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Dystopias

Deborah Wong

Published: 2008-08-25

VIDEO: Dr. Wong discusses the notion of America as nation founded upon the dystopian notion of slavery and considers the potential for improvisation to combat despair and engender community in a dystopian state. TEXT: A course description for Dr. Wong's lectures at the Summer Institute, includling this session on 'Dystopias.'

Key Subjects

race, racism, performativity, community

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Listening itself, an improvisative act engaged in by everyone, announces a practice of active engagement with the world, where we sift, interpret, store and forget, in parallel with action and fundamentally articulated with it ("Mobilitas Animi" 113).

– George E. Lewis