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The Inaugural Lecture of the Distinguished Lecture Series of AMESALL

Post Capitalist Reading by Professor Sheldon Pollock, Columbia University 

For the past thirty years, the study of Asia has been powerfully, and properly, shaped by postcolonialism, that is, by the aim of rebalancing the authority to represent. However, a tide of recent developments, economical, political, and ecological, with global or near-global transformative effect, prompts the question whether we should now find ways to supplement postcolonialism with postcapitalism as the organizing logic of critical inquiry. This presentation will seek to contribute toward this sort of liberation philology, so to call it: trying to understand how we humanists might move from preoccupation with past wrongs toward envisioning, and in our own way enacting, future rights.