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SUMMARY:Money & War
DESCRIPTION:We are thrilled to announce that materia’s sixth year will kick off with a discussion on Money & War led by PhD Candidates Colin Drumm (History of Consciousness\, UC Santa Cruz) and Harleen Kaur Bagga (Art History\, Stanford). \nColin and Harleen have shared the following descriptions of their brief talks: \n\nDrumm (History of Consciousness\, UC Santa Cruz) \n“Sovereign Servility” \nThis talk will discuss monetary politics and the limitations of Modern Monetary Theory (MMT). The discussion will be framed within a dissertation project on the topic of monetary history and political philosophy\, with a focus on Mediterranean antiquity and early modern England. \n\nHarleen Kaur Bagga (Art History\, Stanford)\n\n“To Besiege is To Be Besieged: The Vertiginous Views of Peter Snayers’ Battle Paintings” \nPeter Snayers’ topographic-analytical battle paintings present scenes from the long Eighty Years’ War. This presentation examines the twofold nature of Snayers’ treatment of map-like landscapes in his Siege of Breda. Even as the lands are shown to be transformed\, conquered\, and thereby wounded\, they stretch upward to the cosmos\, looming precipitously over the troops\, besieging rather than being besieged. \nIn preparation for our virtual gathering\, we suggest the reading of the following short texts: Stephan Oettermann’s The Panorama. History of a Mass Medium (1997) and Shakespeare’s Richard II (1597) (Act one\, scene IV\, and Act two\, scene I).
URL:https://materia.stanford.edu/event/money-war/
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SUMMARY:Post-Naturalist Fictions
DESCRIPTION:On Monday\, May 11th at 5pm\, doctoral candidates Daniel Hernández (ILAC\, Stanford) and Sebastián Figueroa (Hispanic and Portuguese Studies\, UPenn) will be discussing their research in progress and leading our discussion on the theme of Post-Naturalist Fictions: Representations of Capital and Forest in Colombia and Brazil. \nPresenters have kindly shared the following descriptions of their talks: \n\nDaniel Hernández (Stanford)\, “Mário de Andrade\, Apprentice Ethnographer: Redrawing Fiction by Means of a Kodak” \nI examine Mário de Andrade’s travelogue O turista aprendiz and its cognate photographic archive within a broader trove of visual and ethnographic materials from the Amazon. De Andrade’s 1927 Amazon expedition was key for transforming his subsequent fiction writing –particularly his novel Macunaíma (1928). I argue that the Kodak camera provided him with new ways to perceive the Amazonian world\, beyond the more traditional naturalist model. These new perspectives oriented him to reflect about his own position as a modern metropolitan author and to redraw the limits between fact and fiction within both his narrative and ethnographic work. \n\nSebastián Figueroa (UPenn)\, “The Return of the Plantation”\n\nI discuss the return of the plantation form in some contemporary Latin American novels as a result of the expansion of monocrop agribusiness\, whose appropriation of land and agricultural production\, as Vandana Shiva maintains\, entails the appropriation of life by capital. Focusing particularly on Juan Cárdenas’ El diablo de las provincias (2017)\, I analyze the role of conspiracy narratives to understand how the plantation is a violent machine that brings about the material\, the social\, and the political to take over the world and preclude any future other than that of the capitalist regime \n\nAs mentioned above\, the meeting will take place next Monday\, May 11th at 5pm (via Zoom). \nTo receive the link to the meeting\, please RSVP here. \nFor more information\, please email rwain@stanford.edu
URL:https://materia.stanford.edu/event/post-naturalist-fictions/
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SUMMARY:Secrecy and Virtuality
DESCRIPTION:PIGOT HALL (B260)\, ROOM 216. \nWe are pleased to announce that on Monday\, January 27th at 6pm we will be joined by Juan Esteban Plaza (Iberian and Latin American Cultures) and Jason Beckman (East Asian Languages and Cultures) for a discussion on their ongoing research. The theme of this upcoming event will be Secrecy and Virtuality. \nJason and Juan Esteban have shared the following descriptions of their talks: \n  \n\nJason Beckman (EALC\, Stanford) \n“Virtualizing You\, Actualizing Otherness” \nIs it possible to be “present” in a work of literature? Though the novel as a genre often precludes the reader’s presence in the world of the text\, virtual reality by contrast assumes the presence of the user in the virtual world. By examining the reader’s encounter with the “you” that appears in second person fiction as an embodied experience\, it becomes possible to transcend the conventional fictional barrier between text and reader. The resulting reading methods provide insight into the fictional mechanics of contemporary authors such as Tawada Yōko and Furukawa Hideo\, who invoke the second person pronoun to insert readers into unfamiliar and\, at times\, unsettling circumstances. Moments of virtual Otherness become embodied experiences\, and the medium of immersive VR provides essential tools for understanding how the reader might actualize textual experience and step into the “you” who appears in the text. \n\nJuan Esteban Plaza (ILAC\, Stanford) \n“Major and Minor Conspiracies. Rethinking Secret Communities and Communications” \nIn our current techno-political conditions\, little space is left for interactions that could not eventually be surveilled by an exterior observer. We live under the impression that all private and secret aspects of our existence are available\, while various figures of conspiracy pervade popular culture and media. In this occasion\, I would like to explore the ambivalence expressed by the conspiratorial imagery. If\, on the one hand\, it offers condensed representations of the global bio-technical power\, on the other hand\, it epitomizes an extensive desire for community. What is the long history of grassroots practices of secrecy that could allow us to imagine networks of solidarity and resistance? Can art be a model for such practices and the other way around? Centering on processes of translation across media\, I read the works of a group of Latin American transmedia artists to show the convergences between modern art and communal ways of life. \n\n  \nAs mentioned above\, the meeting will take place next Monday\, January 27th at 5.45pm (discussion will begin at 6pm) in Pigott Hall (Building 260)\, Room 216. \nDinner and wine will be served. RSVP here (encouraged but not required). \nFor more information\, email rwain@stanford.edu
URL:https://materia.stanford.edu/event/materia-secrecy-and-virtuality/
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200124T193000
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SUMMARY:Asynchronous Avant-Gardes
DESCRIPTION:We are pleased to announce on Monday\, February 24\, 2020 at 6 pm we will be joined by Professors Chad Wellmon (German Studies\, University of Virginia) and Justin Read (Spanish and Portuguese\, University at Buffalo) for a session about knowledge\, search\, and the self-actualization of technology. The theme of this upcoming event will be Asynchronous Avant-gardes. \nProfessors Wellmon and Read have shared the following descriptions of their talks: \nChad Wellmon (German Studies\, University of Virginia) \n“Googling Before Google: Notes on a History of Search” \nGoogle did not invent search. In this presentation\, Chad Wellmon probes and historicizes the origins of searching in German romanticism and beyond\, leading to a critique of contemporary techno-Utopianism. \nJustin Read (Spanish and Portuguese\, University at Buffalo) \n“Death Programs: In-Forming the Borderzone” \nFollowing Vilém Flusser’s observations about the increasing self-actualization of technology\, in this presentation Justin Read reads Mexican novelist Yuri Herrera’s Señales que precederán al fin del mundo [Signs preceding the end of the world\, 2009] as a cartography of programmed reality along contemporary borderlands.
