Jakob Nilsson

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, Jean-Luc Godard, and Gilles Deleuze. Jakob is the author of Cinecepts, Deleuze, and Godard-Miéville. Developing Philosophy through Audiovisual Media, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press (2013). In this book he formulates a new framework for how philosophy can proceed in and through film/video/audiovisual media. Jakob has previously written about aesthetic-political and ecological issues in John Akomfrah’s video work Vertigo Sea, most recently in a book chapter in Contemporary Screen Ethics: Absences, Identities, Belonging, Looking Anew, eds. Lucy Bolton, David Martin-Jones, Robert Sinnerbrink, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press (2023). 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, and The Royal Institute of Art.