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October 24: Jussi Parikka Lecture - Media Fossils and the
Outerspace Anthropocene: A Production of an Archaeological Future
The Department of Film, Media and Cultural Studies, The Hub
and the Computer Arts Society are pleased to welcome media theorist Jussi
Parikka to Birkbeck. Professor Parikka will be delivering a lecture in the
Keynes Library at 43 Gordon Square starting at 6pm on Friday October 24th. The
lecture will be followed by a drinks reception. The event is free but booking
is essential:
More information regarding the event can be found at:
Or by contacting:
Dr. Joel McKim
Lecturer in Media and Cultural
Studies
Department of Film, Media and
Cultural Studies
Birkbeck, University of London
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Jussi Parikka: Media Fossils and the Outerspace
Anthropocene: A Production of an Archaeological Future
The talk focuses on the growing amount of future ruins:
the media technological waste we are producing as the underbelly of the
contemporary fascination for the new. This production is also one of multiple
temporalities, drawing on the materiality of the earth and engaging with a
future that is radically changed by the presence of the humans. The talk
engages with this topic through discussing fossils as well as some examples
from contemporary art.
Dr Jussi Parikka is Professor in Technological Culture
& Aesthetics at the Winchester School of Art, University of Southampton. He
is the author of various books, including Digital Contagions (2007), Insect
Media (2010), What is Media Archaeology? (2012) and the forthcoming A Geology
of Media (2015). A glimpse of the forthcoming work can be found already in the
just published little e-book Anthrobscene (available from University of
Minnesota Press in October 2014).