreaking scholarship and rigorous mentorship over the years. Her words continue to resonate.
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“Working conditions are learning conditions, we like to say, and it is so obviously true you want to tattoo it on your clavicle.” New: Peter Coviello on austerity in the English department.
Memos of Blood and Fire | Peter Coviello
So if you ask me about the signature strength of the department where I work, I will tell you. It is world-caliber field-defining research, wedded to a fantastically dynamic practice of instruction, a...
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March 7, 2025 at 6:38 PM
“Working conditions are learning conditions, we like to say, and it is so obviously true you want to tattoo it on your clavicle.” New: Peter Coviello on austerity in the English department.
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Definitely time for a new edition.
February 28, 2025 at 6:48 PM
Definitely time for a new edition.
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Today today today, Berkeley folx!
Join us tomorrow at Berkeley for a roundtable discussion of Yael Segalovitz's wonderful new book, How Close Reading Made Us: The Transnational Legacies of New Criticism (@sunypress.bsky.social, 2024).
events.berkeley.edu/complit/even...
events.berkeley.edu/complit/even...
February 10, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Today today today, Berkeley folx!
Join us tomorrow at Berkeley for a roundtable discussion of Yael Segalovitz's wonderful new book, How Close Reading Made Us: The Transnational Legacies of New Criticism (@sunypress.bsky.social, 2024).
events.berkeley.edu/complit/even...
events.berkeley.edu/complit/even...
February 9, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Join us tomorrow at Berkeley for a roundtable discussion of Yael Segalovitz's wonderful new book, How Close Reading Made Us: The Transnational Legacies of New Criticism (@sunypress.bsky.social, 2024).
events.berkeley.edu/complit/even...
events.berkeley.edu/complit/even...
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The great intellectual historian Anson Rabinbach, passed away a few days ago in Rome after a fall. The folks over at the George Mosse Program in Wisconsin have set up an online page to capture memories and reminiscences for friends and family. It is available here:
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February 3, 2025 at 11:49 AM
The great intellectual historian Anson Rabinbach, passed away a few days ago in Rome after a fall. The folks over at the George Mosse Program in Wisconsin have set up an online page to capture memories and reminiscences for friends and family. It is available here:
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...