Jodi Dean, professor of political science at Hobart and William Smith Colleges, will present a guest lecture Tuesday, April 13 at 5:30 p.m. in Arts 215, sponsored by the Women’s and Gender Studies Sadock Women in the Arts Grant as part of Union’s feminist film series.
Dean’s talk, “Whatever Blogging,” will address whether blogging and other means of identity formation under communitarian capitalism can mount a left critique of our current political condition. The talk extends from blogging as a practice of teenage girls through blogging as a practice that is multiple and singular within the larger context of the mediated production of identity.
Dean is the author or editor of nine books and many academic articles, most recently “Democracy and other Neoliberal Fantasies” published by Duke University Press.