B5: Finitude, or the Limits of the Left

Seminar Leader: Adriana Johnson, University of California – Irvine and Kate Jenckes, Rice University

Friday, April 16, 10:30 AM  – 12:30 PM, Vanderbilt

Kate Jenckes, Rice University: “Finitude, or the Limits of the Left”

Jan Mieszkowski, Reed College: “How to Do Things with ‘No’: Freud, Benjamin, and the Romance of a Finite Language”

Catherine Liu, University of Minnesota: “From the Stars Down to Earth: Adorno’s Astrology and the Limits of Critique”

Teresa Vilaros, Duke University: “Finis Terrae and the Waning of the Left”

Saturday, April 17, 10:30 AM – 12:30 PM, Vanderbilt

Gareth Williams, University of Michigan: “Accumulation and the Limits of Biopower”

Brett Levinson, Binghamton University: “Discounting the Proletariat: Rancière after Althusser”

Adriana Johnson, University of California – Irvine: “Rousseau, Paz, Rulfo: The Limits of Community”

Carsten Strathausen, University of Missouri: “What’s Left Beyond Dialectics?”

Sunday, April 18, 10:30 AM – 12:30 PM, Vanderbilt

David Johnson, SUNY Buffalo: “Badiou, Ethics, Politics”

Bruno Bosteels, Cornell University: “Radical Anti-philosophy”

Horacio Legras, Georgetown University: “The Prisonhouse of Finitude”

Alberto Moreiras, Duke University: “A Post-theology of Praxis: Donoso Cortes and the Political”