Goldsmiths - University of London

Manuel Ramos

Manuel Ramos is a PhD candidate in Visual Cultures, Goldsmiths, University of London

Thesis title: "Visual Murmurs: Cinema and the Political Name"

Supervisors: Dr. Lynn Turner and Dr. Nicole Wolf

Academic qualifications

MA Contemporary Art Theory, Goldsmiths, University of London
BA Art History - Universidad Complutense, Madrid & Universite de la Sorbonne (Paris IV)

Teaching

Introduction to Art History Labs (BA Level 1)

Grants & awards

Erasmus Undergraduate European Grant 2003 - 2004

Goya Grant from the Madrid Regional Government 2004

Mutua Madrid Foundation Postgraduate Grant 2006 - 2008

Visual Cultures Fee Waiver Bursary 2010

Professional activities

Film programmer (Factory Trouble, InC 2011)

Writer (London correspondent of ArtNotes)
Art theory teacher (Goldsmiths, Art Institute of Madrid)
Co-ordinator of 'Peer-Assisted Learning' in Visual Cultures, Goldsmiths

Papers presented

'Still Here, Here Again – Farocki, Godard and the 100 years of cinema', XVIII International Film Studies Conference - The Archive, Udine, April 2011

'The Oxidation of the Documentary', Documentary Film Now!, Westminster University, London January 2011

'From Instituted Evidence to Singular Irreducibilities', Visible Evidence XVII, Bogazici University, Istanbul August 2010

'Derrida's War of the Name', INC Continental Philosophy Research Group, Goldsmiths London March 2010

'A Desintigrating Document, on Tie Xi Qu, West of the Tracks', Relocating Media Conference, Network of European Cinema Studies (NECS), University of Lund, Lund June 2009

'Image and Emancipation', Philosophy and Film Conference, University of the West of England, Bristol July 2009

'A Film-Factory: Tie Xi Qu, West of the Rails', Relocating Media Conference, Network of European Cinema Studies (NECS), University of Lund, Sweden, June 2009

Research interests

My current research explores the re-articulation by contemporary cinema of names most often condemned to the past of our politicality: the names 'worker', 'factory' and 'people'. I understand the cinema of Wang Bing, Straub and Huillet, Harun Farocki or Peter Watkins as interventions to make us hear and see differently these names and their obsolescence. Cinema is affirmed as a field to re-think the relation between the political and the concept of name.

Selected publications

Articles:

'Badiou's Cinema', Film/Philosophy, [forthcoming] 2011

'We Are All Spectators' pp.124-128 in parallax, Vol.15, No.3, 2009

Chapters in Books:

'Ranciere's Politics of the Image', Visual Reader, edited by James Elkins, Routledge, [forthcoming] 2012
'Betrayed Borders: Double Agents and the Crisscrossing of Conflicts' pp.256-263, SARAI Reader 2007, Frontiers, Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, Delhi, 2007

Other publications:

'Parliament Square', published in uniriot.org and escolar.net, January 2011