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Pate Duncan
@pateduncan.bsky.social
PhD student in Film Studies at UW–Madison 🪤
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it’s staggering really
Unbeaten six-song run
April 15, 2025 at 9:20 PM
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I wrote about the kerfluffle over the Bernie/AOC rallies over on my Substack, arguing they need to articulate their plan fast if they want to be taken seriously
What's going on with these Bernie/AOC rallies?
Bernie and AOC are staging rallies that draw tens of thousands of people in red areas; how will what emerges avoid the pitfalls of what led us to this point?
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April 15, 2025 at 5:40 PM
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So many things to say about how massive an intellectual idol Linda Williams was to me, how much her feminist scholarship on sex cinema, porn, pleasure, genre& embodiment made possible. Have been teaching her writing all term in class v much inspired by her work, The Carnal Screen. Vale LW 💔💔💔
March 13, 2025 at 12:32 PM
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This likely confirms that the decision to arrest him was made at the highest levels of government, a terrifying return to the policies of ideological exclusion last seen used during the heights of the Cold War. A very, very worrying precedent at the start of this government.
Trump takes credit for Mahmoud Khalil's arrest by ICE:
March 10, 2025 at 5:21 PM
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It was a pleasure to chat with @corybarker.bsky.social for New Books Network about my book MAKING STEREO FIT.

Among the topics, we cover how surround sound was once a form of tax evasion and why Walter Murch repeats *untruths* about stereo history.

Listen here:
newbooksnetwork.com/making-stere...
March 7, 2025 at 5:38 PM