Presentation
Saving Our Souls: Teleopoiesis in the Age of Dying Planets
Colloquium on Constrcutions of the Noble Savage, Brown University
(2017)
Abstract
Basu Thakur’s talk, “Saving Our Souls: Teleopoiesis in the Age of Dying Planets,” noted how contemporary popular culture cloaks constructions of the noble savage in the rhetoric of feel-good multiculturalism. Focusing on James Cameron’s 2009 film Avatar and Katherine Boo’s creative nonfiction “Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity” (2012), he argued that these Western liberal critiques of globalization must be unraveled for being complicit in the reproduction of the non-West as a negated Other and for their revivification of the Western subject as transcendentally privileged.
Publication Date
February 4, 2017
Location
Providence, RI
Citation Information
Gautam Basu Thakur. "Saving Our Souls: Teleopoiesis in the Age of Dying Planets" Colloquium on Constrcutions of the Noble Savage, Brown University (2017) Available at: http://works.bepress.com/gautam_basu_thakur/47/