Reposted by BenjaminVerso Books @versobooks.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Find us this weekend at the Brooklyn Book Festival for early access to our limited run John Berger "Art and Revolution" hats. 2243
Reposted by BenjaminVerso Books @versobooks.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Bloodied Waters: Gabriel Meier (@unityopposite.bsky.social) on violence in the Mexico-US borderlands and the new transnational circuits of global apartheid. www.versobooks.com/blogs/news/b...versobooks.comBloodied WatersEarlier this year on July 19, rising flood waters dislodged dozens of bright orange buoys from their anchoring in the Rio Grande River near Eagle Pass, Texas. Outfitted with razor wire and sawblades, ... 055
Reposted by BenjaminCritical Theory Working Group @crittheoryworkgrp.bsky.social · 24/08/2026MARGIN NOTES 2 IS OUT! Featuring original contributions from J. E. Morain and CTWG alongside translations of texts by Georg Lukács, Hans-Jürgen Krahl, Julius Schaxel, Max Horkheimer, and Theodor Adorno—all appearing here in English for the first time! ctwgwebsite.github.io/projects/3_p... 👇🧵 16740
Reposted by BenjaminBudget Motel Abyss @budgetmotelabyss.bsky.social · 09/04/2026less a book launch and more a stimulating discussion of how to develop a properly marxian critical theory of totality with Rob and Sam IMHO 2164
Reposted by BenjaminCominsitu @cominsitu.bsky.social · 11/04/2026new Substack with excerpts, drafts, translation notes on Günther Anders, all in preparation for a forthcoming book 2027 … subscribe and stay tuned!! substack.com/@anderscene?...substack.comNotes from the Anderscene | SubstackTranslations and curation of texts by Günther Anders. Selected writings of Günther Anders forthcoming in English from Wirklichkeit books. 24316
Reposted by BenjaminJames Crane @jamescrane.bsky.social · 10/04/2026btw! for those who’ve been asking, the recordings from the Interdisciplinary Marxism Working Group seminar series on Adorno & Communism—with Chris O’Kane & myself—are up on YouTube! youtube.com/playlist?lis... 14916
Reposted by BenjaminIll Will @illwill.bsky.social · 26/01/2026New article by Phil A. Neel examining the post-2020 political order, arguing that liberal myths about law, elections, and restraint function as counterinsurgency in an era of open state violence. illwill.com/lies 211667
Reposted by BenjaminCorinne Blalock @corinneblalock.bsky.social · 24/01/2026a hero and a martyr 114541
Reposted by Benjaminveronica @vuernica.bsky.social · 03/01/2026finally got my hands on the complete Narrow Margin (so far), a v cool new magazine containing some of the best recent writing on film out there. Vol 1 on Luc Moullet and Vittorio Cottafavi, and vol 2 on the supremely underrated cinema of Diagonale. grab a copy!! 151
Reposted by BenjaminJohn Winn @john-winn.bsky.social · 12/12/2025My film “Redwood Souvenirs” included @benjamincrais.bsky.social’s top ten of 2025 for Screen Slate: www.screenslate.com/articles/bes... 081
Reposted by BenjaminJohn Winn @john-winn.bsky.social · 15/10/2025@benjamincrais.bsky.social on the greatest of all cinephilic perverts, João César Monteiro: www.screenslate.com/articles/joa...screenslate.comJoão César Monteiro: Symphonies of a LibertineA brief account of a three-minute film: A spindly, well-dressed man strolls down a lamp-lit Lisbon street. As he reaches his apartment, the soundtrack of the most romantic scene from Nicholas Ray’s Jo... 063
Reposted by BenjaminJohn Winn @john-winn.bsky.social · 17/09/2025my recent film Redwood Souvenirs premieres at RPM festival on Oct. 11! it's a film i assembled from old footage from my time house-sitting for Fred from 2020-22, made after his death as a memento for myself and others revolutionsperminutefest.org/2025_10_11_P... 041
Reposted by BenjaminJohn Winn @john-winn.bsky.social · 03/09/2025Made a film with @benjamincrais.bsky.social—something like a re-staging of Ray's On Dangerous Ground that traverses some of Ray's actual haunts (nyc in the 30s, upstate ny in the 70s). premiering sep. 12 at I Mille Occhi, truly wild programming: www.imilleocchi.com/1000occhi_programma25_online.pdfimilleocchi.com 041
Reposted by BenjaminBRUISER @bruisermag.com · 24/06/2025it’s never “let me tell you how things are” but rather “where am I? where are we (in history)?” Whitney Strub and Benjamin Crais correspond on Robert Kramer and John Douglas’ MILESTONES 255
Reposted by BenjaminSam WM @samwmiell.bsky.social · 27/05/2025”I saw a film by… who is the official British film director?” “…Mike Leigh?” “Yes, him.” 1357
Reposted by BenjaminJoshua Harold Wiebe @joshuaharoldwiebe.bsky.social · 02/05/2025cannot express how excited I am for this special issue of SAQ that @pietrobianch1.bsky.social & I edited to be in the world!!! filled to the brim with brilliant pieces by brilliant people! coming in october!! hope the world is still around to see it! 1204
Reposted by BenjaminJohn Winn @john-winn.bsky.social · 11/04/2025Genevieve Yue reviewing this year’s Cosmic Rays film fest, with some remarks on Ode to R.G. Springsteen! cosmicraysfilmfest.com/reviews-of-t... 051
Reposted by BenjaminCorinne Blalock @corinneblalock.bsky.social · 02/03/2025tfw you go uptown to the Jameson memorial but you also get to stop by your old apt to get the issue of Parapraxis on Economies you accidentally mailed there 💅 * also @benjamincrais.bsky.social did a fantastic job !! 0164
Benjamin @benjamincrais.bsky.social · 27/02/2025some of jameson’s impressions of israel (“and then it came to me: that israel is california”) 32312
Benjamin @benjamincrais.bsky.social · 03/02/2025a few words on masao adachi’s gushing prayer for @screenslate.bsky.social www.screenslate.com/articles/gus...screenslate.comGushing PrayerIn the summer of 1949, several months after joining the youth wing of the national communist party, the 17-year-old poet Nagasawa Nobuko took her own life with poison. Two decades later, Nagasawa’s po... 081
Reposted by BenjaminColumbia University Press @columbiaup.bsky.social · 30/12/2024In this episode of Film Comment, Clinton Krute and Michael Blair invited Erika Balsom and Benjamin Crais, two noted critics who each proudly own original Milestones posters, to discuss Robert Kramer’s life and work. buff.ly/408Szf3 #ListenUPbuff.lyThe Film Comment Podcast: The Films of Robert KramerStarting places: critics Erika Balsom and Benjamin Crais join to discuss the undersung filmmaker’s richly heterogenous, and endlessly fascinating, body of work 053
Reposted by Benjaminveronica @vuernica.bsky.social · 29/12/2024Wasn't on bluesky when it came out, so I didn't advertise it over here but looking back on 2024 I'm very grateful to have had the opportunity to work on a special issue of Polygraph 29, "Narrative and Crisis," together with my colleagues & friends benjamincrais.bsky.social and carsonw.bsky.social 172
Benjamin @benjamincrais.bsky.social · 21/11/2024wrote about the cinema of the portuguese revolution for film comment 03511
