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SUMMARY:Migratory Poetics and Global Futurisms
DESCRIPTION:
 Vidhu Aggarwal will discuss narrative entropy 
 by looking at both ancient texts, such as the 
 epic Mahabharata, in relationship to contemporary 
 cosmology/technology to get at the condition 
 of perpetual war and perpetual crisis. 
 In doing so, she will discuss the concept "avatar" 
 as both the Sanskrit word for incarnation 
 of God in a time of crisis, but also in terms 
 of our contemporary digital embodiment in 
 social media and video gaming worlds; and in 
 relationship to her own diasporic poetics through 
 the chapbook "Avatara" and larger project 
 "Migrant Domains. Please contact the Michigan 
 State Museum at museum.msu.edu.\n
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 	Sponsored by the Asian Studies Center, Department 
 of English, the Consortium for Critical 
 Diversity in a Digital Age and Michigan State 
 Museum\n\n
 Price: Free\n
 Contact name: Michigan State Museum\n
 Contact phone: 36f\n
 Contact email: museum.msu.edu\n
LOCATION:MSU Museum Habitat Hall
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