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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…
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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.…