FROM DUSK TILL DAWN in hong kong
Music and Musing Series 1:“From Dusk Till Dawn – Limits of Perception” What is reality? What is consciousness? What is liminality?Initiated by Professor Chow Yiu Fai, in collaboration with film philosopher Professor Patricia Pisters, Hong Kong indie band Wantamnam, and lighting designer Timothy Tsang, the event aims to blend the creative with the academic, into…
Fantastic Machine
Hoe gaan we om met de constante stroom aan beelden die dagelijks op ons afkomen? De documentaire ‘And the King Said What a Fantastic Machine’ (VPRO) toont de opkomst van onze beeldcultuur: van het eerste bewegende beeld tot de overvloed aan content die we nu kunnen consumeren. NPO Doc sprak erover met Patricia Pisters, professor…
NEED FOR TRANSFORMATIONS IN ACADEMIC PUBLISHING
There is something fundamentally wrong with academic publishing. Recently, authors and series editors of Amsterdam University Press had to find out in a three sentence email we had been sold to Taylor & Francis. Taylor & Francis is a full-profit company that is in the business of academic publishing to make money, not to share…
Patricia Pisters 