Superstructure

The Avant-Garde of Left-MMT, a podcast hosted by @agoingaccount, @orangeasm and guests, and a publishing vertical at

[Superstructure @Superstruc]

New podcast!!! 📣

🧜‍♀️🧜‍♂️ Can The Little Mermaid Speak?

@agoingaccount and @videotroph tease out the multiplicity of voices that shape The Little Mermaid (1989) in order to problematize racist outcries against…

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[Money on the Left (@moneyontheleft.bsky.social) @moneyontheleft]

As always, please listen & share! 🎧🧑‍🤝‍🧑

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.@magshenny is also co-curator of the four-disc DVD/Blu-ray set Cinema’s First Nasty Women (@NastySilents).

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.@magshenny is the author of Death by Laughter: Female Hysteria and Early Cinema (Columbia University Press, 2024) and Specters of Slapstick and Silent Film Comediennes (Columbia University Press, 2018).

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.@magshenny is a feminist scholar of silent cinema & professor in the Cultural Studies and Comparative Literature Department (@UMNCSCL) at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities (@UMNews).

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"[L]aughter is a lifeline for resistance against the global onslaught of authoritarian hate and fearmongering.”

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Previously ridiculed, Kamala Harris’s signature laughter has emerged as an electrifying rallying cry for her last-minute candidacy for President of the United States.

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[Money on the Left (@moneyontheleft.bsky.social) @moneyontheleft]

🥥New @Superstruc!🥥

Hosts Will Beaman (@agoingaccount) and Scott Ferguson (@videotroph) welcome Maggie Hennefeld (@magshenny) to the podcast to discuss her essay, “Make America Laugh Again,” published in @StarTribune.

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Tremendous thx to @magshenny for joining us on the @Superstruc podcast to discuss her recently published essay in @StarTribune, "Make America Laugh Again." This is a fun, wide-ranging conversation. Highly recommend!

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.@robbhawkes & I just wrapped up recording part 1 of a forthcoming @Superstruc podcast series about money & inflation in F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel, The Great Gatsby. Hope to release the first part sometime during the next week or so. Stay tuned to @moneyontheleft for updates.

[Money on the Left (@moneyontheleft.bsky.social) @moneyontheleft]

New @Superstruc! 📢

✨Money, Modernism & Inflation in The Great Gatsby✨

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Check out Robyn Ollett’s book, The New Queer Gothic: Reading Queer Girls and Women in Contemporary Fiction and Film 🧛‍♀️📖

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New #ModernMovieTheory 🎥

✨🩸What We Do in the Shadows🩸✨

Will Beaman (@agoingaccount), Robyn Ollett (@RobynOllett), and Rob Hawkes (@robbhawkes) illuminate the queer citationality of WWDITS with Robyn’s work in The New Queer Gothic.

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POWER TO THE PEOPLE W/ SANDEEP VAHEESAN

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Tremendous thx to @sandeepvaheesan for joining me on the @Superstruc pod to discuss his urgent new article about the still-undecided political potentials of the Inflation Reduction Act.

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As always, please listen & share in your networks!

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Ferguson and Vaheesan close their conversation by considering the social construction of and  disputes about public money in both contemporary and historical contexts.

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Thus the meaning and fate of the IRA remains up-for-grabs. Should community-controlled public & cooperative electric utilities seize hold of the IRA’s democratic potentials, the process stands to build significant capacities for a more expansive Green New Deal.

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Today, Vaheesan sees potential for public control over the IRA’s implementation because the legislation extends investment & production tax credits, formerly available only to for-profit entities, to community-controlled public and cooperative electric utilities.

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What is more, the success of this project laid the groundwork for later rural electrification programs under FDR’s New Deal.

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[Money on the Left (@moneyontheleft.bsky.social) @moneyontheleft]

In the case of the Boulder Dam in the 1920’s, a strong public utility—the LA Department of Water & Power —was well positioned to control water & power as public goods, despite efforts by the conservative Hoover administration to wholly privatize the process.

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