The Avant-Garde Logic of Dispute
Location
Biology Building, Room 101
Start Date
20-2-2020 6:00 PM
End Date
20-2-2020 7:00 PM
Description
The Avant-Garde Logic of Dispute primarily explores the ideologies that avant-garde artists both shared and disputed. My goal is to produce an organic discourse about how the avant-garde used scandal as a tool to shred the mainstream bourgeois social fabric and cultural assumptions. I include examples from the period around and after World War One, when Dadaists and Surrealists shook the cultural ground in Paris, as well from mid-20th century, when experimental movements, such as Situationist International and Lettrism asserted their artistic role. In my theoretical endeavor, I frame the notion of “scandal” as a loosely and contingently aggregated set of practices that revolve around the contested definitions of literary canon, cultural value, politics, and history. In my talk, I will give an introduction to the main content of my book starting from two main issues: violence in language and controversies among artists.
The Avant-Garde Logic of Dispute
Biology Building, Room 101
The Avant-Garde Logic of Dispute primarily explores the ideologies that avant-garde artists both shared and disputed. My goal is to produce an organic discourse about how the avant-garde used scandal as a tool to shred the mainstream bourgeois social fabric and cultural assumptions. I include examples from the period around and after World War One, when Dadaists and Surrealists shook the cultural ground in Paris, as well from mid-20th century, when experimental movements, such as Situationist International and Lettrism asserted their artistic role. In my theoretical endeavor, I frame the notion of “scandal” as a loosely and contingently aggregated set of practices that revolve around the contested definitions of literary canon, cultural value, politics, and history. In my talk, I will give an introduction to the main content of my book starting from two main issues: violence in language and controversies among artists.
Speaker Bio
Cosana Eram's academic background includes a Ph.D. in French and Humanities at Stanford (2010), a Fulbright at NYU, as well as undergraduate and graduate studies in Romania, where she holds a Doctorate Magna Cum Laude in Philology (2003). Her current research interests and publications encompass transatlantic avant-garde, mod-ern and contemporary French literature, ethics of technology and the human, and digital humanities. She has published a book in Romanian on literary hierarchies and their pedagogy (Canon. Canonic, 2007). Dr. Eram teaches all the classes in the French section at Pacific, from beginner French language to upper division literature and culture courses, such as Women in French Literature, Why Do They Talk about Paris?, The Francophonie, French literature surveys, etc. She has initiated the French Club at Pacific, distributes a French Studies Newsletter to the interested community on campus, and loves to talk about everything French with students.