Category: Events
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Daniel Loick’s “The Abuse of Property”
The History of Consciousness is pleased to host Professor Daniel Loick delivering his talk, The Abuse of Property, on Monday February 26, 2018. Talk details are below. MONDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 2018 / 4:00 – 6:00PM / HUMANITIES 1, ROOM 420 Please click the link here to be directed to video of the talk. About The…
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Take Back The Fight: Resisting Sexual Violence from the Ground Up
Felix Kulpa Gallery II | 209 Laurel St., Santa Cruz, California with additional events at: SubRosa: A Community Space | 703 Pacific Ave., Santa Cruz, California Exhibition Dates: February 2, 2018 – February 24, 2018 Open Hours: Fridays & Saturdays | 12pm-5pm Events: Exhibition Opening [FKII & SR]: February 2, 2018 | 6pm Panel Discussion [FKII]: TBA Reading Group: TBA Self-Defense Workshop: February 11, 2018 | more info tba Punk Show…
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Black on Black-ness
Wednesday, February 7, 2018 / an INTERVAL with The Black Aesthetic / Black on Black-ness / 1:00-6pm / E Baskin Art D101 EVENT PAGE INTERVAL is partnering with The Black Aesthetic (TBA) on an event titled “Black on Black-ness” that seeks to think through the contemporary proliferation of various black signs whose aesthetic and commercial ownership holds a…
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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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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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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…