Speaking

I am available to speak to community-based organizations, college campuses, media outlets and workplaces about a broad array of topics, ranging from aesthetics and politics to history and current events. Click here to see the specific issues that I have lectured on, and here to see my radio and television interviews. Feel free to contact me directly regarding booking information and speaker fees.

Please find below three lectures on current research projects. Click here to view videos of the debates that I have organized at the Critical Theory Workshop in Paris.

“French Thought in Bad Company: The CIA’s Intellectual World War,” a conversation with Jennifer Ponce de León at the Critical Theory Workshop / Atelier de Théorie Critique at the EHESS in Paris, July 3, 2017.

“Remaking Machines: Pragmatics and Politics of Photography.” Penn State’s Comparative Literature Luncheon Series, October 26, 2015.

“Declarations and the Meanings of Revolutions.” Thinking with Balibar, New York, Columbia University, November 13-14, 2014.