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“The View from the Machine: The Challenge of Ubiquitous Recording to Humanist Conceptions of Vision and Subjectivity” - Talk by Jennifer Peterson

Jennifer Petersen, associate professor of media studies at the University of Virginia, will present a paper entitled “The View from the Machine: The Challenge of Ubiquitous Recording to Humanist Conceptions of Vision and Subjectivity.” This is the fifth presentation in a series of seminars that will take place this year on the theme “Law and the Visible.”

Professor Petersen’s interests focus on media and law, technology studies, historical understandings of emotion and communication and conceptions of public sphere. She is the author of Murder, the Media, and the Politics of Public Persuasion (Indiana UP, 2011), and is currently writing a second book, The Unspoken History of Free Speech: Media Technologies, Social Science and the Law.

The paper will suggest ways in which new machinic recording technologies and the view from everywhere may conflict with legal conceptions of agency, responsibility and verifiability based on liberal conceptions of the subject at the center of US law. To receive a copy of this paper, please email Megan Estes at mlestes@amherst.edu.

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Megan Estes
(413) 542-2380
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