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Please join the Chicago Film Seminar at 6:30 pm on Thursday, November 7 to welcome James Hodge  (Northwestern) for his talk, " Lateral Time. "   Daniel Morgan (UChicago) will provide the response. The CFS will be held  at DePaul's Loop Campus in the  Daley Building at 14 E. Jackson Blvd., Room LL 102, using the State St. entrance   located at   247 S. State . Thursday, November 7 at 6:30pm James Hodge , Northwestern  "Lateral Time" Respondent :  Daniel Morgan , UChicago Hodge describes his talk as follows: This talk comes from the second chapter of my book project, Animate Archaeology: Digital Media and the Aesthetics of History.   In the book I argue for the novel significance of animation for the aesthetic expression of historical temporality in the age of new media.  This talk examines the concept of lateral time, which I define as the temporal regime native to processes operating beyond the threshold of human experience.  Build...

Please join the Chicago Film Seminar at 6:30 pm on Thursday, February 2 to welcome Noa Steimatsky (UChicago) for her talk, " Death at Work: Barthes and Warhol Look at the Face ." Scott Durham (Northwestern) will provide the response. The CFS will be held, as always, in the Flaxman Theater, Room 1307 of the School of the Art Institute's building at 112 S. Michigan Ave. Thursday, February 2 at 6:30pm Noa Steimatsky , UChicago "Death at Work: Barthes and Warhol Look at the Face" Respondent: Scott Durham , Northwestern Steimatsky describes her talk as follows: Enframed in a consideration of Andy Warhol’s mid-1960s film portraiture, my talk for the Chicago Film Seminar will dwell on Roland Barthes’s “modern anthropology” of the cinematic face. A deep ambivalence, involving de-mythifying and re-mythifying maneuvers, haunts Barthes’s reflection on the facial image, and foreshadows some of the deepest concerns of Pop in the following decade. Especially in the almost f...

On Thursday, Dec 2, 2010, Mark Williams (Dartmouth) presented a talk entitled “Closely Belated? Thoughts on Real-Time Media Publics and Minority Report” at the Chicago Film Seminar. James Lastra (University of Chicago) provided the response. This talk considered the “relationship between issues of citizenship, temporality, and media culture through an address to particular configurations of the techno-future” in Steven Spielberg’s 2003 science fiction film, Minority Report. Set in a future in which crime is prevented before it happens, the film builds its premise around the issue of human choice, and how this important principle, and its technological mediation, can define the actions of the state. Building on previous work of his, in which he discussed how the significant relationship between what are termed televisual “liveness” and computer-mediated “real time” form an electronic culture dispositif. The term “liveness”, Williams asserts, has shifted in meaning from a broadcast that ...