Join this public lecture with 2024 Aesthetics and Politics Theorist in Residence Denise Ferreira da Silva.
An account of the ethical and aesthetical dimensions of electronically-mediated existence, which seems fully permeated by and thoroughly configured through the apparatus that enables global capital to profit from the extraction of attention. A close reading of episodes of the acclaimed British series Black Mirror shows how, in this global moment, raciality facilitates capital accumulation both economically and ethically, working through the figures of humanity and subjectivity as these play out in the series’ dystopian tales.
An academic and an artist, Dr. Denise Ferreira da Silva writes on crucial global issues, which she approaches from an anticolonial black feminist perspective. A prolific author, her field-changing books–such as Toward a Global Idea of Race and Unpayable Debt—have been published by major presses.