Month: October 2017
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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…