Something, something about how this line pricks at our culture of spectatorship and its relationship to religious art and holy crusades… #hazbinhotel #vox
November 15, 2025 at 4:06 AM
Something, something about how this line pricks at our culture of spectatorship and its relationship to religious art and holy crusades… #hazbinhotel #vox
“Vivaldi CEO Jon von Tetzchner accused other companies like Google and Microsoft of ‘reshaping the address bar into an assistant prompt, turning the joy of exploring into inactive spectatorship.’”
Well, Vivaldi. You had my interest; now you have my attention
Well, Vivaldi. You had my interest; now you have my attention
After Outcry, Firefox Promises "Kill Switch" That Turns Off All AI Features
Mozilla's new CEO announced that Firefox would become a "modern AI broswer." Its most diehard fans are revolting.
futurism.com
December 27, 2025 at 6:55 PM
“Vivaldi CEO Jon von Tetzchner accused other companies like Google and Microsoft of ‘reshaping the address bar into an assistant prompt, turning the joy of exploring into inactive spectatorship.’”
Well, Vivaldi. You had my interest; now you have my attention
Well, Vivaldi. You had my interest; now you have my attention
3/4 And...you’re right...it is going to take all of us in 2026. Not outrage...not spectatorship...but people paying attention... staying grounded...and refusing to let reality get blurred out of existence.
January 1, 2026 at 2:50 AM
3/4 And...you’re right...it is going to take all of us in 2026. Not outrage...not spectatorship...but people paying attention... staying grounded...and refusing to let reality get blurred out of existence.
Incredibly cool, wondering what circular based games could be designed for this, and also designed specifically for spectatorship in different contexts
The Ultimate IndieMash winner Ventilastation is a super cool and fun (fan) idea! Surprisingly, it's the first game console in Latin America. Everyone at The Overkill Festival must go wild and I really want to make my own games on it.
www.sickhouse.nl/news/ventila...
www.sickhouse.nl/news/ventila...
June 2, 2025 at 9:52 AM
Incredibly cool, wondering what circular based games could be designed for this, and also designed specifically for spectatorship in different contexts
White Spectatorship
You’re wanting access to the culture, the humor, the analysis, without the weight of accountability or the discomfort of boundaries.
Consumption without contribution or consequence.
And you feel entitled to it, why?
You’re wanting access to the culture, the humor, the analysis, without the weight of accountability or the discomfort of boundaries.
Consumption without contribution or consequence.
And you feel entitled to it, why?
May 12, 2025 at 6:13 PM
White Spectatorship
You’re wanting access to the culture, the humor, the analysis, without the weight of accountability or the discomfort of boundaries.
Consumption without contribution or consequence.
And you feel entitled to it, why?
You’re wanting access to the culture, the humor, the analysis, without the weight of accountability or the discomfort of boundaries.
Consumption without contribution or consequence.
And you feel entitled to it, why?
The time for spectatorship is over. If you have stood with us online, now is the time to stand with us in person.
September 2. Union Station. DC. 10:00 AM.
Not a rally. A reckoning.
September 2. Union Station. DC. 10:00 AM.
Not a rally. A reckoning.
August 28, 2025 at 3:05 AM
The time for spectatorship is over. If you have stood with us online, now is the time to stand with us in person.
September 2. Union Station. DC. 10:00 AM.
Not a rally. A reckoning.
September 2. Union Station. DC. 10:00 AM.
Not a rally. A reckoning.
Tech companies and their titans of industry want us to believe that spectatorship is a zero-sum game, but the history of filmgoing and home media remind us that it’s simply not true.
I love that Sinners, now on HBO Max, is still running at my local theater.
July 7, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Tech companies and their titans of industry want us to believe that spectatorship is a zero-sum game, but the history of filmgoing and home media remind us that it’s simply not true.
Cinematic #Caturday Mood
#FridayFeeling #BingeWatching #SaturdayMotivation #cat #film #cinema #movies #streaming #media #spectatorship
#FridayFeeling #BingeWatching #SaturdayMotivation #cat #film #cinema #movies #streaming #media #spectatorship
a close up of an orange cat with blue eyes
Alt: a close up of an orange cat with blue eyes looking entranced watching light flickering
media.tenor.com
May 10, 2025 at 2:02 AM
What to say about spectatorship when watching itself is the crime?
UCLA students were watching the film The Encampments when dozens of police in riot gear stormed the screening.
A dystopian nightmare of universities deploying thought police to persecute students whose ideas, politics and values don't align with power.
A dystopian nightmare of universities deploying thought police to persecute students whose ideas, politics and values don't align with power.
May 2, 2025 at 3:39 AM
What to say about spectatorship when watching itself is the crime?
animating pixelated titties bouncing but with full theoretical awareness of gendered spectatorship and scopophilia as they directly relate to the real-life experiences of women living in the world today, whom i fully sympathize with and will forever support
September 25, 2026 at 4:56 AM
animating pixelated titties bouncing but with full theoretical awareness of gendered spectatorship and scopophilia as they directly relate to the real-life experiences of women living in the world today, whom i fully sympathize with and will forever support
I've found it very useful in my brief but avid wrestling spectatorship to just assume that everyone is bi unless and until otherwise stated. it's a fun strategy for general life as well, but seems to be mostly accurate in AEW 😂 🏳️🌈
September 1, 2026 at 2:42 PM
I've found it very useful in my brief but avid wrestling spectatorship to just assume that everyone is bi unless and until otherwise stated. it's a fun strategy for general life as well, but seems to be mostly accurate in AEW 😂 🏳️🌈
I’m seeing a lot of people hang their hopes and all their attention on the midterms. Electoral organizing matters, but full-time spectatorship won’t build the power we need. I wrote about checking in with yourself about where your attention is going and what you’re doing with it.
