Visting speaker: Richard Grusin at the Department of English, April 4

[khirschk at uwaterloo.ca]

The Department of English Language and Literature is delighted to  
invite all Arts faculty, staff and students to hear

Richard Grusin
Professor of English and Director of the Center for 21st-century  
Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

speak on

"mediashock"

This talk attempts to set out the concept of "mediashock" as a way to  
try to make sense of the mood or atmosphere of shock or crisis that US  
media in the 21st century work simultaneously to create and to  
contain. Building on my recent work on premediation, "mediashock"  
participates in the critique of representationalism that has been  
intensifying in cultural, political, and media theory over the past  
couple of decades.

Friday, April 4, 3:00 pm, Hagey Hall 373.