Coinciding with the time of the b2 editorial board meeting and conference, Wlad Godzich will present two additional lectures:
Friday, November 2, 2012 2 PM, “Conceptions of the Human, Conceptions of the Humanities,” 35th floor of the Cathedral of Learning, University of Pittsburgh sponsored with the Undergraduate Honors College.
Tuesday, November 6, 2012, “Pseudophilia, Truthiness, and the University,” The Humanities Center of the University of Pittsburgh, room 602 Cathedral of Learning.
This note asks our readers and visitors to offer us suggestions and advice. What are the topics we should be treating? Who are the writers and thinkers we should engage? Our editorial meeting is very soon and there is still time to make our agenda.
Wlad Godzich / Friedrich Kittler (1943–2011)
E. Khayyat / The Humility of Thought: An Interview with Friedrich A. Kittler
Intervention
Anthony Bogues / And What About the Human?: Freedom, Human Emancipation, and the Radical Imagination
Arif Dirlik / Transnationalization and the University: The Perspective of Global Modernity
Emmanuel Alloa / The Inorganic Community: Hypotheses on Literary Communism in Novalis, Benjamin, and Blanchot
Henry Veggian / Anachronisms of Authority: Authorship, Exchange Value, and David Foster Wallace’s The Pale King
Bradley J. Fest / The Inverted Nuke in the Garden: Archival Emergence and Anti-Eschatology in David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest
Intervention
Lindsay Waters / The Recovery of the Literal: Learning from the Renaissance How to Circumnavigate the Globe
Richard Purcell / The Enigma of Arrival; or, When Should We Have Read Ralph Ellison’s Three Days Before the Shooting?
Soyica Diggs Colbert / “When I Die, I Won’t Stay Dead”: The Future of the Human in Suzan-Lori Parks’s The Death of the Last Black Man in the Whole Entire World
boundary 2 mourns the death of a great scholar and exemplary critical humanist. The intellectual and academic worlds are much poorer without her prose, knowledge, and critical values.
