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https://berkeley.zoom.us/j/98069968515
Johan Fredrikzon
This event is now online! Link here: https://berkeley.zoom.us/j/98069968515 Abstract: In this lecture I will present two studies. The first, which is a compressed version of my Ph.D. thesis, tells the history of how, in the 1960s and 70s, the environment and the population were turned into “problems of data” and how the cultural techniques to manage these areas –...
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Leila Weefur
Leila Weefur will be screening and discussing their recent work Tillage & Fury and the merging of cinema, embodiment, and their study of the human condition. They will focus on their film installation work which traces black eco-geographies through the blackberry fruit, the fly, and the lineage of rice. Leila Weefur (He/They/She), is an artist, writer, and...
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Pooja Rangan
Listening with an Accent: The Documentary Audit as Raciolinguistic Pedagogy This talk explores the role of documentary forms in cultivating “neutral” listening habits that justify linguistic profiling and discrimination, and their capacity to engage audiences in listening with an accent, or listening with a relational awareness of one’s embodied social vantage. To that end, I offer a...
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Hunter Hargraves
The Woke Spectator: Misrecognizing Discomfort in the Era of “Peak TV” My talk will contextualize and expand upon the final chapter of my recent book, Uncomfortable Television, which examines how spectatorial discomfort has accompanied major transformations in television form, genre, industry, and technology in the service of neoliberal governmentality. I chart the shift from an acculturating function...