Rate My Professor Scott Krzych

Krzych is the author of Beyond Bias: Documentary Form, Conservative Media, and the Politics of Hysteria (Oxford University Press, 2021). His peer-reviewed articles have appeared in leading journals such as NECSUS: European Network for Cinema and Media Studies, CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture, Psychoanalysis, Culture & Society, World Picture, Discourse: Journal for Theoretical Studies in Media and Culture, Cultural Critique, Intertexts, Jump Cut, The Comparatist, and The Velvet Light Trap. Key publications include '"There is no pandemic": On Memes, Algorithms and other Interpassive Forms of Right-wing Disbelief' (CLCWeb 24.4, 2022), '"I'm not a racist...but": Conservative media and the plasticities of color-blind racism' (NECSUS, Spring 2022), 'Circumstantial Sublimation and Steven Soderbergh’s Ordinary Objects' (Psychoanalysis, Culture & Society 23.2, 2018), 'Alternating Influences: Sublimation in Time-Travel Cinema' (World Picture 13, 2018), '"The Things You Don't Choose": Ethics, Singularity, and Gone Baby Gone (2007)' (Discourse 39.1, 2017), and 'Auto-Motivations: Digital Cinema and Kiarostami’s Relational Aesthetics' (The Velvet Light Trap 66, 2010). He served as guest editor and wrote the introduction for the special section 'The Digital Subject' in Psychoanalysis, Culture & Society (18.1, 2013). Krzych co-organized and hosted the first two meetings of the LACK conference with Todd McGowan. His forthcoming book, Derivative Desires: Cinema and Psychoanalysis in the Financial Era, explores racial capitalism, financial speculation, realism, and psychoanalytic theory.