Peter Turchi: The Strategic Release of Information; or A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Information Dump (July 2017)

Exposition, information, background, context—whatever we call it, we recognize it as the stuff that’s necessary and yet, potentially, inert. Turchi’s lecture considers a variety of strategies for conveying information effectively, as illustrated in several stories and novels, including Colson Whitehead’s Underground Railroad, Toni Morrison’s and Adam Johnson’s “Hurricanes Anonymous.”