//March 27th 10am-5pm //March 28th 10am-2pm //Heyman Center //Columbia University Is a philosophy of technology out-of-date even as it arrives, just as Minerva’s owl takes flight only at dusk? Even so, the idea of technopolitical form has arguably been influential, if only as concrete thought or as real abstraction. If struggle becomes political only by acquiring form, the modes of mediating form are technopolitical. Technopolitical form names a battlefield where alliances ac

w/ Dr. Meredith Bak, Dr. Caetlin Benson-Allott, and Pat Bonner Respondant: Dr. Haidee Wasson Friday, April 17th, 2026 2:00-4:00 PM GEM Lab, FB 630.15 As film moves to television and television to our pockets, the material conditions of everyday media consumption appear once again to have changed. But not only are past and present media practices more varied, unpredictable, and historically-rooted, they also challenge the (still dominant) visual-centricism of spectatorship stu

Public Talk w/ Ying Qian (Columbia University) ​ //Friday, February 20, 2026 //2:00 PM //GEM Lab, 630.15 //1250 rue Guy This project takes ethnographic documentary filmmaking in Yunnan in the late 1950s and early 1960s as a point of departure to think about filmmaking as a chronopolitical technology employed by state and local actors to contest over conflicting regimes and experiences of time during China’s socialist transition. I focus my analysis on two films, The Wa ( Wa