Joel Neville Anderson
@joelnanderson.bsky.social
Scholar + curator of cinema/media into experimental documentary, community media, digital culture, environmental + disability justice. Occasional long run route rec requests. https://joelnevilleanderson.com
He/him. Views mine.
He/him. Views mine.
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Upping CFP for “The Amateur Reconsidered” special issue of Spectator. Submission deadline of December 1.
CFP — “The Amateur Reconsidered: Media, Labor, Publics”
Spectator Special Issue (Volume 46.2 Fall 2026)
Essay submissions due December 1, 2025.
See images with alt text here and in thread for CFP details. 1/
Spectator Special Issue (Volume 46.2 Fall 2026)
Essay submissions due December 1, 2025.
See images with alt text here and in thread for CFP details. 1/
November 18, 2025 at 7:50 PM
Upping CFP for “The Amateur Reconsidered” special issue of Spectator. Submission deadline of December 1.
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Any recommendations on academic literature or sources for better understanding the energy and water tradeoffs for data storage vs agriculture?
Thanks in advance!
Thanks in advance!
November 18, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Any recommendations on academic literature or sources for better understanding the energy and water tradeoffs for data storage vs agriculture?
Thanks in advance!
Thanks in advance!
First time seeing these photos. The JS auditorium with a stage + dropdown projection screen has always been a special place combining theater + cinema, much like Nakadai’s career off studio contract allowing him to work with a wide range of film directors between plays. Many great films to rewatch!
Tatsuya Nakadai during his '76 visit to Japan Society for a 10-film retro—newly scanned from the @jsfilmnyc.bsky.social archives.
In his opening remarks, Nakadai said, “To have a retrospective of my works, spanning more than twenty years, shown here in New York gives me great pleasure"
In his opening remarks, Nakadai said, “To have a retrospective of my works, spanning more than twenty years, shown here in New York gives me great pleasure"
November 18, 2025 at 5:41 PM
First time seeing these photos. The JS auditorium with a stage + dropdown projection screen has always been a special place combining theater + cinema, much like Nakadai’s career off studio contract allowing him to work with a wide range of film directors between plays. Many great films to rewatch!
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I spoke to Mahmood Mamdani about his new book, his expulsion from Uganda, his son Zohran, and *that* NYT article.
Mahmood Mamdani on Zohran, Uganda and forced expulsion: ‘Who is part of the nation and who is not?’
After being expelled from his homeland in 1972, the academic has grappled with questions of political belonging – a major theme of his son’s mayoral campaign
www.theguardian.com
November 18, 2025 at 2:53 PM
I spoke to Mahmood Mamdani about his new book, his expulsion from Uganda, his son Zohran, and *that* NYT article.
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Apps are open for our spring session of the Cross-Reference Coalition! We're exploring Search & Discovery! "Our journey will encompass the history of exploration + cartography, legacies of inquiry, tools of discovery, theories of curiosity, and counter-algorithmic means of 'finding things out.'"
November 18, 2025 at 12:17 AM
Apps are open for our spring session of the Cross-Reference Coalition! We're exploring Search & Discovery! "Our journey will encompass the history of exploration + cartography, legacies of inquiry, tools of discovery, theories of curiosity, and counter-algorithmic means of 'finding things out.'"
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It's SSMF submission time! Share your audio, visual art, research, poetry, video & films at CAMRA's Screening Scholarship Media Festival. The theme this year is.... 🫧portals🫧 @asc.upenn.edu
November 10, 2025 at 12:49 PM
It's SSMF submission time! Share your audio, visual art, research, poetry, video & films at CAMRA's Screening Scholarship Media Festival. The theme this year is.... 🫧portals🫧 @asc.upenn.edu
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I assigned Alice’s Disability Visibility podcast on film festivals (episode 76 from 2020) for next week. I think I’m going to open class with screening her Human Resources episode Pity Party (S1E8 from 2023). We’ll sit with her words and the world she envisioned.
Activist, author, artist, voice actress, and path blazer Alice Wong has passed. She still thought of gracing us with some words of hope for the future she dreamed for us:
“I'm honored to be your ancestor and believe disabled oracles like us will light the way to the future.”
“I'm honored to be your ancestor and believe disabled oracles like us will light the way to the future.”
November 15, 2025 at 4:36 PM
I assigned Alice’s Disability Visibility podcast on film festivals (episode 76 from 2020) for next week. I think I’m going to open class with screening her Human Resources episode Pity Party (S1E8 from 2023). We’ll sit with her words and the world she envisioned.
