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Margaret Schwartz

@mogprof.bsky.social
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Assoc prof media studies @Fordham. Writing a book about containment and its discontents; essays on these themes, with a side of 90s nerdcore nostalgia, at MOGPROFFERY on Substack. I also wrote a book about corpses called Dead Matter (Minnesota)

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Katharin Tai 戴恺琳 @ktai.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
I learned about the @eotarchive.org project earlier this year thanks to MIT libraries. Turns out librarians have been on top of systematically backing up government websites before presidential transitions for over a decade! eotarchive.org
A screen shot. It says "Currently we have these datasets partially available for use", followed by a table: 

Dataset 	WARC # 	WARC Size
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EOT-2020 	239811 	266.04 TB
EOT-2016 	194683 	139.3 TB
EOT-2012 	78509 	41.42 TB
EOT-2008 	125704 	15.32 TB
EOT-2004 	58977 	6.42 TB
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Kaleb E. Goldschmitt @kgoldschmitt.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
If you’re tired of seeing autoplaying GIFs from yesterday, you can it off under Settings >> Content and Media. You can also turn off trending topics (I did). This is your feed and we need energy to get through the next few years.
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Los Angeles Review of Books @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
LARB and Yefe Nof are thrilled to announce our 2024 translation resident, Marta Gosovska. In her two week residency, under the advisement of acclaimed translator Boris Dralyuk, Marta will sharpen her translation of "Where the Sun Sets" by Olena Pshenychna. Congratulations Marta!
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Richard Amm ♿ (Disability & Research) @richamm.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
Free Disabled Radicals zine by the Disability Action Research Kollective : files.libcom.org/files/2024-0...
Disabled Radicals
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Margot Weiss @margotweiss.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
Now that thankstaking is over look ahead to this 🔥 discussion on Thursday about queer solidarity and settler colonialism from Palestine to Turtle Island @pepepierce.bsky.social @deescribed.bsky.social #CLAGS #queerstudies 🌈📚🎓🍉
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Margaret Schwartz @mogprof.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
“What is a woman?” Is a question I have been deeply invested in for as long as I can remember. This lovely thread unpacks among other things the grief of its co-opting.
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United Farm Workers @ufw.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
We can’t do #Thanksgiving without farm workers: Make a donation during this season of thanks and giving and help fund change all year long. ufw.org/thanksgiving2024 or paypal.com/paypalme/ufwdonate #WeFeedYou
A photo of a farm worker on his knees harvesting sweet potatoes with a text overlay saying there's no Thanksgiving without farm workers. Donate during this season of thanks and giving to help fund change all year long
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United Farm Workers @ufw.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
Juan has spent 10 years harvesting sweet potato in CA. While the machine picks up most of the vegetables he often has to get on his knees and dig out the sweet potatoes the machine left behind. He does this up to 10 hours a day 5 days a week. #WeFeedYou
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Margaret Schwartz @mogprof.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
Yaaasss firing it up now
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United Farm Workers @ufw.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
We can’t do #Thanksgiving without farm workers: Make a donation during this season of thanks and giving and help fund change all year long. ufw.org/thanksgiving2024 or paypal.com/paypalme/ufwdonate #WeFeedYou
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Margaret Schwartz @mogprof.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
Thank you @ufw.bsky.social for helping me know who sits with my family at the table today
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United Farm Workers @ufw.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Jovany was one of more than 200 workers picking garlic at peak season in Coalinga, CA. They started working at 5am and finished up their day by 11:30 to avoid the hottest part of the day - which reached 106°. They were paid around $3 for each bucket they filled.
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United Farm Workers @ufw.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
Jesus shared this pic of the pomegranate harvest in Madera, CA. Jesus is paid a piece rate per bin rather than by the hour, so he works at a rapid pace to make ends meet. Thank Jesus for this beautiful fruit.
a farm worker is holding one big pomegranate in each hand. a large bin full of more pomegranates is strapped to his chest.
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United Farm Workers @ufw.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Across the country, people are starting meal preparations and traveling to be with friends and family. Tell us your favorite dish on the Thanksgiving table, and we’ll share our knowledge about the work behind the ingredients. #WeFeedYou
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Shannon McGregor, PhD @shannimcg.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
The way the world - hell, more than half of academia - has NO fucking clue there’s a whole field of scholars who study communication & media🙃
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David Cecchetto @davidcecchetto.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Assoc/Full Prof. of Design position at U Michigan apply.interfolio.com/159321?fbcli...
