Aleks Wansbrough
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 357918 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Aleks Wansbrough |
| PRENOMES | Aleks |
| SOBRENOME | Wansbrough |
| ASSINATURA | WANSBROUGH A |
| AFILIAÇÕES | The University of Sydney |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 9 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 0 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 9 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2020 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2022 |
| ÍNDICE H | 0 |
Interview with Nina Power
Nina Power is a philosopher, writer, and cultural commentator. She is the author of One-Dimensional Woman (Zero Books, 2009), and the translator and editor (with Alberto Toscano) of Alain Badiou’s On Beckett. Her new book Masculinity and Its Discontents is published by Penguin (2022). As part of an exploration of online subcultures and popular discourses on feminism and masculinity, Aleks Wansbrough interviewed her for the Inhuman Screens Confere…
Imagining Utopia through Communities in Mohsin Hamid’s Exit West
Mohsin Hamid’s novel, Exit West (2017) takes place in a world where magical doorways allow refugees passage between countries. Following the couple Saeed and Nadia – refugees from an unnamed city undergoing fundamentalist insurrection – the novel explores their grappling amid different political tensions. While commentators have discussed the way Hamid re-frames migration as form of connectivity, and the portals as utopian forms of escape, this a…
Septopia and the wastialized Other
Sepsis, septic tank, septum – these terms help to locate phantasmatic representation of waste spaces in cinema, which is here termed “septopia”. Those who inhabit septopia are positioned as broken, fractured, or discarded identities. Amid COVID-19, septopia becomes more relevant to political realities, where people rebel against sanitized spaces and lockdown policies. Using Fredric Jameson’s concept of the political unconscious and theorization o…
Living in dystopia
Communicative Capitalism and Neo-Feudalism
Aleks Wansbrough: You have recently written about neo-feudalism. I was wondering how you became interested in the idea, given your previous theorization of communicative capitalism.Jodi Dean: I have been working on this concept of neo-feudalism for a little over a year. It is a thought experiment at this point as I am still figuring out whether neo-feudalism actually names something or whether it is just a metaphor.I think it does name something,…
Capitalism and the Enchanted Screen
Myths such as Narcissus’ reflection, Pandora’s box, and Plato’s cave have been used to frame modern technological dangers; often to describe people absorbed in their own digital reflections. Such speculation either purports that technology has a magical power or else that technology merely represents human nature unchanged from the myth’s inception. But those accounts ignore the paradoxical understandings of the power relationships allegorized, w…
Framing Issues Related to the Digital Unconscious
Aleks Wansbrough, managing editor of the JAPPC, is a screen lecturer at the University of Sydney and Associate Lecturer at Auto University in media studies. He is the author of Capitalism and the Enchanted Screen (Bloomsbury, forthcoming).Alenka Zupančič is a Slovene philosopher and social theorist who works as research advisor at the Institute of Philosophy, Scientific Research Center of the Slovene Academy of Sciences. She is also a professor a…
Letter from the Guest Editors
This special issue of the Journal of Asia-Pacific Pop Culture is based on a conference we convened in 2019 entitled “Inhuman Screens.” The conference explored cinema, social media, and emerging technologies, as well as concerns related to posthumanism; and will continue to explore these themes in future iterations. We were lucky enough to have keynotes from Adrian Martin and Jack Sargeant, who have contributed to this issue. We also included appr…
Social Media and The Happiness Effect
Aleks Wansbrough, PhD, is a cultural theorist and academic who focuses on film, art theory, and digital culture.Donna Freitas is a professor, researcher, and writer of more than twenty books, both fiction and nonfiction, for adults, children, and young adults. Among her books is Consent: A Memoir of Unwanted Attention (2019). Dr. Freitas has spoken at over two hundred colleges and universities across the United States and beyond about her work ar…
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Capitalism and the Enchanted Screen
Myths such as Narcissus’ reflection, Pandora’s box, and Plato’s cave have been used to frame modern technological dangers; often to describe people absorbed in their own digital reflections. Such speculation either purports that technology has a magical power or else that technology merely represents human nature unchanged from the myth’s inception. But those accounts ignore the paradoxical understandings of the power relationships allegorized, w…
Framing Issues Related to the Digital Unconscious
Aleks Wansbrough, managing editor of the JAPPC, is a screen lecturer at the University of Sydney and Associate Lecturer at Auto University in media studies. He is the author of Capitalism and the Enchanted Screen (Bloomsbury, forthcoming).Alenka Zupančič is a Slovene philosopher and social theorist who works as research advisor at the Institute of Philosophy, Scientific Research Center of the Slovene Academy of Sciences. She is also a professor a…
Letter from the Guest Editors
This special issue of the Journal of Asia-Pacific Pop Culture is based on a conference we convened in 2019 entitled “Inhuman Screens.” The conference explored cinema, social media, and emerging technologies, as well as concerns related to posthumanism; and will continue to explore these themes in future iterations. We were lucky enough to have keynotes from Adrian Martin and Jack Sargeant, who have contributed to this issue. We also included appr…
Social Media and The Happiness Effect
Aleks Wansbrough, PhD, is a cultural theorist and academic who focuses on film, art theory, and digital culture.Donna Freitas is a professor, researcher, and writer of more than twenty books, both fiction and nonfiction, for adults, children, and young adults. Among her books is Consent: A Memoir of Unwanted Attention (2019). Dr. Freitas has spoken at over two hundred colleges and universities across the United States and beyond about her work ar…
Communicative Capitalism and Neo-Feudalism
Aleks Wansbrough: You have recently written about neo-feudalism. I was wondering how you became interested in the idea, given your previous theorization of communicative capitalism.Jodi Dean: I have been working on this concept of neo-feudalism for a little over a year. It is a thought experiment at this point as I am still figuring out whether neo-feudalism actually names something or whether it is just a metaphor.I think it does name something,…
Interview with Nina Power
Nina Power is a philosopher, writer, and cultural commentator. She is the author of One-Dimensional Woman (Zero Books, 2009), and the translator and editor (with Alberto Toscano) of Alain Badiou’s On Beckett. Her new book Masculinity and Its Discontents is published by Penguin (2022). As part of an exploration of online subcultures and popular discourses on feminism and masculinity, Aleks Wansbrough interviewed her for the Inhuman Screens Confere…
Imagining Utopia through Communities in Mohsin Hamid’s Exit West
Mohsin Hamid’s novel, Exit West (2017) takes place in a world where magical doorways allow refugees passage between countries. Following the couple Saeed and Nadia – refugees from an unnamed city undergoing fundamentalist insurrection – the novel explores their grappling amid different political tensions. While commentators have discussed the way Hamid re-frames migration as form of connectivity, and the portals as utopian forms of escape, this a…
Septopia and the wastialized Other
Sepsis, septic tank, septum – these terms help to locate phantasmatic representation of waste spaces in cinema, which is here termed “septopia”. Those who inhabit septopia are positioned as broken, fractured, or discarded identities. Amid COVID-19, septopia becomes more relevant to political realities, where people rebel against sanitized spaces and lockdown policies. Using Fredric Jameson’s concept of the political unconscious and theorization o…
Living in dystopia
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