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Author: David Bering-Porter / The New School

David Bering-Porter is Assistant Professor of Culture and Media at the Eugene Lang College for the Liberal Arts at The New School. Areas of research include film and media studies, new media theory, and the intersections of media, science, and technology and his writing has appeared in the journals Flow, MIRAJ, and the Los Angeles Review of Books.

Loops within Loops: Reflections on the work of Marco Brambilla
David Bering-Porter / The New School

September 19, 2016 David Bering-Porter / The New School Leave a comment

In his contribution to the Flow Special Issue on Loop Media, David Bering-Porter explores the role of the loop as a temporal form in the video collage work of artist and director Marco Brambilla, particularly his Megaplex series.

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Toaster-Frakkers and Remote Controls: Technophilia, Cylons, and the Archival Drive

January 17, 2008 David Bering-Porter / The New School 3 comments

Within the on-screen space of Battlestar Galactica, the Cylons illustrate questions of technophilia through the representational work that they perform both in relation to the remnants of humanity and in and of themselves.

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Flow is a critical forum on media and culture published by the Department of Radio-Television-Film at the University of Texas at Austin. Flow’s mission is to provide a space where scholars and the public can discuss media histories, media studies, and the changing landscape of contemporary media.

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