Matthew Flisfeder
Professor
©UWinnipeg
Department:
Rhetoric and Communications
Fields:
- Diversity
- Film / TV
- Journalism / Media Studies
- Philosophy / Ethics
- Pop Culture
- Social Issues
- Technology
- Ideology
Areas of Expertise:
- Algorithmic Media and Automation
- Antisemitism and Zionism
- Cyber Culture
- Humanism and Posthumanism
- Jewish Community
- Media and Technology
- Modernism and Postmodernism
- Populist Rhetoric
- Radical Thought and Philosophy
Languages Spoken:
- English
Available To:
- Appear on radio or TV
- Appear as a public speaker
- Provide comment to media
- Write articles
- Discuss research with industry, government, and others
About:
Matthew Flisfeder is a Professor of Rhetoric and Communications. He is a researcher specializing in the analysis of cultural and political ideologies.
Dr. Flisfeder is currently working on a project funded by a SSHRC Insight Development Grant that uses the Israel-Palestine conflict as a case study for examining differences in the narrative, rhetorical, and ideological perspectives and presuppositions of modern Western and decolonial frameworks of liberation.
Dr. Flisfeder is a member of the Board of Directors for JSpace Canada, which is a Jewish advocacy group championing a two-state solution in Israel and Palestine.
Dr. Flisfeder has previously written about ideologies of technology in the context of neoliberal capitalism and social media. He has also written about cyber culture and science fiction film and television.
Dr. Flisfeder is the author/editor of five books, including The Hysterical Sublime: Humanism in the Age of Posthuman Capitalism (Bloomsbury, 2025), Algorithmic Desire: Toward a New Structuralist Theory of Social Media (Northwestern UP, 2021), Postmodern Theory and Blade Runner (Bloomsbury, 2017), Žižek and Media Studies: A Reader (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014), and The Symbolic, The Sublime, and Slavoj Žižek's Theory of Film (Palgrave Macmillan, 2012).
Media and Research Expert