Tyler
@ebdim9.bsky.social
Film studies PhD | Adjunct Worker | Slow Cinema | Realism | Offscreen Space | Psychoanalysis
To my followers: I don’t know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.
The "follow" dichotomy I always struggle with is "I want to see every single thing you post" vs. "I want you to know that I like and respect you." My Following feed is so overstuffed as it is, but I hate the idea that people I don't follow back might think that I don't appreciate them!
The "follow" button confounds "I'm looking at your content" and "I endorse this content." We need two different ways to signal the difference between the two.
October 8, 2025 at 8:26 PM
To my followers: I don’t know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.
Language can be a decisive, qualitative leap forward for the development of distinctly human, discursive intelligence without being a “foundation” for all forms of intelligence.
Language is a really, really recent thing that humans, uniquely among creatures on this planet, produce and use
It absolutely cannot be the foundation of intelligence, because sapients have had cognition and consciousness and all that much longer than we’ve had language
It absolutely cannot be the foundation of intelligence, because sapients have had cognition and consciousness and all that much longer than we’ve had language
October 2, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Language can be a decisive, qualitative leap forward for the development of distinctly human, discursive intelligence without being a “foundation” for all forms of intelligence.
The new PTA movie was kinda meh
September 29, 2025 at 1:21 AM
The new PTA movie was kinda meh
We’re watching every major institution and check on executive power fall like a house of cards, and no one knows how to do anything about it.
September 27, 2025 at 8:15 PM
We’re watching every major institution and check on executive power fall like a house of cards, and no one knows how to do anything about it.
Kracauer’s From Caligari to Hitler hits harder every year I teach it.
September 24, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Kracauer’s From Caligari to Hitler hits harder every year I teach it.
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What I'm saying is: I wish the people who thunder about the classics so much had actually read them and taken them seriously. (The tell is if they use the word "Western Civilization" with deep seriousness.)
September 23, 2025 at 2:16 PM
What I'm saying is: I wish the people who thunder about the classics so much had actually read them and taken them seriously. (The tell is if they use the word "Western Civilization" with deep seriousness.)
It is shocking how much this minority has managed to alter our collective memory about the pandemic.
Most people got shots and then were chill about things with minimal subsequent thought.
But a small number of people just lost their minds, and won't stop talking about it. Pretty typical dynamic where a loud and unhinged minority skews perspective of perceived population averages
But a small number of people just lost their minds, and won't stop talking about it. Pretty typical dynamic where a loud and unhinged minority skews perspective of perceived population averages
September 9, 2025 at 12:59 AM
It is shocking how much this minority has managed to alter our collective memory about the pandemic.
Oh he’s like really doing bad
September 3, 2025 at 2:23 AM
Oh he’s like really doing bad
I don’t make mistakes, I ontologize failure.
September 3, 2025 at 2:09 AM
I don’t make mistakes, I ontologize failure.
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Apparently you can become the director of the CDC with only a degree in the humanities. Clearly we aren't capitalizing enough on our amazing versatility and relevance to increase our department budgets a hundredfold.
August 30, 2025 at 8:58 PM
Apparently you can become the director of the CDC with only a degree in the humanities. Clearly we aren't capitalizing enough on our amazing versatility and relevance to increase our department budgets a hundredfold.
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Phones are poison in a classroom and should be banned from that space. I’m slamming my gavel here.
August 25, 2025 at 9:48 PM
Phones are poison in a classroom and should be banned from that space. I’m slamming my gavel here.
I shouldn’t be but I’m a little shocked by the comment section here. Once again, the attitude towards adjuncts is: We desperately need you but also we hate your guts for taking this position and accepting low wages.
www.reddit.com/r/Professors...
www.reddit.com/r/Professors...
From the Professors community on Reddit
Explore this post and more from the Professors community
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August 17, 2025 at 8:45 PM
I shouldn’t be but I’m a little shocked by the comment section here. Once again, the attitude towards adjuncts is: We desperately need you but also we hate your guts for taking this position and accepting low wages.
www.reddit.com/r/Professors...
www.reddit.com/r/Professors...
A performance of The Bacchae but with the It’s Always Sunny cast.
August 13, 2025 at 5:52 PM
A performance of The Bacchae but with the It’s Always Sunny cast.
This is insane, but I suspect it is coming for us all.
The “deal” that Brown made with the Trump admin is much more extreme than is being reported. It includes government oversight of course evaluations and no barrier to government interference in faculty hiring.
Read it for yourself here:
www.brown.edu/sites/defaul...
Read it for yourself here:
www.brown.edu/sites/defaul...
www.brown.edu
August 2, 2025 at 8:25 PM
This is insane, but I suspect it is coming for us all.
I hope I’m wrong, but I’m pretty confident that no matter what the right is going to stick with Trump and this will all blow over in a year.
July 26, 2025 at 2:39 AM
I hope I’m wrong, but I’m pretty confident that no matter what the right is going to stick with Trump and this will all blow over in a year.
I’ve had multiple conversations with older folks this summer - elder millennials, boomers, gen x - who casually mentioned that they can no longer read books and rely on YouTube summaries and audiobooks. A few even got agitated at the suggestion that they should keep trying. We are cooked.
