News & Events
Each year The Speaker Series brings in several visiting guest lecturers. Speakers over the years have included Jean Baudrillard, Lauren Berlant, Peter Brooks, Norman Bryson, David Carroll, Anthony Cascardi, Wlad Godzich, Jean-Joseph Goux, Elizabeth Grosz, Linda Hutcheon, Martin Jay, Michael Hardt, Agnes Heller, Barbara Johnson, David Farrell Krell, Murray Krieger, Arthur Kroker, Dominick LaCapra, Jerome McGann, J. Hillis Miller, Chantal Mouffe, Christopher Norris, Mark Poster, Richard Rorty, Charles Scott, Thomas Sebeok, Kaja Silverman, Gayatri Spivak, Samuel Weber, Hayden White, Slavoj Žižek, and many others.
2011-2012 Speaker Series
presents upcoming lectures
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Claire Colebrook
CANCELED until further notice
"Framing the End of the Species: Life after the Anthropocene Era"
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McKenzie Wark
February 17, 2012
"A Minimum of Serious Seduction: The Legend of the The Situationist International"
"When legend becomes fact, print the legend," as the newspaper editor says in The Man Who Shot Liberty Valence. The Situationist International -- big film fans among other things -- certain lived by this principle. As Henri Lefebvre would note about their MO: they occupied the terrain of resonant symbols as a way of confronting the more mundane communications of what they would dub 'the society of the spectacle.' In this presentation, I will look at a range of strategies they adopted particularly in the early years of the SI.
McKenzie Wark is the author of The Beach Beneath the Street (Verso), Gamer Theory (Harvard) and various other things. He is professor of liberal studies at the New School for Social Rsearch in New York City.
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Joan Steigerwald
March 1, 2012
"Schelling’s Philosophy of Nature: Boundary Concepts and the Dialectic of Judgment"
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Katherine Hayles
March 8, 2012
"Material Entanglements: Jonathan Safran Foer's 'Tree of Codes' and the Aesthetic of Bookishness"
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Past Speakers:
Jonathan Sachs
Adam Smith and Problems of Historical Scale in the Later Eighteenth Century
February 3, 2012
Thierry Bardini
"64 Propositions on Junk Aesthetics, Slimy Slugs, Placid Plastidules and Other Lively Odradeks"
January 20, 2012
Audio Link
Thomas Keenan
"Mengele's Skull: Human Rights and Forensic Aethetics"
November 9, 2011
Debra Bergoffen
"Oppression, Torture, Rape: Violating the Dignity of the Vulnerable Body"
October 13, 2011
Bernard Stiegler
"About Attentional Forms"
September 21, 2011
Audio Link to conference proceedings
see Previous Speaker Series here
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