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You were incredible, Alice Wong, and it was a blessing to have collaborated with you on projects, to have read your words and to have heard your voice, as full of life and passion and joy and rage as it was.
You made a difference—so much of a difference.
Rest always in peace, and always in power.
You made a difference—so much of a difference.
Rest always in peace, and always in power.
November 15, 2025 at 7:34 AM
You were incredible, Alice Wong, and it was a blessing to have collaborated with you on projects, to have read your words and to have heard your voice, as full of life and passion and joy and rage as it was.
You made a difference—so much of a difference.
Rest always in peace, and always in power.
You made a difference—so much of a difference.
Rest always in peace, and always in power.
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🧵 Rest in power, Alice Wong. @sfdirewolf.bsky.social A trailblazer, a fierce advocate, and a relentless voice for disability rights. Her work changed the landscape for so many. /1
November 15, 2025 at 7:52 AM
🧵 Rest in power, Alice Wong. @sfdirewolf.bsky.social A trailblazer, a fierce advocate, and a relentless voice for disability rights. Her work changed the landscape for so many. /1
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I don’t want to formulate words yet, but my friend Alice Wong, @sfdirewolf.bsky.social of the Disability Visibility Project, has passed.
Here are the words she left behind:
www.instagram.com/p/DREMDNBjnq...
Here are the words she left behind:
www.instagram.com/p/DREMDNBjnq...
Alice Wong on Instagram: "ID: Yellow background with black text "This is Alice's friend Sandy Ho, posting. Per Alice's wishes, this message is being shared at the time of her passing. Hi everyone, it ...
423 likes, 73 comments - alicatsamurai on November 14, 2025: "ID: Yellow background with black text "This is Alice's friend Sandy Ho, posting. Per Alice's wishes, this message is being shared at the t...
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November 15, 2025 at 5:57 AM
I don’t want to formulate words yet, but my friend Alice Wong, @sfdirewolf.bsky.social of the Disability Visibility Project, has passed.
Here are the words she left behind:
www.instagram.com/p/DREMDNBjnq...
Here are the words she left behind:
www.instagram.com/p/DREMDNBjnq...
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What are the risks—and opportunities—of drawing close to one's objects of study as a feminist scholar? Alix Beeston reflects on her experience of writing a critical–creative account of women and girls in photography history. @alixbeeston.bsky.social
Open access now: doi.org/10.1525/fmh....
Open access now: doi.org/10.1525/fmh....
November 12, 2025 at 11:39 PM
What are the risks—and opportunities—of drawing close to one's objects of study as a feminist scholar? Alix Beeston reflects on her experience of writing a critical–creative account of women and girls in photography history. @alixbeeston.bsky.social
Open access now: doi.org/10.1525/fmh....
Open access now: doi.org/10.1525/fmh....
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21-22nd November is Fall of Freedom, our national action against authoritarianism. We now have over 450 events happening across the US, in 40+ states. It’s not too late to join in! Check the map to see what’s happening near you www.falloffreedom.com/participants
Fall of Freedom
Fall of Freedom is an urgent call to the arts community to unite in defiance of authoritarian forces sweeping the nation.
www.falloffreedom.com
November 11, 2025 at 6:23 PM
21-22nd November is Fall of Freedom, our national action against authoritarianism. We now have over 450 events happening across the US, in 40+ states. It’s not too late to join in! Check the map to see what’s happening near you www.falloffreedom.com/participants
For future tech worker organizers: application for Collective Action School due Dec. 1, 2025 collectiveaction.school
Collective Action School
Logic School is an online, experimental school for tech workers
collectiveaction.school
November 14, 2025 at 8:49 PM
For future tech worker organizers: application for Collective Action School due Dec. 1, 2025 collectiveaction.school
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CFP for upcoming special issue of @amianet.bsky.social's THE MOVING IMAGE journal! Topic: "Videotape in the Archive,” guest editors: @danerdman.bsky.social, Adam Charles Hart, Helena Shaskevich. Proposal deadline: March 31, 2026.
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The Association of Moving Image Archivists - The Moving Image: Special IssueThe Moving Image: Special Issue – The Association of Moving Image Archivists
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November 10, 2025 at 8:10 PM
CFP for upcoming special issue of @amianet.bsky.social's THE MOVING IMAGE journal! Topic: "Videotape in the Archive,” guest editors: @danerdman.bsky.social, Adam Charles Hart, Helena Shaskevich. Proposal deadline: March 31, 2026.
