On January 28, 2024, I presented a lecture at Sunday Morning at the Marxist Library, in an event co-sponsored by the Critical Theory Workshop. It was entitled “Are Fascism and Liberalism Partners in Capitalist Crime?” It is now available online.
I was honored to be invited to present some of my research at Sunday Morning at the Marxist Library on January 28, 2024. The lecture, entitled “Are Fascism and Liberalism Partners in Capitalist Crime?,” was followed by a long discussion.
The Centre for Marxian Studies at Jadavpur University, in cooperation with the CTW, will host an online lecture by me, with a response by Himani Bannerji, on January 25 at 9 a.m. EST. The talk is entitled “The Imperial Theory Industry & the Compatible Left Intelligentsia.” It will provide a programmatic overview of the book I am completing on the topic, and it will be followed by a discussion with questions from the audience. If you would like to register, please send your full name and reason for attending to: criticaltheoryworkshop@protonmail.com
I’m honored to be lecturing at Tsinghua University in Beijing on 11/23/23. More details can be found here.
Abstract: This presentation will provide an overview of my research to date on aesthetics and politics. It will begin by outlining the compositional model of ideology, which foregrounds the aesthetic dimensions of ideological experience by drawing on Antonio Gramsci’s important conceptualization of common sense (as opposed to good sense). It will then examine, more specifically, the bourgeois ideology of art, with a particular focus on the problems inherent in the work of some of the most prominent art theorists in the West (Jacques Rancière, Arthur Danto, and Herbert Marcuse). Finally, it will raise the essential question of how to challenge this bourgeois ideology by elucidating how culture is a central site of class struggle. Through the course of this overall trajectory, a number of concrete examples and specific artistic tactics will be shared in order to foster a rich conversation dealing with both theory and practice.
I am honored to have been invited to share my research in the speaker series at The Center for the Study of Theory & Criticism on October 5th (details below).
The 14th annual summer program of the Critical Theory Workshop / Atelier de Théorie Critique will take place in Paris, as well as online, from July 4 to July 22, 2022.
The content will be more or less identical, and invited speakers include Radhika Desai*, Georges Gastaud*, Jacques Pauwels*, Jennifer Ponce de León*, Mary Louise Pratt*, Gabriel Rockhill*, and others TBA (* confirmed). Click here for general information about the program, here for details regarding the Paris program, and here for info about the online program.
Here is my opening lecture from the Critical Theory Workshop‘s online summer program 2020. Click here for the call for applications for the 2021 summer program, which will take place online and–hopefully–in person.
I am honored to have been invited by Vilniaus universitetas / Vilnius University as a guest online lecturer. I will be presenting parts of my next book, co-authored with Jennifer Ponce de León, Revolutionizing Aesthetics: Composing a World beyond Art (Columbia University Press, forthcoming). I will also be running two seminars on my earlier book Radical History and the Politics of Art. Click here for more information.
The lecture I presented at the Critical Theory Workshop’s Summer Program in Paris is now available here on the CTW’s website. It is entitled “Toward a Counter-History of French Theory,” and it took place on July 15, 2019.
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