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Nicholas Baer

@nwbaer.bsky.social
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Associate Professor of Film & Media and German, UC Berkeley | Book: Historical Turns (UC Press, 2024) | Edited Volumes: Technics (Amsterdam UP, 2024), Unwatchable (Rutgers UP, 2019), The Promise of Cinema (UC Press, 2016)

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Jacob Gaboury @jacobgaboury.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
For anyone in the Bay Area, @hannesbajohr.de and @antoniosomaini.bsky.social have organized an exciting 3-day workshop on AI and culture this week. I'll be speaking on a Thursday panel with @nwbaer.bsky.social and @shanedenson.bsky.social! german.berkeley.edu/latent-space...
Poster for "The Latent Spaces of Culture" conference at UC Berkeley.
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Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
An episode which I guarantee will yield equal amounts of “YAAAAAAAAS” & “what the hell are we doing here, guys.” podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
Reading Machines (Vandal
Live at Berkeley)
The American Vandal ›
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The final episode recorded at the Modes of Reading Today Symposium, hosted by the Townsend Center For The Humanities focuses on media, mediation, and machine-generated texts. It opens with Nicholas Baer and Pardis Debashi's
"Unattainable Texts," following by David Bate's "Reading and Writing" [20:00], Nina Beguš's "Novel Audiences in 'Finnegan's Wake'" [37:30], Hannes Bajohr's "Surface Reading LLMs" [57:00], Matt Seybold's "The Technofeudal Reader" [81:00], and a brief Q&A [100:00].
Cast (in order of appearance): Yael Segalovitz, Nicholas Baer, David Bates, Nina Beguš, Hannes Bajohr, Matt Seybold, Jacob Gaboury, Deniz Göktürk, Jonathan Kramnick
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Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
One of the theses of Vandal Live has been that putting scholars in a room together to squabble about a well-conceived esoteric topic is knowledge production. Yael Segalovitz & David Marno maybe understood this assignment even better than I did.
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Reading, Sleep, Attention, Grief (Vandal Live @ UC-Berkeley)
with Yael Segalovitz, David Marno, and many more
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Maggie Hennefeld @hennefem.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
We are thrilled to announce that Prof. Nicholas Baer will give a talk at the University of Minnesota next Thurs (March 5th) at 5:30 PM in 216 Pillsbury Dr., Room 135. UMN folks, don't miss it!!!! @nwbaer.bsky.social cla.umn.edu/gnsd/news-ev...
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Jochen Hung @jochenhung.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
"Provincialising Weimar Culture" is out! @nwbaer.bsky.social, Britta Schilling and I edited a special issue for German Life and Letters on "local and global perspectives on interwar Germany": onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/14680483....
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Special Issue: PROVINCIALISING WEIMAR CULTURE: GLOBAL AND LOCAL PERSPECTIVES ON INTERWAR GERMANY A SPECIAL NUMBER: German Life and Letters: Vol 79, No 1
Click on the title to browse this issue
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Nicholas Baer @nwbaer.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
Deeply grateful for this generous, insightful, and eloquent review of Historical Turns in the new issue of Screen. Many thanks to Jane Gaines for reading my work so thoughtfully and for situating it within the broader history of the discipline. academic.oup.com/screen/artic...
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Nicholas Baer @nwbaer.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
Together with Annie van den Oever, I was honored to interview Jane Gaines for NECSUS. Come for the history of Visible Evidence & @wfpproject.bsky.social; stay for the reflections on speculative historiography, Fredric Jameson's legacy & current attacks on higher ed. necsus-ejms.org/the-historic...
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Nicholas Baer @nwbaer.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
Like so many others, I was dismayed by the recent news that the profit-driven Taylor & Francis acquired multiple book series (including our open-access "The Key Debates") as part of a transaction with Amsterdam University Press. I proudly signed this collective resignation letter.
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Sale of the Amsterdam University Press (AUP) film, media and communication list to Taylor & Francis – Resignation of series editors and editorial board members
It is with great dismay that we, the undersigned, learned that the film, media and communication list of Amsterdam University Press (AUP) has been taken over by Taylor & Francis, a subsidiary of Infor...
