Noel Jackson on Pleasure Problems:
Pleasure and Positive Affect in Humanities Scholarship
Friday 15 February, 2013
4 - 6pm, $0
The Graduate Center
365 Fifth Avenue, Room 4406
Noel Jackson (MIT) will try to account for the current revival of pleasure and positive affect as topics of interest in humanities scholarship, and will ask what it meant for some Romantic-period authors to "problematize" the category of pleasure or think of pleasure as a problematic field of experience, as well as what it might mean for us to do so now.