Year: 2017
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Whither Fanon?: Studies in the Blackness of Being
Professor David Marriott’s Whither Fanon? Studies in the Blackness of Being will be published by Stanford University Press in June 2018 as part of the Cultural Memory in the Present Series. Frantz Fanon may be most known for his more obviously political writings, but in the first instance, he was a clinician, a black Caribbean psychiatrist who…
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Queer/Animal/Theory: Psychoanalysis & Subjectivity
Wednesday, October 25 / Carla Freccero / 12:00-1:30pm / Humanities 1, Rm 210 Psychoanalysis is queer insofar as it does not presume a model of sexuality & gender from which to extrapolate a normative outcome. Likewise, psychoanalysis does not presume “the human” as the starting point for analyzing how adult human subjectivity is achieved. How might we describe a…
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Neil Brenner: Is the World Urban?
The UCSC Sociology Colloquium Series presents:Neil Brenner:Is the World Urban? Monday, October 23, 20172:30 – 4:00pmHumanities 210Free & open to public – refreshments served In what sense is the 21st century world “urban”? In this lecture, Neil Brenner critiques contemporary ideologies of the “urban age,” which confront this question with reference to the purported fact…
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Jet Noise and The Production of Environmentalism(s) in the 1970’s Bay Area: Disruptive: Noise as Material
Lecture | October 20 | 2-3 p.m. | 300 Wheeler Hall Speaker: Eric Porter, Professor of History and History of Consciousness at UC Santa Cruz Sponsors: UCHRI, Townsend Center for the Humanities, Arts Research Center The UCHRI working group Counter-Production: Noise as Critical Research will be hosting several events across the UC’s this year that critically engage the field of Sound…
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Imaginactivism: A Speculative Fiction Workshop on Environmental Justice, Flourishing and Cohabitation
Speculative Fiction Workshop with Joan Haran and Martha KenneyWith interventions from Starhawk, Donna Haraway, and Elizabeth StephensWednesday, October 18, 20171:00-4:30 PMDARC Light Lab 306 In this workshop we will take inspiration from Starhawk and Donna Haraway. In their writings since the later 1970s we can trace both the influence of a web of feminist SFs, including…
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Finance-as-Conspiracy/Market-as-Theory
Professor Robert Meister of History of Consciousness delivers the paper “Finance-as-Conspiracy/Market-as-Theory” as part of the Corporate Planning Panel at the University of Chicago Conspiracy/Theory Conference. Conspiracy/Theory considers the intersection of conspiracy and theory, focusing on the imbrication of complex systems across politics, economics, militarism, and technology in the present. Exploring the conditions for knowing in a…
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In Memoriam: Teresia Teaiwa
Sean, Vaitoa, Teresia: Wellington 2003. By Jim Clifford, Professor Emeritus History of Conciousness Teresia Teaiwa, History of Consciousness PhD 2001, passed away on 21 March 2017. The cause was pancreatic cancer. Her untimely loss has devastated many friends and admirers. An enormous outpouring of love and support, from throughout Oceania and beyond, accompanied her final…
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Those Who Resist
History of Consciousness graduate candidate Asad Haider contributes “Those Who Resist” to the Verso website. “Today we must remember Heather Heyer and all those who left their homes in the morning to fight for justice, knowing that they might not come back. These people are never angels or saints. They are ordinary people, like you and…
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Feminism, Capitalism, and Critique: Essays in Honor of Nancy Fraser
Feminism, Capitalism, and Critique: Essays in Honor of Nancy Fraser. Edited by Professor Banu Bargu of History of Consciousness and Chiara Bottici – Palgrave Macmillan, July 2017. This edited collection examines the relationship between three central terms—capitalism, feminism, and critique—while critically celebrating the work and life of a thinker who has done the most to address this nexus:…
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Arts of Living on a Damaged Planet: Ghosts and Monsters of the Anthropocene
Arts of Living on a Damaged Planet: Ghosts and Monsters of the Anthropocene (University of Minnesota Press, May 2017). Edited by Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing, Heather Anne Swanson, Elaine Gan, and Nils Bubandt. Living on a damaged planet challenges who we are and where we live. This timely anthology calls on twenty eminent humanists and scientists to revitalize…
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an interval: Dark Deleuze in the Dark
Wednesday, February 22 / 5:00-7pm / DARC’s Dark Lab Room 108 Andrew Culp’s Dark Deleuze (University of Minnesota Press, 2016) offers a radical reinterpretation of the theorist Gilles Deleuze that challenges today’s world of compulsory happiness, decentralized control, and overexposure. Arranged in a series of contraries, Culp’s cataclysmic politics exhorts us to kill our idols and cultivate “hatred for…
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“On Decadence: Bling Bling” and “Introduction to Boggs” in e-flux #79
“Let us imagine,” David Marriott begins his essay in this issue, “that ‘black lives matter’ is a scandalous, even decadent claim, characterized, as the definition has it, by excess or luxury.” If this is so, Marriott makes clear, it is an excess we cannot afford to not afford. On Decadence: Bling Bling by Professor David Marriott and Introduction to Boggs by…