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Join LePARC Research Cluster for a book talk with Toni Pape about his new book The Aesthetics of Stealth: Digital Culture, Video Games, and the Politics of Perception.
In this book, Pape explores how performances of tactical imperceptibility – or “stealth” – have emerged as a crucial mode of cultural expression and political action in the face of digital surveillance technologies. In his talk, Pape will introduce the media aesthetics of stealth through examples from video art, television and video games. During the discussion, we will connect stealth to its related political concerns, including queerness, whiteness, surveillance and warfare.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
Toni Pape is a cultural theorist and media scholar at the Department of Media Studies at the University of Amsterdam. He is the author of Figures of Time: Affect and the Television of Preemption (Duke University Press, 2019). He is a member of the editorial boards of NECSUS: European Journal of Media Studies and the Immediations book series at Punctum Press. Toni’s current research project “The Aesthetics of Stealth” focuses on performances of disappearance and imperceptibility in contemporary.
📅 November 27, 2024 | 5-6:30 PM
📍 EV 10.785