BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//208.94.116.123//NONSGML kigkonsult.se iCalcreator 2.26.9// CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-FROM-URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/New_York BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York X-LIC-LOCATION:America/New_York BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20231105T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 RDATE:20241103T020000 TZNAME:EST END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20240310T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 RDATE:20250309T020000 TZNAME:EDT END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ai1ec-8138@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240328T115939Z CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:New School for Social Research CONTACT:https://event.newschool.edu/cultureandfreedom1 DESCRIPTION:
Serving as a response to Aimé Césaire’s call for a universal filled with particularity from his infamous resignation from the French C ommunist Party in 1956\, I focus on the role of culture for a project of u niversal emancipation. To do so\, I follow Sylvia Wynter’s statement that the Négritude movement is an example of a universal and cultural project. Recalling Césaire’s words in “Return to My Native Land\,” culture that ser ves universal emancipation must be “free of the desire to tame but familia r with the play of the world.” To this end\, I develop a conception of cul ture that is both local and universal\, that centers on the importance of what it means to be human\, as life\, as being\, and as experience by read ing culture as necessarily local\, collective\, disenchanted\, and related to play.
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Elisa beth Paquette is Associate Professor of Comparative Literature at the Univ ersity at Buffalo\, SUNY. Her book\, titled Universal Emancipation: Ra ce beyond Badiou (University of Minnesota Press\, 2020)\, engages Fre nch political theorist Alain Badiou’s discussion of Négritude and the Hait ian Revolution to develop a nuanced critique of his theory of emancipation . Currently\, she is working on a monograph on the writings of decolonial theorist Sylvia Wynter. She is also the Founder of the Feminist Decolonial Politics Workshop\, which takes place annually during the summer.
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240229T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240229T200000 GEO:+40.73702;-73.992243 LOCATION:Wolff Conference Room/D1103 @ 6 E 16th St\, New York\, NY 10003\, USA SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Culture & Freedom: Thinking Universality with Aimé Césaire and Sylv ia Wynter presented by Elisabeth Paquette URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/culture-freedom-thinking -universality-with-aime-cesaire-and-sylvia-wynter-presented-by-elisabeth-p aquette/ X-COST-TYPE:external X-TAGS;LANGUAGE=en-US:culture\,freedom X-TICKETS-URL:https://event.newschool.edu/cultureandfreedom1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ai1ec-8107@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240328T115939Z CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:Columbia U CONTACT:https://maisonfrancaise.columbia.edu/events/artificial-history-natu ral-intelligence-thinking-machines-descartes-digital-age DESCRIPTION:David Bates\, in conversation with Stefanos Geroulano and Joanna Stalnaker
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e are both in control of and controlled by our bodies—autonomous and yet a
utomatic. This entanglement\, according to David W. Bates\, emerged in the
seventeenth century when humans first built and compared themselves with
machines. Reading varied thinkers from Descartes to Kant to Turing\, Bates
reveals how time and time again technological developments offered new wa
ys to imagine how the body’s automaticity worked alongside the mind’s auto
nomy. Tracing these evolving lines of thought\, David Bates discusses his
new book\, An Artificial History of Natural Intelligence\, which
offers a new theorization of the human as a being that is dependent on tec
hnology and produces itself as an artificial automaton without a natural\,
outside origin.
\nDavid Bates is Professor of Rheto
ric at the University of California Berkeley. His research focuses on the
history of legal and political ideas\, and the relationship between techno
logy\, science\, and the history of human cognition.
Stefa nos Geroulanos is the Director of the Remarque Institute and Prof essor of European Intellectual History at NYU. He usually writes about con cepts that weave together modern understandings of time\, the human\, and the body. His new book is a history of the concepts\, images\, and science s of human origins since 1770\, forthcoming from Liveright Press as Th e Invention of Prehistory: Empire\, Violence\, and Our Obsession with Huma n Origins in 2024.
\nJoanna Stalnaker< /strong> is Professor of French at Columbia. She works on Enlightenment ph ilosophy and literature\, with a recent interest in how women shaped the E nlightenment. Her new book\, The Rest Is Silence: Enlightenment Philos ophers Facing Death\, will be published by Yale University Press in t he Walpole series.
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