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New Mardi Gras, Sydney Ideas and the University of Sydney Department of Gender and Cultural Studies present<BR>
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Lauren Berlant, “Structures of Unfeeling: Mysterious Skin”<BR>
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Downstairs Theatre, Seymour Centre, Sydney<BR>
February 19, 4pm<BR>
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Usually when we talk about emotions they appear to us in the mode of melodrama, with its inflated states of bodily performance. In contrast, Raymond Williams' model of the structure of feeling places the historical and the affective present not in performance but in affective residues that constitute what's shared among strangers beneath the surface of explicit life, saturating atmospheres of the unsaid, open secrets, inside knowledge, and shared enigmas. <I>Structures of Unfeeling: Mysterious Skin</I> 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/goth negativity, 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.<BR>
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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).<BR>
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To book, or for more details about the event and Queer Thinking:<BR>
<a href="http://www.mardigras.org.au/mardi-gras-2011/queer-thinking/index.cfm">http://www.mardigras.org.au/mardi-gras-2011/queer-thinking/index.cfm</a><BR>
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Hope to see many of you there! <BR>
Melissa<BR>
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Department of Gender and Cultural Studies<BR>
School of Philosophical and Historical Inquiry<BR>
Quadrangle Building A14<BR>
University of Sydney NSW 2006<BR>
Australia<BR>
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New book: <I>The Affect Theory Reader</I> (edited with Gregory J Seigworth) <BR>
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