Matthew Flisfeder
Assistant Professor
Rhetoric, Writing, and Communications
University of Winnipeg
Canada
Biography
Matthew Flisfeder is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Rhetoric, Writing, and Communications. He received his Ph.D. from the Joint Graduate Programme in Communication and Culture at Ryerson and York Universities in 2010. Before coming to the University of Winnipeg, Dr. Flisfeder was an Assistant Professor in the Department of Politics and Public Administration at Ryerson University. Dr. Flisfeder has research and teaching interests in social media, popular culture, and film, as well as social and cultural theory. His interdisciplinary research addresses questions about the intersection of media, ideology, and subjectivity, and examines the role of media and popular culture in reproducing ideological hegemony and in interpellating subjects compliant in the dominance of capitalism and neoliberalism. Dr. Flisfeder is the author of Postmodern Theory and Blade Runner (Bloomsbury 2017), The Symbolic, The Sublime, and Slavoj Žižek’s Theory of Film (Palgrave Macmillan 2012), and co-editor of Žižek and Media Studies: A Reader (Palgrave Macmillan 2014). Dr. Flisfeder’s current research examines the relationship between social media, algorithmic discourses, automation, and the representation of neoliberal ideology.
Research Interest
The Alt-Right Communication Theory Critical and Cultural Theory Critical Political Economy Critical Social Media Studies Film and Visual Culture Ideology and Popular Culture Left Political Theory Neoliberalism Postmodern Theory Subjectivity and Identity
