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PHD Defence MA Emanuele Nicolo Andreoli (Mitra Azar): (DIS)ORIENTATION—WHAT A POV CAN DO: A Meta-Cinematic Inquiry on the Edges of Philosophy and Cybernetics

Info about event

Time

Wednesday 5 November 2025,  at 13:00 - 16:00

Location

Tåsingegade 3, building 1441, room 012, 8000 Aarhus C

Photo: Cymatics by Linden Gledhill

Assessment Committee

  • Professor Jussi Parikka, Communication and Culture, Aarhus University, Denmark (chair)
  • Professor Liv Hausken, dept. of Media and Communication, University of Oslo, Norway
  • Professor (emeritus) Brian Massumi, dept. Communication Sciences, University of Montreal, Canada

Supervisors

  • Associate professor Christian Ulrik Andersen, Communication and Culture, Aarhus University
  • Associate Professor Geoff Cox, London South Bank University, UK

The dissertation will be available for reading in a digital version before the defence following a statement from the borrower promising to delete the file afterwards. If you wish to read the dissertation, please contact Emanuele Nicolo Andreoli - azar@cc.au.dk.

The defence is scheduled for three hours and is open to the public. All are welcome.

Abstract:

The thesis develops a new philosophy-cinema rooted in (dis)orientation and POV and inspired by Stiegler, Deleuze, and Simondon, across philosophy, cinema studies, critical media theory, and cybernetics. It arguably produces the first steps toward a comprehensive theory of POV spanning inorganic, biological, anthropological, and technological domains of reality.

For more information about his work:

https://www.academia.edu/143812950/_Dis_orientation_What_a_POV_can_do_Index_Introduction