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Room 1501,
International Affairs Building
Annual conference of the UK journal, Radical Philosophy at Columbia University.
Free registration: radicalphilosophyrsvp@gmail.com
Program details: http://www.radicalphilosophy.com
Speakers include: Claudia Aradau ∙ Etienne Balibar ∙ Tim Bewes ∙ Antonia Birnbaum Finn Brunton ∙ Marilena Chaui ∙ David Cunningham Silvia Rivera Cusicanqui ∙ Bachir Diagne ∙ David Golumbia Harry Harootunian ∙ Esther Leslie ∙ Rosalind Morris ∙ Mark Neocleous Peter Osborne ∙ Kristin Ross ∙ Kaushik Sunder Rajan ∙ Gayatri Spivak
Sessions include: Representing Capitalism ∙ Biopolitics and Security Temporalities of Crisis ∙ Politics of Information ∙ Postcolonial worlds
PROGRAM
9.00–9.30 Registration
9.30–9.45 Introductions: Gayatri Spivak, Peter Osborne, Etienne Balibar
9.45–11.15 Opening Plenary: Postcolonial Worlds 1 Chair: Gayatri Spivak ‘Bilingual Thoughts on Knowledge and Action’ Silvia Rivera Cusicanqui(Workshop on Andean Oral History, Bolivia) ‘On the Question of “Political Violence” Today’ Rosalind C. Morris (Anthropology, Columbia University)
11.40–13.10 Parallel Sessions 1
A Representing Capitalism Chair: Matthew Charles (RP) ‘Is Representation Possible Without Reification?’ Tim Bewes (English, Brown University)
‘The Historical Novel of Contemporary Capitalism’ David Cunningham (RP/English, University of Westminster) ‘Marx’s Realist Intention’ Kristin Ross (Comparative Literature, New York University)
B Biocapital and Security Chair: Esther Leslie (RP)
‘Capitalist Resilience’ Mark Neocleous (RP/Politics, Brunel University, London)
‘Socialism, Biopolitics, Futurity’ Claudia Aradau (RP/International Relations, King’s College London)
‘Pharmaceutical Crises, Questions of Value, and Biopolitics Elsewhere’ Kaushik Sunder Rajan (Anthropology, University of Chicago)
13.10–14.30 Lunch & Book Signing
14.30–16.00 Parallel Sessions 2
A Temporalities of Crisis Chair: David Cunningham (RP)
‘On Not Knowing Greek’ Antonia Birnbaum (Philosophy, University of Paris 8)
‘Crisis and Contemporaneity’ Peter Osborne (RP/Philosophy, Kingston University London) ‘Presents Past: History and “Time’s Turmoil”’ Harry Harootunian (Literature, Duke University)
B Politics of Information Chair: Claudia Aradau (RP)
‘Speculative Realism As Symptom: Computationalist Ideologies’ David Golumbia (Media Studies, University of Virginia)
‘Liquid Crystal Aesthetics’ Esther Leslie (RP/English, Birkbeck, University of London)
‘Civilizations Without Boats: Security, Property, Piracy and the Walled City’ Finn Brunton (School of Information, University of Michigan Ann Arbor)
16.00–16.30 Coffee break
16.30–18.00 Closing Plenary: Postcolonial Worlds 2 Chair: Peter Osborne (RP)
‘Caring about the Universal?’ Souleymane Bachir Daigne (Philosophy, Columbia University)
‘Freedom in Spinoza’ Marilena Chaui (Philosophy, University of Sao Paulo)
