Archive: David Bates

Erich Hörl: The Pure Immanence of the Interruptive: Stiegler, Koselleck, and the Historical Experience of Disruption

September 23, 2022

Tuesday Oct. 4, 5:00 pm 370 Dwinelle Hall Erich Hörl is Professor of Media Culture and Philosophy and College Vice-President at Leuphana University, Germany. He is the author of Sacred Channels: The Archaic Illusion of Communication (with N.F.Schott) (2017) and ed. of General Ecology: The New Ecological Paradigm (2018).

On Kojève and Colonialism

February 11, 2020

Danilo Scholz, Fulbright Schuman Postdoctoral Fellow (Columbia University) “From Colonialism to Third Worldism? Alexandre Kojève and the Developing Nations (1945-1968)” Wednesday March 4, 5 pm Dwinelle 3335 (Level C)   Sponsored by the Rhetoric Department With generous support from the Critical Theory Program, the German Department, and Der Kreis: German History Working Group (DAAD)

New Book by Katherine Chandler (Rhetoric PhD 2014)

February 10, 2020

Unmanning How Humans, Machines and Media Perform Drone Warfare (Rutgers University Press, 2020) by Katherine Fehr Chandler Assistant Professor, School of Foreign Policy Georgetown University, Washington D.C. Unmanning studies the conditions that create unmanned platforms in the United States through a genealogy of experimental, pilotless planes flown between 1936 and 1992. Characteristics often attributed to the drone—including machine-like control, enmity and remoteness—are achieved by displacements…