Events
Week of Events
Jaron Lanier: How the Internet Failed and How to Recreate It
Jaron Lanier: How the Internet Failed and How to Recreate It
The Peggy Downes Baskin Ethics Lecture, Presented by the Humanities Institute The internet as it exists might destroy our world. In the developed countries, its arrival has corresponded to bizarre political dysfunction, while in the developing world, ethnic rivalries that had been waning have been re-ignited in the most grotesque fashion. It wasn’t supposed to […]
Michel Feher: “Creditworthiness – The Political Stake of a Speculative Age”
Michel Feher: “Creditworthiness – The Political Stake of a Speculative Age”
Michel Feher’s current research and forthcoming book, Rated Agency: Investee Politics in a Speculative Age (Zone Books, September 2018) examines the extraordinary shift in conduct and orientation generated by financialization, particularly the new political resistances and aspirations that investees draw from their rated agency. Event Photos: Michel Feher is a philosopher who has taught […]
Living Writers: Julian Talamantez Brolaski
Living Writers: Julian Talamantez Brolaski
Julian Talamantez Brolaski is the author of Of Mongrelitude (Wave Books, 2017), which was recently shortlisted for a Lambda Literary Award for Transgender Poetry; Advice for Lovers (City Lights 2012); and Gowanus Atropolis (Ugly Duckling Press, 2011. It is coediter of NO GENDER: Reflections on the Life & Work of Kari Edwards, as well as […]