The John Fekete Distinguished Lecture
Community Speaker Series featuring Davide Panagia
Event Details
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Thursday, November 7, 2024
7:30 PM - 9:00 PM
Bagnani Hall
Building: Traill College
Cost: Free
Please join us for The John Fekete Distinguished Lecture featuring speaker Davide Panagia.
November 7th, 2024 from 7:30-9:00pm with a reception to follow directly after the lecture from 9:00-10:00pm in the Scott House Senior Common Room.
Speaker Bio: David Panagia is a professor of Political Science Department, also serving as Chair, UCLA. For more information about the speaker, see https://polisci.ucla.edu/person/davide-panagia/
Lecture Title: Cultural Theory, Mimesis, and the Algorithm Dispositif
Lecture Abstract:
Our contemporary theoretical and critical vocabularies in cultural theory are inadequate to the mediatic ontologies of the algorithm dispositif. The reason is quite straight forward: algorithms are not mimetic media whereas our aesthetic and political traditions of criticism are rooted in judgments of and about representations. This means that attempts to develop critiques of the algorithm dispositif are both misinformed and misguided if they assume that the dilemmas arising from algorithmic intermediality may be adequately managed with critical theories of judgment rooted in mimesis.
By unpacking the above thesis statement, this talk seeks to outline how and why this dilemma matters to our cultural thinking and to the teaching of, and about, algorithms in cultural studies. In doing so the talk elaborates the possibility of new forms of critical thinking that attend to the dispositional powers of the algorithm.
Community Speaker Series
Sharing knowledge is one of the ways Trent University gives back to our host communities and provides life long learning experiences to alumni. Each year, Trent offers open lectures featuring visiting faculty and experts, sharing ideas on subjects such as the Environment, Gender & Women's Studies, Business & Society, Chemistry, Cultural Studies, and Indigenous Studies. These talks are free and open to the Trent and broader communities. These lectures are made possible thanks to generous donor support.
Proudly sponsored by: Cultural Studies PhD and MA programs, John Fekete Speakers Support Fund; Cultural Studies Undergraduate Department, Centre for Theory, Culture, and Politics; Traill College, Media Studies Program; Bachelor of Arts and Science Program; Political Science Department
Contact Info
For more information please contact alumni@trentu.ca