Reposted by Nick OrlandoMatt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 08/05/2025I 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. 🧵 13113 31
Nick Orlando @njorlando.bsky.social · 10/02/2025Maybe we need an aesthetic/media/political economic theory of hype? 🤔 futurism.com/ai-tinkerbellfuturism.comAI Is Like Tinkerbell: It Only Works If We Keep Clapping So It Doesn't DieAI 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. 060 6
Reposted by Nick OrlandoVictor Pickard @victorpickard.bsky.social · 08/02/2025My 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:victorpickard.com 08221 82
Nick Orlando @njorlando.bsky.social · 13/01/2025We’re nice. We extended the deadline. Friday, January 17. 🙂 032 3
Nick Orlando @njorlando.bsky.social · 09/01/2025If 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/...call-for-papers.sas.upenn.educfp | call for papers 021 2
Nick Orlando @njorlando.bsky.social · 09/01/2025For 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/...call-for-papers.sas.upenn.educfp | call for papers 031 3