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The Digital Imperium

22 February 2024, 5:00 pm鈥�7:00 pm

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Part of the SPRC Colloquium Series on Race, Ethnicity and Postcolonial Studies. With Professor Lee Grieveson (SELCS, 果冻影院)

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All | 果冻影院 staff | 果冻影院 students

Organiser

The Sarah Parker Remond Centre for the Study of Racism and Racialisation

Location

Common Ground, G11
Gower Street, South Wing
London
WC1E 6BT
United Kingdom

The SPRC is pleased to welcome听Professor Lee Grieveson (SELCS, 果冻影院) 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, 果冻影院

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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