Faculty and graduate students interested in digital literacy are warmly invited to an upcoming talk by Professor Jonathan Alexander, University of California-Irvine, whose work focuses on digital media and queer theory.
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Professor Joonathan Alexander will speak on "Jean Cocteau, Queerness, Multimedia" In this presentation, he will explore the representation of queerness through multimedia and asks the following questions,
Professor Joonathan Alexander will speak on "Jean Cocteau, Queerness, Multimedia" In this presentation, he will explore the representation of queerness through multimedia and asks the following questions,
- What does multimedia offer us in the figuring of queerness? how might we compose a multimediated queerness?
- What/where/how is the queer[ed] body figured in/through multimedia?
- What are the limits of the knowable and knowably queer in multimediated spaces?
This presentation reflects on such questions by bringing together theoretical musing, analysis of the work of Jean Cocteau, and digital performance art.
I think there are certain signifiers that indicate when a talk will be almost entirely bullshit: dropping names of European 'thinkers', coining unnecessary new words, overuse of uncommon punctuation, referring to any unspecified 'theory', and finally any invocation of performance art.
I think there are certain signifiers that indicate when a talk will be almost entirely bullshit: dropping names of European 'thinkers', coining unnecessary new words, overuse of uncommon punctuation, referring to any unspecified 'theory', and finally any invocation of performance art.