isi litke
@isilitke.bsky.social
it's pronounced fronkfurt school // associate faculty at @brooklyninstitute.bsky.social teaching at the intersection of politics & aesthetics
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(Pop) Cultural Marxism, Episode 19: Ghost of Yotei – A Specter is Haunting Ezo | Composition! Color! Characterization! Colonization! And more. | buff.ly/LBvGC7P
November 2, 2025 at 12:00 AM
(Pop) Cultural Marxism, Episode 19: Ghost of Yotei – A Specter is Haunting Ezo | Composition! Color! Characterization! Colonization! And more. | buff.ly/LBvGC7P
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One of my least rational beliefs is that if you pull off a heist without hurting anyone or getting caught within a day, that's your stuff fair and square.
October 19, 2025 at 10:47 PM
One of my least rational beliefs is that if you pull off a heist without hurting anyone or getting caught within a day, that's your stuff fair and square.
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the department of war thing is like … i mean, it is, though
September 6, 2025 at 3:10 AM
the department of war thing is like … i mean, it is, though
imaging being part of a geyser & your comp is taking the rest of the afternoon off
August 8, 2025 at 6:27 PM
imaging being part of a geyser & your comp is taking the rest of the afternoon off
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Nice to see Cuomo finally being a team player and campaigning for Zohran
July 19, 2025 at 8:14 PM
Nice to see Cuomo finally being a team player and campaigning for Zohran
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happy anniversary to all who celebrate
July 11, 2025 at 12:58 PM
happy anniversary to all who celebrate
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you know, they really did do this
July 4, 2025 at 7:00 PM
you know, they really did do this
"The qualities of the Met’s new pieces—literalness, signposting, pat plotlines, an impatience with the slightest ambiguity—are key tenets of second-screen television. They are also irreconcilable with good opera." thebaffler.com/latest/throu...
Through the Opera Glass | Jeffrey Arlo Brown
The Met should be a lodestar for opera worldwide—but under Peter Gelb’s leadership, it has found itself lost at sea.
thebaffler.com
July 2, 2025 at 5:50 PM
"The qualities of the Met’s new pieces—literalness, signposting, pat plotlines, an impatience with the slightest ambiguity—are key tenets of second-screen television. They are also irreconcilable with good opera." thebaffler.com/latest/throu...
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Looking forward to starting Imagining Utopia @brooklyninstitute.bsky.social taught by @isilitke.bsky.social . I've listed to the Pop Culture Marxism podcast but this is my first time taking a class. Join me? thebrooklyninstitute.com/items/course...
#utopia
#philopshysky
#culteralcritism
#utopia
#philopshysky
#culteralcritism
Imagining Utopia: Politics, Planning, and the (Im)Possible - Brooklyn Institute for Social Research
Dystopias abound in the contemporary landscape—in literature, on screen, in our diagnoses of the present. From the zombie apocalypse to planetary catastrophe to nightmarish visions of gender disciplin...
thebrooklyninstitute.com
July 1, 2025 at 5:16 AM
Looking forward to starting Imagining Utopia @brooklyninstitute.bsky.social taught by @isilitke.bsky.social . I've listed to the Pop Culture Marxism podcast but this is my first time taking a class. Join me? thebrooklyninstitute.com/items/course...
#utopia
#philopshysky
#culteralcritism
#utopia
#philopshysky
#culteralcritism
came across this abomination in jersey city today
June 28, 2025 at 7:50 PM
came across this abomination in jersey city today
it’s 86 degrees at midnight & the vibes in NYC are impeccable tonight
June 25, 2025 at 4:04 AM
it’s 86 degrees at midnight & the vibes in NYC are impeccable tonight
sure, you’d be endorsing the guy whose victory over zohran would suppress midterm turnout, but at least you’d get a chance to scold the millennials, and boy, haven’t you missed that?
Former President Bill Clinton is endorsing former Gov. Andrew Cuomo, his former HUD secretary, as the Democratic establishment tries to attempt to ensure Zohran Mamdani does not win the Democratic primary for NYC mayor. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/22/n...
Bill Clinton Endorses Andrew Cuomo for New York City Mayor
www.nytimes.com
June 24, 2025 at 5:12 AM
sure, you’d be endorsing the guy whose victory over zohran would suppress midterm turnout, but at least you’d get a chance to scold the millennials, and boy, haven’t you missed that?
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bill clinton putting together a team of sex offenders to endorse cuomo like he’s in oceans 11
June 22, 2025 at 4:57 PM
bill clinton putting together a team of sex offenders to endorse cuomo like he’s in oceans 11
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Someone on Twitter posted that they had run into Philip Glass at their lower Manhattan polling place, saying nice things about Mamdani.
The campaign put this up as a quote-tweet within the hour.
The campaign put this up as a quote-tweet within the hour.
June 22, 2025 at 9:20 PM
Someone on Twitter posted that they had run into Philip Glass at their lower Manhattan polling place, saying nice things about Mamdani.
The campaign put this up as a quote-tweet within the hour.
The campaign put this up as a quote-tweet within the hour.
F for Fuck This
Orson Welles has a new gig — despite being dead since 1985 — thanks to AI.
His voice has been digitally re-created "using licensed audio from his estate."
Which reminds me of something the real Welles once said: "I hate almost everything in the modern world.”
variety.com/2025/digital... #FilmSky
His voice has been digitally re-created "using licensed audio from his estate."
Which reminds me of something the real Welles once said: "I hate almost everything in the modern world.”
variety.com/2025/digital... #FilmSky
Orson Welles Can Now Be Your AI-Generated Tour Guide
Orson Welles is back -- as a disembodied AI-generated voice in location-based storytelling app Storyrabbit.
variety.com
May 23, 2025 at 11:34 PM
F for Fuck This
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I wrote more about the campus, the DOGE onslaught and the long shadow of just searching for shit on websites as a form of institutional critique open.substack.com/pub/adrianda...
February 18, 2025 at 8:48 PM
I wrote more about the campus, the DOGE onslaught and the long shadow of just searching for shit on websites as a form of institutional critique open.substack.com/pub/adrianda...
