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SUMMARY:AT CAPACITY | A Presentation with Director Glorimar Marrero
DESCRIPTION:Image courtesy of director Glorimar Marrero Sánchez. \n  \nTuesday\, March 3\, 2026\n4:00pm\nLydeen Library\, Rolfe Hall Room #4302\nIn person. Advance registration required. \n  \nAdvance Registration Required \nSeating is limited and advance registration is required. \nPlease note that this event is at capacity and we can no longer accept RSVPs. The event organizers will reach out to confirm attendance with individuals who already RSVPd on Friday\, February 27. We will be checking names of confirmed attendees at the event and will not be able to accommodate you if you are not on the list. Thank you for your understanding!  \n  \nFor questions or concerns\, please contact Lisset at lisset@humnet.ucla.edu \n  \n  \nThis talk is co-sponsored by the Department of Comparative Literature and the Department of Spanish & Portuguese.  \n  \nAbout the Talk \nPuerto Rican filmmaker and interdisciplinary artist Glorimar Marrero Sánchez works across fiction\, hybrid cinema\, installation\, and photography to explore the intersections of colonialism\, environment\, embodiment\, and health in the Caribbean. This event will feature excerpts from her award-winning debut feature La Pecera (The Fishbowl)\, which premiered at the 2023 Sundance Film Festival and became the first Puerto Rican film nominated for the Goya Award for Best Ibero-American Film\, followed by presentations of her current projects. \nMarrero Sánchez’s work engages the ongoing health and environmental crisis in Vieques\, where decades of U.S. military activity left a legacy of contamination and chronic illness. Her interdisciplinary project UNDERWATER / BAJO AGUA examines these afterlives through questions of ecological justice\, colonial violence\, and community survival. \nA response by Ana Ugarte\, Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature\, will follow the presentation and lead into audience discussion. \n 
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LOCATION:Rolfe Hall 4302\, Lydeen Library
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SUMMARY:Good Vibes Only. A Book Presentation by Robin James | Program in Experimental Critical Theory
DESCRIPTION:Wednesday\, March 4\, 2026\n4:30pm\nHershey Hall Salon\, Hershey Hall\nIn person \n  \nAdvance Registration \nPlease note there is limited seating available\, and advance registration is required. \nRegister to attend here. \n  \nThe UCLA Livescu Initiative on Neuro\, Narrative\, and AI (NNAI) is partnering with the Program in Experimental Critical Theory\, the Department of Political Science\, and the Department of European Languages and Transcultural Studies\, to host a talk by renowned independent scholar and editor Dr. Robin James about her upcoming book\, “Good Vibes Only“. \n  \nPlease contact marranz@socgen.ucla.edu for any questions.  \n  \n\n  \nA follow-up to The Sonic Episteme\, this book attends to the relationship between biopower’s quantitative and qualitative dimensions. My previous book demonstrated the ways sound\, as a frequency\, was used to translate statistical normalization\, or the measurement of the most frequent frequencies in a population\, into qualitative terms. This book argues that phenomenological orientation or horizon has a similar function in contexts such as recommender algorithms and the density models used in contemporary AI and Machine Learning where probability is modeled as something other than a normalized distribution. Phenomenology is uniquely well-suited to theorize these models that as Amoore\, Cooper\, Joque\, and others have argued\, blend hard math with subjective intuition\, as (per philosophers like Shiloh Whitney)\, phenomenology\, unlike affect theory\, rejects the strict separation between what we can very loosely call “mind” and “body” (cognitive content and felt sense). \n  \nThese mathematical models have been vernacularized as “vibes”\, which are qualitative categories that everyone from 2020s social media users to music streaming services use to define the same sorts of orientations or tendencies that vectors model mathematically. “Vibes” are a lay term for more or less the same phenomenon philosophers call phenomenological orientations or horizons. Studying late 2010s and early 2020s internet culture and American popular music from the 1970s through today\, the book shows how orientations are policed not for their normativity\, but for their lineage – or rather\, their capacity to carry forward the patriarchal racial capitalist distribution of wealth and personhood into presently-counterfactual realities. Then\, in the final chapter\, I argue that although my theory and critique of the biopolitics of algorithmic legitimation is grounded in 21st century Anglophone feminist of color phenomenology\, the fact of orientation not inherently or necessarily critical of patriarchal racial capitalist power relations—Heidegger’s whole project is oriented towards what he calls “spiritual National Socialism.”  In order to orient ourselves otherwise\, what matters is to whom we collectively choose to orient ourselves toward\, and from whom we orient ourselves away. In this respect\, Beauvoir’s existential phenomenology\, which frames (re)orientation or (re) “situation” as a matter of choosing some people and some values over (and against) others\, is a helpful theoretical model for imagining how we might do phenomenology otherwise. \n  \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://complit.ucla.edu/event/ect-robin-james-talk-in-person/
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SUMMARY:Forms of Mobility: Genre\, Language and Media in African Literary Cultures
DESCRIPTION:Waiting on Forever by Franco The Creator Mbilizi. Image courtesy of Stephanie Bosch Santana. \n  \n  \nFriday\, March 6\, 2026 \n2:30pm \nKaplan Hall Room #348 (third floor) \nIn person \n  \nREGISTER TO ATTEND HERE \n  \n  \nAbout the Talk \nIn this talk\, Stephanie Bosch Santana discusses her first monograph\, Forms of Mobility: Genre\, Language\, and Media in African Literary Cultures\, published by Northwestern University Press in 2025. Based on an unstudied archive of texts in English and Chichewa/Nyanja from Malawi\, South Africa\, Zimbabwe\, and Zambia\, Forms of Mobility proposes alternate categories of fiction—migrant forms\, township tales\, weekend stories\, pan African time machines\, and digital diaries—through which to examine how writers envisaged the region’s changing literary and political terrains. By reading these forms “in motion\,” as they travel across space\, time\, genre\, language\, and between publications and platforms\, this study limns multiple centers of literary influence and relation across the southern African and Black diasporas and reveals forms of literary mobility and space-making that are occluded by current models of world literature. \n  \n  \nAbout the Author \nStephanie Bosch Santana is the co-editor of Digital Africas\, a special issue of Postcolonial Text (2020)\, and has contributed essays on digital and print literatures and reading cultures to the Routledge Handbook of African Literature (2019) and A Companion to African Literatures (Wiley-Blackwell\, 2021). From 2006-2008\, she assisted with South Africa’s BTA/Anglo Platinum short story competition and is co-founder of the Malawian Girls’ Literary Competition\, which celebrates young women’s writing in English and Chichewa. \n  \n 
URL:https://complit.ucla.edu/event/forms-of-mobility-genre-language-and-media-in-african-literary-cultures/
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