Media Crease

Abigail De Kosnik is Associate Professor in the Berkeley Center for New Media (BCNM) and the Department of Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies (TDPS) and an affiliated faculty member of Gender & Women’s Studies, Film & Media, and Folklore at University of California Berkeley, USA. Keith P. Feldman is Associate Professor of Comparative Ethnic Studies and Chair of the Department of Ethnic Studies at UC Berkeley, USA. Ra Malika Imhotep is Assistant Professor of International/Global African Diaspora Studies at Spelman College, USA.Rashad Arman Timmons is a PhD candidate in African Diaspora Studies and New Media Studies at the University of California Berkeley, USA.

A landmark collection. The Media Crease takes us on a journey, from danza to misogynoir, from Palestine to Senegal. Along the way, the concept of the media crease is used capaciously and perceptively to illuminate how repetition in digital media can be understood as, on the one hand, a force of entrenchment and oppression and on the other, an invitation to interrupt, disrupt and decolonise.

• AcknowledgementsIntroductionAbigail De Kosnik (UC Berkeley, USA), Keith P. Feldman (UC Berkeley, USA), Ra Malika Imhotep (Spelman College, USA), and Rashad Arman Timmons (UC Berkeley, USA)1. The Media CreaseAbigail De Kosnik (UC Berkeley, USA)Section I: Decolonial Loops and Ruptures2. Ancestral Technologies of Re-membering: Dance/Story/Ceremony and the Heart/CircleMarcelo Garzo Montalvo (California State University San Marcos, USA)3. Plantation Cartographies: Mapping the “Asian Settler Question” in Hawaiian Historiography and FilmKeoni Correa (University of California, Berkeley, USA)4. How To Find a Lost City: Techno-Decolonization in Cultural Heritage MediaJaclyn Zhou (University of California, Berkeley, USA)5. Th/read/ing Creases: Reflections on Palestinian World-Making and the 2020 Palestine Writes Literature FestivalRana Sharif (Independent Scholar, USA)Section II: Black Matter6. “The Hug Shared Around the World”: Devonte Hart, Racial Iconicity, and the Affects of RepetitionRashad Arman Timmons (UC Berkeley, USA)7. Towards Critical Amplification: #SandraBland, #BreonnaTaylor, and Transmedia Storytellers on TwitterNalya Rodriguez (University of Southern California, USA), Aaminah Norris (CEO of UhHidden Voices, USA), and Dale Allender (Sacramento State University, USA)8. “Good Pussy!”: Noname’s Black Feminist Interruption of Hip-Hop MisogynoirVincente Perez (University of California, Berkeley, USA)9. Glitch Being: Disrupting AIin Martine Syms’ Mythicc being and Rashad Newsome’s Being 1.0Kaitlin Clifton Forcier (University of Illinois, Chicago, USA)10. Repetition, Conjunction: On the Iconography of Black-Palestinian SolidarityKeith P. Feldman (UC Berkeley, USA)Section III: Aesthetic Gestures11. Memory Work: Intimate Objects and Circuits of MediationAndré Brock (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA) and Karen Tongson (Author and independent scholar, USA)12. Pornography’s Virtue: Media Repetition as Moral Transformation in Senegal’s Culture of SeductionJuliana Friend (University of California, San Francisco, USA)13. Messing up the Crease: Performances and Counter-Aesthetics to the Infrastructure and Spatialization of WhitenessBrian Truitt (University of California, Irvine, USA)14. Still There is a Very Large Surfaceleena joshi (Artist, poet, independent scholar, USA)Notes on ContributorsIndex