Join us for a showing of Boots Riley’s recent hit Sorry to Bother You (2018), dealing with questions of the authentic and good life; racial dynamics; corporate oppression and more.
As previously, pizza will be provided, we’ll watch the film together, and afterwards hang out and discuss its philosophical content.
Abstract: Dr Gemma Flynn (University of Edinburgh) employs Debord’s Society of the Spectacle and critical theories of public punishment to propose the rise and fall of Kanye West as a distinct neoliberal phenomenon. This piece will aim to contextualize Kanye’s shift towards Trump-ian politics and consider the meaningful impact that this move has had on the undermining of objective truth. In understanding how West finds solace in Trump’s ‘Dragon Energy’, can we in the academy better appreciate how we might reassert ideas of objectivity in...
Keynote Speaker: Nancy Bauer, Tufts University Panel Respondents: Moira Weigel, Robert Reid-Pharr, and others
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The #MeToo movement has raised questions about the ethics of love, sex, and desire. Narrowly, it has raised questions about sexual consent and violation;...