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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
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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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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
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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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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
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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]
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160217T171500
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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]
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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
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20151021T190500
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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
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20150520T190500
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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
DTSTAMP:20210521T052459Z
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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
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20150408T190500
DTSTAMP:20210521T052746Z
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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
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20150226T190500
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20150115T171500
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20150115T190500
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SUMMARY:Workshop on Animal Studies
DESCRIPTION:PIGOTT HALL\, ROOM 216\nFREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC. \nSpeakers: Ximena Briceño and Monica VanBladel (Stanford\, Iberian and Latin American Cultures) \nILAC Lecturer Ximena Briceño and graduate student coordinator Monica VanBladel introduced our quarterly theme of animal studies with reading selections by Jacques Derrida and Donna Haraway. Briceño discussed her research on animality in the work of Peruvian writer Ciro Alegría\, within the context of her manuscript on Franciscanism and poverty in the Andes. A key finding of this workshop was that a focus on animality need not be at odds with an object-centric orientation. Our conversation that day revolved around the organic/in-organic divide and its literary emplotment.
URL:https://materia.stanford.edu/event/workshop-on-animal-studies/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20141111T171500
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20141111T190500
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SUMMARY:Craig Epplin - The Pedestrian Ecology of Francis Alÿs
DESCRIPTION:PIGOTT HALL\, ROOM 216\nFREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC. \nGuest speaker: Craig Epplin (Portland State University\, Spanish) \nWalking is integral to the practices of Belgian-born\, Mexico City-based artist Francis Alÿs. His transient performances model the creation of ephemeral places\, outlined by the limited reach of the human body and a few material extensions — ice\, paint\, and drumsticks\, among others. These walks are laborious and dull\, marked by futility and repetition. This low affective energy mirrors the process represented in these performances: the slow\, uncertain emergence of places as fragile assemblages. These places are the result of alliances of diverse materials set in motion\, and in placing this process on display\, Alÿs’s works shed light on the critical possibilities of a pedestrian ecology — both within the arts and in spatial practice in general. \nCraig Epplin is an Assistant Professor of Spanish in the Department of World Languages and Literatures at Portland State University. His research centers on the intersection of media technology\, the arts\, and ecological transformations in contemporary Latin America. He is the author of Late Book Culture in Argentina (2014). He is at work on a second book\, a study of cartography and aesthetics in contemporary Mexico. He also collaborates with Rattapallax magazine\, where he edits the Furniture in Motion pamphlet series.
URL:https://materia.stanford.edu/event/the-pedestrian-ecology-of-francis-alys/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20141021T171500
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20141021T190500
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SUMMARY:Inaugural Meeting: Eros and Hunger
DESCRIPTION:PIGOTT HALL\, ROOM 216\nFREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC. \nSpeakers: Héctor Hoyos and Patricia Valderrama (Stanford\, Iberian and Latin American Cultures and Comparative Literature) \nILAC Professor Héctor Hoyos inaugurated the research group by presenting a draft of a book chapter on food in the work of Cuban novelist Antonio José Ponte. Graduate student coordinator Patricia Valderrama kicked off a discussion on selections from Antony Hudek’s The Object that bridge the gap between historical and new materialisms.
URL:https://materia.stanford.edu/event/eros-and-hunger/
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