URL:https://materia.stanford.edu/event/materia-asynchronous-avant-gardes/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191104T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191104T193000
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SUMMARY:Borders & Technology
DESCRIPTION:PIGOTT HALL (B260\, RM. 216) \nOn Monday\, November 4th at 5:45pm we will be joined by Professor Micah Donohue (ENMU) and by Professor Tom McEnaney (UC Berkeley). The theme of this upcoming event will be “Borders & Technology”. \nProfessors Donohue and McEnaney have shared the following descriptions of their talks: \nMicah Donohue (ENMU)\n“Between the Imagined and the Real: Revelation\, Apocalypse\, and Virtual Literature in Borges\, Saramago\, and Le Guin”\nThis talk explores the virtual in “virtual literature” through readings of interconnected texts by three authors: Jorge Luis Borges\, José Saramago\, and Ursula K. Le Guin. Drawing on these authors\, as well as from philosophers of the virtual (Bergson\, Deleuze\, Lévy)\, in this talk I discuss how virtual literature constitutes a definitive generic territory within what Le Guin—in an essay about Borges—called “the vast domain of fantastic literature.” What differentiates virtual literature from science fiction\, fantasy\, utopian/dystopian literature\, magic realism\, and other neighboring and overlapping categories of speculative fiction\, is virtual literature’s apocalyptic and allegorical attention to the “ordinary” and “everyday” not as a site of solutions or answers\, but as a “problematic field” (to use Pierre Lévy’s suggestive phrase) of proliferating questions and challenges. \nTom McEnaney (UC Berkeley)\n“Revolution 2.0: Art\, Activism\, Architecture\, and Digital Infrastructure in Havana”\nHow has digital infrastructure in Cuba–from the hand-to-hand model of the internet (el paquete) to its national versions of social media–transformed the Revolutionary purpose of the material and symbolic commons? How have artists and writers reimagined the commons–as counterpublic\, undercommons\, or otherwise–in relation to this digital media? And how do contemporary interventions into the commons from planners and artists like Jorge Enrique Lage or Tania Bruguera build on previous theories and practices of urban space in Havana\, from Alejo Carpentier and Severo Sarduy to Pedro Martíntez Inclán\, Mario Coyula\, or Roberto Segre? This talk will explore these questions at the intersection of art\, architecture\, and online life in Cuba’s capital city. \nThis event is co-sponsored by the School of Humanities and Sciences and the Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity at Stanford University. \nContact Email:\nrwain@stanford.edu
URL:https://materia.stanford.edu/event/borders-technology/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191007T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191007T193000
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SUMMARY:Reading Discussion: New Extractivisms
DESCRIPTION:PIGOTT HALL (BUILDING 260)\, ROOM 216 \nWe are thrilled to anounce that we will be discussing new extractivisms for our first meeting of the term 2019-2020. We will base our discussion on Verónica Gago and Sandro Mezzadra’s article “A Critique of the Extractive Operations of Capital: Toward an Expanded Concept of Extractivism”. \nThe meeting will take place on Monday\, October 7th at 5.45pm (discussion will begin at 6pm) in Pigott Hall\, Room 216. \nIf you have any questions\, please email rwain@stanford.edu
URL:https://materia.stanford.edu/event/reading-discussion-new-extractivisms/
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190506T193000
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SUMMARY:Nature vs. Culture?
DESCRIPTION:Levi Bryant\, Professor of Philosophy (Collin College) \n\n\n“Thinking the Wilderness” \n\n\nThis talk proposes what I call ‘Wilderness Ontology’. The central claim of wilderness ontology is that the wilderness is all there is. Regardless of whether you are in a remote\, uninhabited region of Svaerholt\, Norway or the heart of Los Angeles\, California\, you are in the wilderness. As such\, wilderness ontology calls for us to rethink the pre-modern nature/culture\, phusis/techne distinction that governs our thinking of nature and culture. If culture is of the wilderness\, then we can no longer think of nature as a place to which one might go outside of the city. As a consequence\, we discover that ecology no longer signifies the study of something outside of society\, but that society itself is ecological through and through. \n\n\n  \n\n\nCristina Rivera Garza\, William H. Bonsall Visting Professor in the Humanities (Stanford University)  \n\n\n“A Domestic Archeology of Repatriation” \n\n\nIn my forthcoming book Autobiography of Cotton\, I interweave my family history with an appraisal of the objects that tell the story of the circular migration between Mexico and the United States: tents\, furniture\, mattresses\, home goods\, sausages\, suits\, ribbons\, and watermelons\, among others. Part creative exploration and part critical discussion\, my talk engages with Manuel De Landa’s theorizations about the scales of the non/human\, providing an alternative view from the ground. In this presentation\, the Border emerges as an intimate\, cultural\, and ecological phenomenon. \n\n\nThis event is co-sponsored by the Unruly Heritage Project/UiT – The Arctic University of Norway and by the Center for Latin American Studies at Stanford University. \n\n\nIn preparation for the discussion\, we suggest the reading of the following short pieces (attached to this message): “Knots: Notes for a Daemonic Naturalism” (2016) by Levi Bryant and a selection from The Withdrawal of Tradition Past a Surpassing Disaster (2009) by Jalal Toufic.
URL:https://materia.stanford.edu/event/nature-vs-culture/
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190415T190000
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SUMMARY:Queerness\, Hybridity\, Unfolding
DESCRIPTION:PIGOTT HALL\, 216 \nWe are thrilled to announce a reading discussion led by Evan Alterman (Slavic Languages and Literatures) and Alberto Quintero (Modern Thought & Literature). \nEvan will discuss hybrid language\, space\, and temporality in Vladimir Korolenko’s “Makar’s Dream” as a reflection of Korolenko as a product of empire and as an authorial technique establishing moral relativism between narrator and reader. Alberto will address Severo Sarduy’s Baroque theory of transvestism as a method of simulation that does not seek to imitate gender\, but the complete dissolution of the self. In preparation for our discussion\, please read the following short pieces (attached to this message): Vladimir Korolenko’s “Makar’s Dream” (1883) and excerpts from Severo Sarduy’s Simulation (1989). \nThe meeting will take place next Monday\, April 15th at 5.45pm (discussion will begin at 6pm) in Pigott Hall 216. Cheese & wine will be served.
