The Culture, Law, and Capital Center is an interdisciplinary group of scholars with major research interests in the political economy of film, television, music, and literary production. Our areas of expertise are the legal, financial, and cultural relationships that obtain between cultural producers, consumers, and their intermediaries. We are especially interested in how the digital shift has challenged extant ideas about intellectual property rights, the nature and value of creative labor, the meaning of authorship, and the definition of media themselves.
News:
Fall 2015:
12/2/15: We will be holding a works in progress session to discuss an essay by MacKenzie Weeks titled “The Re-rendered Mirror: Jennifer Egan’s Look At Me and the Vanishing History of the Self.” 6:30PM HG1002
Readings
MacKenzie Weeks: “The Re-rendered Mirror: Jennifer Egan’s Look At Me and the Vanishing History of the Self.”
Retort collective: “Afflicted Powers: the State, the Spectacle, and September 11th” (directs to external website)
(Please read in advance and prioritize MacKenzie’s essay if needed)
10/26/15: We will be holding a works in progress session to discuss Scott Streitfeld’s paper “The Billiondollar Speedup: John Dos Pasos, Narrative Temporality, Fordist Accumulation” 5:00PM HG 1002.
Readings:
Scott Streitfeld:”The Billiondollar Speedup: John Dos Passos, Narrative Temporality, Fordist Accumulation”
Antonio Gramsci: Americanism and Fordism (excerpts)
David Harvey: “Fordism” (excerpt from The Conditions of Postmodernity)
(Please read in advance and prioritize Scott’s essay if needed)