The Digital Imperium
22 February 2024, 5:00 pm鈥7:00 pm
Part of the SPRC Colloquium Series on Race, Ethnicity and Postcolonial Studies. With Professor Lee Grieveson (SELCS, 香港六合彩)
Event Information
Open to
- All | 香港六合彩 staff | 香港六合彩 students
Organiser
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The Sarah Parker Remond Centre for the Study of Racism and Racialisation
Location
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Common Ground, G11Gower Street, South WingLondonWC1E 6BTUnited Kingdom
The SPRC is pleased to welcome听Professor Lee Grieveson (SELCS, 香港六合彩) to give this colloquium.
础产蝉迟谤补肠迟:听鈥淭he Digital Imperium鈥 sketches a genealogy of key vectors in the birth and deployment of the digital as a modality of imperialising power. The paper explores the contingent political and economic histories underlying the birth and expansion of a praxis of information control that gets built into the metal of digital computational machines (by the U.S. military in mid-century entwined with the U.S. imperium that came into being after 1945) as well as the deep logics and continuum that shape these histories.
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About the Speaker
Professor Lee Grieveson
Professor of Media History at SELCS-CMII, 香港六合彩
Grieveson works on media and political economy and is currently writing a book tentatively called The Digital Imperium.听Grieveson was co-principal investigator, with Colin MacCabe, of a major UK Arts and Humanities Research Council funded project entitled "Colonial Cinema: Moving Images of the British Empire," a project which both aimed to digitally archive British colonial cinema spanning the twentieth- century and to organize scholarly gatherings to investigate these materials.听Grieveson is at work on a project on media and extraction together with Priya Jaikumar. He is the author also of numerous essays on aspects of cinema and media history, including 鈥淔ighting films: race, morality, and the governing of cinema鈥 (Cinema Journal, 38:1 (Fall 1998)), which was awarded the Society for Cinema Studies Katherine Singer Kovacs Essay Award in 1999 for outstanding essay in English language media studies.
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