2013 World Picture Conference
Dates:8-9 Nov 2013
Locations:University of Toronto
Fri, 8 November, 2013
9:30 - 11:15 (Technicity)
Room 179
Meghan Sutherland (Chair)
Caetlin Benson-Allot
Georgetown University
“By Design: Infrared Remote Controls and the Mass Media Subject”
Zach Campbell
Northwestern University
“The Objects of Mediation”
Scott C.Richmond
Wayne State University
“Technically Sexuality: On the Technical Organization of Sex in My Life on Ice”
Daniel Eisenberg
School of the Art Institute of Chicago
“Willing…but preferring not to”
9:30 - 11:15 (Art)
Room 163
Brian Price (Chair)
Jennifer Johung
University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee
“Willing Vitality”
John David Rhodes
University of Sussex
“Style as Will”
Martin Blumenthal-Barby
Rice University
“Uncalculated Beauty: Harun Farocki’s Counter-Music”
Lenora Hanson
University of Wisconsin Madison
“Mystery and Materialism in S.T. Coleridge’s Theory of Life”
11:30 - 1:00 (Keynote)
Room 179
Linda M.G Zerilli (University of Chicago), “From Willing to Judging: Hannah Arendt’s Copernican Revolution”
2:45 - 4:30 (Control)
Room 179
Scott Krzych
Colorado College
“Stock Politics”
Seb Franklin
King’s College London
“On Willing as Information Processing”
Meghan Sutherland
University of Toronto
“Neoliberalism and the Specter of the political”
Alex Eisenthal
University of Pennsylvania
“Willing to labour in Dreiser’s Metropolis”
2:45 - 4:30 (Politics)
Room 179
Sorin Radu Cucu (Chair)
Gustavo P.Furtado
Duke University
“Experimental Ethnographic Film and the Aesthetic Apprehension of the Social”
Kalling Heck
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
“Authority Year Zero: Ambiguity and the Politics of the Vogelfrei”
Scott Durham
Northwestern University
“‘Not a Will to Nothingness, but a Growing Nothingness of the Will’: The Cinematic Politics of Becoming-Passive”
Kenneth Rogers
York University
“The State of Vigilance: Technological Augmentation and Political Will”
4:45 - 6:30 (Flexibility)
Room 179
John David Rhodes (Chair)
Markos Hadjioannou
Duke University
“Bodysong’s Being and Willing: The Digital Event of Interactive Immersion”
Alessandra Raengo
Georgia State University
“Another Heart/Another’s Heart: Willing a Living Image”
Graig Uhlin
Oklahoma State University
“Gymnastics and Ethics: Cinema and Paul Ricoeur’s Philosophy of the Will”
Pooja Rangan
The New School
“Autism, Emergence, and Emergency”
4:45 - 6:30 (Crowds)
Room 376
Genevieve Yue (Chair)
The New School
“Faces of Protest: Film Extras, the Multitude, and Kurt Ralske’s The Enraged Al-gorithm”
Tung-Hui Hu
University of Michigan
“Inoperable Communities in the Cloud: Server Farms and the Ideology of Participation”
Erica Levin
University of California Berkeley
“need ideas!?!PLZ!!: The Willing Crowd and the Interface”
Brian Hanrahan
Cornell University
“Plane and Crowd Network: A Media Archeology of Transanlantic Flights, 1927 – 1928”
Sat, 9 November, 2013
10:00 - 11:45 (Force)
Room 222
Scott Krzych (Chair)
Glyn Davis
University of Edinburgh
“The Will to Endure: Marathon Cinema”
Adam Cottrel
Georgia State University
“Dogtooth’s Enduring Politics”
Veronica Fitzpatrick
University of Pittsburgh
“Rape Aesthetics: Movement’s Ethics of Consent”
Karly-Lynne Scott
Northwestern University
“Consent, Desire and Desubjectification in BDSM Pornography”
10:00 - 11:45 (Disequilibrium)
Room 312
Kenneth Rogers (Chair)
Michael Gillespie
Ohio University
“Instant Insanity: 9/11, Civic Pop, and Sonic Historiography”
Dana Seitler
University of Toronto
“Willing to Die”
Kyle Stevens
Brandeis University
“At Wit’s End: Exasperation in Anglophone Film and Television Comedy”
Brian Wall
Binghamton University
“What Cinema Isn’t: Will and Blindness in Lang”
12:00 - 1:30
Room 222
Anjo-Mari Gouws (Chair)
Elena Gorfinkel
University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee
“Willing to Wait: Endurance and the Erotics of Suspended Form”
Gordon Sullivan
University of Pittsburgh
“Hysterical Aesthetics”
Eugenie Brinkema (MIT)
“Irrumation, the Interrogative: Towards an Aesthetics of Willingness”
12:00 - 1:30 (Globalization)
Room 312
Alessandra Raengo (Chair)
Amy Villarejo
Cornell University
“Willing: Geopolitical Availability & the Transformation of Desire”
Joshua Neves
Brown University
“Faking Globalization”
Bhaskar Sarkar
University of California, Santa Barbara
“Manipuri Cinema’s Resilient Becoming”
2:30 - 4:15 (Thought)
Room 222
Eugenie Brinkema (Chair)
Sorin Radu Cucu
Laguardia College
“Lyotard, Unwilling?”
Niels Niessen
University of Minnesota
“Willing to Meet: OkCupid and Houellebecq’s The Possibility of an Island”
Brian Price
University of Toronto
“The Thinker and the Bureaucrat : The Problem of Withdrawal”
Jocelyn Szczepaniak-Gillece
Northwestern University
“Tentacles: Colour Fields and the Will
2:30 - 4:15 (Spectators)
Room 312
Elena Gorfinkel (Chair)
Seth Watter
Brown University
“Riveting Spectacle: On Fixity”
Damon Young
University of Michigan
“The Pathological Gaze”
Charles P. Linscott
Ohio University
“An Introductory Logic of Surveillance, from symbiopsychotaxiplasm to PRISM”
4:30 - 5:15 (Performance and Lecture)
Innis Town Hall
edgeofthegorge by Byron Suber (Cornell University) and Guests
5:30 - 7:00 (Keynote)
Innis Town Hall
Davide Panagia (Trent University): “Intermedial Relations: Miriam Hansen’s Critique of the Reification Thesis”