Emily Apter
Carcerally Speaking: Fact Patterns and Practices of Speech Unfreedom
Monday, July 22, 6:00–7:30 p.m. CT
Emily Apter is Julius Silver Professor of Comparative Literature and chair of French Literature, Thought and Culture at New York University. Her books include Unexceptional Politics: On Obstruction, Impasse and the Impolitic (Verso, 2018), Against World Literature: On the Politics of Untranslatability (2013), Dictionary of Untranslatables: A Philosophical Lexicon (co-edited with Barbara Cassin, Jacques Lezra, and Michael Wood) (2014); and The Translation Zone: A New Comparative Literature (2006). Apter’s lecture will examine the force fields that shape current political struggles over free speech, due process, bodily autonomy, and racial pessimism.
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