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Nick Orlando

@njorlando.bsky.social
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I heard this is the place to be. Ph.D. English, Film and Media Studies Postdoctoral Associate, UF 🐊 Posts do not reflect the views of my employer.

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Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
I was not surprised that Santa Ono was moving to the "less prestigious" UFlorida because Ono's vision of campus has always been as police state. This was on display last year at UMichigan with the most aggressive strikebreaking against grad students, but it goes back to his time at UCincinnati. 🧵
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Nick Orlando @njorlando.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
Maybe we need an aesthetic/media/political economic theory of hype? 🤔 futurism.com/ai-tinkerbell
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AI Is Like Tinkerbell: It Only Works If We Keep Clapping So It Doesn't Die
AI is like the fairy Tinkerbell: in the story of "Peter Pan," she only continues to exist if people believe in her and clap for her.
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Victor Pickard @victorpickard.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
My review of @joshshepperd.bsky.social's important and ever-so-timely book, Shadow of the New Deal, on the history of American public media has finally been published. I posted it online here:
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Nick Orlando @njorlando.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
We’re nice. We extended the deadline. Friday, January 17. 🙂
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Nick Orlando @njorlando.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
If hanging with the UF MRG isn’t your thing (see last post), you could instead write an essay interrogating AppleTV+’s investments in the sci-fi genre for this special issue that I’m co-editing with two great colleagues: call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2024/12/...
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cfp | call for papers
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Nick Orlando @njorlando.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
For those interested, the deadline to submit abstracts for the UF Marxist Reading Group conference is tomorrow. Check/share the link: call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2024/11/...
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cfp | call for papers
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