[Commlist] Spiral Film and Philosophy 4th Annual Conference

Join us on *May 17 and 18* for *the fourth edition of /Spiral Film and 
Philosophy /**annual conference*! This year edition, titled *“IT’S 
ALIVE! FILM / FORM / LIFE”* 
<https://spiralfilmphilosophy.ca/2019-film-form-life/> brings a mix of 
emergent and established scholars from 6 different countries for a 
two-day long exciting conversation. The entire event will be hosted at 
the Toronto Media Arts Centre (TMAC), conveniently located downtown 
Toronto (directions <https://spiralfilmphilosophy.ca/directions/>). 
Registration <https://spiralfilmphilosophy.ca/> is required. Media and 
communication studies scholars are especially welcome!

/This event is sponsored by York University's //*Cinema & Media Arts 
Program*/ <https://cma.ampd.yorku.ca/>, /*York Graduate Film Student 
Association*/ <https://yorkgradfilm.wordpress.com/>, /Glendon Campus 
*Communications Program* <https://www.glendon.yorku.ca/communications/> 
//and /*/T/*/*oronto Media Arts Centre (TMAC)*/ 
<https://www.tomediaarts.org/>

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*/It’s Alive! Film / Form / Life/*
*May 17-18, 2019*
*▶︎ **Full Program & Information 
<https://spiralfilmphilosophy.ca/program-2019/> ◀︎*
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Keynote Adress by <https://spiralfilmphilosophy.ca/keynote-2019/>
*Deborah Levitt*
The New School
Saturday, May 18, 2019
6:00 PM


Understanding lives as media forms and media as life forms opens a way 
to address the actual state of emergency of our times: how to enable 
pluralism and promote ecological regeneration in the milieu of planetary 
computing. In this talk, I counterpose “the world” as it has served as a 
fundamental reference point for a tendency in film theory, often 
grounding claims of representational fidelity and ethical vocation, to 
the multiplicity of worlds rendered in the pluriverse of animation. If 
for the former life functioned as an ontological problematic—what is 
life? what is death?—the latter compels us to think life in relation to 
world. Or, more precisely, lives in relation to worlds. In this view, 
life and world are co-emergent in each case, informed by the technical, 
material, and ethical procedures that constitute their milieux. The 
multiple ontologies of animated worlds enable us to imagine and 
experience vitality and liveliness as different types of qualities 
differently distributed across a world’s elements: figures, grounds, 
scales, rhythms, etc. Drawing on these animatic features, I describe how 
emerging media allow us to use world making to model various 
cosmotechnical life-worlds, and pose the question of how we might put 
these to work to render diverse and convivial futures.

*Deborah Levitt is Assistant Professor of Culture & Media Studies at The 
New School, in New York City. She is the author of The Animatic 
Apparatus: Animation, Vitality, and the Futures of the Image (Zero 
Books, 2018), and co-editor of Acting and Performance in Moving Image 
Culture: Bodies, Screens, and Renderings (Transcript Verlag, 2012). She 
has published articles and interviews in Public Seminar, Waking Life: 
Kino zwischen Technik und Leben, Inflexions: A Journal of 
Research-Creation, The Scholar and Feminist Online, The Year’s Work in 
Critical and Cultural Theory, and The Agamben Dictionary, among others.*




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