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The CFP for the USC Cinema & Media Studies grad conference "Infrastructure and Abstraction" is now live. It is always great. Please circulate widely. The Alt Text is a mess, sorry.
IRST FORUM CONFERENCE 2024 – CALL FOR PROPOSALS DIVISION OF CINEMA AND MEDIA STUDIES UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA SEPTEMBER 27TH AND 28TH Infrastructure and Abstraction “The immaterial has become… immaterial.” – Lord Cutler Beckett, Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End A turn to infrastructure in media studies has drawn attention to important lines of inquiry about materiality, environments, elemental media, and infrastructures’ frequent entanglements with capitalist and colonialist projects. But this turn, at times, also risks occluding no less important questions about the work of abstraction in media and adjacent considerations of representation, affect, and the ephemeral. Such thinking reduces the real to the material and renders abstraction immaterial. For instance, Melody Jue’s powerful emphasis on the milieu-specificity of thought, which proceeds via a submersion of media studies into the ocean, turns on the abjection of abstraction. For her, media studies’ usual defini powers of abstractions rather than deriding them for their immateriality; indeed, it retools our very understanding of what does and does not count as material, as well as the value we accord to materiality. Kinder expands our sense of what counts as infrastructure; Marks offers a way of affirming images as real and worldly; both turn on fundamental transvaluations of materiality and immateriality, concretion and abstraction. These and other media studies scholars working along similar lines demonstrate just some of the ways that the discipline can rework the coordinates of infrastructure and abstraction to highly generative ends. The organizing committee of the 2024 First Forum Conference invites papers and creative projects from graduate students that navigate generative oppositions between infrastructure and abstraction as they relate to a wide range of media objects and sites of mediation. We encourage submissions that address the unstable borders between these two concepts, perhap ❑ Digital environments; interactivity ❑ Elemental media ❑ Infrastructure’s promise of futurity ❑ Indexicality and abstraction ❑ Abstraction and value ❑ Vernacular modernism ❑ Place-based knowledge and abstractions/appropriations thereof Please submit an abstract (-300 words) and a short biography (-150 words). Conference presentations will be 15-20 minutes. Applicants must submit their materials by July 14, 2024 to firstforumgradconference@gmail.com. Please include “Name + First Forum 2024 Submission” in the subject line. Alongside traditional academic papers, we welcome non- traditional projects, including but not limited to video essays, short films, and art exhibitions.
June 3, 2024 at 5:10 PM
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"In a press release, WCK says its team was traveling in a de-conflicted zone in cars clearly marked with the organization’s logo, and that it had coordinated its movements with the IDF." www.eater.com/24118856/isr...
IDF Strike Kills 7 World Central Kitchen Members in Gaza
Members of the nonprofit led by José Andrés were killed while working to deliver humanitarian food aid.
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April 2, 2024 at 2:04 PM
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imanisthere.bsky.social
Maybe a state built upon mass ongoing dispossession and genocide was never a democracy to begin with
emmapersson.bsky.social Emma Persson @emmapersson.bsky.social · Mar 20
"Israel No Longer Considered Liberal Democracy; Global Index Cites Judicial Coup"

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March 20, 2024 at 7:41 PM
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Free Khalida Jarrar! Palestinian feminist, leftist and scholar seized by occupation forces
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Free Khalida Jarrar! Palestinian feminist, leftist and scholar seized by occupation forces
Khalida Jarrar, the Palestinian feminist, leftist, and scholar was seized from her home in El-Bireh, occupied Palestine, in the morning hours of 26 December 2023 as part of mass arrests by Zionist …
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December 26, 2023 at 5:26 PM
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Rory no
December 23, 2023 at 11:03 PM
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luckytran.com
We are in a surge where COVID levels are higher than they have been for over 90% of the pandemic. One of the reasons that the authorities aren't properly warning you about it is that, inconveniently, the largest COVID surges happen during the biggest shopping season of each year.
December 23, 2023 at 8:28 PM
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canadahealthwatch.ca
Doctor suspended over pro-Palestinian posts resigns from Canadian Medical Association board

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🔗 Canada's hub for healthcare news and insights: CanadaHealthwatch.ca 🍁
December 23, 2023 at 11:24 PM
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RRR - Rage, Revise, Resubmit
December 23, 2023 at 9:47 PM
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تاريخ 😂😂
December 24, 2023 at 6:24 AM
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Posthumous translation of a poem by the martyred Palestinian poet & novelist Hiba Abu Nada (died October 20) appears in Mizna today.
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Not Just Passing: In Honor of Hiba Abu Nada - Mizna
O little light in me, don’t die, even if all the galaxies of the world close in. Hiba Abu Nada, … Continue reading " Not Just Passing: In Honor of Hiba Abu Nada"
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December 5, 2023 at 10:07 PM
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Generation after generation, Israeli prison marks a rite of passage for Palestinian boys
Generation after generation, Israeli prison marks a rite of passage for Palestinian boys
The release of Palestinian prisoners under the cease-fire agreement has touched nearly everyone in the occupied West Bank, where 750,000 Palestinians have been arrested since 1967.
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December 6, 2023 at 8:38 AM
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thenewarab.bsky.social
Since Israel began its deadliest assault ever on Gaza, a global, intersectional protest movement has surged where social justice movements recognise that their struggles are indivisible with the fight for justice in Palestine.

