Open Lecture – “The Portrait of the Anticapitalist as Artist” (July 2)
Overview
In the second installment of our public lecture series, Todd McGowan discusses Art and Anticapitalism. Capitalism introduces a useless excess beyond all usefulness into the heart of social production. While it is tempting to try to reign in this excess and eliminate it, we should see instead the useless excess not as a source for profit but as an aesthetic value that can provide an ethical orientation when divorced from the capitalist structure.
Todd McGowan is Professor of Film Studies at the University of Vermont, USA, and author of Universality and Identity Politics (2020), Emancipation After Hegel (2019), and Capitalism and Desire (2016) and co-series editor (with Slavoj Žižek and Adrian Johnston) of Diaeresis.
Speaker
MCGOWAN, Todd
Professor, University of Vermont
Chair
DEMATAGODA, Udith
Assistant Professor, WIAS
Date/Time
July 2, 2022 (Sat.), 21:00~23:00 (JST)
Location
Online via Zoom (prior registration required)
Organizer
Ideology and Aesthetics Research Network (IARN)
Co-Organizer
Waseda Institute for Advanced Study (WIAS)
Registration
Prior registration is required. Please register from below.
Flyer
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