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Jonny Turnbull 🇺🇦 @jonnyjjt.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
🐄🌬️ Our new paper on bovine #metabolism is out today in the new issue of Environmental Humanities! Adam Searle, Katie Oliver & I discuss how cows figure in metabolic interventions into the climate writ large. read.dukeupress.edu/environmenta... @admsrl.bsky.social @katiecmoliver.bsky.social
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Climate Cattle | Environmental Humanities | Duke University Press
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Lego Lost At Sea @legolostatsea.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Another Lego octopus from the Great Lego Spill of 1997 has turned up. It was found by Constance Morris, founder of Grampus Campus. "Happy does not describe how it feels to finally find one of the famous Lego octopuses after all these years of looking," she said. Picture credit: Constance Morris
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Console-ing Passions Conference 2025 at GSU in Atlanta, GA @cp25atlanta.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Don't be sad if your paper or panel was rejected from @scmstudies.bsky.social, just regroup and start thinking about your proposal for Console-ing Passions in Atlanta! Submissions are due December 10th! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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Console-ing Passions 2025
Please fill out the information below to submit your proposal for Console-ing Passions 2025
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Margaret Schwartz @mogprof.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
So thrilled to be offering this panel at SCMS with @amyherzog.bsky.social, Valeria Sonna, Véronica Kretschel and Amanda Lagerkvist. Who am I gonna see in Chicago?
SCMS 2025 Conference Notification. Dear Margaret Schwartz, On behalf of the 2025 Conference Program Committee for the Society for Cinema and Media Studies, I am pleased to inform you that your proposal was accepted. Congratulations! Title: A Technics of the Unobtrusive: Zoë Sofia’s Container Technologies, Twenty Five Years On
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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
"The platforms themselves have the mass and scale that politicians and political discourse lack. This is precisely why we need to study the gravitational logics of platforms as bodies that attract and repel."
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Veneno Remedio @venenoremedio.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
In a single week, #Argentina's government (1) blacklisted books that talk about #feminicides, (2) launched an SA-style militia, which (3) promptly assaulted geography students doing fieldwork in its anti-science crusade. So much for "they're anarco-libertarians not fascists..." tinyurl.com/ybb9a7dh
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Argentina: PEN International condemns attempted censorship of the book Cometierra  — PEN International
"By banning books, the authorities are attempting to stifle the essence of freedom; we must stand firm in protecting literature and books that serve as beacons of resistance in the contemporary world....
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Duke University Press @dukepress.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Our “Read to Respond” series addresses the current climate of misinformation by highlighting articles and books that encourage thoughtful, educated debate on today’s most pressing issues. Today we share resources on caring for others in uncertain times: read.dukeupress.edu/journals/pag...
Graphic featuring cover of Social Text journal "Radical Care" issue and "dear elia" by Mimi Khúc. At the top are the words Care in Uncertain Times and Read to Respond.
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Margaret Schwartz @mogprof.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Judging by its title and cover 🔥🔥
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Dave Parisi @daveparisi.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Tactile Research Group's annual meeting is Thursday in NYC, I'm keynoting on "Instruments & Instrumentalities of Haptics: An Inventory of Promises & Effects". Shaping up as a weird talk, doing media theory for exp psychologists. Registration required but cheapish. www.eventbrite.ca/e/tactile-re...
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Tactile Research Group Annual Meeting 2024
The Psychonomic Society will hold its meeting in New York, November 21-24, 2024. We will hold our meeting on November 21st from 9am–5pm.
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LeVar Burton @levarburton.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Okay, y’all… I have finally decided that retreat is the better part of valor. Bringing some rainbow energy over to these blue skies. #bydhttmwdi
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a pixel art of a man standing under a rainbow on a blue background
Alt: a pixel art of Levar standing under a rainbow on a blue background
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Margaret Schwartz @mogprof.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Really thrilled for this panel discussion on Wednesday with @slothprof.bsky.social. Disability folks and affect folks and really any academic folks should be reading her stunning Dear Elia.
Unwellness and Structures of Care: A Transdisciplinary Panel Discussion with Mimi Khúc, author of Dear Elia: Letters from the Asian American Abyss.
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Words Without Borders & WWB Campus @wwborders.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
We've added lots of great translation and global lit-centric presses and mags to this list since last week! If you think we've missed something, let us know! go.bsky.app/RPkPdAM
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Amy Herzog @amyherzog.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
The Trans Youth Emergency Project provides information, medical referrals, and emergency grants for young trans people and their families. You can place a request for support if you are in need. And you can donate to support their efforts if you are able. southernequality.org/tyep/
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Trans Youth Emergency Project: Supporting Families of Trans Youth
Supporting families of trans youth nationwide through the logistical and financial burdens of navigating bans on gender-affirming care.
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Melanie Mitchell @melaniemitchell.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
For Science Magazine, I wrote about "The Metaphors of Artificial Intelligence". The way you conceptualize AI systems affects how you interact with them, do science on them, and create policy and apply laws to them. Hope you will check it out! www.science.org/doi/full/10....
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The metaphors of artificial intelligence
A few months after ChatGPT was released, the neural network pioneer Terrence Sejnowski wrote about coming to grips with the shock of what large language models (LLMs) could do: “Something is beginning...
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Greg Seigworth @gregseigworth.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
Mon Nov 25 4- 5 pm EST zoom: 1) Society for the Study of Affect (events, open positions), 2)Q & A around the 'Capacities To' against fascism book, 3) discuss publishing in the journal Capacious for folks who might be new and/or understandably trepidatious about the process. bit.ly/capacitiesto
Zoom meeting of Society for the Study of Affect. Monday Nov 25 4-5 pm. Publishing your first academic essay (maybe) in the journal Capacious.
