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James Leo Cahill
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Neither Dog nor Master. Author of Zoological Surrealism. Co-editor with Luca Caminati of Cinema of Exploration: Essays in an Adventurous Film Practice.
I mostly go to shows to watch the people set up the mics.
November 11, 2025 at 1:49 AM
Cindy Lee. sat two rows in front of me to watch the opening act.
November 7, 2025 at 3:36 AM
The New York Times is less significant than you think.
November 5, 2025 at 11:05 PM
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"Look, Mamdani's win is both the worst thing to ever happen and totally meaningless; his supporters are stupid rich kids and also dedicated communist-terrorist infiltrators; and, as I argue in this, my 12th op-ed on him, it's strange that we all keep talking about him so much."
November 5, 2025 at 9:09 PM
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Major in Africana Studies or any humanities course like English Literature! You could be mayor of New York City. You could do anything.
November 5, 2025 at 4:49 AM
Delighted to see Zohran Mamdani win. More of this please!
November 5, 2025 at 11:18 AM
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It's the 1st screening in S2 of our Pop-Up Cinematheque series tonight!! Can't wait for Rules of the Game on 16mm!
Tuesday @ 10am we open registration for our 2nd screening! We'll screen Janis Cole & Holly Dale's Calling the Shots on 16mm, Nov. 17th. Grab a free ticket tomorrow: go.utlib.ca/popup2
November 3, 2025 at 8:10 PM
Liberez les!
Some really big news dropped in animal rights world last week that was made possible only by extremely competent activism—a top breeder of dogs for lab experimentation will shut down. So I wrote about it and what it means and says about science, etc.

gift link: www.vox.com/future-perfe...
The secretive dog experimentation industry is crumbling
The US experiments on tens of thousands of beagles. After a shocking case, will it come to an end?
www.vox.com
November 3, 2025 at 12:13 AM
Peter Watkins.
November 2, 2025 at 11:14 AM
I can’t quit you…
November 2, 2025 at 10:55 AM
All killer, no filler.
November 2, 2025 at 10:45 AM
Among my favourite Picassos.
November 1, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Raymond Pettibon at the Musée Picasso. Really hitting the sweet spot here (Gumby content).
November 1, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Denise Bellon at the Musée d’art et histoire de Judaïsme.
October 31, 2025 at 7:37 PM
If you’ve ever seen a rat in an Atget hit me up! It’s not for research, just curious…
I probably looked at close to 900 Atget photos while in Paris and didn’t see a single rat in any of them…(I know why but still). Imagine how many rats Atget saw in his early morning outings!
October 31, 2025 at 7:33 PM
I probably looked at close to 900 Atget photos while in Paris and didn’t see a single rat in any of them…(I know why but still). Imagine how many rats Atget saw in his early morning outings!
October 31, 2025 at 2:32 PM
A page from Claude Lévi Strauss’s cahiers… BNF.
October 30, 2025 at 12:57 PM
The thought of what America would be like
If The Open Sore of a Continent had wide circulation
Troubles my sleep
October 30, 2025 at 1:53 AM
Saw it in Vistavision! Was great fun.
October 30, 2025 at 1:35 AM
Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge. Jim and Helen Ebe left it to Cambridge in the condition it be maintained just as they left it and be open to visitors. Lots of British modernists as well as some Brancusi, Ernst, and Miro. Plus one piece by a grandchild.
October 30, 2025 at 1:25 AM
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I find it v difficult to put into words how honored and lucky i feel to have edited this issue on feminist historical methods, to have had so many important pieces of writing and thinking entrusted to me over these last few years. 1/
online.ucpress.edu/fmh/issue/11/4
Volume 11 Issue 4 | Feminist Media Histories | University of California Press
online.ucpress.edu
October 30, 2025 at 1:15 AM
Boris Mikhailov: Ukrainian Diary at the Photographers’ Gallery was a real surprise.
October 30, 2025 at 1:15 AM
Parliament of Ghosts by Ibrahim Mahama at the newly opened Ibraaz. fantastic book shop with super friendly clerks.
October 30, 2025 at 1:10 AM
Arthur Jafa at Sadie Coles HQ. Was curious to sit through more of the Pete Townsend video but the uncanny disfiguring animation of his face was too much for my friend.
October 30, 2025 at 1:04 AM