Nicole Suetterlin: "The Biopolitics of Posthuman Bodies"
Department: European Languages and Studies
Date and Time: April 17, 2020 | 3:30 PM-5:00 PMEvent Location: Zoom
Event Details
A TALK BY PROFESSOR NICOLE SÜTTERLIN
HARVARD UNIVERSITY
April 17, 3:30-5:00 pm via ZOOM
RSVP for Zoom link: abiendar@uci.edu
How have recent biomedical and digital advancements contributed to a biopolitics of posthuman bodies – a biopolitics that may now also be shaping our response to the coronavirus pandemic? Using Sibylle Berg’s most recent novel GRM: Brainfuck (2019) as an example, Nicole Sütterlin explores how contemporary German literature addresses questions of surveillance, algorithmic injustice, and biocitizenship.
Nicole Sütterlin is Associate Professor of Germanic Languages & Literatures at Harvard University. Her most recent publications include the monograph Poetik der Wunde: Zur Entdeckung des Traumas in der Literatur der Romantik (2019). She is currently spending time at UCI on an extended research leave.