On July 10, 2019, I will be giving a talk titled “Post-Cinematic Realism” at the LeibnizWerkstatt lecture series on Sprache, Migration, Vielfalt at the Leibniz Universität Hannover. Thanks to Radhika Natarajan for inviting me!
Tag: post-cinema
Desktop Horror: Screening Fear/Fearing Screens — JFK Institute, Freie Universität Berlin
On June 26, 2019, I’ll be giving a talk titled “Desktop Horror: Screening Fear/Fearing Screens” at the Culture/Literature Research Colloquium at the JFK Institute for North American Studies, Freie Universität Berlin. Thanks to Frank Kelleter, Alexander Starre, and everyone else involved for inviting me and making this happen!
The Horror of Discorrelation—Kristiansand, Norway
This week, thanks to a kind invitation from Julia Leyda, I have been in Trondheim, Norway, where I’ve led two workshops on videographic scholarship and pedagogy with Kathleen Loock and, today, gave a talk on “Screen Time.” Tomorrow, March 29, 2019, I will head down south, where I will be speaking on “The Horror of Discorrelation” at University of Agder in Kristiansand, Norway. Thanks to Ahmet Gürata for inviting me!
Desktop Horror at Merz Akademie
Poster for my talk tomorrow (Dec. 18, 2018) on “Desktop Horror” at Merz Akademie in Stuttgart!
Talks & Events: Switzerland/Germany, December 2018
This coming week, I will be heading out to Europe for a series of talks and events in Switzerland and Germany, where I will be presenting work related to my forthcoming book Discorrelated Images as well as videographic scholarship (including the recent Videographic Frankenstein exhibition).
Here is a list of talks/events:
- Post-Cinematic Prometheus: From Frankenstein to Ex Machina — University of Basel — December 13, 2018
- Life to Those Pixels: Imag(in)ing Future Bodies of Film and Media — University of Zurich — December 14, 2018
- Participatory Horror: Glitches, Ghosts, and Networked Images — University of Siegen — December 17, 2018
- Desktop Horror — Merz Akademie Stuttgart — December 18, 2018
- Videographic Frankenstein — University of Hannover — December 19, 2018
- Videographic Criticism as Digital Research Practice: The Video Essay in Conversation (with Kathleen Loock) — JFK Institute, Freie Universität Berlin — December 20, 2018
Syllabus: Post-Cinema (Stanford, Winter 2019)
Desktop Horror at Merz Akademie, Stuttgart — Dec.18, 2018
On December 18, 2018, I will be giving a public lecture titled “Desktop Horror” at the Merz Akademie in Stuttgart, as part of the Welcome to the Real World lecture series organized by Kevin B. Lee. I’m very excited to share this work, and hope to see friends in Germany!
Desktop Horror
Shane Denson
The shift from a cinematic to a post-cinematic media regime has occasioned a great deal of anxiety for theorists and spectators alike, and the horror genre has been adept at channeling this unease for its own purposes, as is evidenced in movies that revolve around the proliferation of digital devices and networks as new media for ghosts, demons, and other forms of evil. In this presentation, I focus on “desktop horror” in particular and argue that the fears elicited in post-cinematic horror are deeply rooted in the upheaval that viewers experience in the face of a thoroughly computational lifeworld.
Winter 2019 Courses
Life to Those Pixels: Imag(in)ing Future Bodies of Film and Media — Dec. 14 at University of Zurich
On December 14, 2018, I will be giving a talk titled “Life to Those Pixels: Imag(in)ing Future Bodies of Film and Media” at the University of Zurich, as part of the Imag(in)ing Future Bodies series hosted by the Doctoral Program of the English Department and organized by Morgane Ghilardi and Hannah Schoch. The lecture will be followed by a workshop in which we will discuss related work on post-cinema and discorrelated images.
For more information, see the program website here, or register for the event here.
Nov. 9, Georgetown University: Post-Cinema, Artificial Creation, and the Concept of Animation
On Friday, November 9, I will be giving a talk titled “Post-Cinema, Artificial Creation, and the Concept of Animation: From Frankenstein to Ex Machina” at Georgetown University’s Film and Media Studies Program.
This is work stemming from my current book project, Discorrelated Images, which I am excited to present. Thanks to Caetlin Benson-Allott and Sky Sitney for inviting me to speak! For further information about the event, please contact Caetlin Benson-Allott.