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SUMMARY:Kitsch\, Spam\, Slop: Political Message Art and the Liberal Singul
 arity
LOCATION:Erik Jonsson Academic Center (JO) 4.102\, 800 W. Campbell Road\, 
 Richardson\, Texas 75080-3021
DESCRIPTION:Exploring the meaning of kitsch\, spam and slop in speaking ab
 out cultural and political judgment\, Catherine Liu considers the origins
  of these aesthetic and food categories in light of a history of industri
 alization\, the Cold War and artificial flavor in light of artificial int
 elligence.\n\nFear of critique and hierarchy allowed artists from Marcel 
 Duchamp to Andy Warhol to Ai Weiwei to post-modernists embrace the perfor
 mative fakery at the heart of kitsch. What do spam and slop have to do wi
 th kitsch? This talk explores the historical\, materialist relationship b
 etween these categories of aesthetic and culinary judgment.\n\nBiography:
 \n\nCatherine Liu is Professor of Film and Media Studies at UC Irvine. Sh
 e is the author of Virtue Hoarders: The Case Against the Professional Man
 agerial Class (University of Minnesota Press\, 2021) and has published wi
 dely on critical theory\, film and art criticism\, psychoanalysis and Lef
 t historiography. She has appeared on a wide range of podcasts and platfo
 rms\, including Doomscroll\, Chris Hedges\, and Chapo Trap House. Her boo
 k Traumatized: The New Politics of Public Suffering will be published in 
 September of 2026 with Verso. She is also the director and founder of the
  Palm Springs School for Social Research\, an educational and research fo
 cused think tank and platform for critical and creative engagement with c
 ontemporary culture and politics.\n\nhttp://next-to-u.app/events/3d5546e4
 -23c6-45ed-b0c4-eb7f08561312
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