URL:https://materia.stanford.edu/event/materia-queerness-hybridity-unfolding/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190211T174500
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190211T200000
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SUMMARY:Collectionism: From Life to Dust
DESCRIPTION:PIGOTT HALL RM:216 \nWe have the pleasure to announce that for our last event of this Winter series\, we will be joined by Professors Samuel Frederick\, Associate Professor of German at Penn State and Felipe Martínez-Pinzón\, Assistant Professor of Hispanic Studies at Brown University. They shared the following description of their talks: \nDust. Collecting. Glauser. \nParticulate matter such as dust\, ash\, and powder make for intransigent collectables. In the first place\, what value could such near-microscopic material possibly have\, even to the most eccentric of collectors? Furthermore\, dust exists on the threshold of tangibility. We struggle to dispose of it\, let alone collect it. It is in fact dust itself that does the collecting (on our things); we merely contribute to its continued proliferation. Our futile attempts to rid our interiors of dust only lead to its re-distribution\, its dispersal back into the environment. These tendencies of dust to gather and scatter make it an especially fruitful case study for the limits of collecting. This talk tests these limits by looking at how dust appears in the form of material evidence in the crime fiction of the Swiss modernist Friedrich Glauser (1896–1938). Here\, what is so small and ubiquitous as to be immaterial (in both senses) suddenly takes on enormous significance. The detective’s attempted gathering and preservation of dust as evidence\, however\, ultimately calls into question what it means to collect—but in doing makes possible a renewed conceptualization of this paradoxical activity. (Samuel Frederick) \nPatricians in Contention: Sketches of Manners and the Production of a People in Latin America \nThe so-called “costumbrismo” has been read as a genre that conveys post-war’s everyday life and boredom\, and assembles national peoples in detailed series of laboring types. Critics of these collections of sketches have wondered at the “inexplicable contrast” between “the peaceful and inert” society represented by them and the “political violence that marks the [19th] century” (Terán Navas). However\, when we read these sketches in the context of the State’s growing control over frontier zones during a time of liberal reforms and civil wars\, sketches of manners emerge as a vehicle to produce everyday life for the sake of the writers’ political agendas. I read these visual and literary sketches\, not as the product of a peaceful people\, but as sites of contention in which Post-Independence elites –what I call Patricians– waged a war to legitimize themselves as the representatives of pacified populations. (Felipe Martínez-Pinzón)
URL:https://materia.stanford.edu/event/collectionism-from-life-to-dust/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190124T174000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190124T190000
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SUMMARY:Traces: On Lines\, Memory\, and Threads. Reading Discussion on January 24th
DESCRIPTION:BUILDING 260 PIGOTT HALL ROOM 252 \nWe are thrilled to announce a reading discussion led by María Gloria Robalino (Comparative Literature) and Tyler Bonnen (Psychology). María Gloria will comment on the series “Siluetas”\, by the multidisciplinary Cuban artist Ana Mendieta\, while Tyler will address the neurobiology of memory and its relations to animal behavior. In preparation for the discussion\, please read the following pieces attached to this message: Tim Ingold’s “Transformations of the Line: Traces\, Threads and Surfaces”\, and Howard Eichenbaum’s “Memory Systems”.
URL:https://materia.stanford.edu/event/traces-on-lines-memory-and-threads/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181129T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181129T190000
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SUMMARY:Bartleby or the Bacchae? A Feminist Theory of Refusal
DESCRIPTION:PIGOTT HALL (BLD 260) RM.216 \n“Where’s your spine?” we often say to those who seem to lack moral ‘backbone.’ How do such vertical metaphors limit and drive our imagination of refusal? Drawing on Adriana Cavarero’s work\, Inclination\, this lecture develops a postural analysis of refusal in the Antigone\, the Bacchae\, Thoreau’s “Walking”\, and Leonardo da Vinci’s painting of the Madonna. Cavarero promotes inclination (the leaning in posture of maternal care) as the preferred posture for her ethics and politics. This lecture pluralizes the feminist subject position of inclination to include sorority\, as well\, and argues that the refusals we find in maternal and sororal care express not only love or care but rage\, and promise not only the holding of community but also the dismemberment of revolution/new beginning.
URL:https://materia.stanford.edu/event/bartleby-or-the-bacchae/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181029T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181029T190000
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SUMMARY:Surfaces: On Van Gogh and Posthumanism
DESCRIPTION:PIGOTT HALL (BLD 206) RM. 216 \nReading discussion led by Romina Wainberg (Iberian and Latin American Cultures) and Helen Krueger (Art History). \nIn preparation for the discussion\, please read: David Roden’s “The Disconnection Thesis” and David Gervais’ “On Paint and the Paint Scenes”. Optionally\, you are encouraged to read Sjaar van Heugten’s “The Colors of Night: Technical and Stylistic Aspects of Van Gogh’s Night Scenes” and a literary selection including pieces by Jorge Luis Borges\, Sebastián Robles and Marcelo Cohen.
URL:https://materia.stanford.edu/event/surfaces-on-van-gogh-and-posthumanism/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181004T174500
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181004T190000
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SUMMARY:Art and History of the Digital Divide
DESCRIPTION:PIGOTT HALL (BLDG. 260)\, RM. 216 \nOrit Halpern\, Concordia University \nThe Planetary Bet \nVolatility –extremes of high and low\, temporal scales between the geological and digital\, varying thresholds of toxicity\, safety\, poverty- these are the differentials that in contemporary societies are the very mediums for financial speculation and ubiquitous computing. This talk will examine how concepts of resilience from ecology\, ideas of systems management from cybernetics and design\, and algorithmic investment strategies from finance merged to produce both a contemporary mode of disaster speculation that I label “the planetary bet” and an affective sentiment of “resilient hopefulness”. \n\nAndrés Burbano\, U. de los Andes \n“The Fountain of Prosperity” and Fotoformas: Art\, Technology and Early Computation in Latin America \nTwo fields of study converge in this talk. On the one hand\, there is the research about the history of media technologies that were proposed or developed in Latin America and their impact in the art world. On the other\, the history of early computing –the formative years. My presentation makes the case for intersecting these domains in promising new ways.
