A Talk with Anna Kornbluh

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Tuesday, May 6, 2025

Kaplan Hall Room #348 (third floor)

4:00-6:00pm Talk

6:00pm Reception

This year’s ECT Seminar, “Whither Marxism and Psychoanalysis?”, is led by Professor Nouri Gana in the Spring Quarter of 2025. Guest talks are generously co-sponsored by the Department of Comparative Literature, the Department of Political Science, the Department of European Languages and Transcultural Studies, the Department of Art, and the Department of Spanish and Portuguese.

ABOUT THE TALK

The recent surge of “mid” as an aesthetic judgment paradoxically discloses the missing middle in contemporary cultural arts. Amid the eviction of the middle class, cultural study of the middlebrow can no longer rely upon the traditional sociological method. Briefly considering architecture, photography, fiction, and television, this talk experiments with a formalist approach to “good enough art.”

ABOUT THE SPEAKER

Anna Kornbluh is Professor of English and a member of the United Faculty Bargaining Committee at the University of Illinois, Chicago. She is the author of four books, including Immediacy, Or, The Style of Too Late Capitalism (Verso 2024), as well as essays on climate aesthetic.