Matthew Flisfeder
Associate Professor
©UWinnipeg
Department:
Rhetoric and Communications
Fields:
- Journalism / Media Studies
- Philosophy / Ethics
- Social Issues
- Social Media
Areas of Expertise:
- Algorithmic Media and Automation
- Antisemitism and Populism
- Cyber Culture
- Humanism and Posthumanism
- Jewish Community
- Media and Technology
- Modernism and Postmodernism
- Radical Thought
- Zionism
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's current research focuses on antisemitic rhetoric and ideology in Western nations, in the context of the Israel-Palestine conflict.
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 also a member of the Editorial Board for the journal, Rethinking Marxism, and has expertise in the history and philosophy of radical thought.
Dr. Flisfeder is the author of four 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), and The Symbolic, The Sublime, and Slavoj Žižek's Theory of Film (Palgrave Macmillan, 2012). He is also the co-editor of Žižek and Media Studies: A Reader (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014).
Media and Research Expert