Dr. T. (Toni) Pape
Faculteit der Geesteswetenschappen
Dep. Mediastudies
Bezoekadres
- Turfdraagsterpad 9
- Kamernummer: 2.12
Postadres
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Postbus 94550
1090 GN Amsterdam
Contactgegevens
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Profiel
At the University of Amsterdam, I am affiliated with the Television and Cross-media team and the Amsterdam School of Cultural Analysis. I received my PhD from the Université de Montréal in 2014.
My main interests concern media aesthetics and process philosophy. Combining the two interests, my work addresses the political dimension of contemporary media aesthetics, for instance in televisual narratives and video games.
For example, my book The Aesthetics of Stealth (MIT Press 2024, open access) I develop an aesthetic and cultural theory of "stealth" or tactical imperceptibility. The primary goal of stealth is to act efficiently while remaining imperceptible. The book proposes that the desire for stealth is a sociocultural response to digital media culture, due to digital technologies' unprecedented ability to track individual behavior. I argue that stealth operates as a cross-media aesthetic that can be observed in video games, television, and video art alike, particularly in so-called stealth video games, a genre that requires players to accomplish missions without being detected by in-game enemies.
My previous book Figures of Time (Duke UP 2019) investigates how the nonlinear temporalities of recent television series align with a politics of preemption. The book looks at the narrative pattern of the preempted ending, where an episode or season opens with a conflict and then goes back in time to show how that conflict came to be. The book examines these narratives to show how these leaps in time create aesthetic experiences of time that attune their audiences to the political doctrine of preemption—a logic that justifies preemptive action to nullify a perceived future threat.
I am a co-editor of NECSUS: European Journal of Media Studies (open access) and the 3Ecologies imprint at Punctum Press (open access).
At the Department of Media Studies, I teach courses in cross-media aesthetics and storytelling, video game studies, process philosophy, and media history. I have also taught teach for the Netherlands Institute of Cultural Analysis.
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Publicaties
- refereed (20)
- wetenschappelijk (9)
- vakpublicatie (7)
- congresbijdragen (1)
- erkenning (3)
- supervised theses (1)
2024
- Pape, T. (2024). The Aesthetics of Stealth: Digital Culture, Video Games, and the Politics of Perception. The MIT Press.
Pape, T. (2024). Insomnolence: The Sociability of Sleep at Agora Hydro-Québec [Review of exhibition: Insomnolence. The Sociability of Sleep, Agora Hydro-Québec 21 June- 13 July 2023]. NECSUS, 13(1), 329-339. https://necsus-ejms.org/insomnolence-the-sociability-of-sleep-at-agora-hydro-quebec/ [details]- Pape, T., Keilbach, J., Vélez-Serna, M., Pabiś-Orzeszyna, M., Pedregal, A., Voelcker, B., & Price, J. R. (2024). Enough: Reading notes from media studies. NECSUS, 13(2). https://necsus-ejms.org/enough-reading-notes-from-media-studies/
2023
- Pape, T. (2023). #Cycles: On circularity and recursivity in media culture. NECSUS, 12(2), 3-15. https://doi.org/10.25969/mediarep/21707 [details]
- Pape, T. (Ed.) (2023). Special section #Cycles. NECSUS, 12(2). https://mediarep.org/collections/c60bf8de-fb7f-4963-88f7-1955e2f27ebd
2021
- Pape, T. (2021). Stealth Spaces and Insistent Belonging. In A. Brisson-Darveau, & C. Brunner (Eds.), Texturing Space : Towards an Exponential Cartography (pp. 177-181). adocs Publishing. [details]