July 19, 2025 at 3:40 PM
I’ve had multiple conversations with older folks this summer - elder millennials, boomers, gen x - who casually mentioned that they can no longer read books and rely on YouTube summaries and audiobooks. A few even got agitated at the suggestion that they should keep trying. We are cooked.
I don’t usually do this kind of thing, but my friend is fighting an insane battle with AirBNB owners who have taken over his HOA and deserves whatever support people can give. The video barely scratches the surface of what he’s been dealing with for years. Chip in if you can. It’s a worthy cause.
My HOA sent me gore photos after complaining about the AirBnbs: www.youtube.com/watch?v=E-Ad...
My HOA Sent Me GORE PHOTOS After Complaining About the AirBnbs
YouTube video by Super Bunnyhop
www.youtube.com
June 26, 2025 at 5:35 PM
I don’t usually do this kind of thing, but my friend is fighting an insane battle with AirBNB owners who have taken over his HOA and deserves whatever support people can give. The video barely scratches the surface of what he’s been dealing with for years. Chip in if you can. It’s a worthy cause.
Absolutely crucial point here. “Exploitation” is the genus and not a mere synonym of surplus value “extraction”
'exploitation' of nature, science, one country against another etc but that's not especially notable. Lots of words have multiples uses. What occurred to me tonight tho is that Marx does not use term exploitation to refer exclusively to the capitalist class extracting surplus labor. Rather he uses
June 2, 2025 at 8:55 PM
Absolutely crucial point here. “Exploitation” is the genus and not a mere synonym of surplus value “extraction”
Everyone laughs at psychoanalysis for blaming everything on parents and family, but believe me when I say that modern psychiatry is much more effective at blaming and shaming the family of those experiencing a crisis than psychoanalysis ever was.
May 19, 2025 at 3:14 AM
Everyone laughs at psychoanalysis for blaming everything on parents and family, but believe me when I say that modern psychiatry is much more effective at blaming and shaming the family of those experiencing a crisis than psychoanalysis ever was.
I suspect my dad is in the early stages of another mental health episode, so expect more posts from me about Lacanian theories of psychosis as I feel more and more powerless to do anything about it.
May 19, 2025 at 1:39 AM
I suspect my dad is in the early stages of another mental health episode, so expect more posts from me about Lacanian theories of psychosis as I feel more and more powerless to do anything about it.
Can someone explain to me why this isn’t being treated as a major crisis by every major outlet?
Judge Hannah Dugan, the Wisconsin judge who was arrested on Friday morning on charges of obstructing immigration enforcement, spent most of her legal career working on behalf of low-income people and marginalized groups. Here's what to know.
Who Is the Wisconsin Judge Arrested in Immigration Dispute?
www.nytimes.com
April 25, 2025 at 8:06 PM
Can someone explain to me why this isn’t being treated as a major crisis by every major outlet?
You can listen to me ramble about slow cinema with my bud @matthiasellis.com, if you’re into that sort of thing.
This one I'm really excited about: we were joined by film theorist @ebdim9.bsky.social to discuss Zhangke's STILL LIFE (2006). We discuss slow(ish) cinema, the paradoxes of digital realism, China's neoliberal turn, historical memory, and fight over frame rates podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/d...
March 30, 2025 at 12:09 AM
You can listen to me ramble about slow cinema with my bud @matthiasellis.com, if you’re into that sort of thing.
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This one I'm really excited about: we were joined by film theorist @ebdim9.bsky.social to discuss Zhangke's STILL LIFE (2006). We discuss slow(ish) cinema, the paradoxes of digital realism, China's neoliberal turn, historical memory, and fight over frame rates podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/d...
March 30, 2025 at 12:03 AM
This one I'm really excited about: we were joined by film theorist @ebdim9.bsky.social to discuss Zhangke's STILL LIFE (2006). We discuss slow(ish) cinema, the paradoxes of digital realism, China's neoliberal turn, historical memory, and fight over frame rates podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/d...
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Glad we had all those hair-splitting academic arguments about "is it fascism?" over the past decade.
March 29, 2025 at 4:43 PM
Glad we had all those hair-splitting academic arguments about "is it fascism?" over the past decade.
I once had a student complain to me about another adjunct prof who didn’t know how to use Blackboard very well. He said that if he were making six figures to teach two courses a semester, he would learn the technology for the job. He refused to believe that we were paid so little.
I'm convinced that at least some of the cultural resentment at academia is rooted on the completely mistaken belief that we all are have permanent job security, make six figure salaries to teach 4 hours a week with summers off, and get to spend all our time Thinking, capital-t.
I told my sister-in-law my salary last night & she was totally shocked. she was like, “I was sure you were in the six-figures.” she works in medical administration & makes 20K more than me a year
just so everyone knows—assistant professors in English lit DO NOT make six figures.
just so everyone knows—assistant professors in English lit DO NOT make six figures.
March 22, 2025 at 8:11 PM
I once had a student complain to me about another adjunct prof who didn’t know how to use Blackboard very well. He said that if he were making six figures to teach two courses a semester, he would learn the technology for the job. He refused to believe that we were paid so little.