[Ssnet_list] Fwd: TODAY! 'The Air Purifier, or, the Design of Air" by Yandong Li

[Mal Ahern via Ssnet_list]

Hello! This talk may be of interest to the listserv. The speaker, Yandong
Li, is a PhD Candidate in CMS who is also a part of UW's STSS certificate
program. Hope to see some of you there!

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From: Mal Ahern <malahern at uw.edu>
Date: Fri, May 24, 2024 at 9:00 AM
Subject: TODAY! 'The Air Purifier, or, the Design of Air" by Yandong Li
To: <cmsfaculty at uw.edu>, <cmsgrads at uw.edu>, <cmsfaculty_adjuncts at uw.edu>


Please join us for the last of this year's CMS Works in Progress Talks!

*The Air Purifier, or, the Design of the Air*
*Yandong Li (PhD Candidate, Cinema and Media Studies*

[image: Screen Shot 2024-05-19 at 3.29.37 PM.png]*Friday, May 24th, 1:30 PM
- 3:30 PM*, Allen Auditorium, Allen Library

Your air purifier does not purify the air; it only rearranges it. This talk
traces the cultural imaginaries of air purifiers and floating particles in
contemporary China and beyond. I ask, what does a *solution* mean in
solving the problem of air pollution? As a media object, the air purifier
rearranges, providing a solution of instantaneity; as a design object, it
speculates, providing eternal solutions yet to arrive.



*The CMS Works in Progress talks will continue in the 2024-2025 academic
year. (Note that Professor Ruíz's cancelled talk from May is now postponed
to Fall quarter). If you are a member of the CMS community and would like
to present your work in this series, please email malahern at uw.edu
<malahern at uw.edu> and dfruiz at uw.edu <dfruiz at uw.edu> in the coming months. *


-- 
Mal Ahern (she/her/hers)
Assistant Professor
Cinema & Media Studies
University of Washington

*The University of Washington acknowledges the Coast Salish peoples of this
land,  which touches the shared waters of all tribes and bands within the
Suquamish, Tulalip and Muckleshoot nations.*
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