URL:https://materia.stanford.edu/event/art-and-history-of-the-digital-divide/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180514T174500
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180514T190000
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SUMMARY:Re-Assemblage: Theory\, Practice\, Form
DESCRIPTION:PIGOTT HALL (RM. 216)\nFREE AND OPEN TO PUBLIC \nProfessor Bill Brown from The University of Chicago\, will be giving his lecture\, “Re-Assemblage: Theory\, Practice\, Form”. In recent years\, Professor Brown has been working at the intersection of literary\, visual\, and material cultures\, with an emphasis on “object relations in an expanded field”\, examining how inanimate objects enable human subjects (individually and collectively) to form and transform themselves—and indeed how objects and subjects transform one another. The “Re-Assemblage” project revolves around the question of how assemblage practices (across the literary\, visual\, and plastic arts) might contribute to assemblage theory in the social sciences. Bill Brown is the author of a number of groundbreaking books on material culture and object theory. Professor Lea Pao\, from the Department of German Studies\, will be responding.
URL:https://materia.stanford.edu/event/re-assemblage-theory-practice-form/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180416T174500
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180416T190000
DTSTAMP:20210521T062152Z
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SUMMARY:Feminist Aesthetics and the Posthuman
DESCRIPTION:PIGOTT HALL (RM. 216)\nFREE AND OPEN TO PUBLIC \nChloe Rutter-Jensen\, Universidad de los Andes\nHuman Elements of the “Periodic Table”: Delcy Morelos and Posthumanism \nCurrent “cultural” products in the contact zone we call Colombia are a stimulating place to challenge the human as center of the universe. Morelos’s work\, her co-creations\, or better yet reconfigurations\, consistently undertake becoming and undoing. In particular\, she undoes the fiction of the self-generative subject\, that subject which can invent HIMself no matter what its conditions. My talk explores how Morelos’ posthumanist creations help us understand how “we are all in this together”. \nPatricia Valderrama\, Stanford University\nWe’re Going Extinct! Animal Arts for the Anthropocene \nAll species\, including our own\, are confronting a qualitatively different existential crisis in the form of anthropogenic climate change\, which includes the possibility of human extinction within the next eighty years. In this talk\, I will consider what literature can do\, beyond mimetic representation\, to help us face the multispecies challenges the next decades and centuries will surely bring. Putting Nietzsche’s aesthetics in conversation with materialist\, environmental\, and decolonial feminisms\, I try to use a certain kind of literature to chart a way forward and through\, but not out of\, the grief and dread of the sixth mass extinction.
URL:https://materia.stanford.edu/event/feminist-aesthetics-and-the-posthuman/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180226T174500
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180226T190000
DTSTAMP:20210521T061929Z
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SUMMARY:Runakuna: Human\, but not only
DESCRIPTION:PIGOTT HALL(BLDG. 260)\,RM. 216\nFREE AND OPEN TO PUBLIC \nRUNAKUNA: HUMAN\, BUT NOT ONLY \nMARISOL DE LA CADENA\, Professor of Anthropology at the University of California\, Davis. She is the author of two major books: Indigenous Mestizos: The Politics of Race and Culture in Cuzco\, Peru\, 1919–1991 (2000) and Earth Beings: Ecologies of Practice across Andean Worlds (2015). \nRespondent: ESTELLE TARICA\, Associate Professor of Latin American Literatures and Cultures in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at UC Berkeley. She is the author of The Inner Life of Mestizo Nationalism (2008).
URL:https://materia.stanford.edu/event/runakuna-human-but-not-only/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180122T174500
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180122T190000
DTSTAMP:20210521T061621Z
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SUMMARY:From Land Reform to Data-Mining: A Panel on Literature and Accumulation
DESCRIPTION:PIGOTT HALL(BLDG. 260)\,RM. 216\nFREE AND OPEN TO PUBLIC \n  \nA panel with Monica VanBladel (Ph.D. candidate\, Stanford University) and Zac Zimmer (UC Santa Cruz) \nA Liturgy of Land Reform \nThis presentation takes up the question of liturgy and duty in Rosario Castellanos’s 1962 novel Oficio de tinieblas (literally\, “office of darkness\,” or Catholicism’s Good Friday liturgy of Tenebrae). The novel has been canonized as a great work of indigenista literature\, humanizing the Tzotzil Maya and denouncing their exploitation – both within impoverished\, regionally networked rural communities\, and the emerging national framework of revolutionary popular democracy. Beyond mere critique\, VanBladel shows how Castellanos’s novel assesses the revolution (secular and secularizing) through a religious conception of duty. Attending to this idea of a proper social relationality brings into focus a new understanding of agrarian reform\, shifting the emphasis from the nature of the object and manner of its distribution (egalitarian repartition of land) to the subjectivity of administrator and recipient. \nBitcoin and Potosí Silver: Historical Perspectives on Cryptocurrency \nBitcoin\, the digital cryptocurrency\, has been celebrated as the future of money on the Internet. Although Bitcoin does present several forward-looking innovations\, it also integrates a very old concept into its digital architecture: the mining of precious metals. Even though Bitcoin explicitly invokes mining as a metaphor and gold as an example for understanding the cryptocurrency\, there has been little critical work on the connections between Bitcoin and previous metalist currency regimes. The following essay proposes a historical comparison with colonial South American silver mining and the global currency regime based on the New World silver peso it created as a way to interrogate Bitcoin. The comparison with colonial South America\, and specifically the silver mining economy around the Cerro Rico de Potosí\, will help to develop a historical and political understanding of Bitcoin’s stakes\, including questions of resources\, labor\, energy\, and ecology. Mining and the extractive apparatus that accompanies it always imply massive-scale earthworks that reshape the planet itself\, a process known as terraforming. The Potosí comparison will reveal Bitcoin to form part of a similar process of digital primitive accumulation we can provisionally name cryptoforming.