- Pape, T. (2021). The queer politics of stealth gameplay. Jump Cut: A Review of Contemporary Media, 60. https://www.ejumpcut.org/currentissue/Pape-StealthGameplay/index.html [details]
2020
- Pape, T. (2020). La narration transmédiatique en temps réel: L’exemple de l’émission norvégienne Skam. In M. Boni (Ed.), Formes et plateformes de la télévision à l’ère du numérique (pp. 206-221). (Cinéma). Presses Universitaires de Rennes. [details]
- Pape, T. (2020). Method unchained: To new adventures of ideas. NECSUS, 9(2), 77-91. https://doi.org/10.25969/mediarep/15342 [details]
2019
- Pape, T. (2019). Figures of Time: Affect and the Television of Preemption. (Thought in the Act). Duke University Press. [details]
- Pape, T. (2019). Moving in stealth: On the tracking shot as a technique for imperceptibility. Critical Studies in Television, 14(1), 40-54. https://doi.org/10.1177/1749602018816876 [details]
- Pape, T. (2019). Resurrecting Television: Memories of the Future and the Anarchival Politics of Joy in Arrested Development. In E. Manning, A. Munster, & B. M. Stavning Thomsen (Eds.), Immediation 1 (pp. 63-78). (Immediations). Open Humanities Press. https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/27262 [details]
2018
- Pape, T. (2018). Voyager avec le Sandmännchen: L'Imaginaire international à la télévision pour les enfants est-allemands. In V. Paci, & S. Boisvert (Eds.), Une télévision allumée: Les arts dans le noir et blanc du tube cathodique (pp. 161-177). (Médias). Presses universitaires de Vincennes. [details]
2017
- Bordeleau, É. (Ed.), Brunner, C. (Ed.), Kuipers, H. (Ed.), Chi, N. N., & Pape, T. (Ed.) (2017). Modes of Exhaustion. Inflexions, 10. http://www.inflexions.org/exhaustion/main.html [details]
- Bordeleau, É., Pape, T., Ronald, R-A., & Szymanski, A. (2017). Fabulations nocturnes: Écologie, vitalité et opacité dans le cinéma d’Apichatpong Weerasethakul. Open Humanities Press. http://www.openhumanitiespress.org/books/titles/fabulations-nocturnes/ [details]
- Bordeleau, É., Pape, T., Ronald, R-A., & Szymanski, A. (2017). Nocturnal Fabulations: Ecology, Vitality and Opacity in the Cinema of Apichatpong Weerasethakul. Open Humanities Press. http://www.openhumanitiespress.org/books/titles/nocturnal-fabulations/ [details]
- Brunner, C., Kuipers, H. H., & Pape, T. (2017). Introduction: For an Ethology of Exhaustion. Inflexions, 10, i-ix. http://www.inflexions.org/exhaustion/main.html#n1 [details]
- Hongisto, I. (Guest ed.), Pape, T. (Guest ed.), & Thain, A. (Guest ed.) (2017). Special section: #True: The Ring of the True in Contemporary Media. NECSUS, 6(1), 61-207. https://mediarep.org/handle/doc/4094
- Hongisto, I., Pape, T., & Thain, A. (2017). Introduction: The ring of the true in contemporary media. NECSUS, 6(1), 61-75. https://doi.org/10.25969/mediarep/3378 [details]
- Pape, T. (2017). The aesthetics of stealth: Towards an activist philosophy of becoming-imperceptible in contemporary media. Feminist Media Studies, 17(4), 630-645. https://doi.org/10.1080/14680777.2017.1326564 [details]
2024
- Pape, T., & van der Deure, M.-J. (2024). What is enough? An interview with Toby Miller on degrowth and sustainability in media (studies). NECSUS, 13(2). https://necsus-ejms.org/what-is-enough-an-interview-with-toby-miller-on-degrowth-and-sustainability-in-media-studies/
2023
- Beugnet, M., de Cuir Jr, G., Keilbach, J., Loist, S., Pape, T., Vidal, B., & Virginás, A. (2023). Editorial NECSUS – Autumn 2023_#Cycles. NECSUS, 12(2), 1-3. https://doi.org/10.25969/mediarep/21718 [details]
- Beugnet, M., de Cuir, G., Keilbach, J., Loist, S., Pape, T., Vidal, B., & Virginás, A. (2023). Editorial NECSUS – Spring 2023_#Ports. NECSUS, 12(1), 1-8. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.25969/mediarep/19732 [details]
