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2017 Last Lecture

2017 Last Lecture

Update: 2017-05-30

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Professor Trudier Harris, University Distinguished Research Professor in the English Department, discusses resisting dehumanization and thingification, the authoritarian others and even machines that take over our lives and make us subservient to them—the newest version of slavery being the anarchy of technology.

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2017 Last Lecture

2017 Last Lecture

Trudier Harris