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2020 Program Sessions

771. Being Human in the Microeconomic Mode

1:45 PM–3:00 PM Jan 12, 2020 (US - Pacific)

Sheraton - Issaquah

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

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