Katherine Groo

we are just living the worst nightmares of 20th c media theory

I guess I just feel pretty strongly that the lives of people who live in other countries are also very important

8yo american boy becomes a sad 100yo French man

hello everything is terrible but my son was asked to draw himself at 100 and...this is the vision

Fantastic mail day! Congrats @laurah.bsky.social!

Lost 19th century film by Méliès discovered at the Library | Timeless Library conservators recently made a startling discovery in a batch of decaying film reels -- a long-lost 1897 film by early cinema icon George Méliès. The French magician-turned-filmmaker's

Wow!

H/t Kristin Thompson

dad sneeze (the loudest on earth)

screenshot of a tv user guide, showing two channels under Tue 8PM: MSNOW - State of the union TCM East- Gaslight

Masterful Troll, TCM.

i will never forget when vivian sobchack gave a paper during the covid/zoom scms conference and started by setting an egg timer. she wrapped it up as soon as the timer went off. conferences need more egg timers and vivian sobchacks

today my mom read something in the nyt and texted to ask if i thought cinema was dead. **finally my time to shine**

sentimental value was not totally my thing but i do love lamps and if you love a lamp, go for it. there is one whole scene that was pretty much dozens of green articulated skandi lamps. the narrative did not really need the scene but someone was like i will kill you if you cut the green lamps

something that has started bubbling up in interdisciplinary groups and collaborations on my campus...everyone has to talk about the terms of participation early bc I am not editing and adding to your AI draft. and please don't take my ideas and AI them into bullet points

The Dow is over 50,000

thirty whole minutes

Rest in Power, Teresa de Lauretis (1938 - 2026). 💔

Next time somebody tries to get me to justify the existence of the humanities, I’ll just point out how for the past two Super Bowls we’ve all jumped online and engaged in collective semiotics and hermeneutics of the half-time show as text.

goodbye I live here now

To: Jeffrey Epstein[jeevacation@gmail.com] From: Sent: Wed 7/15/2009 1:56:13 AM Subject: Re: florida visit? good typing! oh well, looks like it's a long flight anyhow... edmonton is so far away from EVERYTHING. On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 7:49 PM, Jeffrey Epstein <jeevacation@gmail.com> wrote: i am tied up until aug On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 9:41 PM, wrote: You planted a seed with your invite today. I have next Wed thru Sunday off (July 22-26), my last vacation for months. I was going to take polo lessons in Calgary but I (DON'T) think my body can handle it! I pull a muscle every time, and I'm starting to realize my budding polo career might have to take a back seat to my actual job. think What are you doing next week?

The word don't is censored. Don't, or Don T. If you're looking for just some fun proof they're doing control+f censoring

I am talking feminism, patriarchy, racial capitalism, beauty capital, fatphobia and more with Kate Manne at Princeton next week. I haven't been this juiced up for an event in a very long time.

there are grad students out there right now whose work is much, much better than that of these abusers we’re learning about today. i’m just saying.

I don't like to talk about stories before they are fully reported, but I am writing on ICE in a Minnesota town that isn't Minneapolis. However bad you think it is, it is worse. It is a campaign of pure terror whose only strategic goal is more terror. There is no strategy other than to break people.

every time i see ai renderings of humans, it's just so life like...

this will be an extraordinary book + everyone should read Alix's methodological précis!

a refrigerator labelled with sign that says PROP FOOD DO NOT CONSUME

moved my office to theater world, still figuring things out

lmfao get wrecked

Really hard to look at this and all the other examples of bravery and kindness from ordinary people in this moment not think also of the tremendous cowardice exhibited over the past year by some of the richest, most well-protected people in business, media and politics

Over 50,000 people showed up for the general strike protests today in Minneapolis -- in negative 20 F wind chill!!!! We can stand the cold but can't tolerate the ICE 🔥🔥

my child before bed: oh, mama, your hair is so gray. [pause] you are so old already. [gives me a deep, sad hug]

By All Measures - Longreads Our problems are too vast, our distance from them too great. How do we navigate our derangement of scale?

my colleague, ben cohen, just published a wonderful essay on scale...and so many other things. it is a beautiful thing to read right now longreads.com/2026/01/13/s...

new course policy

single page syllabus on the dialectic

happy first day of school to semester colleagues please enjoy this jameson syllabus from January 1996