Division of Humanities - Academic Talk - Expressing Time: Cold War Japan and the Aesthetics of Cybernetics

Ms Junnan CHEN

Abstract:

The talk presents the key inquiries underlying Junnan’s broader research which explores the evolving sensorial landscape of time wrought by technical media. Starting with the cultural, political, and aesthetic imperatives of modernity and extending to the global Cold War cybernetics moment, the presentation probes the shifting paradigm of thinking time, media, and resistance from the lens of Japan's Cold War restructuring.

Biography:      

Junnan CHEN is a Ph.D. candidate at Princeton University, completing a joint degree of East Asian Studies and Interdisciplinary Humanities Studies. Her research cuts across critical theory, film and media theory, Japanese cinema, global cinema, and continental philosophy. Prior to joining Princeton, she received a B.F.A in filmmaking and creative writing from NYU, and an M.A. from Columbia University, Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures.