特別講演：“Vulnerability, Sovereignty, and the Technology of American Death”
講師：Russ Castronovo (University of Wisconsin–Madison)日時：2026年 6月 8日（月）18:30-19:30
会場：慶應義塾大学日吉キャンパス 来往舎 2階中会議室
参加費：無料（どなたでも歓迎）
使用言語：英語（通訳なし）
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主催：有光道生ゼミ（慶應義塾大学）
共催：慶應義塾アメリカ学会
助成：小泉基金
◆◆◆Abstract: Drawing on political theory and visual culture, this talk begins with a discussion of early modern bodies — anatomical as well as symbolic — that reveal the often-repressed continuity between sovereignty and vulnerability. It then gathers an eclectic mix of sources, including a novel by Don DeLillo (Zero K) and a visit to a cryopreservation facility, to examine how the will to sovereignty continues in the modern era to be shadowed by its disavowed other, vulnerability. Wounding constitutes the etymological heart of vulnerability (vulnus signifies wound), and this apprehension of injury generates the impossible fantasy of a subjectivity impermeable to change — including death itself. Starting with the cryonic preservation of human bodies and then considering the atmosphere of a warming planet and ultimately the idea of "conceptual freezing," this fantasy has literal, environmental, and philosophical implications. The textual and cultural sites examined herein disclose that sovereignty not only never escapes but also requires the vulnerability it would disavow. （※フライヤーより）◆◆◆
