The Cinema of Extractions (2025), Media Climates (2022), In the Studio (2020), Studios Before the System (2015)
Writing about Art, Media, Energy, Environment. Next book: oil, gas, and media culture in France+empire
Caltech Professor of Visual Culture
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Today! All old and new books in @columbiaup.bsky.social's Film & Culture series are 50% off, including NOMADIC CINEMA by Alison Griffiths; MAN OF TASTE, by Rob King; THE CINEMA OF EXTRACTIONS by @bleudeciel.bsky.social; and DEATH BY LAUGHTER, by @hennefem.bsky.social! bit.ly/4rupQx9 #CyberMonday
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Next week in New York: Petroleum in (and out of) the Visual Arts
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First and last pages of @marthashearer.bsky.social's really sharp and generous review of The Cinema of Extractions (@columbiaup.bsky.social) in the latest JCMS issue @jcmsjournal.bsky.social
And in the Canadian Journal of Film and Media Studies, a review by Rachel Webb Jekanowski utppublishing.com/doi/abs/10.3...
Eli Boonin-Vail has published a detailed and insightful review of The Cinema of Extractions (@columbiaup.bsky.social) in Early Popular Visual Culture @epvcjournal.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Published in Early Popular Visual Culture (Ahead of Print, 2026)
The new issue of Leonardo is out with the special section I co-edited with Maggie Bell about Art + Electric Light, with essays about Charcot, Piotr Kowalski, contemporary photography in South Africa, Andean textiles, and conservation practices (with work by Rauschenberg, Flavin, Chryssa).
