Date & time
Friday, February 12, 2016
4 p.m. – 6 p.m.
4 p.m. – 6 p.m.
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Walter Benjamin's Media Theory: The Medium and the Apparat
A talk by Antonio Somaini
Speaker(s)
Antonio Somaini
Cost
This event is free
Organization
Contact
Eric Prince
514-848-2424, ext. 2745
Where
J.W. McConnell Building
1400 De Maisonneuve W.
Room LB-362
Wheel chair accessible
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What is a “medium”? And how can the history of the term – the way in which it has been used and theorized – help us answer this question?
This talk will tackle both these issues by focusing on Walter Benjamin’s writings, studying carefully the meanings he assigned to the German terms Medium (“medium”) and Apparat (“apparatus”).
About the speaker
Antonio Somaini is Full Professor of Film, Media, and Visual Culture Theory at the Université Sorbonne Nouvelle Paris 3.