URL:https://materia.stanford.edu/event/from-land-reform-to-data-mining/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171113T174500
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171113T190000
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SUMMARY:Extractivism Revisited. A panel with Laurie Palmer and Orlando Bentancor
DESCRIPTION:PIGOTT HALL (BLDG. 260)\, RM. 216\nFREE AND OPEN TO PUBLIC \nGuest speakers: Laurie Palmer (UC Santa Cruz) and Orlando Bentancor (Barnard College) \nProfessor Palmer’s talk\, “Sedimental Advocacy” will explore some of the contradictions involved in advocating for the rights of nature in courts of law as a strategy to stem the tide of extractive practices\, and address the specific and local situation of “advocating” for an underground shale formation in a legal battle in Monterey County. \nProfessor Bentancor’s talk “Wars Over Water: An Eco-Perspectival Approach” will discuss the struggle for political and environmental control of the Andean world and its relationship with the models with which water is conceived. These models\, or modes of understanding the materiality of water are informed by ambivalent metaphors. By employing an eco-perspectival approach that shifts between ecological and economic symbolic formations\, this talk will focus on the impasses that emerge out of the failure to master\, dominate\, and commodify water. \nEvent Sponsor:\nCo-hosted by the Environmental Humanities Project
URL:https://materia.stanford.edu/event/extractivism-revisited/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171002T174500
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171002T193000
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SUMMARY:Discussion: Lamborghini's Tadeys & Vieira's "Sermão de Santo António"
DESCRIPTION:In this session\, we will discuss selections from Osvaldo Lamborghini’s Tadeys (1983/ 2005) and António Vieira’s “Sermão de Santo António aos Peixes” (1654). We will also discuss Terry Eagleton’s Materialism (2017).  \nOur session will be led by Patricia Valderrama (Comparative Literature\, Stanford) and Leo Velloso (Comparative Literature\, Stanford).  \n 
URL:https://materia.stanford.edu/event/discussion-lamborghinis-tadeys-vieiras-sermao-de-santo-antonio/
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20160502
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20160503
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SUMMARY:Post-Anthropocentrism at Stanford: A State of the Question
DESCRIPTION:FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC\nThursday\, May 12\, 2016 – Schedule of Events \n\nBreakfast & Introductory Remarks | 8:30 AM – 9:00 AM | Stanford Humanities Center Boardroom \n\nPanel 1 | 9:00 AM – 10:50 AM | Stanford Humanities Center Boardroom \nPanel Chair: Zephyr Frank\, Professor of History\, Stanford \n“The Anthropocene and the Posthuman in Don DeLillo’s Novels” \nMads Rosendahl Thomsen\, Professor of Comparative Literature\, Aarhus University \n“Bone\, Meat\, and Brain-Stuff: American Naturalism and the Possibility of Post-Anthropocentric Character” \nVictoria Googasian\, PhD Candidate in English\, Stanford \n“Language of Animality\, Non-Heroic Resistance\, and Urban Indigenismo in Montacerdos“ \nPatricia Valderrama\, PhD Candidate in Comparative Literature\, Stanford \n\nPanel 2 | 11:10 AM – 1:00 PM | Stanford Humanities Center Boardroom \nPanel Chair: Ewa Domanska\, Professor of Theory and History of Historiography\, Adam Mickiewicz University at Poznan\, and Anthropology\, Stanford \n“Oil\, Sugar\, Color\, Rhythm” \nRachel Price\, Associate Professor of Spanish and Portuguese Languages and Cultures\, Princeton University \n“Post-Anthropogenic Making: Exohabitating Atmospheres\, Reefs\, and Neighborhoods” \nDavid Stentiford\, PhD Candidate in Modern Thought and Literature\, Stanford \n“‘Truth as Cadaver’: Material History in Bolaño’s Nocturno de Chile“ \nMonica VanBladel\, PhD Candidate in Iberian and Latin American Cultures\, Stanford \n\nLunch | 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM | Stanford Humanities Center Boardroom \n\nKeynote Address: “Staying with the Trouble: Making Oddkin in the Chthulucene” | 2:30 PM – 4:00 PM | Old Union Clubhouse Ballroom \nDonna Haraway\, Distinguished Professor Emerita of the History of Consciousness Department and Feminist Studies Department\, UC Santa Cruz \n\nRoundtable Discussion & Closing Remarks | 4:15 PM – 5:00 PM | Old Union Clubhouse Ballroom \nAll participants\, with distinguished guest Rodolfo Dirzo\, Bing Professor in Environmental Sciences\, Stanford\, and materia faculty coordinators Héctor Hoyos\, Ximena Briceño\, and Marília Librandi-Rocha\, Iberian and Latin American Cultures\, Stanford \n\nDinner | 5:30 PM – 7:00 PM | Oregon Courtyard\, Pigott Hall (Bldg 260) \n\n  \nEvent Sponsor:\nThe Clayman Institute for Gender Research\, the Environmental Humanities Project\, the Sense and Sound Research Unit\, the Stanford Humanities Center\, the Program in Modern Thought and Literature\, and the Program in Science\, Technology\, and Society \nContact Email:\npvalderr@stanford.edu\, monicavb@stanford.edu
URL:https://materia.stanford.edu/event/post-anthropocentrism-at-stanford/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160302T171500
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160302T190500
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SUMMARY:Dierdra Reber - Postneoliberalism as Posthumanism: Animal Commune-ism and Empathic Economy in Papal Discourse\, Biology\, and Latin American Film
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]PIGOTT HALL\, ROOM 216\nFREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC. \nGuest speaker: Dierdra Reber (Emory University\, Spanish and Portuguese) \nThis talk will explore the ways in which animal metaphor turns up in Latin American film from the 1960s to the present in the service of denouncing neoliberalism\, elitism\, and socio-ecological death\, and\, conversely\, of propounding a money-less economy of egalitarian companionship and life. This representation of the animal world as an alternative to destructive human egotism resonates with Pope Francis’s critique of “misguided anthropocentrism\,” primatologist Frans de Waal’s estimation that animal empathy may yet provide a remedy for human debacle\, and iconic dependency theorist Eduardo Galeano’s meditation on animal solidarity as a repository for his embattled faith in human utopia. A final coda will consider how this posthumanist counter-discourse intended to work toward capitalism’s dissolution may turn out to be entirely consonant with\, and even underwritten by\, the epistemological discourse of capitalism itself. \nDierda Reber is Assistant Professor of Spanish at Emory University\, where she works on twentieth- and twenty-first-century Latin American and U.S. cultural media. Her recent publications have explored affect\, epistemology\, and cultural politics: in addition to contributing to several book compilations and publishing articles in venues such as the Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies\, Modern Language Notes\, Revista Iberoamericana\, and nonsite.org\, her book Coming to Our Senses: Affect and an Order of Things for Global Culture is forthcoming from Columbia University Press. Professor Reber’s current book project proposes “post-neocolonialism” as the critical mode most appropriate for the cultural analysis of post-independence Latin America. \nIn preparation for the discussion\, please read the short selections from Reber’s Coming to Our Senses\, de Waal’s The Age of Empathy (the first few pages\, for those pressed for time)\, and Galeano’s “Bichos” (available in English and Spanish). All texts can be downloaded below.