Patricia Pisters / University of Amsterdam

Patricia Pisters is professor of film at the Department of Media Studies of the University of Amsterdam. She is one of the founding editors of the Open Access journal Necsus: European Journal of Media Studies. Publications include The Matrix of Visual Culture: Working with Deleuze in Film Theory (Stanford University Press, 2003); and The Neuro-Image: A Deleuzian Film-Philosophy of Digital Screen Culture (Stanford University Press, 2012). Her book New Blood in Contemporary Cinema: Women Directors and the Poetics of Horror will appear with Edinburgh University Press in 2020. She writes about the role of film and media in respect to (collective) consciousness; psychopathologies of contemporary media culture; and on the idea of filmmaker as metallurgist and alchemist of our times. See for articles, her blog, audio-visual material and other information also www.patriciapisters.com .