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The Rhetoric Fall Colloquium Presents: “AS ON THE FIRST DAY”: THE STRUGGLE OF FIRSTS IN HEIDEGGER’S “FIRST ELABORATION” OF HIS “ORIGIN OF THE WORK OF ART”
Peter Fenves
The primary thesis of this paper is that Heidegger’s “First Elaboration” of the thoughts that would emerge as his essay on “The Origin of the Work of Art” provides…
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Theories of the Global South
Donna Honarpisheh and Devin Choudhury
The Program in Critical Theory’s Fall 2019 working group, Theories of the Global South, will host its third meeting on October 25 from 12-2 pm in 7415 Dwinelle Hall. To prepare,…
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Berkeley Book Chats – Looking for Law in All the Wrong Places: Justice Beyond and Between
Berkeley Book Chats
The Townsend Center for the Humanities Presents another installment of it’s Berkeley Book Chats series, Looking for Law in All the Wrong Places: Justice Beyond and Between. With Marianne…
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The Human Body in the Age of Catastrophe: Brittleness, Integration, Science and the Great War
Stefanos Geroulanos
The injuries suffered by soldiers during WWI were as varied as they were brutal. How could the human body suffer and often absorb such disparate traumas? Why might the…
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The Berkeley Center for New Media Presents – The Human Computer in the Stone Age: Technology, Prehistory, and the Redefinition of the Human after World War II
Stefanos Geroulanos
After World War II, new concepts and metaphors of technology helped transform the understanding of human history all the way back to the australopithecines. Using concepts from cybernetics and…
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On Twenty-first Century Postcolonialism
Dai Jinhua
The Center for Chinese Sudies Colloquium presents: Dai Jinhua, Professor in the Institute of Comparative Literature and Culture, Peking University Prof. Jinhua was a Departmental Resident Fellow under the Townsend…
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Rhetoric Spring Colloquium: Brian Massumi
Brian Massumi
Intensity The concept of intensity is a keystone of process-oriented philosophies, including those of Bergson, Whitehead, Deleuze/Guattari, and Simondon, and often figures prominently in contemporary work classified under the…
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Rhetoric Spring Colloquium: Desmond Jagmohan
Desmond Jagmohan
Candor and Courage: Ida B. Wells and Fearless Speech This paper explicates Ida B. Wells’s argument that journalists and leaders have a moral obligation to speak fearlessly. To do…
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Counter Exegesis: Medieval Kabbalistic Responses to Patristic Commentary
Dr. Jonatan Benarroch
Dr. Benarroch (Department of Jewish Thought, Hebrew University & Visiting Scholar at The Berkeley Institute for Jewish Law and Israel Studies at Berkeley Law) will be presenting a lecture…
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Facing the Limits of Decoloniality from a Southeast Asian Peri-urban Forest
Juno Salazar Parreñas
CSEAS Lecture Wednesday, November 7, 2018 "Facing the Limits of Decoloniality from a Southeast Asian Peri-urban Forest" Juno Salazar Parreñas Assistant Professor of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Ohio…
