Florida International University Spring April 27,2010 Commencement Ceremony Session 4

Florida International University Commencement Ceremony April 27,2010 at US Century Bank Arena ( Session 4) Colleges graduated: College of Public Health and Social Work College of Nursing and Health Sciences

Florida International University Fall December 14,2010 Commencement Pre-Ceremony Session 4

Florida International University Commencement Ceremony December 14,2010 at US Century Bank Arena ( Session 4) Graduates and their guests wait for the ceremony to begin as photos of the graduates during their time at FIU scroll through the screen.Additionally, a percussionist plays for the attendees.

Florida International University Fall December 14,2010 Commencement Ceremony Session 4

Florida International University Commencement Ceremony December 14,2010 at US Century Bank Arena ( Session 4) Colleges graduated: College of Arts and Sciences

Florida International University Fall December 13,2011 Commencement Ceremony Session 4

Florida International University Commencement Ceremony December 13th,2011 US Century Bank Arena, Session 4 Colleges graduated: College of Business Administration

Florida International University Fall December 11,2012 Commencement Ceremony Session 4

Florida International University Commencement Ceremony December 11,2012 at US Century Bank Arena ( Session 4) Colleges graduated: College of Education Robert Stempel College of Public Health and Social Work College of Nursing and Health Sciences

Florida International University Summer August 6,2013 Session 4

Florida International University Commencement Ceremony August 6,2013 at US Century Bank Arena ( Session 4 ) Colleges graduated: College of Arts and Sciences

Automatons, Robots, and Capitalism in a Very Wrong Twenty-First Century: A Review Essay on Neill Blomkamp’s Chappie

Contrary to prevailing opinions, Neill Blomkamp’s recent feature film Chappie is not a movie about robots or artificial intelligence. It is not Robocop. It is not Short Circuit. It is also not District 9 or Elysium. Chappie is a movie about humanity’s dialectically creative and destructive potential. It is a movie about how it is that humans come to behave how they do through their social and material circumstances, as well as the barbaric results when the two are mixed under the thoroughly undemocratic conditions of neoliberal capitalism.

Lecture by Melissa Chiu, given at Florida International University, March 4, 2015

Melissa Chiu's talk focuses on the making of a museum in the 21st century. Comments by Jordana Pomeroy. Introduction by Richard Kurin.