Session Information
Description: Scholars across literature, film, performance, and media gather to examine the microeconomic mode, a predominant contemporary American aesthetic formation that combines formal abstraction with a focus on individual choice and extreme threats to life. Panelists consider the new conception of human being that emerges from this mode and discuss its role in relation to their respective archives, current research, and theoretical concerns.
Speakers
Madhu Dubey, U of Illinois, Chicago
Merve Emre, Oxford U
Summer Kim Lee, Dartmouth C
Kate Marshall, U of Notre Dame
Alys Weinbaum, U of Washington, Seattle
Presider
Gillian H. Harkins, U of Washington, Seattle
Respondent
Jane Elliott, King’s C, London