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After the Good Life, the Impasse: human resources, time out, and the precarious present

‘Gendering the Social Sciences’ – Gender Institute public lecture series


This lecture draws on two films of Laurent Cantet – Human Resources (1999) and Time Out (2001) – to engage the new affective languages of the contemporary economic atmosphere, languages of anxiety, contingency and precarity.

Lauren Berlant is George M Pullman Professor, Department of English, University of Chicago. Sadie Wearing is lecturer in gender theory, culture and media at the Gender Institute, LSE.


Speaker(s):

Professor Lauren Berlant | talks
Chair: Dr Sadie Wearing | talks
Chair: Dr Claire Hemmings | talks

 

Date and Time:

4 February 2009 at 6:30 pm

Duration:

1 hour 30 minutes

 

Venue:

Hong Kong Theatre, London School of Economics &Political Science
Houghton St
London
WC2A 2AE


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London School of Economics & Political Science
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