Topic: Facing the “Parallax View”: Slavoj Zizek and Cultural Studies
Speaker: Dr. Dai Yuchen
Host: Dr. Zhang Qing
Time: 2 p.m. to 4:30 p.m., Friday, December 25, 2020.
Location: Room 311, Zijin Building, the Xianlin campus
Tencent Meeting: 261 329 367
Synopsis:
The lecture will revolve around the doctoral dissertation of Dr. Dai Yuchen, Facing “the parallax view”: Slavoj Zizek and cultural studies. It will discuss how to raise the awareness of topic selection and question identification in the writing of a theory-oriented treatise. Then, the speaker will explain how to elaborate on the evolution of the specific theory. In his dissertation, the speaker studied the cultural theory of Slavoj Zizek, a renowned contemporary philosopher, cultural theorist, and psychoanalyst, and sought to construct the theoretical evolution of Zizek’s discussion of popular culture. Based on many texts by Zizek on cultural criticism, the dissertation extracted the concept of “parallax” from Zizek’s philosophy, and set the idea as an important perspective of research on Zizek’s studies of popular culture, thus connecting his ideas about topics like movies, literary arts, ideology, postmodernism, cyberspace, and globalization. At a time when postmodern cultural theories were and are still prevailing, the dissertation centered its review of Zizek’s cultural theories on parallax, and offered a robust criticism of the cognitivism-relativism orientation in cultural studies.
Bio:
Dai Yuchen works at the Department of Politics at East China Normal University. He is a Chenhui Scholar at the university and selected into the Chenguang Talent Program of Shanghai. He received his doctorate from the School of Journalism at Fudan University, and he went to the Centre for Ideology Critique and Žižek Studies at Cardiff University as a visiting scholar during his doctoral studies. Currently, he is engaged in teaching and research on cultural studies, contemporary critic theories, and media sociology. He has led a youth project of the Humanities and Social Sciences Research Fund, the Ministry of Education, and a project supported by the Shanghai Chenguang Talent Program. He published a monograph, Facing the “Parallax View”: Slavoj Zizek and Cultural Studies, and papers in core journals including Literary Review, Journalism& Communication, Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art, and Chinese Journal of Journalism & Communication. Many of his papers were reprinted in full by publications of the Information Center for Social Sciences, Renmin University of China.
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Published December 24, 2020