“The Horror of Discorrelation” — JCMS 60.1 (Fall 2020)

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My article “The Horror of Discorrelation” is coming out in the Fall 2020 issue of JCMS, and it offers a preview of some of my arguments in Discorrelated Images. Since a preview is supposed to come out before the main attraction, I’ve gone ahead and posted the PDF of the article on my website: https://shanedenson.com/articles.html. (The JCMS issue is delayed due to the journal moving to a new press and a new website, to be unveiled soon.)

If you’ve already picked up a copy of my book or are about to, you’ll see that Chapter 5 expands this article, which deals with the fictional “desktop horror” of UNFRIENDED, to include a long section on the real-world horrors of terrorism-related videos not included in the JCMS article.

The Horror of Discorrelation—Kristiansand, Norway

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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!

Video: Desktop Horror at Merz-Akademie Stuttgart

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On December 18, 2018, I gave a talk titled “Desktop Horror” at the Merz-Akademie in Stuttgart. The talk was live-streamed, and a video is now available on the Merz-Akademie website. Thanks again to Kevin B. Lee for the kind invitation, and to his students Jasmin Rahman and Nik König for the entertaining intro video, which you’ll see at the beginning of the video. (Note that there are some sound problems — fittingly, audio glitches and feedback — at the beginning of my talk, but they clear up after about three minutes.)

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Horror and New Media, and the Horror of New Media #SCMS18 #SCMS2018

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Looking forward to speaking on this panel, alongside Cecilia Sayad, Adam Hart, and Kevin Chabot at the 2018 Society for Cinema and Media Studies conference in Toronto. Panel L13, Friday, March 16, 2018 (3:15pm – 5:00pm).

Thesis of my paper: “Post-cinematic horror is a side-channel attack on our affective processing of time itself.”