When death is ubiquitous and violence structural and gratuitous, catastrophe has a sound. How do our racialized lives allow for or shield us from familiarity to this sound? The conditions of colonial violence, imperialism, and global capitalism construct African Black bodies into a kind of...
In this presentation, Ricardo Cedeño Montaña will describe some of the particular principles, mechanisms, and techniques by which color film functioned in its formative years and the coding schemes for (re)producing, storing, and transmitting color information in electronic and digital media. Using a media archaeological...
This project is a graduate student-driven initiative to foster critical research on theories of media and techniques in the wake of postcolonial and environmental humanities and across different disciplines such as Comparative Literature, Film and Media Studies, Latin American/Latinx Studies, Black Studies, Global Studies, Asian...