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The New Long COVID is College Without Classes

The New Long COVID is College Without Classes

by Patricia R. Zimmermann | May 31, 2023 | Commentary

I was punched in the gut. It hurt. I thought this would be the seminar session to bring all the theories and histories of documentary across analog and digital together with a big political and epistemological impact. But I should have summoned my semiotic training to...
The Migrating Documentary Cinema of Yi Cui

The Migrating Documentary Cinema of Yi Cui

by Patricia R. Zimmermann | Mar 29, 2023 | Commentary, Featured

Augmentation is not defined exclusively by emerging digital media forms, software, and interfaces. Instead, augmentation explores how to generate new processes about how to think through, with, and within place that spans the digital, the analog, and the embodied. Not...
Academic Austerity Survival Kit: 15 Ways to Make It Through

Academic Austerity Survival Kit: 15 Ways to Make It Through

by Patricia R. Zimmermann | Jan 24, 2023 | Commentary

It’s bad, really bad, in higher education these days. Whether the pandemic is over or ongoing, its continuing impact has catapulted colleges and universities into a maelstrom of student disengagement, faculty quiet quitting, outright resignations, and draconian budget...
Struggles, Solutions, Solidarities: Julia Reichert (1946-2022)

Struggles, Solutions, Solidarities: Julia Reichert (1946-2022)

by Patricia R. Zimmermann | Jan 13, 2023 | Commentary

Julia sat in the basement of the Student Union at the University of Iowa engulfed in a circle of women college students wearing flannel shirts, jeans, and work boots, drinking coffee to power them through a study night at the university library. It was 1976. I was a...
The World Is Burning — Whatever Tops the BFI’s ‘Best Films of All Time’ Won’t Help

The World Is Burning — Whatever Tops the BFI’s ‘Best Films of All Time’ Won’t Help

by Dale Hudson | Dec 6, 2022 | Commentary, Featured

The British Film Institute (BFI) just released its Best Films of All Time poll for 2022 to much fanfare and self-congratulation among liberal whites. I can almost sense them patting each other on the back — or exchanging poorly executed high fives — for a job well...
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