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An Aesthetic of Indifference: Poems/Photos/Graphs

General Programming

dateFebruary 19, 2016 timeFriday, 4:00pm EST location Second Floor Common Room, Columbia University, The Heyman Center
Cosponsor
  • Center for American Studies
Notes
  • Free and open to the public
  • No registration necessary
  • First come, first seated

Developing a problematic at work in figures like the poet Stéphane Mallarmé and the photographer Robert Frank, this talk seeks to extend some of the arguments about the political economy of form developed in Michaels’s recent book, The Beauty of a Social Problem.

Photo Credit: Arthur Ou

Participants
  • Walter Benn Michaels Professor of American Literature and Literature Theory University of Illinois at Chicago