Thursday, November 21, 2024 | 4:00PM-5:30PM PT | Zoom (meeting link will be emailed) | RSVP

EASC Guest Speaker Series: Talk by Prof. Zhange Ni (Virginia Tech) with Faculty Moderator Dr. Kun Huang (COLT 365: Literature and Popular Culture)

The Cthulhu Mythos is fictional universe positing the existence of Cthulhu and other monstrous deities and warning against attempts to venture into a cosmos indifferent, if not hostile, to human interests. These monsters have arrived in China and transfigured there. The Cthulhu conquest of China is also the Chinese conquest of Cthulhu. The anti-humanism of supernatural horror has been transformed into a humanist critique against the capitalist system that utilizes information sciences and digital technologies to exploit human capacities. Prof. Ni will use Chinese fantasy novels to explore themes of corporate horror, proletarian manifesto, and the salvation of insanity. For a full abstract of the talk, see here ►