The pandemic has taken a sledgehammer to most of our contemporary experience, and the global movie industry has been especially bludgeoned. This time, is cinema finally dead?

Thanks to David Golumbia (Virginia Commonwealth University) for writing this review, which appeared previously at Postcolonial Digital Humanities on May 9, 2013. By David Golumbia From May 2-4 the Center for 21st Century Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee hosted a conference titled “Dark Side of the Digital” (Twitter: #c21dsd). The...

By Rachael Sullivan Around C21, excitement has been building for the SLSA (Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts) Conference coming up September 27-30. The buzz isn’t just about the location—right here in Milwaukee!—or the fact that C21 Director Richard Grusin has had a key role in coordinating the conference....

By Kalling Heck In “Kid Orientalism: How a Global Future for Child Sexuality is Now Surfacing,” Kathryn Bond Stockton’s keynote at the Midwest Interdisciplinary Graduate Conference (MIGC), she discussed—amongst other topics—how signifiers at times coalesce to block sight.  Discussing how the trope of “the-child-in-peril-in-the-third-world” restores the lost innocence in the...