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<p class=MsoNormal>Please distribute widely… <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>New Mardi Gras, Sydney Ideas and the University of Sydney
Department of Gender and Cultural Studies present<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Lauren Berlant, “Structures of Unfeeling: Mysterious
Skin”<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Downstairs Theatre, Seymour Centre, Sydney<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>February 19, 4pm<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>“Structures of Unfeeling: Mysterious Skin" reads
with Heim's and Araki's work to think about a cultural style of underperformed
emotion that's post-melodramatic. It looks at contexts such as 20th century
avant-gardes, trauma publics, punk/gothnegativity, LGBT and working class
sexual cultural styles, comic deadpan, and other modes in which affective
activity appears as inexpressive form, providing a holding space of delayed
response to the urgencies of the moment.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>Lauren Berlant is George L. Pullman Professor of English
Language and Literature at the University of Chicago. She is the author of
several books and essays that have had a galvanizing effect on the field of
queer studies, including The Queen of America Goes to Washington City: Essays
on Sex and Citizenship (Duke University Press, 1997), The Female Complaint: The
Unfinished Business of Sentimentality in American Culture (Duke University
Press, 2008) and editor of “Intimacy: A Special Issue,” Critical
Inquiry (Winter 1998).<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>To book, or for more details about the event and Queer Thinking:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>http://www.mardigras.org.au/mardi-gras-2011/queer-thinking/index.cfm<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>Hope to see many of you there! <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Melissa<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>Dr Melissa Gregg<br>
<br>
Department of Gender and Cultural Studies<br>
School of Philosophical and Historical Inquiry<br>
Quadrangle Building A14<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>University of Sydney NSW 2006<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>Australia<br>
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<a href="http://www.arts.usyd.edu.au/departs/gcs/staff/profiles/mgregg.shtml"><span
style='color:blue'>http://www.arts.usyd.edu.au/departs/gcs/staff/profiles/mgregg.shtml</span></a>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>New book: <i>The Affect
Theory Reader</i> (edited with Gregory J Seigworth) <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt'><a
href="http://www.dukeupress.edu/Catalog/ViewProduct.php?productid=17901"><span
style='color:blue'>http://www.dukeupress.edu/Catalog/ViewProduct.php?productid=17901</span></a>
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