
matthew ellis
@matthiasellis
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wandering academic. now: film/media/theory @portland_state, @cinejourneys. pod @pnwmoviefilm. LB: https://t.co/KKYlX5Cds8 blog: https://t.co/4sqtW08aiz
Portland, OR
Joined March 2009
RT @ChasePadusniak: It’s very hard to get across just how much teachers are selling themselves and their institutions short right now. Hype….
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RT @katie_campione: Film criticism, when done well, is supposed to make you think deeper about a film and engage with it in more complex wa….
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Essentially, underneath all the evangelical social conservatism, which is designed to explain poverty away as a moral failure, the Right’s core accumulation strategy is to drive every economic contradiction to its violent end and suck out all the profit they can in the process.
BREAKING: Marjorie Taylor Greene has introduced the No Tax on Home Sales Act to eliminate the federal capital gains tax on home sales.
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RT @triofrancos: 🚨 My next book, EXTRACTION: THE FRONTIERS OF GREEN CAPITALISM is out 9/23 with @wwnorton . Today and tomorrow, you can pr….
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RT @katherineveritt: It’s rly astounding how biological determinism is today’s dominant ideology. “Everything is firing synapses.” A truly….
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RT @beetkid: It's so incredibly funny how they won't support Mamdani, but then they try to rip off his marketing style without any of the a….
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RT @AsadFromNYC: “‘It doesn’t matter your religion, it doesn’t matter your ethnicity, it doesn’t matter your social outlook — everyone has….
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RT @lindsayballant: The mRNA vaccine and China's clean energy tech should be the model for net-positive innovation—but the tech industry ce….
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RT @lindsayballant: I think it’s great that the main invention of the tech industry this decade is a climate killing automated nonsense mac….
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RT @AlwaysFlacko: 28 Months Later . A movie where a virus turns everyone on Twitter into a Nazi.
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RT @hannahgais: Worth noting, I think, that the organization behind Canary Mission is entirely based in Israel. Its staff is in Israel. Its….
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You're gonna be pumped about this. Go give these dudes a follow! It's a great podcast at that precise intersection where rigorous academic thinking meets the conversational, which is the future of public thought in our times, I think.
You guys are going to be excited about all the episode we've got on deck or in the can at @Cold_War_Cinema! That's all I'll say about that right now. Stay tuned!.
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As a modern, I can't help but just shrug when I encounter the deep and rich history of theodicy in the philosophical tradition. Centuries-long debates, some of which are load-bearing for Western philosophy as such! But the problem is really simple. he's not real lol.
You know what's funny is I never really struggle with doubts about atheism. I don't ever stay up late at night wondering if maybe everything we know about science is wrong because these stupid assholes are right.
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RT @alexL_E_I: 40 years on from its premiere at the Moscow International Film Festival, COME AND SEE’s reputation precedes itself—i wrote a….
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RT @CantEverDie: going into the replies and seeing the big bad tranny rhetoric is not working on rightwingers is honestly amazing.
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