I was very pleased to participate in a book discussion at NYU on Friday Dec. 2 with Jennifer Ponce de Leon, coordinated by Andrew Weiner. We discussed, among other things, the introduction and two chapters from Interventions in Contemporary Thought.
Voici mon dernier article, qui porte sur la résistance à la réserve indienne de Standing rock.
“La présidentielle américaine continue à dominer les médias de masse, alors qu’une bataille de résistance on ne peut plus importante se joue sur les plaines perdues du Dakota du Nord. Anti-coloniale et écologique, elle devrait nous concerner tous en tant qu’indigènes de la planète Terre [lire la suite].”
Massive Trump Protest–Ignored by the Media–in Center City Philadelphia on Nov. 19, 2016
Here is my most recent article in CounterPunch, which analyzes the multiple factors that have contributed to the current political catastrophe in order to develop a series of concrete, positive strategies for moving forward.
Excerpt:
“Let this spring, which due to human-made climate change is already happening in the fall and approaching winter, be the springtime of the people. Resistance and protests, organized social movements, a popular front on the Left, a publically-owned Fourth and Fifth Estate, and a common culture of radical leftwing politics could set the stage for an epic struggle against—and defeat of—neoliberalism’s crescendo into neo-fascism. [read more]”
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
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.
GABRIEL ROCKHILL 