"The Scored Life, or Global Finance and the Politics of Abstraction," a lecture by Dr. Christian Haines
Date & Time: December 11, 2015 | 12:30 AM – 02:00 AM
Location: 124 Sparks
The Center for Global Studies presents "The Scored Life, or Global Finance and the Politics of Abstraction," a lecture by Dr. Christian Haines. Haines is a professor in the Dartmouth College English Department. His primary research and teaching interests are American literature (especially nineteenth-century and post-WWII), critical theory, continental philosophy, queer theory and gender studies, and utopian studies. His current book project, A Desire Called America: Biopolitics, Utopia, and the Literary Commons, examines how representations of bodies/biologies in nineteenth-century and contemporary U.S. literature develop a utopian imagination of post-capitalist, post-nationalist Americas. Additionally, Haines is doing research for a second book project on finance capital and culture, tentatively entitled Finance as a Way of Life and, completing an article on the contemporary relevance of Walt Whitman for thinking about politics and another article on Russell Banks's fiction in relation to maroonage.