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DESCRIPTION:\nWhen and Where: \nWednesday, March 13, 2024 4:00 pm to 5:30
  pm \n EAS Lounge, 14th Floor \n Robarts Library, University of Toronto 
 \n\nSpeakers \nJacob Edmond, Professor of English, University of Otago 
 \n\nDescription: \nThis talk considers the role of news form in the growin
 g recognition of multiple perspectives and ngs of the world. The talk trac
 es how, between 1989 and the mid-noughties, writers including Dmitrii Pr
 igov, Lin Yaode 林燿德, Kirill Medvedev, Juliana Spahr, Brian Kim Stefans
 , and Claudia Rankine gave fresh inflection to the tension between order 
 and disorder inherent to the form of the news. These writers turned to the
  spatial form of the news to grapple with the geopolitical flux and disint
 egrating and resurgent empires of the post-1989 world. They also addressed
  a similarly disintegrative and integrative upheaval in the media of the n
 ews: the rise of the internet and the shift from the mass media of newspap
 ers, radio, and television to the simultaneously evermore fragmented and
  increasingly monolithic world of newsfeeds and social media. The juxtapos
 itions of news form offer rich resources for grappling with a post-1989 me
 dia environment and world capable in equal measure of directing opinion an
 d falling to pieces. In terms of East Asia, the talk in part focuses on “
 Er erba” 《二二八》, a work by Taiwanese poet Lin Yaode written during the “po
 st-martial law boom” in Taiwanese culture. Through this work, the talk re
 flects on, connects, and contrasts the literary, media, and political 
 upheavals in the late 1980s and early 1990s on both sides of the Taiwanese
  Straits to the flux in the same period in Russia and Eastern Europe. Spea
 ker: Jacob Edmond, Professor of English, University of OtagoJacob Edmond
  is a professor of English at the University of Otago, Aotearoa New Zeala
 nd. His work explores literary and artistic responses to global shifts in 
 media, culture, economics, and geopolitics. He has a particular interes
 t in generic and inter-art boundary crossing, new media, and globalizati
 on in avant-garde poetry in Russian, Chinese, and English. His first boo
 k, A Common Strangeness: Contemporary Poetry, Cross-Cultural Encounter,
  Comparative Literature (Fordham University Press, 2012), explores how p
 oets responded to the upheavals wrought by the end of the Cold War. His se
 cond book, Make It the Same: Poetry in the Age of Global Media (Columbia 
 University Press, 2019), examines literary and artistic works that addre
 ss the proliferating copies of online media and the replication enabled by
  globalization. His current book project draws on literary and artistic re
 sponses to the news media to ask why our instant access to news from aroun
 d the world brings not global understanding but paralysing confusion. By c
 losely engaging with texts in Chinese, Russian and English, all his work
  addresses the global trends and linguistic and cultural differences that 
 shape our contemporary world. Discussant/Moderator: A\n Komaromi, Centre 
 for Comparative Literature and Slavic Languages and LiteraturesOrganizer: 
 Chris Song, Assistant Professor, Department of Language Studies, UTSC 
 \n\nContact Information: \n Chris Song, Assistant Professor chriszj.song@
 utoronto.ca \n\nCategories \n Speaker SeriesTalk \n\nAudiences \n Communit
 yFacultyGraduate StudentsUndergraduate Students
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SUMMARY:Opinion Pieces: Forms of Media and Geopolitical Disorder from 1989 
 to 9/11
URL;TYPE=URI:https://www.eas.utoronto.ca/events/opinion-pieces-forms-media-
 and-geopolitical-disorder-1989-911
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