Elemental Media & The Global South

250-word abstracts considering the critical affordances of elemental media theory in thinking with and from the Global South. How universal is the “elemental?” What does this vocabulary offer a materialist analysis of culture and politics?

Deadline for submissions: Friday, March 20, 2026

Janice Cheon, Yale University (cheon.janice@gmail.com ) Héctor Hernández, Princeton U (hh0511@princeton.edu )