Friday 17 February 2017
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\nThe Pit 12B09 – Te Ara Hihiko, Massey Wellington<\/p>\n
Recent books on the modern revolution in transport enabled by the shipping container remind us that the term \u201clogistics,\u201d now used primarily to signify systems \u201callowing circulations to take place,\u201d was first used by one of Napoleon\u2019s former generals: a chapter in Jomini\u2019s The Art of War<\/em> was titled \u201cLogistics; or the Practical Art of Moving Armies.\u201d How might we think of what is after all the continuing<\/em> project of \u201ctransporting Romanticism\u201d in relation to global logistics and the shipping container? Reminded that books of poems are carried on the same ships that transport settlers and soldiers, what changes about our understanding of their power to transport? Recognizing the press as an \u201cinformation delivery system,\u201d how can we differentiate between the \u201chackney\u2019d\u201d phrase Byron identifies with cant<\/em> and those \u201ctruths\u201d that \u201cmust be recited,\u201d truths \u201cyou will not read in the gazette?\u201d Focusing on the quotation and the capsule as figures of containerized movement in Byron\u2019s Don Juan<\/em> and Kleist\u2019s Michael Kohlhaas<\/em>, I\u2019ll explore their attempts to develop a counterlogistics<\/em> of the word.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n This plenary is made possible by the W.H. Oliver Humanities Research Academy<\/strong>, Massey University. It forms part of Transporting Romanticism, Romantic Studies Association of Australasia Biennial Conference, 16-18 February 2017, co-hosted by Massey University and Victoria University of Wellington. https:\/\/rsaa2017.wordpress.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Celeste Langan, Associate Professor in the UC Berkeley Department of English, will be speaking in Wellington at the upcoming RSAA conference “Transporting Romanticism” on Friday 17 February. Details are below: Under Arrest: Transport and Security (Excitation and Citation) Friday 17 February 2017 4.45pmpm The Pit 12B09 – Te Ara Hihiko, Massey Wellington Recent books on […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,101,66],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1771","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-creative-writing","category-events","category-wellington-campus-campus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.massey.ac.nz\/expressivearts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1771","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.massey.ac.nz\/expressivearts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.massey.ac.nz\/expressivearts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.massey.ac.nz\/expressivearts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.massey.ac.nz\/expressivearts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1771"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sites.massey.ac.nz\/expressivearts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1771\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1774,"href":"https:\/\/sites.massey.ac.nz\/expressivearts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1771\/revisions\/1774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.massey.ac.nz\/expressivearts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.massey.ac.nz\/expressivearts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.massey.ac.nz\/expressivearts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"http:\/\/sites.massey.ac.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2017\/02\/Celeste.jpg\")
<\/a>Celeste Langan, Associate Professor in the UC Berkeley Department of English, is the author of Romantic Vagrancy: Wordsworth and the Simulation of Freedom<\/em>, a study of why and how Rousseau and Wordsworth represent political freedom as freedom of movement. More recently, she has helped to develop the subfield of Romantic Media Studies, with essays like \u201cUnderstanding Media in 1805,\u201d \u201cThe Medium of Romantic Poetry\u201d (co-authored with Maureen McLane), and \u201cPathologies of Communication from Coleridge to Schreber.\u201d Her current book manuscript, Post-Napoleonism: Literature and the Afterlife of Sovereignty<\/em>, traces the migration of the political concept of sovereignty into the domain of the literature. Drawing on the Freudian concept of \u201cafterwardsness\u201d or the apr\u00e8s coup, the book illuminates ways in which the newspaper report of an event is foundational to a new idea of literature as mediated utterance.<\/p>\n