[/vc_column_text][vc_btn title=”Download: Reber\, Coming to Our Senses” style=”custom” custom_background=”#dd3333″ custom_text=”#ffffff” align=”left” i_icon_fontawesome=”fas fa-file-pdf” add_icon=”true” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fmateria.su.domains%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2Freber_coming_to_our_senses_-_posthuman_interspecies_love.pdf|target:_blank”][vc_btn title=”Download: de Waal\, Age of Empathy” style=”custom” custom_background=”#dd3333″ custom_text=”#ffffff” align=”left” i_icon_fontawesome=”fas fa-file-pdf” add_icon=”true” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fmateria.su.domains%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2Fde_waal_age_of_empathy_chs_1_and_2.pdf|target:_blank”][vc_btn title=”Download: Galeano\, “Bichos“ (ENG)” style=”custom” custom_background=”#dd3333″ custom_text=”#ffffff” align=”left” i_icon_fontawesome=”fas fa-file-pdf” add_icon=”true” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fmateria.su.domains%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2Fgaleano_bichos_eng.pdf|target:_blank”][vc_btn title=”Download: Galeano\, “Bichos“ (ESP)” style=”custom” custom_background=”#dd3333″ custom_text=”#ffffff” align=”left” i_icon_fontawesome=”fas fa-file-pdf” add_icon=”true” link=”url:http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pagina12.com.ar%2F2000%2F00-06%2F00-06-11%2Fcontrata.htm|target:_blank”][vc_column_text]Event Sponsor:\nDepartment of Iberian and Latin American Cultures \nContact Email:\npvalderr@stanford.edu\, monicavb@stanford.edu[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”80px”][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://materia.stanford.edu/event/postneoliberalism-as-posthumanism/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160217T171500
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160217T190500
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SUMMARY:Anna Castillo - Queer of Color Post-Op Intimacy
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]PIGOTT HALL\, ROOM 216\nFREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC. \nSpeaker: Anna Castillo (Stanford\, PhD Candidate in Iberian and Latin American Cultures) \nThis talk looks at the potential effects of biomedicine’s ever-intensifying intrusion into everyday sexual intimacy and suggests that genderqueer agency can manifest through body modification. As plastic surgery and sex-reassignment procedures have become more popular and accessible\, cultural expectations regarding body modification have shifted significantly. Metropolitan bodies in a place like Buenos Aires are now under pressure to conform to new plastic standards – that is\, white\, thin\, gender-unambiguous\, and beautiful. While many feminists have suggested that resistance to such medical innovations may be a fruitful way to appreciate diverse kinds of bodies and sexual desires\, Gabriela Cabezón Cámara’s recent novel\, Romance de la negra rubia (2015)\, alleges it is possible to queer medicine in the pursuit of extra-normative body presentations and intimacies. The talk will engage with posthumanist\, feminist\, and queer of color discourses as it entertains the radical potential of biomedicine to reclaim bodies from stilted gendered and racialized systems. \nAnna Castillo is a Ph.D. Candidate in Iberian and Latin American Cultures at Stanford University. She received a B.A. in Comparative Literature and Latin American Studies from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill\, where she studied as a Morehead-Cain Scholar. At Stanford\, Castillo’s research focuses on contemporary literature of the Americas\, specifically novels and short stories from Chile\, Argentina\, and Brazil that forefront the materiality of sex. Central to her scholarship are intersections of posthumanism and studies of race\, sex\, and gender. \nIn preparation for the discussion\, please read the short selection by Gabriela Cabezón Cámara (for Spanish readers) and Donna Haraway’s “Cyborg Manifesto” (pgs. 117-123\, for those pressed for time).[/vc_column_text][vc_btn title=”Download: Cabezón Cámara\, Romance de la negra rubia” style=”custom” custom_background=”#dd3333″ custom_text=”#ffffff” align=”left” i_icon_fontawesome=”fas fa-file-pdf” add_icon=”true” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fmateria.su.domains%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2Fcabezon_camara_rnr_excerpt.pdf|target:_blank”][vc_btn title=”Download: Haraway\, Cyborg Manifesto” style=”custom” custom_background=”#dd3333″ custom_text=”#ffffff” align=”left” i_icon_fontawesome=”fas fa-file-pdf” add_icon=”true” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fmateria.su.domains%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2Fharaway_cyborg_manifesto.pdf|target:_blank”][vc_column_text]Contact Email:\npvalderr@stanford.edu\, monicavb@stanford.edu[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”80px”][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://materia.stanford.edu/event/queer-of-color-post-op-intimacy/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160203T171500
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160203T190500
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SUMMARY:Jacques Lezra - Uncountable Matters
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]PIGOTT HALL\, ROOM 216\nFREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC. \nGuest speaker: Jacques Lezra (NYU\, Spanish and Comparative Literature) \n“Objects\,” writes Graham Harman\, in an essay titled “I am also of the opinion that materialism must be destroyed\,” “are not a gullible fetish resulting from a sad\, reactionary obsession with the manifest image. Instead\, individuals are needed in philosophy due to the futility of all other options” (Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 2010: 28\, 772-790). The claim is characteristically bold; the allusion in the essay’s title\, to the need for destroying Carthage\, typically both claimed (Harman does indeed wish to do away with materialism\, at least on the description he offers of the concept) and disavowed (Harman acknowledges that “materialism” can\, for some thinkers\, encompass positions he finds in some ways congenial—like Jane Bennett’s\, or the arguments advanced by speculative materialism). In this talk\, and by way of Harman’s throw-away\, but symptomatic\, use of the term “fetish” (strangely but tellingly modified though it is: a “gullible fetish\,” as though fetishes in themselves—but is there such a thing as a “fetish in itself”?—\, rather than the holders of the fetish\, could be “gullible” or not)\, Lezra will address the slippage among the terms “objects\,” “images\,” and “individuals.” This slippage has different\, contrasting shapes: it is not the same in Harman\, in Meillassoux\, in Bennett\, in Badiou. Tense and dynamic in every one of its shapes\, the slippage between “objects\,” “images\,” and “individuals” inhabits the distinction between object-orientation\, seemingly always to be constructed numerically (one object\, the object as one)\, and matter-orientation\, never seemingly a question of numeration. Lezra’s own polemical claim will be that philosophy’s unsatisfiable “need” for “individuals” (inasmuch as “individuals” stand in contradistinction to “manifest images\,” and are synonymous with “objects”) is a useful definition of its “materialism”—a materialism that variously-oriented contemporary philosophies disavow rather than (as the fetishist should more properly do) joyously assume. \nJacques Lezra is Professor of Spanish and Comparative Literature at New York University. His work focuses on the literary and visual culture of early modern Europe\, Shakespeare\, Cervantes\, philosophy and literary theory\, as well as contemporary and early-modern translation theories and practices. He is currently preparing a monograph entitled On the Nature of Marx’s Things. His most recent books are Wild Materialism: The Ethic of Terror and the Modern Republic (Fordham\, 2010) and Dictionary of Untranslatables: A Philosophical Lexicon (co-editor\, Princeton\, 2014). \nIn preparation for the discussion\, please read the short selections by Freud\, Harman\, and Meillassoux available below.