LAIS Program, Human Rights Program, Experimental Humanities Program, American and Indigenous Studies Program, and Africana Studies Program Present
"In Poor Taste: Thoughts on Sugar, Labor, and the Special Commodity"
Thursday, October 20, 2016
Reem-Kayden Center Laszlo Z. Bito '60 Auditorium
6:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
6:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
Anjuli Raza Kolb, Williams College
This talk posits zombi as an immanent theory of labor, consumption, and the material itinerary of what we call taste. Beginning with an account of Marx’s special commodity, Professor Raza Kolb will explore how production and consumption crystallize into a set of signs pointing beyond allegories of monstrosity, and beyond a West Indian aesthetics bounded by capital in the age of empire and today.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Time: 6:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
Location: Reem-Kayden Center Laszlo Z. Bito '60 Auditorium