Being Human in the Microeconomic Mode
Seattle, WA Sheraton - Issaquah Room
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 College, Kate Marshall, U of Notre Dame, Alys Weinbaum, Professor U of Washington, Seattle
Presider: Gillian H. Harkins, U of Washington, Seattle
Respondent: Jane Elliott, King’s College London