EV 11.705, EV Building, Concordia SGW Campus
5:00-7:00pm
You’re invited to this seminar co-hosted by the Media History Research Center and DIGS Lab. Dr. Sarah Sharma is Associate Professor of Media Theory and Director of the Institute of Communication, Culture, Information and Technology (ICCIT) at the University of Toronto. She is the author of In the Meantime: Temporality and Cultural Politics (Duke UP, 2014). This book challenges the popular sentiment that the world is "speeding up" and locates instead how temporality operates as a key relation of power structured at the intersection of a range of social differences and technologies. Her edited volume (with Rianka Singh) Re-Understanding Media: Feminist Extensions of Marshall McLuhan (Duke UP 2022) highlights her time as director of the McLuhan Centre between 2017-2022 and retrieves a feminist version of "the medium is the message." Sarah is currently working on a new book (tentatively titled Broken Machine: Towards a Techno-feminist Refusal) which advances a techno-feminist media theory to account for Big Tech and the gendered politics of utility, exit and repair. Registered participants will receive a chapter of the book to read in preparation.