This meeting will focus on a discussion of an article by Naomi Klein concerning Puerto Rico that served as the early draft of her most recent book The Battle for Paradise. Stephanie Rothenberg will also present her current project “Trading Systems: Bio-Economic Fairy Tales in the Anthropocene.” This project explores the notion of the anthropocene […]

Political Economy and Culture Research Workshop: Jonathan Beller, "The Message is Murder: Informatic Labor in the Age of Computational Capital," October 23 @ 4:30 pm - 6:00 pm in 1032 Clemens​ Jonathan Beller (Pratt Institute) will join us to present on his most recent book The Message is Murder: Substrates of Computational Capital (Pluto Press […]

Paul Vanouse (UB-Art Department) will join us for a discussion about his new bio-media artwork, Labor, at the Burchfield Penny Art Gallery on Thursday, March 28, 5-6PM. Labor is a dynamic, self-regulating art installation that re-creates the scent of people exerting themselves under stressful conditions. There are, however, no people involved in making the smell […]

Paige Sarlin (Assistant Professor, UB-Department of Media Study) will workshop a chapter entitled "An Unassuming Form: Mayhew and the Early Work of the Interview." This is the first chapter of her book manuscript, Interview Work: A Genealogy of a Media Form. Book Synopsis: A contribution to documentary studies as well as cultural and media studies […]

Andrew Lison (UB-DMS) presents "New Media, 1989: Cubase and the New Temporal Order." Please join us for a discussion/workshop of Andrew Lison's article and the larger book project from which it emerges, New Media at the End of History. His book proposal/project overview and article draft are available by request (alison@buffalo.edu). ARTICLE ABSTRACT: The year […]