Published in Open! Platform for Art, Culture and the Public Domain, 9 June 2015. Here's a PDF of the article.

Column over nieuwsgierigheid in de wetenschap. Uitgesproken op 10 juni 2015 voor Jose van Dijck's afscheid als voorzitter van SPUI25. Hier te lezen in PDF.

Over het vastgelopen academische systeem. In De Groene Amsterdammer 11 maart 2015. In PDF hier te vinden.

 “Cutting and Folding the Borgesian Map: Film as Complex temporal Object in the Industrialization of Memory” in    Ekman, Ulrik, Jay David Bolter, Lily Diaz, Maria Engberg, Morten Søndergaard, eds. Ubiquitous Computing, Complexity, and Culture. New York: Routledge, 2015, pp. 322-333. Find here  PDF.

Transplanting Life: Bios and Zoe in Images with Imagination” In Bolette Blaagaard and Iris van der Tuin (eds.) The Subject of Rosi Braidotti. Bloomsbury 2014, 65-71. This article is a companion piece to 'Heart of the Matter' (see below) where I explore organ transplantation in their cinemaptographic mediations. Transplanting Life reads this 'posthuman' problem through the powerful Indian film Ship of Theseus. Download PDF.

Heart of the Matter: Bodies without Organs and Biopolitics in Organ Transplant Film”, in Angelaki: Journal of the Theoretical Humanities, 19:4, 23-36 (2014). See for the full Special Issue on Sacrifice and Cinema of Angelaki the online version here. As editor Costica Bradatan describes in the introduction "In Heart of the Matter Patricia Pisters four films in terms of Jean-Luc Nancy’s notion of the “intruder”: Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu’s 21 Grams, Claire Denis’s L’Intrus, Stephen Frears’ Dirty Pretty Things,and Leon Geller and Markus Vetter’s Heart of Jenin. What emerges from this analysis is a renewed concept of sacrifice, one that brings about a switch from the original sense of religious offering to that of political and ethical resistance, areligious in nature. Download PDF.

See here for Interview in Het Parool 8 November 2014.  See also Interview Het Parool 8 Mei 2013.

De tekst van een voordracht voor de Vereniging Geschiedenis Beeld en Geluid tijdens het symposium "Waanzin en Media" op 26 september 2014 is online gepubiceerd in het Tijdschrift voor Mediageschiedenis.   Download PDF.

Published in Journal for Cultural Research, special issue on gesture, ed. by Elisabeth Watkins. First online 21 July 2014. DOI 10.1080/14797585.2014.920186. The article can be downloaded from Taylor Francis online here  or download PDF.

In Sonja Neef and Henry Sussman, eds. Astroculture: Figurations of Cosmology in Media and Arts. Wlhelm Fink Verlag, 2014, pp. 181-194. Download PDF.