“Metallurgic Fashion: Sartorial Transformations in Changing Techno-Mediated Worlds” in Adriano D’Aloia, Marie-Aude Baroniam & Marco Pedroni (eds.),Fashionating Image: Audiovisual Media Studies Meet Fashion. Special Issue Comunicazioni sociali, n. 1 : 2017 Vita e Pensiero / Pubblicazioni dell’Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore Milano, 43-52. Find here the article in PDF.
Urban Europe: Fifty Tales of the City. Virginie Mamadouh and Anne van Wageningen, eds.. Amsterdam: AUP, 2016, pp. 309-316. Read here in PDF.
In: Cine-files, Issue 10, 2016. Dossier on Cinematic Affect, ed. by Anne Rutherford. My contribution deals with OCD in the form of dancing & GIFs. Here you can read the version including GIFs. A version without repetitive movements can he downloaded as PDF here.
An Interview with Patricia Pisters in the Newsletter of SMART Cognitive Science, 10 May 2016.
“I grew up in a small village in the South of the Netherlands: there was no cinema, only a library. So I grew up just reading; I went to the library with my father every Friday night. The libraries had these nice big boxes with all these cards, and I just loved ‘playing library’. At home I made every book we had – we did not have a lot of books – into library books with pockets in the inside of the cover containing return cards. I really loved that, and I also liked to play teacher: I wanted to be either a librarian or a teacher. So after high school, I first started doing a vocational teacher training course in Nijmegen, because I wanted to become a French-English teacher. But then when I was in Paris for the first time, I realized that I wanted to really learn the French language, have access to the wealth of books written in French, and I stopped the teacher training course. I went to study in Paris, which is where I discovered cinema. Then I came to Amsterdam, first to work, and then to study. I studied French and also Film Studies, a free doctorate – within this degree it was possible to compose your own program. I went back to France to do my DEA (Diplôme des études approfondies), which is comparable to a research master. In the meantime, the department film and television studies was established in Amsterdam, and professor Elsaesser who set up the program asked me to come and work there. That is how I started to teach, even before I started my PhD; then it was just natural to do also a PhD. So I had some detours: it is through French, and French literature and cinema that I ended up in the department of media studies.”
In AEON - Ideas and Culture. 8 February 2016.
In: Sebastian Groes, ed. Memory in the Twenty-first Century: New Critical Perspectives from the Arts, Humanities and Sciences (New York: Palgrave, 2015, 213-216).
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The Los Angeles Review of Books (LARB) of 8 November 2015 has published a special issue "The Event of Life" on the occasion of teh 20th anniversary of the death of Gilles Deleuze. Arne de Boever and Brad Evans asked scholars what might be said about Deleuze today. Contributions by Adrian Parr, Brian Massumi, Greg Lambert, Bracha L. Ettinger and Patricia Pisters ('Deleuze's Metallurgic Machines').