Andrew Lison at Hallwalls
Andrew Lison at Hallwalls
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Professor Andrew Lison is giving at talk next Friday at Hallwalls as part of his Humanities Institute Faculty Fellowship this year:
New Media at the End of History
Andrew Lison
Scholars@Hallwalls, Friday, November 1, 2019
4:00-6:00pm
The late 1980s and early 1990s mark a transition away from a binary, Cold War geopolitics and toward the binary-based, digital media beginning to connect the planet. Initially welcomed, this shift has recently been viewed with skepticism against the backdrop of crises in the liberal-democratic order ranging from the fracturing of the European Union to debates over online speech. Revisiting artifacts from this political and technological turn, however—the software, hardware, and cultural products of the multimedia era—can help distinguish the beneficial, even utopian, aspects of the present-day information revolution from its negative outcomes.
More information can be found here: https://humanitiesinstitute.buffalo.edu/event/scholarshallwalls-andrew-lison-new-media-at-the-end-of-history/