A talk with Caetlin Benson-Allott (Georgetown University) September 25th, 4:00pm GEM Lab, 1250 Guy, FB 630.15 When asked about their sexuality, the protagonist of Jane Schoenbrun’s 2024 film I Saw the TV Glow avers, “I think I like TV shows.” What kind of spectatorial relation are they claiming, and how might it change the way we think about escapism, identity, and textual pleasure? Sometimes, escaping into media and literature is all we have to convince ourselves that life w

//May 27th 10am-3:30pm //May 28th 10am-3:30pm //Room 3.04, 3/F, Run Run Shaw Tower //University of Hong Kong //May 29th 10:30 to 11:45 am //M+Museum This conference resituates video aesthetics within distinct regional geographies of Asia and the Pacific. It examines the role played by changing technologies and infrastructures (such as broadcast, cable, satellite television, the internet, smartphone applications, streaming platforms, gaming, etc.) in shaping the experience, fo

//March 27th 10am-5pm //March 28th 10am-2pm //Heyman Center //Columbia University Is a philosophy of technology out-of-date even as it arrives, just as Minerva’s owl takes flight only at dusk?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