Thursday 13th December, 2007Professor Christopher Pinney
Lessons From Hell: Karma and Governmentality in Popular Indian Imagery
5pm, Goldsmiths Small Hall (Cinema)
Synopsis: "Karni Bharni" images embody the importation of a Jain soteriology into mainstream Hinduism in the late nineteenth century. They depict punishments in hell for moral transgressions and eventually transmute, in the mid-twentieth century, into a parallel genre known as "Ideal Body" which visualise codes of citizenship. The lecture explores the powerful "underneath" of this world of punishment and its role as a visual mode of governmentality.
Christopher Pinney is Visiting Crowe Professor, Department of Art History Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, USA. & Professor of Anthropology & Visual Culture, University College London
This lecture is free and all are welcome. It is organised by the Centre for Cultural Studies in collaboration with the Department of Visual Cultures, Goldsmiths
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