“Racial Chain of Being” — Shaka McGlotten at Digital Aesthetics Workshop, December 8, 2020

Poster by Hank Gerba

I am excited to announce the fourth event of the Digital Aesthetics Workshop’s Fall 2020 lineup: on December 8 (1:00-3:00pm Pacific time), Shaka McGlotten will hold a presentation titled “Racial Chain of Being.”

If you would like to join us via Zoom for what is sure to be an exciting event, please register here: tinyurl.com/ShakaDAW

Shaka McGlotten is Professor of Media Studies and Anthropology at Purchase College-SUNY, where they also serve as Chair of the Gender Studies and Global Black Studies Programs. Their work stages encounters between black study, queer theory, media, and art. They have written and lectured widely on networked intimacies and messy computational entanglements as they interface with qtpoc lifeworlds.

They are the author of Virtual Intimacies: Media, Affect, and Queer Sociality, published by SUNY Press in 2013. They are also the co-editor of two edited collections, Black Genders and Sexualities (with Dana-ain Davis) and Zombies and Sexuality (with Steve Jones). Their book Dragging: In the Drag of a Queer Life, forthcoming from Routledge, and their current project, Black Data, have been supported by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Akademie Schloss Solitude, and Creative Capital | The Andy Warhol Foundation.

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