Jakob Nilsson
Title: Senior Lecturer School/office: School of Humanities, Education and Social Sciences
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Phone: +46 19 301290
Room: F3130
About Jakob Nilsson
Jakob A. Nilsson is Assistant Professor of Film Studies at the unit of Media and Communications. Research interests include audiovisual media as form for articulating philosophy, theory-driven political video art, and Gilles Deleuze. Jakob is currently finishing a monograph for Edinburgh University Press called Cinecepts, Deleuze, and Godard-Miéville. Developing Philosophy through Audiovisual Media. In this book he formulates a new theory of audiovisual media seen as a resource for the formal development of philosophy, and with basis in critical reexaminations of Deleuze and close studies of Jean-Luc Godard och Anne-Marie Miéville’s 1970s video works. Jakob has previously also written about aesthetic-political and ecological isssues in John Akomfrah’s video work Vertigo Sea, most recently in a book chapter in Screen Ethics and Global Politics, eds. Lucy Bolton, David Martin-Jones, Robert Sinnerbrink, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, forthcoming 2022/23. This chapter is also one of the results of an individual three-year research project called “Modern Essay Films as Thought-Maps of Globalization” (2015-2018) financed by the Swedish Research Council.
Jakob primarily teaches at the film program at Örebro University. He has also taught film studies, aesthetics, and philosophy at Linnaeus University, Stockholm University, Södertörn University, Stockholm University of the Arts, and The Royal Institute of Art.
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Articles in journals
- Nilsson, J. (2018). Capitalocene, cliches, and critical re-enchantment: What Akomfrah's Vertigo Sea does through BBC nature. Journal of Aesthetics and Culture, 10 (1).
- Nilsson, J. (2018). Deleuze, Concepts, and Ideas about Film as Philosophy: A Critical and Speculative Re-Examination. Journal of French and Francophone Philosophy, 26 (2), 127-149.
- Nilsson, J. (2014). Thought-Images and The New as a Rarity: A Reevaluation of the Philosophical Implications of Deleuze’s Cinema Books. Cinema: Journal of Philosophy and the Moving Image (6), 94-121.
- Nilsson, J. (2013). Concept-Cognitive Mapping: Third Cinema as Cartography of Global Capitalism. Cinema & Cie. International Film Studies Journal, 13 (20), 87-96.
- Nilsson, J. (2013). Towards a New Conceptualization of The Wire as a Media Object. Journal of Aesthetics and Culture, 5.
- Nilsson, J. (2009). The Ambivalence of Universalization in Albert Kahn's Archive of the Planet (Notes Towards an Empirical Investigation). SITE Magazine (28), 14-20.
- Nilsson, J. (2008). A Crystal Matter: Virtual Structures and the Search for Belief. Rhizomes: Cultural Studies in Emerging Knowledge (16).
Chapters in books
- Nilsson, J. (2020). Notes on Three Phases in Deleuze’s Thinking on Novelty. In: Marcia Sá Cavalcante Schuback, Helena Mattsson, Kristina Riegert & Hans Ruin, Material: Filosofi, Estetik, Arkitektur: Festskrift till Sven-Olov Wallenstein (pp. 155-164). Huddinge: Södertörns högskola.
- Nilsson, J. (2020). Tvärdisciplinär kritik och kognitiv kartläggning: Bildning och ekologisk hållbarhet inom MKV och filmvetenskap. In: Magnus Boström, Christian Lundahl, Johan Öhman, Humanistiska och samhällsvetenskapliga perspektiv på bildning och hållbar utveckling (pp. 97-108). Örebro: Örebro Universitet.
Collections (editor)
- Wallenstein, S. (ed.) & Nilsson, J. (ed.) (2013). Foucault, Biopolitics, and Governmentality. Huddinge: Södertörns högskola (Södertörn philosophical studies 14).
Doctoral theses, monographs
- Nilsson, J. (2012). The Untimely-Image: On Contours of the New in Political Film-Thinking. (Doctoral dissertation). Stockholm: Acta Universitatis Stockholmiensis.