Date: 20 February 2019
Time: 7:00pm – 9:00pm
Venue: Rm 303, 3/F, Esther Lee Building, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
About the Speaker
Jaeho Kang is Associate Professor in Critical Theory and Cultural Studies in the Department of Communication at Seoul National University. Kang is the author of Walter Benjamin and the Media: The Spectacle of Modernity (Cambridge: Polity Press, 2014). His work focuses on critical and social theory of media with particular reference to the intersections of digital screen, media spectacle, and urban space.
Selected Texts
Benjamin, Walter. “Paris, the Capital of the Nineteenth Century”, in The Arcades Project. Translated by Howard Eiland and Kevin McLaughlin. 3-26. Cambridge, MA and London: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1999.
Jaeho, Kang. “Introducing Dr Benjamin”, in Walter Benjamin and the Media: The Spectacle of Modernity. 1-23. Cambridge: Polity Press, 2014.
Jaeho, Kang. “The Media City: Reading the Arcades Project”, in Walter Benjamin and the Media: The Spectacle of Modernity. 151-201. Cambridge: Polity Press, 2014.
Conducted in English. All are welcome.
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