Joshua Harold Wiebe

I am, first and foremost, concerned with labour and cinema. My work asks after the specific contributions that cinema can make to our shared comprehension of labour, whether it be through direct representation or more abstract modes of conceptual articulation. My current book project, drawn from my dissertation, takes up exactly this field of inquiry and explores just how cinema can help us make sense of the world of labour processes that is often structurally repressed by the capitalist mode of production. I’m invested in critical theory, German Idealism, formal analysis, historical materialism, the documentary form, and capital-T Theory. I recently co-edited and contributed to an issue of South Atlantic Quarterly on the topic of “filming capital,” which is indicative of the direction my research is taking.