Zoom Talk Announcement:
November 5, 7:00pm (EST)
Speaker: Erin Huang, Assistant Professor, East Asian Studies; Comparative Literature, Princeton University
“Urban Horror: Neoliberal Post-Socialism and the Limits of Visibility”
This talk theorizes a Marxist phenomenological notion of “horror” as a public affect that is mediated by the transnational dissemination of film images and communicated through myriad urban spaces under the neoliberal post-socialist condition. Examining a deterritorialized Chinese post-socialist urbanism taking place in Hong Kong, the talk explores the expanding archipelagoes of exception zones made for political and economic experimentation, and the affective forces of urban horror that rehearse future revolutions, whether with and without actualization.
Please register for this event at:
https://duke.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJEtcuquqj4iEtSz5Zmo4k0FdP8N3OiXGhGe
Link to reading (Chapter 4 of book: Post-Socialism in Hong Kong)
Sponsors:
AMES Presents and the CCK Foundation Inter-University Center for Sinological Studies