- Pape, T., & Gold, R. (2023). No more ego-spheres: An interview with Lydia Kallipoliti on ecological design. NECSUS, 12(2), 16-33. https://doi.org/10.25969/mediarep/21725 [details]
2022
- Beugnet, M., de Cuir, G., Keilbach, J., Loist, S., Pape, T., Vidal, B., & Virginás, A. (2022). Editorial NECSUS. NECSUS, 11(1), 1-3. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.25969/mediarep/18815 [details]
- Beugnet, M., de Cuir, G., Keilbach, J., Loist, S., Pape, T., Vidal, B., & Virginás, A. (2022). Editorial NECSUS. NECSUS, 11(2), 1-4. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.25969/mediarep/19219 [details]
- Kumar, A., Vasquez, R., Ftouni, L., & Pape, T. (2022). Decolonizing the Curriculum and the University: A Panel Discussion with Rolando Vasquez, Layal Ftouni and Toni Pape, 31 March 2021. Junctions: Graduate Journal of the Humanities, 6(1), 21-37. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.33391/jgjh.144 [details]
- Pape, T. (2022). The Atmospheric Knowing of Play: An Extraction Barometer? In A. Kumar (Ed.), Estuaries: Ways of Knowing (ARIAS Zine; Vol. 2). ARIAS. [details]
2016
- Pape, T. (Author). (2016). Anonymity/Stealth. Web publication or website, The Nomos of Images. http://nomoi.hypotheses.org/308 [details]
2024
- Pape, T., & Miller, T. (2024). Toni Pape on higher education, media aesthetics, stealth, process philosophy, editing, and games. Digital or Visual Products https://www.podbean.com/pu/pbblog-b934k-44302
- Pape, T., Beugnet, M., de Cuir, G., Hongisto, I., Keilbach, J., Loist, S., Vélez-Serna, M., & Virginás, A. (2024). Editorial NECSUS: Autumn 2024_#Enough. NECSUS, 13(2). https://necsus-ejms.org/editorial-necsus-autumn-2024_enough/
2021
- Pape, T. (Author). (2021). What do video games teach us about Trumpism?. Digital or Visual Products https://youtu.be/6siktMvuifk
2018
- Pape, T. (Author), Duits, L. (Author), & Crone, V. C. A. (Author). (2018). Games en Strafrecht (Aflevering 81). Digital or Visual Products http://ondermediadoctoren.nl/afl-81-games-en-strafrecht/
2017
- Pape, T. (Author). (2017). Skam: Le vite a pezzi degli studenti di Oslo. Web publication or website, Link: Idee per la tv. http://www.linkideeperlatv.it/skam/ [details]
2014
- Bordeleau, E., Manning, E., Massumi, B., Pape, T., Rose-Antoinette, R., Szymanski, A., & Thain, A. (2014). La sensation présente: l’art contemporain et la question du temps. In S. Fortin (Ed.), L’avenir = (Looking Forward): BNLMTL 2014 (pp. 42-49). Biennale de Montréal. [details]
- Bordeleau, E., Manning, E., Massumi, B., Pape, T., Rose-Antoinette, R., Szymanski, A., & Thain, A. (2014). The Present Feeling: Contemporary Art and the Question of Time. In S. Fortin (Ed.), L’avenir = (Looking Forward): BNLMTL 2014 (pp. 175-181). Biennale de Montréal. [details]
2023
- Pape, T. (2023). On the Rhetorical Use of “Stealth” and “Invisibility” in Pandemic Communication. Paper presented at Truth, Transparency, Controversy, Amsterdam, Netherlands. https://demontages.phl-lab.uliege.be/on-the-rhetorical-use-of-stealth-and-invisibility-in-pandemic-communication/ [details]
Mediaoptreden
- Pape, T. (27-08-2024). Kijken, kijken, niet spelen [Web] NEMO Kennislink. Kijken, kijken, niet spelen. https://www.nemokennislink.nl/publicaties/kijken-kijken-niet-spelen/
Tijdschriftredactie
- Pape, T. (editor) (2019-2025). NECSUS (Journal). https://necsus-ejms.org/
- Pape, T. (editor) (2018-2025). Punctum Books (Publisher). https://punctumbooks.com/imprints/3ecologies-books/
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Pape, T. (2024). Insomnolence: The Sociability of Sleep at Agora Hydro-Québec [Review of exhibition: Insomnolence. The Sociability of Sleep, Agora Hydro-Québec 21 June- 13 July 2023]. NECSUS, 13(1), 329-339.