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Just released: “Documentary at Risk: Strategies for Ethics, Sustainability, and Innovation in a Time of Disruption,” the convening report from our first Documentary Ideas Symposium that took place at Harvard Kennedy School in April 2025. Read: dfpi.shorensteincenter.org/convenings/doc-ideas-2025/
Documentary Ideas Symposium 2025 - DFPI
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September 10, 2025 at 8:09 PM
Just released: “Documentary at Risk: Strategies for Ethics, Sustainability, and Innovation in a Time of Disruption,” the convening report from our first Documentary Ideas Symposium that took place at Harvard Kennedy School in April 2025. Read: dfpi.shorensteincenter.org/convenings/doc-ideas-2025/
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OutKast is inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame:
“We started in a little room. Great things start in little rooms”
“We started in a little room. Great things start in little rooms”
November 9, 2025 at 1:05 PM
OutKast is inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame:
“We started in a little room. Great things start in little rooms”
“We started in a little room. Great things start in little rooms”
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A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death.
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
James Watson, dead at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers
James Watson, the co-discoverer of the structure of DNA who died Thursday at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers.
www.statnews.com
November 8, 2025 at 1:39 PM
A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death.
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
Job: Executive Director at Film Festival Alliance filmfestivalalliance.org/about-us/ope... @ffalliance.bsky.social
Open Roles - Film Festival Alliance
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November 8, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Job: Executive Director at Film Festival Alliance filmfestivalalliance.org/about-us/ope... @ffalliance.bsky.social
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The Nontheatrical Student Essay Award is a collaboration between the SCMS Nontheatrical Film and Media SIG and AMIA. Submissions for this year's award are due by February 15th! https://loom.ly/mHUZlzk
Nontheatrical Student Essay Award
Designed to recognize outstanding graduate student scholarship founded upon archival nontheatrical research, this award underscores both organizations’ commitment to mentorship and professional development, connecting award-recipients with mentors to guide them through the process of crafting journal-ready manuscripts. The award-winning essay will also be published (subject to revisions) in The Moving Image.
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November 3, 2025 at 2:21 PM
The Nontheatrical Student Essay Award is a collaboration between the SCMS Nontheatrical Film and Media SIG and AMIA. Submissions for this year's award are due by February 15th! https://loom.ly/mHUZlzk
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📣 I am hiring a postdoc! aial.ie/hiring/postd...
applications from suitable candidates that are passionate about investigating the use of genAI in public service operations with the aim of keeping governments transparent and accountable are welcome
pls share with your networks
applications from suitable candidates that are passionate about investigating the use of genAI in public service operations with the aim of keeping governments transparent and accountable are welcome
pls share with your networks
October 30, 2025 at 7:51 PM
📣 I am hiring a postdoc! aial.ie/hiring/postd...
applications from suitable candidates that are passionate about investigating the use of genAI in public service operations with the aim of keeping governments transparent and accountable are welcome
pls share with your networks
applications from suitable candidates that are passionate about investigating the use of genAI in public service operations with the aim of keeping governments transparent and accountable are welcome
pls share with your networks
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Africana Studies is going to have one hell of an update to their "what our majors have done with their degree after graduation" page.
November 5, 2025 at 3:18 AM
Africana Studies is going to have one hell of an update to their "what our majors have done with their degree after graduation" page.
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And of other cities!
All the cities
All the cities
You African Studies majors out there: you too can become mayor of New York City!!!
November 5, 2025 at 3:03 AM
And of other cities!
All the cities
All the cities
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Happy #ElectionDay, New York!
Polls are open statewide from 6am-9pm. Remember, if you are in line to vote when the polls close, stay in line!
If you notice any issues at the polls, get in touch with the Election Protection hotline at 866-OUR-VOTE.
Polls are open statewide from 6am-9pm. Remember, if you are in line to vote when the polls close, stay in line!
If you notice any issues at the polls, get in touch with the Election Protection hotline at 866-OUR-VOTE.
November 4, 2025 at 11:00 AM
Happy #ElectionDay, New York!
Polls are open statewide from 6am-9pm. Remember, if you are in line to vote when the polls close, stay in line!
If you notice any issues at the polls, get in touch with the Election Protection hotline at 866-OUR-VOTE.
Polls are open statewide from 6am-9pm. Remember, if you are in line to vote when the polls close, stay in line!
If you notice any issues at the polls, get in touch with the Election Protection hotline at 866-OUR-VOTE.
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Open Call: Films for Freedom, Presented by The Film-Makers' Cooperative and Canyon Cinema. Deadline November 10th expcinema.org/site/en/call...
November 4, 2025 at 11:25 AM
Open Call: Films for Freedom, Presented by The Film-Makers' Cooperative and Canyon Cinema. Deadline November 10th expcinema.org/site/en/call...