Since ProductRump is now officially in charge of the money-media complex that produced it, I take the liberty of reposting my earlier op-ed, “Corporate Idiocracy and the Manufacturing of ProducTrump,” which was originally published in CounterPunch. Click here to read.
I am pleased to have the opportunity to present at the Critical Theory Roundtable at Penn State on 11/13. The entire program is available here. The abstract of the long version of my paper (of which I will only present a small part) is available below.
“Critical and Radical Theory”
What can theory do? Or, perhaps better, what does theory do? How does it operate, and what are its social, political and economic stakes and impacts? How does the intelligentsia as a class contribute to the perpetuation or transformation of inherited power structures? Continue reading
Interventions in Contemporary Thought: History, Politics, Aesthetics was published by Edinburgh University Press over the summer, and it is now available in North America (Oxford UP is the distributor).
“These timely interventions challenge us to rethink the role and influence of scholarly discourse and critique. Gabriel Rockhill has developed a highly original, ‘conjunctural’ approach, which consists in reading the works of the French cultural critics and philosophers that are at the core of his expertise, according to a judgment of relevance and urgency that is part of our own historicity as critics and academics. These sharp readings of Rancière, Derrida, Foucault and Badiou are therefore part of a welcome call to arms to revitalize and politicize Anglo-American cultural scholarship.”
– Giuseppina Mecchia, University of Pittsburgh
Thanks to The Whit for the article published here on my recent lecture at Rowan University on privilege and violence.
I was very pleased to work with Yannik Thiem and Roy Ben-Shai for our panel at SPEP on October 20th, entitled “New Horizons in Critical Theory: Affirmative Critique, Decolonization, and the Information Economy.”
I am very grateful to Nathan Eckstrand and the APA Blog for the series of posts that they are currently running on the Critical Theory Workshop/Atelier de Théorie Critique, which is an intensive summer program I direct at the Sorbonne. The first post, an interview with me about the Workshop, is available here. Five other posts by the participants in CTW/ATC 2016 will be published in the coming weeks. Information about CTW/ATC 2017, which is administered by Villanova’s Philosophy Department, is available here.
I’m pleased to announce the first collaboration between ASAP/Journal and the Critical Theory Workshop / Atelier de Théorie Critique: the publication of the 2014 Rencontre I organized with art theorist and philosopher Patrick Vauday. Entitled “From an Ontology to a Pragmatics of Images,” it serves as the first introduction in English to Vauday’s important work on aesthetics, which can be situated in the wake of figures such as Sartre, Deleuze and Rancière.
All of the videos from the Critical Theory Workshop / Atelier de Théorie Critique 2016 at the Sorbonne are now available here. Highlights include discussions with Amy Allen and Patricia Gherovici on psychoanalysis and social criticism, Domenico Losurdo on the counter-history of liberalism, and Souleymane Diagne and Amy Allen on global critical theory and decolonial thought. I also had the opportunity to participate in a discussion with Patrice Maniglier and Jean-Michel Rabaté on the future of Francophone theory, and a presentation with Pierre-Antoine Chardel of our book project Pour une socio-philosophie du monde actuel. Thank you to all of the guests and participants.
GABRIEL ROCKHILL 