Pao-chen Tang
Biographic Data
| ID | 5132816 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Pao-chen Tang |
| GIVEN NAMES | Pao-chen |
| FAMILY NAME | Tang |
| SIGNATURE | TANG P |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Chicago |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3799-3347 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 3 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Funeral Every Afternoon
Extinction studies often foreground representational practices as instruments of visibility, mobilizing the public against biodiversity loss. Taiwanese artist Zhang Xu Zhan’s Si So Mi reconfigures this logic by centering roadkill – an anthropogenic animal death at once hyper-visible yet largely absent from extinction discourse. Reading the work through Taiwanese funerary practices and film theory’s conception of cinema’s “undying” nature, this ar…
Producing a future on a wandering Earth
In the guarded backroom of a Chinese mahjong parlour, the leader of a gang that specializes in forging identity plates and illegally trading protective thermal suits is playing Contra, a classic run-and-gun videogame, first released in 1987 as an arcade game before moving to home gaming systems in the following year.The gang leader plays with a controller produced by Subor, a Chinese company known for counterfeiting videogame consoles from the la…
Of dogs and hot dogs
In Electric Animal, Akira Mizuta Lippit argues that when animals, understood in traditional Western thought as lacking language, become images on film, they are turned into languages or semiotic facilities. Inspired by Lippit’s claim, this study poses four interrelated questions. First, is Lippit referring to the animal in general or to specific kinds of animals? Second, how does cinema enact the process of signification? Third, are animals as fi…
Producing a future on a wandering Earth
In the guarded backroom of a Chinese mahjong parlour, the leader of a gang that specializes in forging identity plates and illegally trading protective thermal suits is playing Contra, a classic run-and-gun videogame, first released in 1987 as an arcade game before moving to home gaming systems in the following year.The gang leader plays with a controller produced by Subor, a Chinese company known for counterfeiting videogame consoles from the la…
Of dogs and hot dogs
In Electric Animal, Akira Mizuta Lippit argues that when animals, understood in traditional Western thought as lacking language, become images on film, they are turned into languages or semiotic facilities. Inspired by Lippit’s claim, this study poses four interrelated questions. First, is Lippit referring to the animal in general or to specific kinds of animals? Second, how does cinema enact the process of signification? Third, are animals as fi…
Producing a future on a wandering Earth
In the guarded backroom of a Chinese mahjong parlour, the leader of a gang that specializes in forging identity plates and illegally trading protective thermal suits is playing Contra, a classic run-and-gun videogame, first released in 1987 as an arcade game before moving to home gaming systems in the following year.The gang leader plays with a controller produced by Subor, a Chinese company known for counterfeiting videogame consoles from the la…
Funeral Every Afternoon
Extinction studies often foreground representational practices as instruments of visibility, mobilizing the public against biodiversity loss. Taiwanese artist Zhang Xu Zhan’s Si So Mi reconfigures this logic by centering roadkill – an anthropogenic animal death at once hyper-visible yet largely absent from extinction discourse. Reading the work through Taiwanese funerary practices and film theory’s conception of cinema’s “undying” nature, this ar…
Art (2 works) · Geographies of human-animal interactions (2 works) · Posthumanist Ethics and Activism (2 works) · Aesthetics (1 work) · Astrobiology (1 work) · Astronomy (1 work) · Cinema and Media Studies (1 work) · Computer Science (1 work) · Denial (1 work) · Earth (classical element (1 work)