About: Eugenie Brinkema is an associate professor at MIT (USA) and currently a visiting scholar in Media Studies at the University of Amsterdam. Her research in film and media studies focuses on violence, affect, sexuality, aesthetics, and ethics in texts ranging from the horror film to gonzo pornography, from the body of films dubbed “New European Extremism” to the viral media forms of terrorism. Her influential first book, The Forms of the Affects, published with Duke University Press in 2014, has been an important intervention into debates about affect and won honourable mention in the Modern Language Association First Book Prize. Her current project, Algebras of Sensation, explores the theoretical potential of radical formalism in relation to horror and love. Her talk is a part of this project.