
COMMODIFICATION, TECHNOCULTURE, AND THE HUMAN: RETHINKING TECHNOLOGY
Third Workshop in Social and Political Thought at Michigan State University
With Andrew Feenberg, Donna Haraway, and Paul Thompson
October, 23/24, 2010
Saturday: 9am-6pm, Sunday: 9am-1pm
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Description
An important connection explored in the humanities concerns the degree to which technological rationality changes our lives, whether in terms of our behavior, our conceptions of … Read More …

Cutting the “Not”: Workshop on Negativity and Reflexivity
September 10-12, 2010
Jan Van Eyck Academie
Maastricht, Netherlands
Organizers: Mladen Dolar, Avigail Moss, Eli Noé, Kerstin Stakemeier and Tzuchien Tho
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Cutting the “Not”
The question of the negative has been one of the fundamental concerns, if not the central problem, of modern and postmodern philosophy. If, since Descartes (and more explicitly since Kant), … Read More …

The provisional programme is available here.

Freud after Derrida
Oct. 6-9, 2010
The University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS: David Farrell Krell, Alberto Pérez-Gómez, Samuel Weber, David Wills, Sarah Wood
The conference engages Freud’s work as it continues to inform and provoke research and discussion across the disciplines (e.g., architecture, film, history, literature, philosophy, religion, science), and particularly, as it opens through and “after Derrida.” Topics to be considered include: psychoanalysis and the literary text, temporality, space, technics, … Read More …