POSTPONED Ranjan Ghosh: “Aesthetic Imaginary: Let's Think Again”

The talk follows on what I had elsewhere introduced and discussed as aesthetic imaginary: the theoretical and conceptual development that contributed to a transversal thinking and a transcultural critique across disciplines and traditions of thought. This presentation urges us to rethink the aesthetic through what I call the plastic imaginary - the plastic-principle that brings fresh negotiations through a reading of neomaterialism and other agencies of thinking. The aesthetic 'plastic' imaginary becomes a challenging way to make sense of disciplinary thinking and discussion, the 'literary' that orders comparative/world literature and re-premises the interfaces with the humanities and sciences. How do we question the frontiers of humanities now?  

Professor Ranjan Ghosh (Department of English, University of North Bengal) is the author of numerous books and articles on a wide range of topics in literary and cultural theory and studies, most recently the ongoing "Trilogy on Plastic Humanities.”
(See https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/ghosh-2022-11/ for description of the first instalment in the trilogy, The Plastic Turn).

POSTPONED TO SPRING SEMESTER