Please join us in Cobb 311 this Friday, February 3rd, from 11:00 am to 12:30 pm for our second Mass Culture meeting of the winter quarter. We are excited to have Andy Oranday(CMS Ph.D. Student) lead us in a reading group on politics and technology in media studies.  We will read Langdon Winner’s essay “Do Artifacts have Politics” and Jean-Louis […]

Winter 2023: Workshops meet on Friday mornings, 11:00am to 12:30pm in Cobb 311 unless noted otherwise. FRIDAY, JANUARY 13 Sasha Crawford-Holland, PhD Student Cinema and Media Studies. **On Zoom** “A Sense of Security: The Visual Politics of COVID Thermography.” FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 3 Andy Oranday, PhD Student Cinema and Media Studies Mass Culture Reading Group: Technology, Apparatus, […]

Please join us January 13th, 2023 from 11:00am to 12:30pm on Zoom for our first Mass Culture Workshop of winter 2023. We are excited to have Sasha Crawford-Holland (CMS, Ph.D.) presenting a draft chapter this week entitled “A Sense of Security: The Visual Politics of COVID Thermography.” Access to the pre-circulated paper is provided through […]

Please join us in Cobb 311 this Friday, November 18th, from 11:00 am to 12:30 pm for our third Mass Culture meeting of the fall quarter. We are excited to have Neil Verma (Northwestern) present a chapter titled “Obsession, from Map to Strategy.” Joel Sutherland (CMS, Ph.D.) will provide a response. Please email Wolfgang (boehm@uchicago.edu) and Joel (jfsutherland@uchicago.edu) with any […]

Please join us on Zoom this Friday, November 11th, from 11:00 am to 12:30 pm for our second Mass Culture meeting of the fall quarter. This week’s workshop is a conversation between visual effects artist Dan Schrecker who has worked with filmmakers such as Darren Aronofsky, the Coen Brothers, Julie Taymor, and Wes Anderson. He is currently working […]

Please join us this Friday, November 4th, from 11:00 am to 12:30 pm in Cobb 311 for our first Mass Culture Workshop. We are excited to begin our quarter with a reading group on mass culture. For this session, we will read and discuss two short pieces, Theodore Adorno’s “Culture Industry Reconsidered” and Agnes Gayraud’s Dialectics of Pop. By juxtaposing […]