WCED Roundtable. Authoritarian Ideologies in the Americas

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Marilia Corrêa, assistant professor of history, Baylor University; Ben Cowan, professor of history, University of California, San Diego; Vincent Mauro, WCED postdoctoral fellow, U-M; Jen Triplett, PhD candidate, sociology, U-M

Exposure (E. Levinas, F. Moten, K. Lamar)

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This paper asks what happens when we examine Levinasian exposure—understood as performative articulation of political concepts—in light of what Fred Moten calls the “social aesthetics of Black radicalism.” It will