Read more 📰: www.newarab.com/features/soc...
December 6, 2023 at 10:28 AM
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imanisthere.bsky.social
Even the NBC wrote about this. Free Palestine from zionist child killers

"Abandoned babies found decomposing in Gaza hospital weeks after it was evacuated"

“No child should have to die alone,”

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Abandoned babies found decomposing in Gaza hospital weeks after it was evacuated
“No child should have to die alone,” a charity said in response to a widely shared TV report that has sent shockwaves on social media.
www.nbcnews.com
December 4, 2023 at 11:20 AM
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chantalalive.blacksky.app
It may not look like we can do much. We will not cede what power we have.
themckenziest.gay Lauren McKenzie @themckenziest.gay · Nov 12
Solidarity with all who refuse to silently accept this genocide of the Palestinian people 🍉 🇵🇸
November 12, 2023 at 6:11 PM
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American Jews have mobilized several thousand Jews across the U.S. to call for a ceasefire in Gaza. ADL calls these Jewish organizations “hate groups.”
Anti-Defamation League Maps Jewish Peace Rallies with Antisemitic Attacks
Progressive Jews are in the streets by the thousands calling for a ceasefire in Gaza. ADL's CEO says the organizers are “hate groups.”
theintercept.com
November 11, 2023 at 11:08 AM
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msf.ca
#Gaza We are currently unable to contact any of our staff inside Al-Shifa hospital. We are extremely concerned about the safety of patients and the medical staff.
November 11, 2023 at 2:43 AM
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ewangibbs.bsky.social
Three Bangladeshi garment workers have now been killed by police during a major strike. It’s likely everyone reading this owns clothes made in Bangladesh. This is an important labour mobilisation at the heart of the global economy.
One killed in Bangladesh as garment workers clash with police over pay - police | Reuters
One woman was killed as police in Bangladesh used teargas and rubber bullets to disperse stone-throwing protesters as a demonstration by garment workers for more pay turned violent on Wednesday.
www.reuters.com
November 11, 2023 at 9:43 AM
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‘We are minutes away from imminent death,’ the director of al-Shifa Hospital has told Al Jazeera from inside the besieged facility, where operations were suspended after it ran out of power and fuel. Thousands of injured and displaced people are trapped amid ferocious Israeli bombardment.
‘We are minutes away from death’: Gaza’s al-Shifa Hospital under attack
Palestinian health officials say babies in incubators are fighting for their lives as Israel lays siege to the compound.
www.aljazeera.com
November 11, 2023 at 1:01 PM
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lalehkhalili.bsky.social
"an inward-looking, Eurocentric, post-war western humanism -its museums of remembrance, its discourse of tolerance & reflection, & its obsessive grappling with its own antisemitic past- is ultimately built on the backs of Palestinians, who were chased out of their homes & out of history."
The West’s denial of Palestinian history and humanity is enabling genocide
Western support for Zionism enables the narrative that what motivates the Palestinian desire for self-determination is irrational hatred, rather than the universal human desire to live freely
www.middleeasteye.net
October 27, 2023 at 4:48 PM
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econmarshall.bsky.social
There are mobs of armed settlers rampaging around the West Bank brazenly stealing from Palestinians and forcing them to flee their homes, and we're here being tone-policed about how we talk about it.
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“The Settlers Can Do Whatever They Want With Us”
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October 25, 2023 at 9:14 PM
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chantalalive.blacksky.app
*Gaza becomes charred post-apocalyptic landscape documented in photo & video*

Joe Biden: I'm sure there have been some casualties, but this is the cost of war.
October 25, 2023 at 9:29 PM
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"Al Jazeera said the correspondent, Wael al-Dahdouh, had moved his family to Nuseirat [refugee camp] from their home in northern Gaza after Israel warned residents to move south ahead of an expected Israeli ground assault against Hamas militants."
October 25, 2023 at 8:31 PM
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danaelkurd.bsky.social
Biden now casting suspicion on the death toll in Gaza. Because a palestinian health ministry can't possibly be telling the truth.
October 25, 2023 at 9:03 PM
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econmarshall.bsky.social
Are we allowed to say this is genocide yet or is that still politically inconvenient for Joe Biden?
October 25, 2023 at 3:13 PM