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SUMMARY:The Smugness of Privilege
DESCRIPTION:Don Kulick – The University of Hong Kong (https://english.hku.hk/people/Faculty/256/Professor_Don_Kulick) \nTHIS IS AN IN-PERSON ONLY EVENT. \nAbstract\nThis talk is about the possibility\, and the value\, of knowing about people who are different from oneself. It is a critical analysis of cultural critic Susan Sontag’s review of photographer Diane Arbus’s 1972 retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art. Sontag asserts that Arbus\, in depicting individuals whom Sontag regards as “ugly”\, necessarily is exploiting them. I disagree. I argue that Arbus’s photographs (and academic disciplines like anthropology) instead subvert the smug\, privileged protocol articulated by critics like Sontag\, who seem prepared to contemplate “ugly” people\, vastly different from themselves\, but only through an optic of pity\, or of vicarious indignation at the supposedly unrelentingly grim conditions under which such people are imagined to live their lives. The talk will be illustrated by Arbus’s photographs. \n ||  \nBiography\nDon Kulick is Chair Professor of Anthropology at HKU and Distinguished University Professor of Anthropology at Uppsala University\, Sweden. His books include A Death in the Rainforest: How a Language and a Way of Life Came to an End in Papua New Guinea (2019); Loneliness and its Opposite: Sex\, Disability and the Ethics of Engagement (with J. Rydström\, 2015); Language and Sexuality (with D. Cameron\, 2003) and Travesti: Sex\, Gender and Culture among Brazilian Transgendered Prostitutes (1998). \n ||  \nAdditional Content\nTHIS IS AN IN-PERSON ONLY EVENT.
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/the-smugness-of-privilege/
LOCATION:Room 7.45\, 7/F\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus\, HKU
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SUMMARY:Boredom: A Profound Gift of Animals
DESCRIPTION:Dong Shin Yi – Seoul National University (https://humanities.snu.ac.kr/en/faculty?deptidx=3&md=view&profidx=54) \nTHIS IS AN IN-PERSON ONLY EVENT. \nAbstract\nObserving “the digitalization of distraction” that is turning distraction into “the rule rather than an exception\,” Dominic Pettman comments\, “matters of historic import\, like a civil rights issue … are now flattened into the same homogenous\, empty digital space as a cute critter or an obnoxious celebrity” (34). While the ‘flat ontology’ of the “digital space” may not be such a bad thing if animals become “matters of historic import\,” it is worrisome that they do so through distraction\, that is\, by diverting us from\, to borrow John D. Eastwood’s phrase\, “an endless dissatisfying present.” Drawing upon Martin Heidegger’s discussion of “profound boredom\,” which offers Dasein “the moment of vision as the properly authentic possibility of its existence\,” yet twisting the discussion with Graham Harman’s Object-Oriented Ontology that flattens Dasein’s existence\, this paper proposes that boredom is animals’ gift for humans that is of existential import for both. \n ||  \nBiography\nDongshin Yi is Professor of English at Seoul National University. His research interests include posthumanism\, contemporary American fiction\, science fiction and animal studies. He has published “Salvaging the Contemporary with Speculative Science Fiction” (Exposition\, 2024)\, “Indifference: An Imperative of Posthuman Life (Journal of Posthuman Studies\, 2022)\, Humans and Things: Three Streams of Posthumanism (Galmuri\, 2022)\, SF\, the Spirit of the Contemporary (Book21\, 2021)\, and From Boundary to Empathy: Humans and Animals (Edabooks\, 2021). \n ||  \nAdditional Content\nTHIS IS AN IN-PERSON ONLY EVENT.
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/boredom-a-profound-gift-of-animals/
LOCATION:Room 7.45\, 7/F\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus\, HKU
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