Streamování války, digitální aktivismus a příliš lidská apatie [offline přednáška CSPK]

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Streamování války, digitální aktivismus a příliš lidská apatie [offline přednáška CSPK]

Streaming war, digital activism and too human apathy [offline lecture cspk]

Event by: Centre for the Study of Popular Culture

Location: Na Boršově, Náprstkova 10, Praha 1

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The current development of political events and technological infrastructures allows you to experience a new type of audience of war conflicts and genocide, in which man's suffering ways exceed the boundaries of still imaginable, and the ways of spreading media content overcome the limits of perception of still depicable. How do simultaneity, algorithmization, high affectivity and different imaging interfaces affect the production, circulation and reception of digital war visual communication? The lecture, a lecture follows and expanding the content of the essays, speaks of the revision of compassionate viewing, by supersaturation of the victim's culture, the era of brutalism and non-vaning vision. The visual policy of the 21st century "(2024, Acropolis). He teaches at the Faculty of Social Sciences of Charles University and scientifically affects the Institute for Contemporary History of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic. In 2011-2023 she led the Fresh Eye visual culture. It deals with the relationship of visuality and memory policy and the issue of race/ethnicity in the context of post -socialist Europe. In 2024 she published a monograph "in captivity. Visual policy of the 21st century" (Acropolis) nominated in a wider list for the Magnesia Litera Award. Occasionally translates the Anglo-American image theory (Berger 2016; Mitchell 2017; Mirzoeff 2018; Mekas 2024).

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