\u201cQueer fits: Toward a queer theory of media formats\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This presentation proposes a queer theoretical shift in the study of media materialities and infrastructures. As \u2018glitch studies\u2019 have begun to demonstrate, a queer approach\u00a0shows\u00a0particular potential if we take seriously the material instabilities and failures that haunt media systems and the unexpected\u00a0affects\u00a0that arise\u00a0when\u00a0users\u00a0encounter\u00a0media. One aim of this shift is to loosen up how we understand the articulation of identities\u00a0and relations\u00a0to\u00a0media reception, and a useful starting point is queer theory\u2019s recognition of queer bodies as those that do no fit or are disoriented by heterornormative protocols. This discussion will focus on the material and affective experience of media formats, understood as the taken-for-granted, normative protocols which govern how media operate and how users encounter them.\u00a0If particular formats fit particular media to ensure the smooth operation of normative protocols, how do we account for formats that do not fit\u00a0\u2013 queer fits?\u00a0To begin exploring this question,\u00a0I will\u00a0offer\u00a0scenes from my own history of encounters with\u00a0homoerotic media\u00a0(eg. discovering queer\u00a0cinema\u00a0on analogue TV;\u00a0piecing together fragments\u00a0of digital porn). Starting from our own queer histories may highlight the significance of awkward and messy format fits to media history.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
\u201cQueer fits: Toward a queer theory of media formats\u201d This presentation proposes a queer theoretical shift in the study of media materialities and infrastructures. As \u2018glitch studies\u2019 have begun to demonstrate, a queer approach\u00a0shows\u00a0particular potential if we take seriously the material instabilities and failures that haunt media systems and the unexpected\u00a0affects\u00a0that arise\u00a0when\u00a0users\u00a0encounter\u00a0media. One aim of … Lire la suite<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mediasex2020.univ-lille.fr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/439"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mediasex2020.univ-lille.fr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mediasex2020.univ-lille.fr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mediasex2020.univ-lille.fr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mediasex2020.univ-lille.fr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=439"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mediasex2020.univ-lille.fr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/439\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":440,"href":"https:\/\/mediasex2020.univ-lille.fr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/439\/revisions\/440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mediasex2020.univ-lille.fr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}