I AM A MAN EATING MACHINE. On Modulation, Corporate Cannibals and (Im)Proper Bodies

In cooperation with the "AG Dekoloniale Praktiken" and the Graduate Program "Das Wissen der Künste," Katrin Koppert warmly invites you to a distinguished lecture by Kara Keeling. By placing the music video for Grace Jones’ 2008 single, “Corporate Cannibal” and selected sequences of Arthur Jafa’s 2014 film "Dreams Are Colder than Death" into a conversation with feminist theories of race, gender, embodiment, and media, this talk extends a series of inquires into the historical relationship between African American women’s bodies, processes of commodification, and propriety into a consideration of property relations animated by the logics of digital media in a “sharing” economy.

Kara Keeling is Associate Professor in the Division of Cinema and Media Studies in the School of Cinematic Arts and in the Department of American Studies and Ethnicity at the University of Southern California. Keeling's research has focused on African American film, theories of race, sexuality, and gender in cinema, critical theory, and cultural studies. Current research involves issues of temporality, media and black and queer cultural politics; digital media, globalization, and difference; and Gilles Deleuze and liberation theory.

*Please note that both the lecture and discussion will be in English.

Location: Medienhaus, Grunewaldstraße 2-5, 10823 Berlin