Here is a video of a talk I gave recently on copying, copyright, and contemporary poetry with reference to Kim Dotcom, Socrates, Plato, print culture, Hegel, Mitt Romney, J.D. Salinger, Monty Python, Charles Dickens, Richard Prince, Kenneth Goldsmith, Simon Morris, Jack Kerouac, Sigmund Freud, iPhone apps, Gone with the Wind, The Wind Done Gone, Vanessa Place, Jonathan Stalling, and Sino-American relations.
The talk was presented as the 2012 University of Otago Carl Smith Lecture on 16 October 2012.
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About Jacob Edmond
Jacob Edmond is an Associate Professor in the Department of English at the University of Otago, New Zealand. He is author of A Common Strangeness: Contemporary Poetry, Cross-Cultural Encounter, Comparative Literature (Fordham UP, 2012). His articles have appeared in journals such as Comparative Literature, Contemporary Literature, Poetics Today, The China Quarterly, the Slavic and East European Journal, and Russian Literature. He is editor (with Henry Johnson and Jacqueline Leckie) of Recentring Asia: Histories, Encounters, Identities (Brill / Global Oriental, 2011), and editor and translator (with Hilary Chung) of Yang Lian’s Unreal City: A Chinese Poet in Auckland (Auckland University Press, 2006).
For more, see:
http://www.otago.ac.nz/english/staff/edmond.htm
http://otago.academia.edu/JacobEdmond
http://commonstrangeness.wordpress.com/
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