Matt Bell
@profmattbell.bsky.social
Into film, theatre, tennis, and queer studies. Denizen of Boston and Provincetown. Dog dad. Oh, and opposed to fascism.
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The most unsubtle, heavy-handed claims made by pomo academic types have turned out to all be true. Gender is a relation of domination that requires constant, affirming witness. Capitalism will require extractive colonial relations. There’s no subtlety. Every day is like a 101 seminar at Oberlin.
January 6, 2026 at 1:27 PM
The most unsubtle, heavy-handed claims made by pomo academic types have turned out to all be true. Gender is a relation of domination that requires constant, affirming witness. Capitalism will require extractive colonial relations. There’s no subtlety. Every day is like a 101 seminar at Oberlin.
must-watch.
NPR recorded myself and Mike Fanone narrating our body-worn camera recordings from January 6th. Ah, memories.
www.npr.org/sections/the...
www.npr.org/sections/the...
2 police officers relive Jan. 6 through their own bodycam footage
D.C. police officers experienced some of the most intense violence during the attack on the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. We sat down with two of them to rewatch their body camera footage from that da...
www.npr.org
January 5, 2026 at 3:55 PM
must-watch.
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I heard him give a (very brief, there was a 2 minute time limit, as per @me3dia.bsky.social) talk about this in early Jan, and it stayed with me all year. Give it a read.
Facing a new year, I found this @dansinker.com post from February — about how the KKK in the 1920s felt unstoppable, about the people that fought against them anyway, and about how fascism always fails — to be a welcome read.
dansinker.com/posts/2025-0...
dansinker.com/posts/2025-0...
What Felt Impossible Became Possible | dansinker.com
dansinker.com
December 31, 2025 at 4:39 PM
I heard him give a (very brief, there was a 2 minute time limit, as per @me3dia.bsky.social) talk about this in early Jan, and it stayed with me all year. Give it a read.
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Landscape with the Fall of Icarus (Pieter Bruegel, c. 1560)
December 30, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Landscape with the Fall of Icarus (Pieter Bruegel, c. 1560)
wow, you look amazing! Like, your traps are almost perfect!
December 29, 2025 at 2:02 AM
wow, you look amazing! Like, your traps are almost perfect!
after Shane and Ilya's time in their cottage paradise:
"The World was all before them, where to choose
Thir place of rest, and Providence thir guide:
They hand in hand with wandring steps and slow,
Through Eden took thir solitarie way."
"The World was all before them, where to choose
Thir place of rest, and Providence thir guide:
They hand in hand with wandring steps and slow,
Through Eden took thir solitarie way."
December 26, 2025 at 8:17 PM
after Shane and Ilya's time in their cottage paradise:
"The World was all before them, where to choose
Thir place of rest, and Providence thir guide:
They hand in hand with wandring steps and slow,
Through Eden took thir solitarie way."
"The World was all before them, where to choose
Thir place of rest, and Providence thir guide:
They hand in hand with wandring steps and slow,
Through Eden took thir solitarie way."
Lacan, in brief: il y a homologue qui est mon rival
December 26, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Lacan, in brief: il y a homologue qui est mon rival
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“Like Prime, but with human beings.”
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Night and Fog (Nuit et brouillard, Alain Resnais, 1956)
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Night and Fog (Nuit et brouillard, Alain Resnais, 1956)
December 24, 2025 at 6:58 PM
“Like Prime, but with human beings.”
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Night and Fog (Nuit et brouillard, Alain Resnais, 1956)
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Night and Fog (Nuit et brouillard, Alain Resnais, 1956)
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Imagine interviewing a victim of torture and independently confirming the details of his torture and then being told you can’t broadcast it because the people who ordered the torture wouldn’t give their side of the story.
December 23, 2025 at 12:07 PM
Imagine interviewing a victim of torture and independently confirming the details of his torture and then being told you can’t broadcast it because the people who ordered the torture wouldn’t give their side of the story.
