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Tomáš Jirsa
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Associate Professor @ Palacký University Olomouc
Music Video Studies | Media Theory | Affect Theory
Working in and on East-Central Europe

Author of Disformations: Affects, Media, Literature (2021)

https://upol.academia.edu/TomasJirsa
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Tomáš Jirsa @tomasjirsa.bsky.social · Jun 16
Excited to share my new article in New Review of Film and Television Studies
🌀 The Rhythmic Space of Affects: How Atmospheres Shape Music Videos 🌀
What if atmosphere wasn’t mood—but rhythm, motion, and form?
🎥 Jlin’s Carbon 7 (161)
🎥 Earl Sweatshirt’s Grief
🔗 bit.ly/443sP4u
#MediaTheory #Music
tomasjirsa.bsky.social
Excited to share my new article in New Review of Film and Television Studies
🌀 The Rhythmic Space of Affects: How Atmospheres Shape Music Videos 🌀
What if atmosphere wasn’t mood—but rhythm, motion, and form?
🎥 Jlin’s Carbon 7 (161)
🎥 Earl Sweatshirt’s Grief
🔗 bit.ly/443sP4u
#MediaTheory #Music
June 16, 2025 at 5:32 PM
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Not to forget: shout out to Czech visual artist Jiří Thýn, author of the artwork featured on the book’s cover.

Also not to forget: one of my favorite essays is by @bildoperationen.bsky.social.

#MediaTheory #BookDesign #VisualArts
May 27, 2025 at 10:34 AM
tomasjirsa.bsky.social
Grateful to have Reconfiguring the Portrait published in the Technicities series at @edinburghup.bsky.social; thanks to Ryan Bishop and Jussi Parikka for their guidance.
With chapters by @susannapaasonen.bsky.social, @prof-cinement.bsky.social, & @elenavogman.bsky.social.
#MediaTheory #AcademicBooks
May 27, 2025 at 9:08 AM
Reposted by Tomáš Jirsa
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AI's energy demand is guaranteed to get worse, because Big Tech is determined to drive DEMAND for AI without limit. So much for sustainability!
drdind.bsky.social DrDinD.bsky.social @drdind.bsky.social · May 23
AI could consume 40% of all data center electricity by the end of the year and will soon surpass bitcoin mining in power consumption. Companies like Google are revising their net zero greenhouse emissions target dates.

www.wired.com/story/new-re...
AI Is Eating Data Center Power Demand—and It’s Only Getting Worse
A new analysis of AI hardware being produced and how it is being used attempts to estimate the vast amount of electricity being consumed by AI.
www.wired.com
May 23, 2025 at 5:57 PM
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@alexandrairim.bsky.social reviews Reconfiguring the Portrait (Edinburgh UP, 2023), edited by Abraham Geil and Tomáš Jirsa, for @criticalinquiry.bsky.social

#Portraiture #CulturalTechniques #MediaTheory

criticalinquiry.uchicago.edu/alexandra_ir...
Critical Inquiry
A journal of Art, Culture and Politics, Published by the University of Chicago
criticalinquiry.uchicago.edu
May 24, 2025 at 10:57 AM