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SUMMARY:Ecological Criticism in the Age of the Database
DESCRIPTION:Sean Cubitt\, Professor of Film and Television at Goldsmiths\, University of London\nThe ecological principle that everything connects with everything else should be a perfect match for the network principle of contemporary digital communications. But there is a problem that comes with the arrival very large\, proprietorial databases. This is partly to do with the sheer number of images and videos produced and circulated\, partly to do with the form they are stored in\, and partly because their dynamics share at least as much with contemporary capitalism as with the natural environment. New analytical tools for dealing with big data promise to reform classical humanities methods so we can conform our research to this new kind of object. In this paper Sean Cubitt asserts the value of anecdotal evidence against the rise of statistics\, but at the same time wants to confront the difficulties in bringing about an encounter between readers (human or otherwise) and the mass image constructed by social media and search giants. \nSean Cubitt is Professor of Film and Television at Goldsmiths\, University of London and Honorary Professorial Fellow of the University of Melbourne. His publications includeThe Cinema Effect\, Ecomedia\, The Practice of Light: Genealogies of Visual Media and Finite Media: Environmental Implications of Digital Technology. Series editor for Leonardo Books at MIT Press\, his current research is on political aesthetics\, media technologies\, media art history and ecocriticism.
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LOCATION:MIT Building 56\, Room 114\, Access via 21 Ames Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States
CATEGORIES:Colloquium
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SUMMARY:Mapping Climate Change: Contested Futures in New York City’s Flood Zone
DESCRIPTION:Liz Koslov\, Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in the Humanities at MIT\nAs seas rise\, coasts erode\, deserts spread\, and permafrost melts\, climate change is altering everyday life in many places. Even with immediate\, drastic reductions in greenhouse gas emissions\, sufficient warming is already “baked in” to ensure ongoing disruption. What this disruption will look like\, however\, depends not only on the extent of global warming and its effects but also on the way these effects and their attendant risks are measured\, mapped\, and managed. In this talk\, we will explore how certain places come to be seen as “at risk” in anticipation of climate change\, and what this way of seeing means for their inhabitants. Drawing on fieldwork over four years in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy\, the talk will focus on the fraught development and implementation of new FEMA (Federal Emergency Management Agency) flood maps for New York City\, where hundreds of thousands of people and billions of dollars in property now lie in the high-risk flood zone. \nLiz Koslov is a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in the Humanities at MIT and holds a PhD in Media\, Culture\, and Communication from NYU. Her research examines the cultural\, political\, and social dimensions of climate change adaptation. She is currently at work on her first book\, Retreat: Moving to Higher Ground in a Climate-Changed City\, under advance contract with the University of Chicago Press.
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/mapping-climate-change-contested-futures-new-york-citys-flood-zone/
LOCATION:MIT Building 56\, Room 114\, Access via 21 Ames Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States
CATEGORIES:Colloquium
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SUMMARY:Cloud Policy: Anatomy of a Regulatory Crisis
DESCRIPTION:Jennifer Holt\, Associate Professor of Film and Media Studies\, University of California\, Santa Barbara\nJennifer Holt examines the legal and cultural crises surrounding the regulation of data in “the cloud.” The complex landscape of laws and policies governing digital data are currently rife with unresolvable conflicts. The challenges of distributing and protecting digital data in a policy landscape that is simultaneously local\, national\, and global have created problems that often defy legal paradigms\, national boundaries\, and traditional geographies of control. She examines these challenges with an eye towards their shared histories with obscene phone calls\, wiretapping organized crime figures\, the PATRIOT Act\, Facebook\, and the battles over net neutrality. Ultimately\, these intertwined histories of policies related to privacy\, data security\, and digital freedoms become most instructive when they are brought to bear on the current regulatory crisis\, revealing the growing stakes for the digital futures of culture\, information\, and citizenship.  \nJennifer Holt is Associate Professor of Film and Media Studies at the University of California\, Santa Barbara. She is the author of Empires of Entertainment and co-editor of Distribution Revolution; Connected Viewing; and Media Industries: History\, Theory\, Method. She is currently writing a monograph about the history of US digital media policies. She is also a co-founder of the Media Industries journal.
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/jennifer-holt-cloud-regulatory-crisis/
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