Calendar - Center for Spatial and Textual Analysis (CESTA)https://events.stanford.edu/department/center_for_spatial_and_textual_analysis_cesta/calendarCalendar - Center for Spatial and Textual Analysis (CESTA)Thu, 21 May 2026 01:09:50 -070060en-usLocalistMay 21, 2026: Eerie Wonder: On the Prosody of Discovery at Building 160, Wallenberg HallThis seminar surveys poetic and aesthetic modes for understanding ongoing transformations in everyday practices of discovery. This inventory of creative tactics aims to map the ways in which varied forms of finding in speculative video games—including Control, Death Stranding, Elden Ring, and Baldur's Gate 3—might bridge the wondrous to ongoing changes in ordinary forms of access to knowledge (A2K). By turns ludic, anecdotal, and academic, "Eerie Wonder: On the Prosody of Discovery" develops a range of approaches to understanding how we find what we don't yet know. It contends that by attending to the eerie wonders hidden within the ludic interfaces of the present, we might imagine new ways of finding—or inventing—improbable futures.

Lunch at 11:45 a.m. for in-person attendees

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About the Speaker

Daniel Scott Snelson is a writer, editor, and archivist working as an Associate Professor in the Departments of English and Design Media Arts at UCLA. His online editorial work can be found at PennSound, Eclipse, UbuWeb, Jacket2, and the EPC. Published books include Elden Poem (Hysterically Real, 2022), Full Bleed: A Mourning Letter for the Printed Page (Sync, 2019), Apocalypse Reliquary: 1984–2000 (Monoskop, 2018), Radios (Make Now, 2016), EXE TXT (Gauss PDF, 2015), Epic Lyric Poem (Troll Thread, 2014), and Inventory Arousal with James Hoff (Bedford Press/Architectural Association, 2011). His most recently published book, The Little Database: A Poetics of Media Formats (University of Minnesota Press, 2025), examines the networked afterlives of media-reflexive works of art and letters in search of contingent methods for reading ordinary digital collections.

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]]>tag:localist.com,2008:EventInstance_5289570916221137.427405-122.1697Thu, 21 May 2026 12:15:00 -07002026-05-21T12:15:00-07:00https://events.stanford.edu/event/eerie-wonder-on-the-prosody-of-discoveryClass/SeminarMay 21, 2026: CGS Presents ​Il Mito at Memorial AuditoriumCESTA is delighted to welcome the legendary Italian folk ensemble, Canzoniere Grecanico Salentino (CGS) this May for a special two-day event.

Hosted by CESTA and marking CGS's first performance at Stanford, this event will commemorate their 50th anniversary.

Reserve your tickets for the concert program, Il Mito, on Thursday, May 21 at 8:00 p.m. and for an immersive afternoon workshop on Friday May 22, focusing on Pizzica Tarantata—the unique style of ecstatic music and dance from Salento that has earned CGS their international acclaim.

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For more information, visit: calitaranta.com

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]]>tag:localist.com,2008:EventInstance_5273642245397337.429162-122.166431Thu, 21 May 2026 20:00:00 -07002026-05-21T20:00:00-07:00https://events.stanford.edu/event/cgs-presents-il-mitoPerformance