Matthew Noble-Olson

Matthew Noble-Olson is a scholar of visual culture with particular interests in film theory, experimental cinema, digital cinema, moving-image installation, environmental media, and aesthetics. He is currently completing a manuscript titled Exile, Trauma, Ruin: The Forms of Cinematic Lateness, which theorizes lateness in twentieth- and twenty-first-century cinema. His writing has appeared in Modernism/Modernity, New German Critique, Discourse, and Cultural Critique. 

Recent Publications:

• “The Eyes of the Ape,” Krisis: Journal for Contemporary Philosophy 41.2 (December 2021): 102-103.
• “The Angels of Accumulated Suffering,” New German Critique 140 (August 2020): 219-248.
• “Lateness and the Politics of Filmic Excess,” Modernism/modernity 27.2 (April 2020): 273-297.
• “Reviving the Elephant; or, Cinema Plays Dead,” Cultural Critique 97 (Fall 2017): 84-104.
• “Melancholy Projection,” Discourse: Journal for Theoretical Studies in Media and Culture 38.3 (Fall 2016): 390-413.

Recent Presentations: 

• “Presenting Absence: Aesthetic Contestations of Racial Capitalism in Contemporary Detroit,” Society for Cinema and Media Studies, Denver, April 2023.
• “The Allegory of Heavenly Illumination: Rosa Barba’s Solar History of the Cinema,” Society for Cinema and Media Studies, Virtual, March 2022.
  
• “An Elegy for Illumination: Andy Warhol’s Unfinished Sunset,” Society for Cinema and Media Studies, Virtual, March 2021.
  
• “Cinematic Autonomy: Considering the Examples of Badiou and Adorno,” Society for Cinema and Media Studies, Seattle, WA, March 2019.
• “Lessons for the End of History from the Invention Without a Future,” Ends of Cinema Conference, Center for 21st Century Studies, Milwaukee, WI, May 2018.
• “Solar Cinema,” Society for Cinema and Media Studies, Toronto, ON, March 2018.