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The Techne of Giving: Cinema and the Generous Form of Life

Wednesday, September 27, 2017 at 4:30pm

Olin Library, Room 107
Olin Library, Ithaca, NY 14850, USA

Over the last few years, corporations and individuals have given more money to charitable organizations than ever before. What could possibly be the downside to gift-giving?

In a Chats in the Stacks book talk, Timothy Campbell, professor of Italian in the Department of Romance Studies and member of the graduate fields of Comparative Literature and Film and Video Studies, will discuss contemporary giving and its social forms.

His new book, The Techne of Giving (Fordham University Press, January 2017), investigates how we hold the objects of daily life in relation to neoliberal forms of gift-giving. Moving between visual studies, Winnicottian psychoanalysis, Foucauldian biopower, and apparatus theory, Campbell will discuss alternative ways to conceive of generosity. In his analysis of political philosophy and classic Italian films by Visconti, Rossellini, and Antonioni, he highlights new forms of gratitude that contemporary biopower cannot ignore.

This event is sponsored by Olin Library. Refreshments served.

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Event Type

Author Appearance, Lecture, Presentation

Departments

Cornell University Library, Olin Library, Romance Studies, Comparative Literature

Tags

cascal, film, Cornell University Library, CUL, book talk, olin library, visual studies, comparative literature, cashum

Website

https://olinuris.library.cornell.edu/...

Contact E-Mail

lmb20@cornell.edu

Contact Name

Lynn Bertoia

Contact Phone

(607) 255-4144

Speaker

Timothy Campbell

Speaker Affiliation

Department of Romance Studies

Disability Access Information

https://www.library.cornell.edu/services/disability

Open To

Free and open to all

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