[/vc_column_text][vc_btn title=”Download: Freud\, Fetischismus (GER)” style=”custom” custom_background=”#dd3333″ custom_text=”#ffffff” align=”left” i_icon_fontawesome=”fas fa-file-pdf” add_icon=”true” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fmateria.su.domains%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2Ffreud_fetischismus_-_gesammelte_werke_ger.pdf|target:_blank”][vc_btn title=”Download: Freud\, Festishism (ENG)” style=”custom” custom_background=”#dd3333″ custom_text=”#ffffff” align=”left” i_icon_fontawesome=”fas fa-file-pdf” add_icon=”true” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fmateria.su.domains%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2Ffreud_fetishism_eng.pdf|target:_blank”][vc_btn title=”Download: Harman\, Materialism Must Be Destroyed” style=”custom” custom_background=”#dd3333″ custom_text=”#ffffff” align=”left” i_icon_fontawesome=”fas fa-file-pdf” add_icon=”true” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fmateria.su.domains%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2Fharman_i_am_also_of_the_opinion_that_materialism_must_be_destroyed.pdf|target:_blank”][vc_btn title=”Download: Meillassoux\, Contingence et absolutisation (FRE)” style=”custom” custom_background=”#dd3333″ custom_text=”#ffffff” align=”left” i_icon_fontawesome=”fas fa-file-pdf” add_icon=”true” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fmateria.su.domains%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2Fmeillassoux_contingence_et_absolutisation_de_lun_fre.pdf|target:_blank”][vc_btn title=”Download: Meillassoux\, Contingency and Absolutization (ENG)” style=”custom” custom_background=”#dd3333″ custom_text=”#ffffff” align=”left” i_icon_fontawesome=”fas fa-file-pdf” add_icon=”true” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fmateria.su.domains%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2Fmeillassoux_contingency_and_the_absolutization_of_the_one_eng.pdf|target:_blank”][vc_column_text]Event Sponsor: \nDepartment of Comparative Literature \nContact Email: \npvalderr@stanford.edu\, monicavb@stanford.edu[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”80px”][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://materia.stanford.edu/event/uncountable-matters/
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SUMMARY:Guided Readings: Pope Francis and Drake
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]PIGOTT HALL\, ROOM 216\nFREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC. \nIn this meeting\, we will be discussing Pope Francis’s Encyclical on Capitalism and Inequality: On Care for Our Common Home (2015) and Philip Drake’s “Marxism and the Nonhuman Turn: Animating Nonhumans\, Exploitation\, and Politics with ANT and Animal Studies” (2015). \nThe encyclical is available for download in English and Spanish below; you can also find it in other languages on the Vatican’s website. Discussion will focus on chapters 3 and 4 from Francis’s encyclical as well as the full text of Drake’s article. Verso has also published an excerpted\, reader-friendly version of the encyclical that is available as a free e-book here.[/vc_column_text][vc_btn title=”Download: Pope Francis\, Laudato Si (ENG)” style=”custom” custom_background=”#dd3333″ custom_text=”#ffffff” align=”left” i_icon_fontawesome=”fas fa-file-pdf” add_icon=”true” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fmateria.su.domains%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2Fpope_francis_laudato_si.pdf|target:_blank”][vc_btn title=”Download: Papa Francisco\, Laudato Si (ESP)” style=”custom” custom_background=”#dd3333″ custom_text=”#ffffff” align=”left” i_icon_fontawesome=”fas fa-file-pdf” add_icon=”true” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fmateria.su.domains%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2Fpapa_francisco_laudato_si_esp.pdf|target:_blank”][vc_btn title=”Download: Drake\, “Marxism and the Nonhuman Turn“” style=”custom” custom_background=”#dd3333″ custom_text=”#ffffff” align=”left” i_icon_fontawesome=”fas fa-file-pdf” add_icon=”true” link=”url:http%3A%2F%2Fwww.tandfonline.com%2Fdoi%2Ffull%2F10.1080%2F08935696.2014.980677|target:_blank”][vc_empty_space height=”80px”][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://materia.stanford.edu/event/guided-readings/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20151021T171500
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SUMMARY:CANCELLED: Bill Brown - Re-assemblage (Theory and Practice\, Art and Artifactuality)
DESCRIPTION:Bill Brown’s talk this Wednesday has been cancelled. Thank you to all of you who had confirmed your participation. We will keep you posted about a possible rescheduling later in the academic year. \nIn the meantime\, we look forward to seeing you on November 18th to discuss Pope Francis and Philip Drake! \nContact Email: \npvalderr@stanford.edu\, monicavb@stanford.edu
URL:https://materia.stanford.edu/event/re-assemblage/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20150520T171500
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SUMMARY:Francine Masiello - Voices\, Bodies\, Things
DESCRIPTION:PIGOTT HALL\, ROOM 216\nFREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC. \nGuest speaker: Francine Masiello (University of California at Berkeley\, Spanish and Comparative Literature) \nUnder authoritarian regimes of the 1970s and 80s\, a focus on the “bare life” conditions of the detained and disappeared triggered a wide conversation in the arts regarding ways to represent the body in relation to sensory perception. While in Europe Foucault famously worked out a theory for biopolitics\, in Latin America artists and writers began to depict the state-controlled body in its animal-like dimensions\, driven by the sensation of pain. With the transition to democracy that followed decades of military rule\, a different philosophical and political imperative guides the discourse on the senses: artists and writers reflect on a materiality of presence to thwart the destruction wrought by time. The visual and essayistic works of Chilean Guillermo Núñez and Brazilian Nuno Ramos register a crisis of experience that enables us to define a particular theory of reading with attention to material networks and surfaces that resist neoliberal regimes. \nFrancine Masiello is the Sidney and Margaret Ancker Distinguished Professor in the Humanities in the Departments of Spanish and Comparative Literature at the University of California at Berkeley. She works on topics related to Latin American literature of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries\, gender theory\, and comparative North/South literatures. Her books include Lenguaje e ideología: las escuelas argentinas\, Between Civilization and Barbarism: Women\, Nation\, and Literary Culture in Modern Argentina\, La mujer y el espacio público: el periodismo femenino en Argentina del siglo XIX\, The Art of Transition: Neoliberalism and Latin American Culture\, and El cuerpo de la voz: poesía\, ética y cultura. She is also co-author or co-editor of numerous volumes\, most recently a book on Manuel Puig’s Kiss of the Spider Woman. \nEvent Sponsor:\nDepartment of Comparative Literature
URL:https://materia.stanford.edu/event/voices-bodies-things/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20150429T171500
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20150429T190500
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SUMMARY:Andrew Brown - Evolving Posthumanities in Latin American Literature: The Case of Edmundo Paz-Soldán's Iris
