Description: This book considers the significance of practices and theories of withdrawal (exodus, desertion, retreat) for radical thinking with contributions from major theorists in the fields of contemporary political philosophy, cultural studies and media studies (including Bernard Stie...
Brief description: Pepita Hesselberth is Assistant Professor of Film, Literary Studies, and Digital Culture at Leiden University. Recent publications include Cinematic Chonotopes (Bloomsbury 2014) co-edited volumes on Compact Cinematics: The Moving Image in the Age of Bit-Sized Media (Bloomsbury 2017) and Legibility inthe Age of Signs & Machines (Brill 2018), and a series of articles coming out of her most current research project on Disconnectivity in the Digital, for which she received a fellowship from the Danish Council for Independent Research, and was appointed as a research fellow at the Department of Arts and Cultural Studies at the University of Copenhagen. (2016-2018).