#  Jessica Ruffin: "'What can I hope?': Race, Abyssal Aesthetics, and the Failure of Beauty"  

 



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 **February 20, 2025** 

 05:00PM - 06:30PM EST 

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 **Plimpton Room, Barker 133**  



 

 



 

Jessica Ruffin is Assistant Professor of Film and Media in the Literature Section at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Her talk will address the function of the beautiful in accounts of aesthetic and ethical intersubjectivity. Immanuel Kant’s racialized ideal of human beauty and morality affords an interrogation of colorblind optimism. [Read more ](https://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/event/%E2%80%9Cwhat-can-i-hope%E2%80%9D-race-abyssal-aesthetics-and-failure-beauty)

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