Reposted by nico baumbachJ Hoberman @jhoberman.bsky.social · 06/10/2025Ken Jacobs (1933-2025) A great artist, a wonderful teacher, & speaking personally, a close friend for over 50 years. Linking to a piece I wrote to mark his 80th birthday. www.nytimes.com/2013/05/19/m... 313154
nico baumbach @nicobaumbach.bsky.social · 22/09/2025fredric jameson died one year ago today. i wrote this about him earlier this year: www.parapraxismagazine.com/articles/the...parapraxismagazine.comThe Last Good Dad — ParapraxisOn Fredric Jameson’s pedagogy Nico Baumbach 0103
Reposted by nico baumbachStudent Workers of Columbia @swcolumbia.bsky.social · 27/08/2025Prof @nicobaumbach.bsky.social at Columbia: CU "needs to support its graduate students. It should not be eliminating an important source of funding to undermine the union. This is very disturbing, unfair to our students, and sure to undermine the quality of the university in the long run.” 3/5 121
nico baumbach @nicobaumbach.bsky.social · 12/08/2025(inspired by seeing Weapons) has anyone written about the simultaneous post-cold war fantasy (and anxiety) about humans becoming computers (programmable) and computers becoming human (sentient)? 020
nico baumbach @nicobaumbach.bsky.social · 07/07/2025need a revised version of chomsky/herman on how consent gets manufactured on social media around generalized suspicion of the manufacturing of consent of legacy media and then again in response to the suspicion of that suspicion 121
nico baumbach @nicobaumbach.bsky.social · 12/06/2025as a professor at columbia, i feel the need to keep repeating that this claim (in a brand new statement from columbia's acting president claire shipman) is not true. this simple fact is not a fact. don't believe it 2162
Reposted by nico baumbachHannah Zeavin @hzeavin.bsky.social · 29/04/2025you can order it directly from @mitpress.bsky.social, or at bookshop: bit.ly/3EMU2zZ; you can request it at your library; it would make a good mother's day present for yourself or your friend or your mom.bit.lyMother Media: Hot and Cool Parenting in the Twentieth CenturyHot and Cool Parenting in the Twentieth Century 275
Reposted by nico baumbachJ Hoberman @jhoberman.bsky.social · 22/04/2025Packed screening w emotional intro by School of the Arts dean, got prolonged standing o. Film is strong stuff--unbearable footage of Gaza carnage--but a testament to the students' resourceful idealism. They honored Columbia, the administration did not and still seeks to curry favor w Trump regime. 142
nico baumbach @nicobaumbach.bsky.social · 20/04/2025as columbia still refuses to say the names of its abducted students and accepts Trump's narrative about antisemitism on campus, i'm happy to bring this counter-narrative to campus. tomorrow night if no one shuts it down: 13510
Reposted by nico baumbachMichael H Whitworth @profmhwhitworth.bsky.social · 10/02/2025“Pedagogy,” [Fredric Jameson] said in an interview, “is not inflicting discipline but awakening interest.” Excellent account of Jameson’s relation to the reified binaries of contemporary politics, of the place of slogans in his writing, and much else. www.parapraxismagazine.com/articles/the...parapraxismagazine.comThe Last Good Dad — ParapraxisOn Fredric Jameson’s pedagogy Nico Baumbach 02611
Reposted by nico baumbachM. Beatrice Fazi @mbfazi.bsky.social · 10/02/2025Great essay on “the desire called ‘Fredric Jameson’,” — @nicobaumbach.bsky.social on the pages of @parapraxismag.bsky.social 📖🖊️⚡️✨ www.parapraxismagazine.com/articles/the...parapraxismagazine.comThe Last Good Dad — ParapraxisOn Fredric Jameson’s pedagogy Nico Baumbach 02413
Reposted by nico baumbachparapraxismag.bsky.social @parapraxismag.bsky.social · 10/02/2025“Let’s add some more slogans or lessons. Wrest the collective from the individual. Wrest the political from moralism.”— @nicobaumbach.bsky.social's memoriam on Fredric Jameson’s pedagogy: www.parapraxismagazine.com/articles/the...parapraxismagazine.com 099
Reposted by nico baumbachAnna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 09/02/2025"Marxism, for Jameson, never provided some orthodox solution or ready-to-hand explanation for understanding our world but provided interpretive problems that always needed to be reinvented and reimagined." www.parapraxismagazine.com/articles/the...parapraxismagazine.comThe Last Good Dad — ParapraxisOn Fredric Jameson’s pedagogy Nico Baumbach 0669
Reposted by nico baumbachnico baumbach @nicobaumbach.bsky.social · 21/11/2024this is new and now open access. an analysis of the politics and psychology of social media. i would be grateful for people to read and engage with this essay: online.ucpress.edu/representati...online.ucpress.eduSameness-Machines: On the Political Unconscious of MemesTo try to say something of interest about memes means to be confronted with a certain conceptual incoherence. Even if we stick to the vernacular definition of meme as a specific kind of internet objec... 2225
nico baumbach @nicobaumbach.bsky.social · 21/11/2024this is new and now open access. an analysis of the politics and psychology of social media. i would be grateful for people to read and engage with this essay: online.ucpress.edu/representati...online.ucpress.eduSameness-Machines: On the Political Unconscious of MemesTo try to say something of interest about memes means to be confronted with a certain conceptual incoherence. Even if we stick to the vernacular definition of meme as a specific kind of internet objec... 2225
Reposted by nico baumbachJoseph Howley @illdottore.bsky.social · 08/09/2024On Thursday, two dozen Jewish faculty at Columbia delivered this letter to our presidents in response to the latest report of our Task Force on Antisemitism. It’s a long read (we’re academics!) but we’ve had a lot of interest from colleagues. You can read it here: tinyurl.com/CUJfacLettertinyurl.comColumbia Jewish Faculty Response to Task Force Report 2 14124
nico baumbach @nicobaumbach.bsky.social · 14/12/2023some thoughts on social media, conspiracy and projection by way of naomi kleinbookforum.comMirror, MirrorHow Naomi Klein's dubious double explains the current media moment – Nico Baumbach 010
