of Opacity: The Melodrama of Sensation in the Plays of André de Lorde”in
Melodrama–Stage, Picture, ScreenBFI ed. J.S. Bratton, Jim Cook and Christine
Gledhill,;“An Aesthetic of Astonishment: Early Film and the [In]Credu-
lous Spectator”inViewing Positions, ed. Linda Williams (New Brunswick: Rut-
gers,); and“The Cinema of Attractions: Early Film, Its Spectator and the
Avant-Garde”;inEarly Filmed. Thomas Elsaesser and Adam Barker (British
Film Institute,).
Mark B.N. Hansenis Professor of English and Cinema/Media Studies at Duke
University. He is author ofEmbodying Technesis: Technology Beyond Writing(Mi-
chigan),New Philosophy for New Media(MIT), andBodies in Code
(Routledge), as well as numerous essays on cultural theory, contemporary
literature, and media. He has co-edited (with Taylor Carman)The Cambridge
Companion to Merleau-PontyandCritical Terms for Media Studies(with W.J.T.
Mitchell) andNeocybernetic Emergence(with Bruce Clarke).
His current projects include:The Politics of Presencing, a study of embodied
human agency in the context of realtime media and computing, Becoming-Hu-
man, an ethics of the posthuman, andFiction After Television, a study of the no-
vel in the age of digital convergence.
Arild Fetveitis Associate Professor, dr.art., in the Department of Media, Cogni-
tion, and Communication, University of Copenhagen, Denmark. He has pub-
lished in the fields of reception studies, reality TV, and digitalization of film
and photography, and has written a dissertation on the discursive possibilities
between documentary and fiction film. He is now working on the digitalization
of photography as part of the research project Media Aesthetics, located at the
University of Oslo. He is also the director of the research network, Digital Art
and Culture in the Age of Pervasive Computing (funded by the Danish Re-
search Council in the period-). His latest publication is a co-edited vol-
ume of Northern Lights on Digital Aesthetics and Communication (Intellect
Press,).
Trond Lundemois Associate Professor at the Film Department, University of
Stockholm. Inand/he was visiting professor at Seijo University
in Tokyo. His research interests are sentered around time technologies, aes-
thetics and intermediality with focus on the mnemotechniques of the digital
archives, the film theory of Jean Epstein and Japanese film from the interwar
period. His publications include amongst othersBildets oppløsning;Filmens beve-
gelse i teoretisk og historisk perspektiv();Jean Epstein: The Intelligence of a Ma-
chine() and two anthologies on the relation between film and other art
forms (Film/Konst,Kairos vol.:og:,).
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