Matthew Flisfeder
Title: Professor
Phone: 204.786.9848
Office: 3G23
Building: Graham Hall
Email: m.flisfeder@uwinnipeg.ca
Degrees:
PhD Joint Graduate Programme in Communication and Culture, Toronto Metropolitan University and York University, 2010
MA Joint Graduate Programme in Communication and Culture, Toronto Metropolitan University and York University, 2005
BA Honours Double Major in Communication Studies and Fine Arts Cultural Studies, York University, 2003
Biography:
Dr. Matthew Flisfeder is a Professor of Rhetoric and Communications.
He has research and teaching interests in ideology, narrative as a rhetorical form, critical and cultural theory, aesthetic theory and ethics, media studies, semiotics, psychoanalysis, German Idealism, histories of Marxism and Marxist theory, humanism and post-humanism, populism, antisemitism and Zionism, and the work of the philosopher, Slavoj Žižek.
Dr. Flisfeder’s books include The Hysterical Sublime: Humanism in the Age of Posthuman Capitalism (Bloomsbury 2025), Algorithmic Desire: Toward a New Structuralist Theory of Social Media (Northwestern University Press, 2021), Postmodern Theory and Blade Runner (Bloomsbury 2017), The Symbolic, the Sublime, and Slavoj Žižek’s Theory of Film (Palgrave Macmillan 2012), and he is the co-editor of Žižek and Media Studies: A Reader (Palgrave Macmillan 2014).
Dr. Flisfeder received his PhD in the Joint Graduate Programme in Communication and Culture at Toronto Metropolitan University and York University in Toronto.
To find out more about Dr. Flisfeder’s research and publishing, please visit his website: https://matthewflisfeder.com/.
Research Interests:
- Aesthetic Theory
- Communication and Media Theory
- Critical Theory and Cultural Studies
- Critical Studies of Social Media
- Cyberpunk Culture
- Digital Culture and New Media
- Film and Visual Culture
- Ideology and Popular Culture
- Leftwing antisemitism
- Marxist Theory
- Neoliberalism
- Popular Culture
- Populism and Populist Rhetoric
- Posthumanism and New Materialism
- Postmodernism
- Rhetoric and Ethics