Here's the 60 Minutes report, aired in Canada
December 22, 2025 at 10:33 PM
Here's the 60 Minutes report, aired in Canada
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If Jeffrey Epstein did nothing other than procure massages for his friends, then there’s no crime here.
by Robert Kraft
by Robert Kraft
December 20, 2025 at 9:41 PM
If Jeffrey Epstein did nothing other than procure massages for his friends, then there’s no crime here.
by Robert Kraft
by Robert Kraft
"harbored resentment from time as a PhD student," you say?
December 20, 2025 at 2:08 PM
"harbored resentment from time as a PhD student," you say?
Isabel Huppert is sure to win the Emmy
December 19, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Isabel Huppert is sure to win the Emmy
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Just as remakes of "Last Christmas" cannot succeed because they lack the closeted, yearning angst of George Michael, all remakes of "Christmas Wrapping" fail because the narrative demands a true disaffected, droll delivery possible only in a timeline when cellphones and social media do not exist.
December 18, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Just as remakes of "Last Christmas" cannot succeed because they lack the closeted, yearning angst of George Michael, all remakes of "Christmas Wrapping" fail because the narrative demands a true disaffected, droll delivery possible only in a timeline when cellphones and social media do not exist.
People already on this app saying Never Newsom — they’ve already forgotten how a political purity test pushed us over the brink into fascism just last year.
Awesome, let’s do that again.
Awesome, let’s do that again.
December 12, 2025 at 3:59 AM
People already on this app saying Never Newsom — they’ve already forgotten how a political purity test pushed us over the brink into fascism just last year.
Awesome, let’s do that again.
Awesome, let’s do that again.
Erika Kirk is camp
December 4, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Erika Kirk is camp
Me 9 days in the future:
December 2, 2025 at 4:13 AM
Me 9 days in the future:
Wow, watching Ken Burns’s The American Revolution is really indispensable for understanding Hamilton.
November 26, 2025 at 10:45 PM
Wow, watching Ken Burns’s The American Revolution is really indispensable for understanding Hamilton.
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if we're opening up a discussion about who should be executed for crimes against America I have a couple of thoughts
November 20, 2025 at 4:25 PM
if we're opening up a discussion about who should be executed for crimes against America I have a couple of thoughts
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NEW: The first two years of Massachusetts' millionaire tax has raised $3 billion more than expected.
And rather than driving the rich away, IPS researchers found that the number of millionaires has *increased.*
Tax the rich. Greg Ryan in @bloomberg.com:
And rather than driving the rich away, IPS researchers found that the number of millionaires has *increased.*
Tax the rich. Greg Ryan in @bloomberg.com:
Millionaire Tax That Inspired Mamdani Fuels $5.7 Billion Haul in Massachusetts
A millionaire levy in Massachusetts that New York City mayoral frontrunner Zohran Mamdani holds up as a model for taxing the rich has generated $3 billion more in revenue than expected without forcing...
www.bloomberg.com
November 12, 2025 at 4:01 PM
NEW: The first two years of Massachusetts' millionaire tax has raised $3 billion more than expected.
And rather than driving the rich away, IPS researchers found that the number of millionaires has *increased.*
Tax the rich. Greg Ryan in @bloomberg.com:
And rather than driving the rich away, IPS researchers found that the number of millionaires has *increased.*
Tax the rich. Greg Ryan in @bloomberg.com:
this forecast is homophobic
November 13, 2025 at 11:44 AM
this forecast is homophobic
"Writing is the destruction of every voice, of every point of origin. Writing is that neutral, composite, oblique space where our subject slips away, the negative where all identity is lost, starting with the very identity of the body writing."
November 12, 2025 at 1:36 PM
"Writing is the destruction of every voice, of every point of origin. Writing is that neutral, composite, oblique space where our subject slips away, the negative where all identity is lost, starting with the very identity of the body writing."
sequel idea for the Treasure Island Media cinematic universe:
Dawson's 400 Blows
Dawson's 400 Blows
October 29, 2025 at 12:54 PM
sequel idea for the Treasure Island Media cinematic universe:
Dawson's 400 Blows
Dawson's 400 Blows