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Dr. Elīna Reitere @elinareitere.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
In my latest academic publication I propse to supplement the concept of dated film (Jamie Baron), which encompasses cultural and aesthetic datedness, by ideological datedness. Films of the Soviet period now constitute our “new cinema”. 1/2 #academicbluesky culturecrossroads.lv/index.php/cc...
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View of TAVA LAIME / YOUR HAPPINESS BY ADA NERETNIECE: IDEOLOGICALLY DATED FILMS AND EPISTEMIC IMPERIALISM OF DISCURSIVE FIELDS
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Lisa Jacobson @lisawj.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
Still thinking about #NECS2025 in Lisbon last week. It was an honor to present on the panel "Socialism Goes Global: Cold War Geopolitics Beyond Europe" with @cheryldueck.bsky.social, Deniz Göktürk, and Balázs Varga. More in Montpellier? [Photo credit: @nwbaer.bsky.social]
Three people in person and one projected onto a large screen engage in discussion in a university seminar room
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Maggie Hennefeld @hennefem.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
sold out both!!! @nwbaer.bsky.social but @columbiaup.bsky.social & @ucpress.bsky.social have got all your fatal laughter AND historicist crisis needs covered!!!! cup.columbia.edu/book/death-b... www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520...
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Maggie Hennefeld @hennefem.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
Spotted at the #IlCinemaRitrovato FilmFair!!! 🎊🎞️📚 @nwbaer.bsky.social @columbiaup.bsky.social
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Maggie Hennefeld @hennefem.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
Looking forward to the NECS (European Network for Cinema and Media Studies) Conference tomorrow!!!! If you're in Lisbon, come to our panel on Feminist Film Practices & Historical Recovery (in the C10 spot!). 🎞️❤️ necs.org/conference
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Nicholas Baer @nwbaer.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
excited for the NECS conference in Lisbon! Join us tomorrow (Thursday, June 19) at 9:00 for a workshop on "Creative Reuse: Navigating the Archive" with Deniz Göktürk, Grazia Ingravalle, Alexandra Schneider, and Jaap Verheul as well as a video essay by Ritika Kaushik! necs.org/conference
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Nicholas Baer @nwbaer.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
tenured and promoted to associate professor! deeply grateful for the intellectual engagement and labor of so many colleagues at Berkeley and well beyond.
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Vinzenz Hediger @vinzenzhediger.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
IMPORTANT ADVICE FOR AUTHORS AND SERIES EDITORS ON THE FILM/MEDIA LIST: Do not respond to the letter or accept the new contracts proposed by Taylor & Francis at htis point (unles, of course, you want to). A response is being coordinated. Additional conversations scheduled for the NECS conference.
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Nicholas Baer @nwbaer.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
Super grateful to @mharrabin.bsky.social for this eloquent and insightful review of Historical Turns in the new issue of Oxford German Studies!
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Nicholas Baer @nwbaer.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
honored to keynote the 20th CMS grad student conference at UChicago next weekend on “Failing Media." Join us for two days of panels along with a faculty roundtable and performance by Gibson + Recoder. Many thanks to Hugo Ljungbäck and Nat Modlin for organizing! voices.uchicago.edu/failingmedia/
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University of California Press @ucpress.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
Every year goes by too quickly! We're here for a few more hours at #SCMS25 so drop by for one last chance to view our latest books in cinema and media studies. Our SCMS website where you can save 40% on all books on display will remain open for you: www.ucpress.edu/book-lists/s...
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Maryse Elliott @maryzen.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
#SCMS25 has just started! Kicking off with a great roundtable co-chaired by @nwbaer.bsky.social, expanding on themes from his #OpenAccess book,Technics www.aup.nl/en/book/9789.... You can also check it out at the AUP table (Exhibit Hall) from tomorrow! See you there for a chat!
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Maggie Hennefeld @hennefem.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Standing room only at the Technics roundtable!! #SCMS25 @nwbaer.bsky.social
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Maggie Hennefeld @hennefem.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
Beautiful piece on Linda Williams (1946-2025 💔) in the NY Times. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/30/a...
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Linda Williams, Who Introduced Pornography to Academia, Dies at 78
One of the first to write seriously about a fraught subject, she also played a major role in developing the field of film studies and feminist film theory.
