Fernando Domínguez Rubio

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Assoc. Prof of Communication at UC San Diego

Author of "Still Life: Ecologies of the Modern Imagination at the Art museum"

What’s Entering the Public Domain in 2023

Fritz Lang’s Metropolis, Virginia Woolf’s To the Lighthouse, Franz Kafka’s Amerika & More

https://www.openculture.com/2023/01/whats-entering-the-public-domain-in-2023.html

What’s Entering the Public Domain in 2023: Fritz Lang’s Metropolis, Virginia Woolf’s To the Lighthouse, Franz Kafka’s Amerika & More

It's safe to say that few, if any, of us alive today were doing any movie-going in 1927. But that shouldn't stop us from recognizing the importance of that year to cinema itself.

Open Culture

In today's #Asstodon, we have some #WeaponizedAsses.

Two German soldiers pose with a donkey (second from right), all three wearing gas masks, in 1915.

"The $208bn wiped from Mr Musk’s net worth is roughly equivalent to the GDP of Greece"

We live in a truly, truly, fucked up world

https://www.independent.co.uk/tech/elon-musk-net-worth-2022-chart-b2252991.html

Elon Musk’s net worth collapse is biggest loss of wealth in modern history

Billionaire’s fortune has fallen by $200bn, roughly equivalent to the GDP of Greece

The Independent
Morning walk
Jenny Holzer. Marquees (1993).

Se ha publicado la convocatoria del "Programa de Estudios Propios en Museología Crítica, Prácticas Artísticas de Investigación y Estudios Culturales: "Tejidos Conjuntivos" del Museo Reina Sofía para el 2023

la convocatoria está disponible en: https://www.museoreinasofia.es/centro-estudios/tejidos-conjuntivos

me hace especial ilusión esta noticia porque mi grupo de investigación es uno de los "nodos críticos" del mismo.

Tejidos conjuntivos | Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía

Tejidos conjuntivos. Sitio web del Museo Reina Sofía. Información y programación de exposiciones, colección, actividades y proyectos de investigación en red.

Theodor W. Adorno in bathing suit
As chair of the 4S publications committee, I am chairing a workshop at #ESOCITE4S22 Cholula to think about the next "STS Handbook." Join me Friday between 11-1 in A110. Spread the word, engage here with the idea, participate? #STS @4sWeb 1/7

Pretty much:

“What we’re seeing is the result of decades of squeezing workers. [Universities are] focusing on their shiny new buildings or sports or their public image and depending more and more on heavily exploited workers to achieve their mission and workers are saying that’s enough.”

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/dec/02/closed-labs-cancelled-classes-inside-us-higher-education-largest-strike

Closed labs, cancelled classes: inside the largest strike to hit US higher education

University of California campuses come to a standstill as 48,000 student workers strike for better pay

The Guardian