An Aesthetic of Indifference: Poems/Photos/Graphs

Friday 19 February, 2016
4pm, $0

Columbia University, Heyman Center
2960 Broadway, Floor 2 (Common Room)

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Walter Benn Michaels, Professor of American Literature and Literature Theory, University of Illinois at Chicago

Developing a problematic at work in figures like the poet Stéphane Mallarmé and the photographer Robert Frank, this talk seeks to extend some of the arguments about the political economy of form developed in Michaels’s recent book, The Beauty of a Social Problem.

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