//November 27th, 2024
//4:00-6:00 PM
//GEM Lab, 630.15
//1250 rue Guy
Join us for our first reading group meeting as part of our 2024-2025 Annual Seminar in Media and Political Theory on the topic of Media+Development. For this session, we'll be reading the following texts:
Kohei Saito, Introduction and Chapter 1, from Marx in the Anthropocene: Towards the Idea of Degrowth Communism (Cambridge University Press, 2023)
Kai Heron, “Forget Ecomodernism” (2024)
About the Seminar Series:
The 2024-25 GEM Seminar in Media and Political Theory explores historical and ongoing transformations in developmental media(tion), paying close attention to problems concerning colonial modernity, racial capitalism, plantation corporations, labor and logistics, ambient and affective technologies, engineered ecologies, degrowth politics, and the fourth machine age – especially as seen from the perspective of the Global South, among other asymmetrical relations. In particular, the working group examines emergent frictions between 20th century underdevelopment and contemporary modes overdevelopment, reconsidering hegemonic projects to modernize, improve, and assimilate. Across lectures, screenings, and reading groups, the seminar engages a wide range of contemporary scholars and scholarship, asking how developmental projects and modes of extraction, value creation, and subjectification have changed or consolidated in recent decades. From mobile cinema units, electrification, and extractive media to logistics industries, communication infrastructures, and emergent technopharmacologies, the series examines the critical role of media forms and platforms in shaping the experience, aspirations, and politics that undergird (and sometimes undermine) development projects.
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