【6月9日】
/海外名家系列讲座·第121讲/
From Boundaries to Interfaces:
Rethinking Modernism in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
主讲人：Youngmin Kim
时间：6月9日（周二）13:00-14:30
地点：松江校区第五教学楼5215室
讲座简介
Within the traditional canon of literary criticism, Modernism has long been theorized through the “poetics of thresholds” or the “aesthetics of boundaries,” a discourse preoccupied with liminality, whether between self and world, presence and absence, or the fragmented ruin and a lost totality. Yet the accelerating ontological instability of the human–machine interface demands a radical rereading of Modernist strategies in the age of artificial intelligence. This lecture proposes a decisive conceptual shift from the border to the interface: from static lines of demarcation to a dynamic, high-pressure site of “transduction,” where epistemology (how we know) dissolves into a newly distorted ontological substantivity (what is).
Re-examining the poetics of Ezra Pound, T. S. Eliot, and W. B. Yeats alongside those of Virginia Woolf, James Joyce, and other Modernists, this lecture moves beyond the prevailing paradigms of “distant reading” in Digital Humanities and World Literature and argues that the profound technological transformations of the early twentieth century, including the typewriter, cinema, and radio, produced a form of media-induced epistemic shock, an intervention that altered not only poetic techniques but also the very ontological assumptions underlying literary expression.
主讲人简介
Youngmin Kim has his Ph. D. in English at the University of Missouri, Columbia. He is currently Honorary Professor and Distinguished Research Professor Emeritus at Dongguk University, Seoul, Korea; and Qiantang Scholar and Guest Professor at College of International Education at Hangzhou Normal University, China; and Visiting Professor at the Department of Film and Center for Intermedial and Multimodal Studies, Linnaeus University, Sweden. He is currently Vice-President of International Yeats Society, Chair of ICLA Translation Studies Committee, Co-Chair of ICLA Digital Comparative Literature Committee. His current research integrates digital humanities, AI-mediated translation, comparative world literature, and intermediality, with a specialized focus on modernist and contemporary English poetry, critical theory, and the intersection of techno-humanities and AI.
