Year: 2016
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AK Thompson: Epistemologies of the Visual From Raphael to Late Capital
AK Thompson: Epistemologies of the Visual From Raphael to Late Capital: Some Observations Regarding Keywords for Radicals and Data Visualization Thursday, DECEMBER 1 | 12:20-2:00 | HUM 210; UCSC+Friday, DECEMBER 2 | 6-8pm | SUB ROSA 703 Pacific Ave, Downtown Santa Cruz Since the visual turn in the social sciences at the beginning of the twenty-first century, images have become important points…
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Queer/Animal/Theory: Psychoanalysis & Subjectivity
A lecture at New York University by Professor Carla Freccero. Both animal studies and queer theory share theoretical inheritances, even as they diverge in some of their philosophical and political commitments. This talk assesses the (non-exclusive) reciprocal impact of animal studies and queer theory. In particular Freccero is interested in how subjectivity and one…
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“Liquidity” in Derivatives and the Wealth of Societies
Professor Robert Meister of the History of Consciousness contributed chapter entitled “Liquidity” to Derivatives and the Wealth of Societies (University of Chicago Press, November 2016) edited by Benjamin Lee and Randy Martin. Derivatives were responsible for one of the worst financial meltdowns in history, one from which we have not yet fully recovered. However, they are likewise capable…
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Staying with the Trouble: Making Kin in the Chthulucene
Staying with the Trouble: Making Kin in the Cthulucene (Duke University Press, September 2016) by Donna J. Haraway, Distinguished Professor Emerita of History of Consciousness and Feminist Studies. In the midst of spiraling ecological devastation, multispecies feminist theorist Donna J. Haraway offers provocative new ways to reconfigure our relations to the earth and all its inhabitants.…