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John Warner @biblioracle.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
Perfect illustration of the difference between "schooling" and learning. Learning is rooted in experiences. Schooling is about discrete tasks to pass an assessment. Students are starved for experiences. We should give them to them.
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Margaret Schwartz @mogprof.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
Can’t post much about the…[waves arms vaguely]…situation but I find more hope than I have in ages in this reminder of the power of “I would prefer not to”
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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
1) Alt-text images (there's a thing in settings you can turn on to remind you) 2) Plz mind yr ableist language; as Lydia XZ Brown (not here?) puts it "Ableism is systematic, institutional devaluing of bodies and minds deemed deviant, abnormal, defective, subhuman, less than. Ableism is *violence.*"
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Ableism/Language
Thoughts on disability justice, neurodiversity, intersectional activism from Lydia Brown, 2011-2020.
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The Death Studies Podcast @deathstudiespod.bsky.social · 11/11/2024
Hello new followers! We release a new episode every month. Our episodes are stand alone so you can dip in and out, depending on your interests (but we’d love it if you listen to all 😉) Start at the beginning with @ericaborgstrom.bsky.social thedeathstudiespodcast.com/episode-1-dr...
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Professor Erica Borgstrom - The Death Studies Podcast
What’s the episode about? In this episode, hear Professor Erica Borgstrom discuss End-of-Life Care, anthropology, palliative care, ethnography, thanatology and death studies, as well as ‘imposter synd...
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Tanya @tanya.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
academics are amazing because each of them, in getting a phd, wrote an entire book that nobody will ever read (their dissertation). you would think that would lead to total ego death but let me tell you buddy
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Greg Seigworth @gregseigworth.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
go.bsky.app/TYKjb9A
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kalindi vora @kalindivora.bsky.social · 06/02/2024
Request: We've created what we hope will be an empowering survey about experience with chronic illness and medical care. If you have the capacity to participate or share it, it will certainly help! yale.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_... For more context (with @rcart.bsky.social t.co/N0edbFJuom
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Margaret Schwartz @mogprof.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
Since I’ve put this in my bio I thought I would share again here my essay on containment and its discontents- very much the kernel of what I’m working on in my current book project. open.substack.com/pub/margaret...
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A Technics of the Unobtrusive
containment and its discontents
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Rishita "Department of Error" Nandagiri @rishie.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
👋🏾I'm creating a #starterpack of #ReproductiveJustice folks working in/from/for/with the Global South(s)- broadly understood. Drop me a line if you work on/with these contexts - "work" is broad too (activists, organisers, researchers, dreamers [...]). Trying to move beyond the US/EU-centric RJ space.
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Margaret Schwartz @mogprof.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
This looks super cool
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M. E. O'Brien @genderhorizon.com · 14/11/2024
Very excited to join the brilliant Joy James and Lara Sheehi in conversation this Monday online. We will be speaking on “Revolutionary Care”. It will be broadcast here at 5 PM Eastern: www.youtube.com/watch?v=aB24...
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The Captive Maternal and Family Abolition: Envisioning Revolutionary Care
YouTube video by Common Notions
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Margaret Schwartz @mogprof.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
Zizek is, among many other things, a clown- but he may be optimally positioned (biographically and methodologically) to understand and explain the obscenity of this moment.
We are not talking here just about ideology in the sense of ideas and guiding principles, but ideology in a more basic sense of how political discourse functions as a social link.This is why Trump’s serial insults and outright lies, not to mention the fact that he is a convicted criminal, work for him.Trump’s ideological triumph resides in the fact that his followers experience their obedience to him as a form of subversive resistance.
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Margaret Schwartz @mogprof.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
Much better than 2016’s viral poem, “Good Bones.” I don’t wanna sell my kids on this world.
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Margaret Schwartz @mogprof.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
I think I really thought so
I AM MADE OF BLUE SKY AND HARD ROCK AND I WILL LIVE THIS WAY FOREVER
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Joshua Libling @jjl.bsky.social · 10/11/2024
I found this helpful. It's a searchable list of starter packs. blueskydirectory.com/starter-pack...
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All - Bluesky Directory
A curated collection of all things relating to the Blue Sky social media platform.
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Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha @thellpsx.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
@cyreejarelle.bsky.social and I wrote this 18 months ago, everything and nothing has changed, the tips and analysis about how the fasc hates trans and autistic people because our bodies insist on being free is still spot on. brownstargirl.org/in-defense-o...
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In Defense of Autistic Trans Self-Determination
On April 13th, 2023, Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey put into effect an emergency order barring trans healthcare in his state. In 2023’s onslaught of trans-hating legislation, this is the f…
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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
Yes my friend. Not three stooges nor five but a nonfinite number of stooges, a sufficiency. And I? I am the stooge beyond the final gate of time
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Rafael Behr @rafaelbehr.bsky.social · 19/08/2024
I'd second this, fwiw. Every expert analysis I've seen of how toxicity spreads on X notes that any engagement with the toxin, even as rebuttal, ridicule, pillory, is just a variant of amplification. Block the bad, share the good is what works.
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