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SUMMARY:Cybernetic Sade
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 Presented by Dr. Ellen MacCullum (English)\n
 What's 
 queer about the writings of the Marquis 
 de Sade is his exposition of a kind of cybernetics 
 avant la lettre. This proto-cybernetics 
 is integral not only to Sade's social critique 
 but to the tensions between nature and reason 
 in his work, not to mention the  almost machinic 
 vision of sexuality depicted in his complexly 
 orchestrated orgies. Where Sade privileges 
 reciprocal or at least reversible and 
 dynamic relations, where he appeals to multiple 
 connections and impersonal sociality, he demarcates 
 the modern world of cybernetic networks 
 and human/machine hybrids. Sade's 18th-century 
 visions of control and communication resonate 
 in the 20th century readings of his work 
 by Marcel Hénaff, Roland Barthes, Leo Bersani, 
 and Kathy Acker. My talk will explore how 
 these thinkers' attention to the questions 
 of bodies and pleasures lays out for us a view 
 of cybernetic Sade.\n
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 Cosponsored by: Romance 
 and Classical Studies, The Laurence Porter 
 Colloquium Series\n\n
 Price: free\n
 Sponsor: Administration\n
 Sponsor's Homepage: http://www.lib.msu.edu\n
 Contact name: Holly Flynn\n
 Contact phone: 517-884-0901\n
 Contact email: flynnhol@msu.edu\n
LOCATION:MSU Main Library Green Room (W444)
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