#will winant

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*swallowing/choking noises* oh jesus christ....THAT'S HOW YOU MAKE YOUR MAN CUM! you little motherfuckers....

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r u n n i n g o n e m p t y, 1988 🎬 dir. sidney lumet

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i don't generally think of myself as having an accent but i am also waging war against my instincts re: pronunciation basically at all times

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Carmen Winant “Arrangements”. SPBH Editions, London, and Images Vevey, Switzerland

Available to preorder - this title is due to release in Spring 2024.

Co-published with Images Vevey

This book of multivalent narratives began with a simple premise: collecting of sheets of paper – ripped from books – featuring multiple photographs and inlaid narratives. Across a decade of working on other projects involving pulling images apart from one another, excising them from the page, and recontextualizing them as new sets, American artist Carmen Winant diligently collected disparate sheets, skimming them off the top of her other ongoing collections. The book that has resulted from that work is wide-ranging in terms of subject – with sheets depicting rabbinical study, dog training, surgical birth, methods of tantric sex, patterns of the sunset – yet specific in approach and application. Her constructed pages trouble how the idea of ‘theme’ operates as the engine of a book, instead taking the act of arranging, both in discrete pages and as a whole, as its own meaningful subject.

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Carmen Winant

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Breaking Bad

Season 4, “Crawl Space”

Director: Scott Winant

DoP: Michael Slovis

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Gabriel Winant, The Next Shift: The Fall of Industry and the Rise of Health Care in Rust Belt America.

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Yellowjackets - Old Wounds (S02E04)

Interesting composition and beautiful color palette.

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carmen.winant

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Accordingly, leftists on social media defended the idea that change must happen by any means necessary. Noah Kulwin, a contributing editor at Jewish Currents, compared the attacks to John Brown’s raid at Harper’s Ferry. Lake Micah, an editor at Harper’s and The Drift, hailed the attacks. “A near-century’s pulverized overtures toward ethnic realization, of groping for a medium of existential latitude—these things culminate in drastic actions in need of no apologia,” he wrote on X. It is interesting to find an editor at a prestige magazine celebrating bloodshed as a means of “ethnic realization.” And it is fortunate for him that he seems incapable of writing clearly, or he might simply have written, “Kill the Jews.” Gabriel Winant, an assistant professor at the University of Chicago, said that criticizing Palestinian tactics was “politically meaningless.”

"Ethnic realization." Why not "selective breeding" while we're at it? The theoretical critique of "liberal humanism" is fun and games until the intelligentsia decides to bring the war home to the "settlers." And the above in particular is not about what's happening in another country, but about what's happening to the intelligentsia and literati of my own country. What's happened? They've abandoned this, abandoned it so thoroughly they no longer even think to ask the question:

Could it be that whatever our condition, and whatever evils are visited on us, we are all answerable for the deeds of our hands?

I could say I've warned of this—and warned of it, and warned of it—but what would be the point?

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Instructional Photography (Learning How to Live Now)

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"Alright, now that dick's good and hard, right? You know whatchu gotta do with it, u know whatchyu gotta do with it baby - That's right you fuckn faggot - you gotta stuff that shit in your MOUTH!"

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"The Fordist factory seems to require a particular family form. The male-headed nuclear family arose in coordination or correspondence with the transformations of employment in the twentieth century and got codified into law in various ways. For example, as Alice Kessler-Harris shows in her book In Pursuit of Equity, the Social Security system very strongly encouraged women to be housewives, making that make financially more sense than to work the low-wage jobs that were available to women. Women would accrue more Social Security benefits by means of the housewife formula than they would likely accrue in a job as a waitress or a secretary or the other jobs that were available to most women. This is one of the many examples of how the welfare state herds working-class people into this particular family form...

Why is it that the structure of the capitalist welfare state social formation prefers and seeks to produce this family organization?... the labor force upon which industrial production depends has to get produced and reproduced in the family. This is particularly true for industrial mass production like steel and auto. For long-term planning purposes, managers need a stabilized workforce. And for this, they need the labor force to be consistent and reliable and to show up in more or less the same form that they can anticipate every day. This is part of why they were willing ultimately to accept collective bargaining.

What that means is that the family has a particular role to play. The family has to produce steelworkers. It has to raise male children who are in one way or another ready for this role. It has to refresh them each night.

And it’s a more complex undertaking than you might think. Steel mills run twenty-hour hours a day. You can’t turn them off because they’re too hot and it takes too long to heat them back up again, so you just run them constantly. They run in three eight-hour shifts, which means that every steelworker at various points is going to be doing an 8:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. shift, a 4:00 p.m. to 12:00 a.m. shift, and sometimes a 12:00 a.m. to 8:00 a.m. shift. If he’s doing a 4:00 p.m. to 12:00 a.m. shift, and the family has four or five kids — these are typically pretty big families, especially in the earlier Cold War period — the wife has to make dinner for the kids at 5:00 or 6:00 p.m. and then stay up and make him dinner again at midnight when he gets home.

