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    • Ep. 49: Pretty Good for the Dog Days of Summer (Juan Llamas-Rodriguez, Kanopy)
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    • Ep. 39: There’s More to Newark Than Whole Foods (Amanda Lotz, Brandon Arroyo)
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Ep. 30: Something You Do, Not Something You Study (May, 2016)

May 19, 2016 by Chris Becker

Just wrapping up the spring semester, this new episode features a report from the Academy Film Archives featuring interviews with the archive’s director Michael Pogorzelski, preservation officer Joe Lindner, and public access coordinator May Haduong.

In addition, we present an interview with Nicholas Mirzoeff, speaking on his new book “How to See the World,” as well as scholarly and activist projects concerning Black Lives Matter, visual culture, and theorizations of the anthropocene.

Hope you are having a great start to the summer!

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Academy Film Archive
Academy Film Archive website
Academy Film Archive Wikipedia
Michael Pogorzelski, Academy Film Archive Director
On the founding of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
On the Academy Film Archive collections
Orphan Film Symposium
Preserved projects from the Academy Film Archive
May Haduong, Academy Film Archive Public Access Coordinator
Academy Film Archive Education & Grants
Contact information for Academy Film Archive

Nicholas Mirzoeff
Nicholas Mirzoeff website
Mirzoeff’s How to See the World: An Introduction to Images, from Self-Portraits to Selfies, Maps to Movies, and More from Basic Books
UK edition of How to See the World from Pelican
“How to See the World” website accompanying the book
Mirzoeff’s The Right to Look: A Counterhistory of Visuality from Duke University Press
John Berger’s Ways of Seeing
Mirzoeff’s Transmediale Keynote Conversation with Hito Steyerl: Anxious to Act
Mirzoeff’s articles in The Conversation
Mirzoeff’s Social Text article “The Murder of Michael Brown: Reading the Grand Jury Transcript”
Newspaper article on the impact of police shooting videos
Sandra Bland
Laquan McDonald
Tamir Rice
Forensic Architecture (FA) at Goldsmiths, University of London
Eyal Weizman’s introduction to Forensis: The Architecture of Public Truth from Sternberg Press
Walter Scott
Mirzoeff’s Public Culture article “Visualizing the Anthropocene”
Mirzoeff’s Social Research article “The Clash of Visualizations: Counterinsurgency and Climate Change”
Mirzoeff’s forthcoming After Extinction (ed. Richard Grusin) chapter “It's Not the Anthropocene, It's the White Supremacy Scene, or, The Geological Color Line”

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May 19, 2016 /Chris Becker
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