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Title: | Fredric Jameson as Blindspot Machine, A Lecture by Eric Cazdyn |
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| Date: | December 9, 2024, 17:00-19:00 |
Place: | University of Tokyo-Komaba, Bldg. 18, 4th Floor, Collaboration Room 2 |
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Fredric Jameson as Blindspot Machine
A Lecture by Eric Cazdyn (The University of Toronto)
Date: December 9, 2024, 17:00-19:00
Venue: University of Tokyo-Komaba, Bldg. 18, 4th Floor, Collaboration Room 2
https://www.c.u-tokyo.ac.jp/eng_site/info/about/visitors/maps-directions/index.html
https://www.c.u-tokyo.ac.jp/eng_site/info/about/visitors/maps-directions/komabamap.pdf
Language: English
Abstract:
This presentation will develop Eric Cazdyn's ongoing exploration of the blindspot. What is a blindspot? And what might it teach us about how we look, how we think, how we desire, and how change occurs in the world? Cazdyn argues that the dominant ideology of the blindspot today (from culture to politics) as something missing, as something to be disclosed or concealed, is the deadliest weapon used by those in power. To develop this critique, Cazdyn has built what he calls a "Blindspot Machine"—a multi-camera optics system that, instead of exposing blindspots (the violent desire of state surveillance), produces a new theory and practice of the blindspot itself. In this iteration of the Blindspot Machine project, Cazdyn will highlight how the work of Fredric Jameson informs and inspires the key problematics of the blindspot. Clips from a new film that Cazdyn made with Jameson (not long before his recent death), will be screened as part of the lecture.
Organized by The Institute of International Cooperation, Komaba Organaization of Educational Excellence(KOMEX)
https://www.eas.utoronto.ca/people/directories/all-faculty/eric-cazdyn
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