Patricia Pisters (1965, NL) is professor of Media Studies, with a specialization in Film Studies at the University of Amsterdam and director of the Amsterdam School of Cultural Analysis (ASCA). She is one of the founding editors of the peer reviewed Open Access Journal NECSUS: European Journal of Media Studies and co-editor (with Bernd Herzogenrath) of the series ‘Thinking I Media’ at Bloomsbury. She researches the role of film and media in respect to collective consciousness. Currently she is working on a book project about the psychopathologies of contemporary media culture; and on a multi-media project about filmmakers as metallurgist and alchemist of our times.