DESCRIPTION:PIGOTT HALL\, ROOM 216\nFREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC. \nGuest speaker: Andrew Brown (Washington University in St. Louis\, Spanish and Comparative Literature) \nIn this talk\, Brown will review many of the ways Latin American writers have imagined the posthuman as an instrument for navigating complex political and social realities. He will then consider how the Bolivian writer Edmundo Paz-Soldán\, in his 2014 science fiction novel Iris\, proposes new ways to think about the trope of “Latin American cyborg subjectivity” that go beyond processing dictatorship and problematizing neoliberalism. Brown examines specifically the links between sampling aesthetics and cyborg life. \nAndrew Brown is an Associate Professor of Spanish and Comparative Literature at Washington University in St. Louis and author of the influential study Cyborgs in Latin America (2010). He works on issues of technology\, science\, global popular culture\, and Latin American cultural identity. Professor Brown’s articles have appeared in several journals\, including Comparative Literature\, Hispanic Review\, Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies\, Revista canadiense de estudios hispánicos\, and Science Fiction Studies. His current manuscript examines the aesthetics of sampling and mashups in recent Latin American narrative. He is also editing a collection of essays on Latin American science fiction and critical theory. \nIberian and Latin American Cultures PhD Candidate Anna Marshall Castillo will respond. \nEvent Sponsor:\nCenter for Latin American Studies
URL:https://materia.stanford.edu/event/evolving-posthumanities-in-latin-american-literature/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20150408T171500
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SUMMARY:Eric Santner - The Weight of All Flesh: On the Subject-Matter of Political Economy
DESCRIPTION:PIGOTT HALL\, ROOM 216\nFREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC. \nGuest speaker: Eric L. Santner (University of Chicago\, Germanic Studies) \nSantner proposes a new interpretation of Marx’s labor theory of value as one concerned with the afterlife of political theology in secular modernity. The soveriegn’s phantasmatic flesh — the sublime subject-matter of the King’s Two Bodies — was constituted\, in medieval and early modern Europe\, as an effluence of sacramental and liturgical actions. Marx tracks the migration of that activity to its new place and function within the political economy of modern nation-states. Marx’s notion of the “fetishism of the commodity” aims at unmasking the liturgical dimension of commodity-producing labor\, the aspect of human productive activity in the quasi-religious service of the self-valorization of Value. Modernity\, Marx shows\, is characterized by a doxology of everyday life that keeps the bodies of its “officiants” in constant motion\, constitutes them as busy-bodies. In the lecture Santner argues that the critique of political economy must\, if it is to engage this dimenison\, become paradoxological. \nEric Santner is the Philip and Ida Romberg Distinguished Service Professor in Modern Germanic Studies at the University of Chicago. He works at the intersection of literature\, philosophy\, psychoanalysis\, political theory\, and religious thought. His most recent publications are On the Psychotheology of Everyday Life: Reflections on Freud and Rosenzweig (2001)\, On Creaturely Life: Rilke\, Benjamin\, Sebald (2006)\, The Neighbor: Three Inquiries in Political Theology with Slavoj Zizek and Kenneth Reinhard (2006)\, and The Royal Remains: The People’s Two Bodies and the Endgames of Sovereignty (2011). \nProfessor of German Studies and Comparative Literature Amir Eshel will respond. \nEvent Sponsor:\nDepartment of German Studies and the Program in Modern Thought and Literature
URL:https://materia.stanford.edu/event/the-weight-of-all-flesh/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20150226T171500
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SUMMARY:Ericka Beckman - On Rural Hell: The Dialectics of Uneven Development in Juan Rulfo and José Donoso
DESCRIPTION:PIGOTT HALL\, ROOM 216\nTHIS EVENT IS FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC. \nGuest speaker: Ericka Beckman (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign\, Spanish and Portuguese) \nThis talk explores how two key works of mid-twentieth century fiction registered the uneven and contradictory dynamics of rural modernization in Latin America. While it remains commonplace to associate the rural with tradition and/or backwardness\, this talk explores how fiction envisioned rural spaces as sites of particularly violent processes of modernization in their own right. In Juan Rulfo’s Pedro Páramo (1955) and José Donoso’s El lugar sin límites (1966)\, Beckman shows\, modernization is figured as a kind of living hell\, in which rural spaces are alternately drawn into and thrown out of circuits of capital accumulation at different moments in history. Drawing from these two texts\, Beckman points to larger ways in which Latin American fiction depicted the creation and destruction of rural worlds during the long twentieth century. \nEricka Beckman is an Associate Professor of Spanish and Portuguese at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and a DLCL alumna. Her research focuses primarily on narratives of capitalist modernity and modernization in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Latin America. Her first book\, Capital Fictions: The Literature of Latin America’s Export Age (2013)\, studied how literature represented the incorporation of the region’s economies into world markets at the end of the nineteenth century. Her current book project looks at how literary fiction imagined the making and unmaking of rural worlds in the long twentieth century.
URL:https://materia.stanford.edu/event/on-rural-hell/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20150205T171500
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20150205T190500
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SUMMARY:Gabriel Giorgi - The Animal Threshold: Biopolitics and Culture in Latin America after 1950
DESCRIPTION:PIGOTT HALL\, ROOM 216\nFREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC. \nGuest speaker: Gabriel Giorgi (NYU\, Spanish and Portuguese) \nBrazilian writer Guimarães Rosa’s text “Meu tio o iauaretê” (“My Uncle the Jaguar\,” ca. 1950) is a turning point in the cultural reflection about the relation of animality and politics in South America: it marks the disappearance of “wild life” as well as the forms of its returns or hauntings. Staging an alliance between human and animal\, the text displaces the forms of individuality or individuation that shape the nationalized bodies/subject\, illuminates new registers of sense in language — and thus an alternative politics of the literary — and mobilizes the demarcations of the “natural.” Guimarães Rosa’s text\, in this sense\, provides tools to think the ways that culture interrogates its solidarity with the humanist and civilizing traditions that shaped Latin American modernities. \nGabriel Giorgi is an Associate Professor in NYU’s Spanish and Portuguese Department. His work focuses on Southern Cone literature by authors such as Bolaño and Lamborghini\, as well as major areas of critical theory (specifically biopolitics\, queer theory\, and gender studies). He has most recently published a monograph on the intersection of animality\, culture\, and biopolitics — Formas comunes: Animalidad\, cultura\, biopolítica (2014) — a culmination of his years of research in the field.
URL:https://materia.stanford.edu/event/the-animal-threshold/
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