71:. He is currently Glen A. Lloyd Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus at the University of Chicago where he has also served as academic director for the University of Chicago Center in Paris. Rodowick has been a visiting professor at the Institut für Geschichte, Universität Wien, Vienna, Austria and at the Université Sorbonne Nouvelle—Paris 3, Paris, France. He is currently an International Associate of the Kolleg-Forschungsgruppe Cinepoetics at the Freie Universität Berlin. He has also held fellowships at Cornell University’s Society for the Humanities and the Internationale Kolleg für Kulturtechnikforschung und Medienphilosophie at the Bauhaus-Universität, Germany.
78:, especially in the context of international film theory and philosophies of the image. He is also known for his critique of political modernism in post-1968 film and literary theory as well as his genealogical investigations of the history of theory in general as a vexed concept in art and aesthetics. Rodowick is perhaps best known for his work on the aesthetic consequences of the global replacement of analogue technologies and representations by digital means and media. Expanding on
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33:(born August 27, 1952) is an American philosopher, artist, and curator. He is best known for his contributions to cinema and media studies, visual cultural studies, critical theory, and aesthetics and the philosophy of art. He became a French citizen in 2002 though retains dual citizenship with the United States.
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