Bhaskar Sarkar

Film and Media Studies scholar: media & risk; piratical media; global South; global-popular; queer subcultures.

[Bhaskar Sarkar @vashkor63]

https://t.co/28BhCXVhds

[Alan MacLeod @AlanRMacLeod]

The United Nations has just voted 145-7 in favor of a resolution condemning illegal Israeli settlement building in Palestine (inc. East Jerusalem) & Syria.

The countries voting against the bill:

🇮🇱 Israel
🇺🇸 USA
🇨🇦 Canada
🇭🇺 Hungary
🇲🇭 Marshall Islands
🇫🇲 Micronesia
🇳🇷 Nauru

[sarah @sahouraxo]

Something historic is happening in London right now

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https://t.co/YrV1nJ2g5t

[Jewish Voice for Peace @jvplive]

HAPPENING NOW: Hundreds of American Jews are holding a sit-in at Congress — and we won’t leave until Congress calls for a ceasefire in Gaza. As thousands of U.S. Jews protest outside, over 350 are inside, including two dozen rabbis, holding prayerful resistance.

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Who Is a Civilian? https://t.co/eFarOPSCSv

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https://t.co/M0jz9ZYJoX

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@jamesleocahill It's the Gulliver Syndrome, yo.

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Rahul Mukherjee and I edited this dossier on India and Covid, with contributions by Ajay Gudavarthy, Anustup Basu, Banu Subramaniam, Bishnupriya Ghosh, Lawrence Cohen, and Paromita Vohra. https://t.co/qfgSqOkBgT

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UCSB film and media studies colloquium April 26

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@Debashree2017 Wow.

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Coming in May

[Tung-Hui Hu @tunghui]

DIGITAL LETHARGY (@MITPress), about how exhaustion, waiting, and the banality of digital life may paradoxically hold the potential for social change, is finally here! Hope to see you tonight or elsewhere: https://t.co/SDLcartukz

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In exactly a week, Oct 11, 7pm Pacific Time https://t.co/Eg0UriAci1

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Next week at UC Santa Barbara, a three-day international conference in celebration of Ray's birth centennial.

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A most useful volume, in spite of valid critiques about the absence of caste analysis and almost no attention to South Indian industries. So much work still to be done! My chapter here is on the Videocinemas of Malegaon & Manipur.

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The Great Indian Parliamentary Debate (2022 edition)

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@gamegrower Sartre — picante all the way!!!

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Open access LEXICON OF GLOBAL MELODRAMA, in which I write about RANG DE BASANTI and political melodramas. https://t.co/ln0palsJ49.

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