Monthly Archives: May 2007

Negotiating the Future

By Steen | May 26, 2007

For the Negotiating the Future seminar, I’m in the workshop entitled “What is the future? The end of the present, a monster or just a metaphor?” The following is an attempt to synthesize our thoughts a bit.
Both of your pieces deal with how the future can be conceptualized as different from the present – not [...]

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Torture films

By Steen | May 9, 2007

OK, so I’m researching for a paper on torture films for a call for papers. For now, I’ll post some of my considerations on torture. First of all, however, I’m working on torture films and so will deal with the representation of torture in films as an aesthetic practice rather than actual torture such as [...]

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Proposal: Space is the Place

By Steen | May 1, 2007

The Journal of American Studies of Turkey had a call for papers for a special theme issue on African American Studies. I sent them a proposal for an article on Sun Ra’s Space is the Place. The description of the proposal follows.
“You don’t exist in this society”: Sun Ra’s Space is the Place
I’m not real, [...]

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