{"id":947,"date":"2015-03-11T13:00:13","date_gmt":"2015-03-11T13:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/c3riimpact\/?p=947"},"modified":"2017-03-06T17:26:18","modified_gmt":"2017-03-06T17:26:18","slug":"research-seminar-camila-bassi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/c3riimpact\/research-seminar-camila-bassi\/","title":{"rendered":"Wednesday 11 March 2015 – Lunchtime seminar with Dr Camila Bassi (Human Geography, SHU)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Title: What’s radical about reality TV? An unexpected tale of a Chinese antihero
\nSpeaker: Dr Camila Bassi<\/a> (Human Geography, SHU)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Dr Camila Bassi<\/a>: <\/p>\n

Advancing a Marxist approach to the material realities of the contradictory relationship of sexuality to capitalist political economy, in this seminar I extend a focus on urban gay political economy to the regional and national political economy of television. Using the work of Karl Marx, Antonio Gramsci, and critical theorist Nancy Fraser, a story of China\u2019s reality TV show Super Girl is explicated as generating momentary openings for a distinct lesbian subculture in Shanghai. An interplay of global capital and Western commodity trends, and the relative but fragile autonomy of China\u2019s regional political economy, concurrent with a reduction in force of the link between the accumulation of surplus value and the mode of sexual regulation, is shown to have produced Super Girl and enabled radical consumption outlets. Avoiding slippage into a notion of hegemonic containment, I warn against an Althusserian tendency within early work on gay political economy and an intersectionality analysis in sexuality studies, and demonstrate a Marxism sensitive to change in material realities shaped by both capital\u2019s drive to universalise across time and space, and specific human agencies and conditions of existence.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

1.00PM \u2013 2.00PM
\nWEDNESDAY 11 MARCH 2015
\nCANTOR 9140<\/strong><\/p>\n

See here<\/a> for details of other seminars in the series.<\/p>\n

All SHU staff and students are welcome to attend the C3RI Lunchtime Research Seminars. If you are from outside of the University and would like to attend a seminar, please email C3RI Administrator<\/a> to arrange entry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Title: What’s radical about reality TV? An unexpected tale of a Chinese antihero Speaker: Dr Camila Bassi (Human Geography, SHU) Dr Camila Bassi: Advancing a Marxist approach to the material realities of the contradictory relationship of sexuality to capitalist political economy, in this seminar I extend a focus on urban gay political economy to the regional and national political economy […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8633,"featured_media":948,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[103],"tags":[208,6,209,210],"class_list":["post-947","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-events","tag-camila-bassi","tag-communication-and-computing-research-centre","tag-reality-tv","tag-sexuality"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/c3riimpact\/files\/2017\/02\/2015-03-11-BASSI-Camila-Whats-radical-about-reality-TV.png?fit=400%2C209&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8oFHo-fh","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":8137,"url":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/c3riimpact\/dr-ruth-deller-reality-tv-social-media\/","url_meta":{"origin":947,"position":0},"title":"Thursday 21 November – Lunchtime Seminar with Dr Ruth Deller (Reader in Media and Communication)","author":"Amy Lander","date":"08\/11\/2019","format":false,"excerpt":"Title: Reality TV in the age of social media Speaker: Dr Ruth Deller (Reader in Media and Communication) Abstract Reality TV and social media are two of the biggest media phenomena of recent years. 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