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SECT | Seminar in Experimental Critical Theory

Seminar in Experimental Critical Theory
Psychoanalysis, Politics, Event
University of California Humanities Research Institute
Summer 2004

Instructors
Alain Badiou
Joan Copjec
Mladen Dolar
Peter Hallward
Eric Santner
Slavoj Zizek
Alenka Zupancic

Convened by
Kenneth Reinhard

Administered by
Anna Kornbluh, Charton Payne

Supervised by
David Theo Golberg

 


Two difficult points in Being and Event:
From a remark of Desanti about ontology to a remark of Lyotard about the double signification of "event."

Democratic Materialism and the Materialist Dialectic:
The Framework of Philosophy Today

 

Three Year Project on
Jewish Civilization and Its Discontents

2001-2
Foundations

2002-3
Between Athens and Jerusalem

2003-4
The Neighbor

LA Times article

 


painting by Francis Bacon

 

Syllabus FALL quarter
Syllabus WINTER quarter
Report to Mellon Foundation

Mellon-Sawyer Seminar on the Ethics of the Neighbor
UCLA Center for Jewish Studies, 2003-2004

Dana Hollander, Exernal Fellow
Joseph Jenkins, Internal Fellow
Molly Hiro, Internal Fellow

Administered by
Susan Spitzer, Vivian Holenbeck

Speakers
Aryeh Cohen, John Milbank, Amy Hollywood,
John Bowen, Aron Zysow, Galit Hasan-Rokem,
Alain Badiou, David Clark, Etienne Balibar,
Kenneth Reinhard, Hent de Vries, Oona Eisenstadt,
Robert Gibbs, Dana Hollander, Martin Kavka, Slavoj Žižek, Eric Santner, and Joan Copjec.