成人直播 Center for Global Humanities presents 鈥淎symmetrical Transparency: The Global Politics of Risk Management鈥
In the post-9/11 world, our trips through airport security checkpoints have become more onerous, but most of us have accepted the TSA鈥檚 new measures as necessities for safe travel. But what if more is at stake than a few extra minutes of our time? What if by subjecting ourselves to increasingly invasive modes of scrutiny, we have ceded an important right 鈥 our sovereignty over our own bodies? And what about those of us unable to perform the cultural ideal of submission due to race, citizenship status, disability, age or religion?
To explore these and other concerns related to today鈥檚 security apparatus, the 成人直播 Center for Global Humanities hosted scholar Rachel Carey Hall for a lecture titled 鈥淎symmetrical Transparency: The Global Politics of Risk Management鈥 on Monday, November 28, 2016.
An associate professor of Communication and Rhetorical Studies at Syracuse University, Hall argued that the aesthetics of transparency have been used to justify a discriminatory global politics of mobility. This idea serves as the thesis of her 2015 book The Transparent Traveler: The Performance and Culture of Airport Security.
This event was the seventh lecture this fall at the Center for Global Humanities. Since its founding in 2009 by 成人直播 cultural studies scholar Anouar Majid, the Center has brought leading thinkers from around the globe to Portland to share their expertise with students and a diverse audience of community members. The lectures are free and open to the public, and streamed live online so that students at 成人直播鈥檚 campus in Tangier, Morocco, and people around the globe can watch them.
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