Dominic Pettman
Media Theory / Posthumanities (NYC)
Extimacy Coordinator
www.dominicpettman.com
- 2026 . . . are you ok?
- "Show Cat": Mediated Pedagogy, Domestic Exposure, and Vicarious Creaturely Intimacy
- "It’s not a documentary, Melania said. 'It is a creative experience that offers perspectives, insights, and moments.'" Looks like I have new go-to language for all future course descriptions and/or book proposals.
- Thanks to the super-silly new movie ANACONDA, we have a new phrase: "Buffalo sober." In honor of the plucky town in upstate New York, Buffalo sober means only beer and wine.
- Lana del Reification
- Forget the glistening hard-bodies of HEATED RIVALRY. The most compelling gay couple on TV right now are Banjo & Ro - two Australians trying to renovate a derelict grand hotel on an island off an island off the coast of Scotland with practically no money.
- Mamdani introduces new eco-friendly system to provide steam heat to the city.
- Awoke from a dream in which my employer announced it would fire any faculty member who used the word "episteme" in a published work.
- "CDC announces new vaccines are 100% ranch dressing."
- Apparently there is an oversupply.
- An extract from my latest in PSYCHE magazine. psyche.co/ideas/why-be...
- There is surely a German word for that feeling when you impatiently order a dozen books or so, but then lose all enthusiasm for the chosen titles as soon as they arrive.
- It's only a terrible time to be alive if you care about stuff.
- In case you need yet more evidence that we're living in a Robocop timeline.
- Maybe it's time to finally buy this
- Finally finished decorating my man cave.
- boomers: dig me! gen x: free me! millennials: see me! gen z: diagnose me!
- If anyone feels like buying me a belated xmas present. www.abebooks.com/Collected-St...
- What's your favorite show-within-a-show? www.youtube.com/watch?v=WZLk...
- Going in to 2026 thusly . . .
- Speaking of music, how many of you can remember buying some kind of book or magazine that came with a flexi disk? And if so, what was it?
- Reposted by Dominic PettmanAs this year comes to an end, we're looking back at some of our 2025 highlights. Featured in Best Books round-ups in The Spectator and Financial Times, and reviewed in The Guardian, The Sunday Times, and New Scientist, these books are not to be missed! See more: www.politybooks.com/blog-detail/...
- One of my resolutions for 2026: Listen to more albums from start to finish, and try to chill on the whole random shuffle button thing.
- Happy Mamdani Day for those who celebrate. Looking out my window and I can already see Wall Street Types losing their top hats, chased down the street by gangs of singing orphaned immigrant children, shepherded gently into adequately heated re-education centers run by implacable polyfaith queers.
- I asked ChatGPT what it has learned about humans from all these billions of interactions. The answer was pretty wild. open.substack.com/pub/dominicp...
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- Plato: “You must escape the goon cave.” Baudrillard: “There is no outside the goon cave.”
- The most intense "will they, won't they" energy on TV since MOONLIGHTING.
- Congrats to Aaron Jaffe & Michael Miller! New Flusser translations are always something to celebrate.
- Factoid of the day: Angus Young is the only person on Earth to have been at every single AC/DC concert.
- All grades are in.
- Annual tradition . . . the transporting folk mix by @michaeltanner.bsky.social www.mixcloud.com/folkradiouk/...
- It's not too late to wrap this under the slowly dying tree in your so-called "living" room.
- An increasingly popular self-description on LinkedIn etc. is "decision-maker." What's next? . . . "Transport-taker"? "Food-ingester"? "Terrain-coverer"?
- A banger from Friedrich for the holiday season.
- Scientists sound alarm, claiming evidence of dangerously low levels of moxie in the general population.
- Choosing to be an academic is like choosing to live inside only “The Council of Elrond” chapter in Lord of the Rings. Forever.
- Been there . . .
