2023.04.08 Saturday 19:00
Location
2F, The Cloister Apartments, 62 West Fuxing Road, Shanghai
Speaker: Yao Yunfan
The electromagnetic medium has re-emerged as the poles of contemporary political tentacles. To apply Carl Schmitt's expression, the two contemporary techniques of governance that distribute order (Ordnung) and location (Ort) are no longer metaphorically referred to as ocean and earth, but are materialised as "star chains" and “Huawei ", and the phobia of electric and embrace of electromagnetism becomes a sort of technological touchstone for understanding the modern world. In this talk, we would like to discuss Ke Yunlu, Liu Cixin and Under One Person--to explore the reversal of the electromagnetic medium in contemporary China and the various facets of the myth of governance of 'modernity' in contemporary society--in the light of Darnton's study of The Death of Marat and Jeffery Sconce's study of the phobia of of electromagnetism.
Yao Yunfan, Associate Professor, Department of Chinese Language and Literature, East China Normal University, author of Homo Sacer and Divine Economy: Studies on Giorgio Agamben's Political Philosophy. His main research interests focus on the history of Western political thought, contemporary Western literary and cultural studies.
VORTEX, launched by the MACA in Shanghai in 2022, is an art and cultural salon in the form of lecture performances occurring once or twice every month. The programme calls for non-institutionalised artistic and academic production in which contemporary art practitioners and scholars get to explore cross-disciplinarily the issues of the macro or micro, the global or local, the collective or individual. VORTEX, hence, is where you spin in the whirlpool of spontaneous whims and intuitive approaches represented by individual research and enquiries. Being present here at VORTEX, you are experiencing versatile forms of lecture performances that experiment with new mechanisms and methodologies.
