Diego Costa
diegocos@usc.edu
Tags: digital humanities experimental cinema Freud gender Lacan performativity psychoanalysis queer theory sexuality transResearch Interests
queer theory, psychoanalysis, digital humanities, experimental cinema, childhood studies, Brazilian studies, fashion studies
diegocos@usc.edu
M.A. Cinema Studies, New York University
M.F.A. and B.F.A. Film, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
Diego Costa’s PhD dissertation works through the symbolic possibilities and the speculative symptomatology of “barebacking” and compulsive cruising in digital sexual economies. Costa’s methodology involves Queer Theory (and practice), psychoanalysis and unconventional intimate archives. As a companion to the more traditional dissertation, he is working on a feature-length experimental film titled Matricídio, a Lacanian self-ethnography of sorts.
Publication
* “Notes on the Sexuality of Brazilian Children,” in Children, Sexuality and the Sexualization of Culture. (London: Palgrave UK, forthcoming 2014).
* “The Mother as The Child’s First Bully,” in The Qouch by the Queer Psychoanalysis Society. Feb. 13, 2013.
* “Black Penis, White Phallus: On The Virtuall Outsourcing of Perverse Labor (Or, the cuckold fantasy as colonial encounter),” in Producing Theory: The Intersection of Audiences and Production in a Digital World. Edited by Rebecca Ann Lind (New York: Peter Lang Publishing, 2013): 143-157.
* “In Praise of Psychoanalysis’ Queerness,” in Trans-Scripts 2 (UC-Irvine, 2012): 223-234.
* “Becoming Modular: the (Re-)Assembled Queer ‘Male’ Body and its Digitally-Enabled Sexual Economy,” in Race/Gender/Media: Considering Diversity across Audiences, Content, and Producers. Edited by Rebecca Ann Lind (Allyn & Bacon, 2012).
* “The Aestheticization of Brazilian Misery.” As It Ought To Be, May 8, 2012.
* “It Doesn’t Get Better, Or Waiting for Godot, Or The Object-Mediated Gangbang” in B Magazine 1 (Retepyx, January 2012): 55-56.
* “L’Homosexuel Brésilien” Translated by Tiphaine Bressin. Edited by Didier Lestrade. In Minorités 105 (Paris: October 2011).
* “Gay Men Are Not Men: The Figure of the Bicha in Brazilian Film,” in Diálogo Magazine 12 (Chicago: DePaul University, 2009): 22-27.
Upcoming Conference Presentations
* Notes on Brazil’s Positive Crisis, at Latin American Studies Association congress: Towards A New Social Contract? at the Washington Marriott Wardman Park, Washington, D.C., on Friday, May 31st, at 5 p.m.
* Time is Out of Joint, Body is Out of Time: What Lacan Might Say About Barebacking, at London Conference in Critical Thought at Royal Holloway, University of London. June 6-7, 2013.
* Becoming Digital, Becoming Child: The Production of Pleasure in a Post-Cinematic World, at Avanca Cinema International Conference: Art, Technology, Communication, Portugal. July 24-28, 2013.
French Journal ‘Minorités’ Publishes Diego Costa’s Essay “L’Homosexuel Brésilien”
The French journal Minorités, edited by Didier Lestrade, just published Diego Costa’s “L’Homosexuel Brésilien.”
B Magazine, Gay Magazine of the Future, Publishes Article by Diego Costa
Diego Costa’s article “It Doesn’t Get Better (Or Waiting For Godot, Or The Object-Mediated Gangbang)” is in the January 2012 issue of B Magazine
Diego Costa to Speak at ‘Queering Paradigms’ Conference in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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Diego Costa To Speak at San Francisco State University
Diego Costa will be presenting his talk “Black Penis, White Phallus: On The Virtuall Outsourcing of Perverse Labor (Or, the cuckold fantasy as colonial encounter)” at the Queer Yo Mind Conference at San Francisco State University
Diego Costa Presents “On the Sexuality of Brazilian Children” at UC-Irvine’s Visual Studies Conference
As part of the Worlding Showcase of the Visual Studies Conference at the University of California – Irvine, Diego Costa will be presenting “Planeta Xuxa: Notes on The Sexuality of Brazilian Children.”
Diego Costa To Present At The Cultural Studies Association Conference at UC-San Diego
“Sex With The Motherboard: Digital Intoxication and the Queer Infantility of the (i)Subject “ this Saturday, March 31, at the Cultural Studies Association conference at the University of California – San Diego
Veronica Paredes and Diego Costa Speak at UCLA
Fellow iMap PhD candidates Veronica Paredes and Diego Costa will be speaking at the Thinking Gender conference at UCLA’s Faculty Center
“In The Summer of 1992…”, by Diego Costa, Screening in Sao Paulo, Brazil, on Nov. 16
Diego Costa’s stop-motion short, “In The Summer of 1992 My Mother Cut My _____ Off”
Diego Costa’s “Le Principe du Plaisir” in Streaming Deal with Italian Distributor
Diego Costa‘s experimental feature film “Le Principe du Plaisir” (2010) has been acquired by Atlantide Entertainment, the Italian film distributor of queer-themed works
Diego Costa at NYU Cinema Studies Conference
The Perverts Contract: the Barebacking Subject as the One Who Knows, at the NYU Cinema Studies Conference: LOST AND FOUND: Nostalgia and Media
Diego Costa at Rendering the Visible Conference in Atlanta
Diego Costa is presenting his talk Becoming Modular: The (Re-)Assembled Queer Male Body and its Digitally-Enabled Sexual Economy at the Rendering the Visible conference
Diego Costa’s “project ADAM” screening at Highways Gallery
Diego Costa‘s film project ADAM (7 min., 2010) was screened at the Highways Performance Space and Gallery in Santa Monica, Calif