Event overview
In this lecture, Professor Shaviro will explore "post-continuity" styles in recent American cinema, and consider the ways in which these styles can be understood in relation to contemporary philosophies of Speculative Realism.
Steven Shaviro is the DeRoy Professor of English at Wayne State University. He is the author of Connected, Or, What It Means To Live in the Network Society (2003), Without Criteria: Kant, Whitehead, Deleuze, and Aesthetics (2009), Post-Cinematic Affect (2010), and The Universe of Things: On Whitehead and Speculative Realism (forthcoming, 2014). His work in progress involves studies of post-continuity styles in contemporary films and music videos, and of recent science fiction and horror fiction.
He blogs at The Pinocchio Theory <http://www.shaviro.com/Blog>.
Objects and Relations, the Visual Cultures Public Programme Autumn 2013
Within the theoretical humanities there has recently been a resurgence of interest in objects and objectivity – often pitched against those ontologies that are more relational. Of course, it might be said that an interest in objects has always been a concern of art history and practice (not least contemporary practice) – and that ideas of a ‘relational aesthetics’ have, for some time now, been a dominant trend in art theory. The Autumn term Visual Cultures Public Programme uses these latest developments in philosophy and art as a point of departure for a series of talks from thinkers and artists that might be said to connect with, parallel, pre-date or critique what has come to be known as the ‘speculative turn’.
Dates & times
| Date | Time | Add to calendar |
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| 10 Oct 2013 | 5:00pm - 7:00pm |
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