6PM: ROBBIE POWERS STOPS BY TO DISCUSS FALL 2017 REGISTRATION (To accommodate Robbie’s special visit, our class might go a bit long tonight. Please try to stick with us until 8pm!) – Robbie’s Presentation
6:10PM: PREP FOR “MEDIA+THERMODYNAMICS” PANEL ON APRIL 17
7:10PM: MEDIA STUDIES ALUMS LAURA SCHERLING + NELESI RODRIGUEZ
- Nicole Starosielski, “Thermocultures of Geological Media,” Cultural Politics 12:3 (2016): 293-309.
- By Friday, April 7, @ 5pm EST, please email Professor Starosielski (ns119@nyu.edu) three thermal images (Google them!) that strike you, along with super-brief captions explaining why you find each compelling. Please write “Thermal Images for Shannon’s Class” in your subject line!
- Tega Brain’s Website
- Tega Brain, “Being Radiotropic” (2016)
- John Durham Peters, “The Fire Sermon” in The Marvelous Clouds: Toward a Philosophy of Elemental Media (Chicag: University of Chicago Press, 2015): 115-64.
- For local opportunities to work with re-emergent media, check out Re-Lab