Moreover, when he gets home, he is going to be filthy, because he works in a steel mill. His clothes are going to be caked in industrial grease, and there will be grease under his fingernails, in his hair, on his eyelids. She has to help him get clean. He’s going to be tired, frustrated, worn out, maybe humiliated from the shit he went through with his foreman that day, and he’s maybe going to want to have one or two drinks, a very common ritual. So she has to do what we could think of as emotional work to deal with that. She needs to keep him from waking up the kids. He’s then going to sleep through the next day because he was up late working at the steel mill, and so she has to keep the kids from making any noise that would wake him up during the next day.

Just from these little examples I’m giving you, you can see how the family has this economic function supplying a steady supply of labor power, but it’s people who make it up. It’s not just a series of input factors — it’s people living their lives, with human experiences and needs and desires and conflict. And basically it’s a wife and mother’s job to square that right, to figure out how to keep it all going. It’s a very difficult job, emotionally and physically. I read diaries and letters and all kinds of things from steelworkers’ wives saying things like, 'I typically do the laundry at two in the morning because that’s when I know no one will need me for anything else.' And it’s also impossible: they can never make it fully line up. They can’t ever be the family that postwar Cold War America imagined that they should be able to be."

- Gabriel Winant being interviewed by Daniel Denvir, from "For Workers, Hospitals Have Become the New Steel Mills — Minus the Strong Unions." Jacobin, 28 January 2023.

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Carmen Winant

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[rank-sentimentalist]

THE WEST WING

"THE LEADERSHIP BREAKFAST"

Episode 2 x 11

WRITTEN BY: PAUL REDFORD

DIRECTED BY: SCOTT WINANT

CUT TO: INT. LEO'S OFFICE - DAY

Toby enters.

LEO

Yeah.

TOBY

I'm gonna have breakfast with Ann Stark tomorrow.

LEO

Leave it alone.

TOBY

I think we should be able to discuss the minimum wage and-

LEO

Toby. It's a brand new year.

TOBY

Let's not faf around!

LEO

It's breakfast.

TOBY

I know. It's breakfast. We're not gonna come up with solutions in 90 minutes. But we have the principles in a room and no cameras. The-[utters a small laugh] the leaders of the land. And not to talk about how we're gonna approach the minimum wage, the Patient's Bill of Rights, Tax relief, and education in the legislative session that's about to begin is a criminally negligent and cowardly refusal to do... what we were all sent her to do. [beat] This is what my ex-wife and I did for years. We had these rules. We could talk about anything but why we couldn't live with each other. I could've been two years younger right now.

LEO

There was a freshman democrat who came to Congress 50 years ago. He turned to a senior Democrat and said, "Where are the Republicans? I want to meet the enemy. The senior Democrat said, "The Republicans aren't the enemy. They're the opposition. The Senate is the enemy." Those days are over. Toby, in this climate...

TOBY

This climate is exactly what real bipartisan debate should look like.

LEO

This woman's had this job two weeks. I don't like dealing with people who are trying to impress me.

TOBY

I know her a little.

LEO

Have breakfast with her.

TOBY

Thank you.

LEO

Toby.

TOBY

Yeah.

LEO

Jenny and I wouldn't talk about it either. You know why?

TOBY

Why?

LEO Because we loved each other and it was awful and we knew it was never gonna change. Ever.

*        *        *

Bartlet exits along the outside corridor, passes all the windows, which Toby can see.Charlie exits the Oval Office.

CHARLIE

Toby. 

Toby enters the Oval Office.

TOBY

He didn’t want to see me. 

LEO

He’ll be all right in the morning. 

TOBY

Yeah. 

LEO

You’re the Communications Director. It was a TV show. 

TOBY

It was a blunder from top to bottom. You should know it could have been avoided at several points along the way if I’d listened to C.J. 

LEO

Or me. 

TOBY

Yeah. 

LEO

Alexander Hamilton didn’t think we should have political parties. Neither did John Adams. He thought political parties led to divisiveness. 

TOBY

They do. They should. We have honest disagreements. Arguments are good. 

LEO

Only if they lead to statesmanship. Or it’s just theatre. And statesmanship is compromise. 

TOBY

What about persuasion? They’re coming for us, Leo. 

LEO

I know. 

TOBY

I mean they’re coming for us now. 

LEO

Toby, if you knew what it was like getting him to run the first time... 

TOBY

I know.

 LEO

Like pushing molasses up a sandy hill. If I go and tell him it’s time to run again he’s going to get crazy... and frustrated. He’s going to sink into his head and he’s going to say he’s not running. 

TOBY

Yeah. 

LEO

Yeah. 

TOBY

So we’ve got to do it for him. We’ll keep it away from this office but we’ve got to get real now. Leo, Ann Stark’s a war time consigliere. That’s why she was bumped up. 

LEO

I’m a wartime consigliere too, Toby. I was just hoping it’d be peace time a little longer.