Resisting Total Electoral Absorption
It may be worth checking in with ourselves, from time to time, about what, if anything, our attention is cultivating.
organizingmythoughts.org
August 10, 2026 at 3:04 PM
I’m seeing a lot of people hang their hopes and all their attention on the midterms. Electoral organizing matters, but full-time spectatorship won’t build the power we need. I wrote about checking in with yourself about where your attention is going and what you’re doing with it.
My new book just arrived in the post - Brecht and the Art of Spectatorship, published by Oxford University Press this week! A big thank you to the many friends and colleagues who helped along the way! @uoe-llc.bsky.social
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July 28, 2025 at 12:58 PM
My new book just arrived in the post - Brecht and the Art of Spectatorship, published by Oxford University Press this week! A big thank you to the many friends and colleagues who helped along the way! @uoe-llc.bsky.social
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global.oup.com/academic/pro...
NEW HIT FACTORY// Filmmaker Pascal Plante (Red Rooms) joins us to discuss mediated violence, spectatorship, and the visceral thrills of Spanish director Alejandro Amenábar's debut THESIS. Links below.
November 14, 2024 at 5:47 PM
NEW HIT FACTORY// Filmmaker Pascal Plante (Red Rooms) joins us to discuss mediated violence, spectatorship, and the visceral thrills of Spanish director Alejandro Amenábar's debut THESIS. Links below.
americanos sao tao engraçados com spectatorship as activism. saiu essa noticia aí de white lotus ter cortado mençao a uma personagem nb e agora eles tao la "fuck this show" "ah sempre foi uma serie sobre pessoas horriveis e racistas pq eu assistiria isso" you consumed that media so ethically babe
March 31, 2025 at 5:21 PM
americanos sao tao engraçados com spectatorship as activism. saiu essa noticia aí de white lotus ter cortado mençao a uma personagem nb e agora eles tao la "fuck this show" "ah sempre foi uma serie sobre pessoas horriveis e racistas pq eu assistiria isso" you consumed that media so ethically babe
Okay, if you were going to teach a (totally hypothetical) class on drugs and film, what would you include? First and foremost would be @caetlin.bsky.social's chapters on inebriated/stoned moviegoing in The Stuff of Spectatorship. What else?
Happy 420 everyone! A favorite drug story: During the original run of 2001 A Space Odyssey, the producers realized that it had become a huge hit with stoners and started a second ad campaign specifically aimed at them.
April 20, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Okay, if you were going to teach a (totally hypothetical) class on drugs and film, what would you include? First and foremost would be @caetlin.bsky.social's chapters on inebriated/stoned moviegoing in The Stuff of Spectatorship. What else?
Looking down the barrel of Trump, 2.0, I make some suggestions about what to do. "Spectatorship is not participation—it is not even historical witnessing."
Standing on the tracks waiting for a train
Don't do that. A better way to take on Trump 2.0.
degenerateart.beehiiv.com
January 15, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Looking down the barrel of Trump, 2.0, I make some suggestions about what to do. "Spectatorship is not participation—it is not even historical witnessing."
The stage is set.
The crime has been committed.
The verdict is ours!
This afternoon we took part in Murder Trail, an immersive theatrical experience in which the audience steps beyond spectatorship and into responsibility acting as the jury tasked with delivering justice!
The crime has been committed.
The verdict is ours!
This afternoon we took part in Murder Trail, an immersive theatrical experience in which the audience steps beyond spectatorship and into responsibility acting as the jury tasked with delivering justice!
February 21, 2026 at 8:22 PM
The stage is set.
The crime has been committed.
The verdict is ours!
This afternoon we took part in Murder Trail, an immersive theatrical experience in which the audience steps beyond spectatorship and into responsibility acting as the jury tasked with delivering justice!
The crime has been committed.
The verdict is ours!
This afternoon we took part in Murder Trail, an immersive theatrical experience in which the audience steps beyond spectatorship and into responsibility acting as the jury tasked with delivering justice!
Why do sports fans "root for" a certain team? The point of any game is to establish which team is better. If your spectatorship is motivated by anything other than curiosity to learn which team is better, then you are no fan at all.
November 20, 2024 at 5:05 PM
Why do sports fans "root for" a certain team? The point of any game is to establish which team is better. If your spectatorship is motivated by anything other than curiosity to learn which team is better, then you are no fan at all.
A film so revolutionary it has created a new form of spectatorship: interplaying.
Kayleigh: My mom went to see Melania. She said the theater was packed, it was standing room only. People were cheering through it, they were excited. It was interactive—people interplaying with the film. She said it was just electric.
February 2, 2026 at 9:42 PM
A film so revolutionary it has created a new form of spectatorship: interplaying.
Birding connects people to what’s vanishing — but rarely to why.
We spend billions photographing decline while funding almost nothing to stop it.
Loving nature without defending it isn’t conservation. It’s spectatorship.
We spend billions photographing decline while funding almost nothing to stop it.
Loving nature without defending it isn’t conservation. It’s spectatorship.
Birding is clearly having a cultural moment. What it would take to make this a political moment? Birds are declining at an alarming rate and the 100M birdwatchers w/ the $107B they spend on birding yearly haven't emerged as a political constituency. It's a hobby, not a movement.
October 25, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Birding connects people to what’s vanishing — but rarely to why.
We spend billions photographing decline while funding almost nothing to stop it.
Loving nature without defending it isn’t conservation. It’s spectatorship.
We spend billions photographing decline while funding almost nothing to stop it.
Loving nature without defending it isn’t conservation. It’s spectatorship.
Someone hasn't been reading theory (Gaddafi's Green Book)
June 14, 2026 at 5:49 PM
Someone hasn't been reading theory (Gaddafi's Green Book)
February 15, 2026 at 2:06 PM