A guest talk by Professor Richard Grusin

Date: Thursday 14 January 2010
Time: 4pm
Venue: Helmore 251, Anglia Ruskin University, East Road, Cambridge

In this talk Professor Grusin will explore how in our current biopolitical regime of securitization, socially networked media transactions are fostered and encouraged by mobilizing or intensifying pleasurable affects in the production of multiple, overlapping feedback loops among people (individually and collectively) and their media. Grusin outlines how, at the end of the first decade of the 21st Century, social media such as cell phones, instant messaging, Facebook, or YouTube encourage different historical formations of mediated affect.

Richard Grusin is Professor of English at Wayne State University. His more recent work concerns historical, cultural, and aesthetic aspects of technologies of visual representation. With Jay David Bolter he is the author of 'Remediation: Understanding New Media' (MIT, 1999). His new book is titled 'Premediation: Affect and Mediality after 9/11' (forthcoming 2010).

This talk is organised by the Anglia Research Centre in Digital Culture (ARCDigital).

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