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Fall 2020
This project examines the concept of “interiority”, the thoughts and feelings of other individuals, as a kind of literary device in the works of Qiu Miaojin and Wu Ming-yi. Rather than reinforce binaristic thinking, this considers interiority as a tension between public and private, between self...
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Spring 2010
This thesis explores the limitations of determinism in regards to music, media, and the constitution of subjectivity. Its methodological resource is derived from a synthesis between media ecology, social psychoanalysis, and music semiotics. The case studies describe the incorporation of nostalgia...
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Precarity and the Historicity of the Present: American Literature and Culture from Long Boom to Long Downturn
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Precarity and the Historicity of the Present provides a cultural history of rising precarity in the postwar US. I define precarity as a concept of the interregnumâprecarity names the stretched-out moment of generalized decline currently unfolding as a crisis of social reproduction writ...