CMLT Vambery Lecture: Orrin Wang, "The Cut of Romanticism"
CMLT Vambery Lecture: Orrin Wang, "The Cut of Romanticism"
Orrin Wang will deliver the Vambery lecture. A light lunch will be served afterwards.
A talk on the main argument in Wang's work-in-progress, Techno-Magism: Essays on Romanticism, Media, Mediation, and Theory, that to consider how Romanticism and media studies intersect we must first confront Romanticism's conflicting narratives on what mediation means: as both the most emphatic way we understand the social totality of capitalist production and as the unavoidable cut of radical negativity that replaces a belief in social totality with the theory of social antagonism. Images "The Cut" will discuss include paintings by John Martin and William Blake, a clip from Frank Whale's 1931 film, Frankenstein, and the book cover of the 10th edition of the Norton Anthology of Romantic literature.