Crowd is massive, now overflowing Congress Plaza and taking up a block-long stretch of Michigan Avenue.

Reminder: this event was only announced yesterday.

Their statements are practiced lies.

Trump, Noem, and the rest of DHS roll out their fictions as fast as possible to try to avoid accountability for their crimes.

Chicago movie theater accessibility is unequal across the city - Chicago Reader Chicago movie theater accessibility and distribution is limited for both chain and indie cinema, but the local scene is ready to adapt.

Good as time as any to re-up the piece that gave me my start at the @chicagoreader.com that gets into the decline of cinemas and how even in a city as big as Chicago, few audiences have access to even decide if they want to show up for smaller movies.

🫠 chicagoreader.com/film-tv/chic...

After beating by federal agent, man denied medical help, bodycam footage shows - Evanston RoundTable https://videopress.com/v/FOwxieX1?resizeToParent=true&cover=true&posterUrl=https%3A%2F%2Fevanstonroundtable.com%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2025%2F11%2

After beating by federal agent, man denied medical help, bodycam footage shows - Evanston RoundTable evanstonroundtable.com/2025/11/25/a...

Agents said "hit them" before deploying tear gas, Ellis says, and then they lied about it under oath.

This calls into question their account of everything happening in the Chicago area.

LIVE UPDATES: Federal immigration agents detain at least one person in Evanston Friday morning, agents still in area - Evanston RoundTable This live updates page will be update as information becomes available. Please send tips to tips@evanstonroundtable.com. Federal immigration agents

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I urge everyone to stay safe, stay vigilant, record any activity you see from a distance, and call the @icirr.bsky.social Family Support Network hotline at 855-435-7693 if you spot ICE, CBP, or other federal agents, or if you are in need of assistance.

A smashed car.

ICE just rammed a vehicle at Oakton and Asbury in Evanston. They left the damaged car in the middle of the street and appear to have taken the driver. This is less than a block away from Oakton Elementary

ICE Is Terrorizing Chicago for Halloween—and Parents Are Fighting Back Fear and a whiff of tear gas hang over festivities this year. In response, even people who aren’t usually politically engaged are mobilizing.

On the occasion of Halloween, @newrepublic.com asked me to write about what’s going on in Chicago and I wanted you all to know what randomized terror feels like. And also that as the federal government fails our kids, everyday Chicagoans are showing the courage of trying to protect them.

Drop me a line if you don't have access! :D

Ears in the Cloud: Fantasies of Networked Perception Abstract. This article examines Cloud (2017), a sound art installation by Christina Kubisch that aims to make digital infrastructure audible. In works such as this one and the similar Electrical Walks...

Excited that my article "Ears in the Cloud" has been published in October! All about Christina Kubisch's sound art and the ways in which digital media has been imagined in sonic terms. I write about politics of listening to infrastructure and historicize the 'sonic turn'

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Trump Higher Ed Compact 2025 We stand for education—for science, for students and for freedom—and against this backward, anti-American policy. We call on university leaders, faculty, staff and students to unite in rejecting the T...

sign and share and join AAUP actionnetwork.org/petitions/tr...

South Shore residents returned to their ransacked apartments after an ICE raid. "It looks like hell." blockclubchi.co/4gV8ODq

Catch me a the first panel of SIGCIS 2025 tomorrow morning. :D

SESSION 4.2.7 Roundtable. Media and Hierarchies of the Senses | Schedule | Uncommon Senses V Uncommon Senses V: Sensing the Social, the Environmental, and Across the Arts and Sciences will be taking place at Concordia University, Montreal, Canada this coming May. We are pleased to be welcomin...

I 'm really enjoying the vibe at Uncommon Senses at
@concordiau.bsky.social. Can't wait to discuss the intersection of sensory studies and media studies tomorrow at what should b a fantastic roundtable!

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I'll also be chairing a roundtable called "Media and Hierarchies of the Senses" with an awesome group of junior scholars like @harryburson.bsky.social , @kcforcier.bsky.social , Chelsea Ward, and Júlia Irion Martins.

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.

Beautiful piece on Linda Williams (1946-2025 💔) in the NY Times. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/30/a...

From Carrie

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...

I somehow just became aware of this great essay by my department head :D
www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...

A memorial image of Linda Williams (1946–2025). She is pictured wearing glasses and a black blazer, smiling. The text 'IN MEMORIAM' appears at the bottom.

1/7 It is with deep sadness that we mourn the passing of Linda Williams, a pioneering scholar whose fearless work transformed film and media studies. Over her remarkable career, Williams challenged scholars to take seriously popular and often marginalized genres,

I called Rep. Quigley's office. Got through immediately and left this message to the friendly person on the other end. I haven't seen any templates circulating around this issue, but here's what I said if it's helpful:

Stand up for science flyer, happening on March 7th in DC & nationwide with more information at www.standupforscience2025.org

WHERE WILL YOU BE TOMORROW?

9 degrees, mighty colleagues, fighting for science and service!

public research IS public health!

uic united faculty, carl rosen of united electrical, radio,+ machine workers, uchicago aaup, northwestern postdocs, depaul, in it to win @higheredlabor.bsky.social @aftunion.bsky.social @uaw.org

FWIW I just called my senators and rep to voice my extreme displeasure at their lack of a response to *everything*. Maybe you should too?

On behalf of the 2025 Conference Program Committee for the Society for Cinema & Media Studies, I am pleased to inform you that your proposal was accepted. Congratulations! Title: Making Sense: Metaphors of Embodied Sensation and the Limits of Imagination in Contemporary Digital Media Chair/Co-Chairs: Nicholaus Gutierrez Panelists: Chris Goetz Harry Burson Aubrey Anable Nicholaus Gutierrez

I'm already in Chicago, but I will also be at SCMS. See you there!