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Nicholas Baer @nwbaer.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
Join us this Thursday at the @scmstudies.bsky.social conference for a roundtable on technics and media with Yijun Sun, Tom Gunning, @ranjodhdhaliwal.com, @profmamamama.bsky.social, and @sconce.bsky.social! Thanks to @scmsmst.bsky.social for sponsoring. #SCMS25
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Society for Cinema and Media Studies @scmstudies.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
It is with profound sadness that we mourn the passing of Jonathan Sterne, an extraordinary scholar whose groundbreaking work transformed the fields of sound studies, media theory, and the cultural study of technology.
In memoriam photo of Jonathan Sterne (1970-2025)
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Rob @robarcand.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
From Carrie
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Nicholas Baer @nwbaer.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
Friends in Philly: I'll be sharing my work at Penn this Wednesday at noon. Would love to see you there! cinemastudies.sas.upenn.edu/events/2025/...
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Nicholas Baer @nwbaer.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
Linda Williams led a truly extraordinary life—a model of fearless inquiry, principled struggle, and joie de vivre. I'm grateful beyond measure for her pathbreaking scholarship and rigorous mentorship over the years. Her words continue to resonate.
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n+1 @nplusonemag.com · 07/03/2025
“Working conditions are learning conditions, we like to say, and it is so obviously true you want to tattoo it on your clavicle.” New: Peter Coviello on austerity in the English department.
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Memos of Blood and Fire | Peter Coviello
So if you ask me about the signature strength of the department where I work, I will tell you. It is world-caliber field-defining research, wedded to a fantastically dynamic practice of instruction, a...
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Maggie Hennefeld @hennefem.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Definitely time for a new edition.
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Rebecca Colesworthy @rcolesworthy.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
Today today today, Berkeley folx!
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Nicholas Baer @nwbaer.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
Join us tomorrow at Berkeley for a roundtable discussion of Yael Segalovitz's wonderful new book, How Close Reading Made Us: The Transnational Legacies of New Criticism (@sunypress.bsky.social, 2024). events.berkeley.edu/complit/even...
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Jen Evans @jennifervevans.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
The great intellectual historian Anson Rabinbach, passed away a few days ago in Rome after a fall. The folks over at the George Mosse Program in Wisconsin have set up an online page to capture memories and reminiscences for friends and family. It is available here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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Nicholas Baer @nwbaer.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
@bampfa.bsky.social welcomes filmmaker Sergei Loznitsa for a residency from January 30–February 8. Join us for a Mosse lecture and seven screenings. Loznitsa and I will discuss his harrowing documentary Babi Yar. Context (2021) this Friday, January 31, at 2:30 pm. bampfa.org/program/serg...
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Nicholas Baer @nwbaer.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
it was super invigorating being in conversation with Donna Jones on Weimar cinema, crisis, and historical pessimism at Berkeley's Townsend Center for the Humanities. The recording is now online: www.youtube.com/watch?v=PeO-...
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Vinzenz Hediger @vinzenzhediger.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
Pierre Sorlin, the trailblazing historian of cinema, has passed at 91. Minuscule of stature, he was an intellectual giant and incredibly generous colleague and mentor. Gifted with a photographic memory, he had a habit of reciting his written papers from memory rather than reading from a print-out.
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Nicholas Baer @nwbaer.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
Mladen Dolar, Rumors (2025)
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Samuel Moyn @samuelmoyn.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
“One of the worst things one can do with any body of theory is to hold it up to the problems of our present time and conclude that if the theory doesn’t furnish a wholly satisfactory response to all of them, it should be discarded as obsolete.” www.thenation.com/article/cult...
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What Adorno Can Still Teach Us
A conversation with Peter Gordon about the enduring influence of the Frankfurt School's leader, the future of critical theory, and his recent book, A Precarious Happiness.
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Anniei @anniei.bsky.social · 26/12/2024
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Berkeley author wrote a book about an old painting he found on the streets of Paris
Other new Berkeley books: A look at what Weimar-era films have to say about current U.S. crises and a story for kids about the creation of the Golden Gate Bridge written by Dorothea Lange’s goddaughte...
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