Novelist Nuruddin Farah comes to Pittsburgh on November 8th @ 4pm in anticipation of b2’s commemoration and consideration of Edward Said’s Culture and Imperialism. He will read and offer commentary as part of a presentation co-hosted by the University of Pittsburgh’s African Studies Program.
Coverage of The University of Cape Town’s “Africa Theorises” has arrived – a conversation between our esteemed colleague Anthony Bogues and the renowned scholar Achille Mbembe. Topics include the “redrawing of the global intellectual map,” the “flight from theory” and “scientism,” the waning hegemony of the “Western Archive,” the possibilities of “liberty,” and the “modes of being human.”
Patrick Jagoda examines the formative role of new-age “gaming” within contemporary economic, social and cultural life. Read the full article here.
boundary 2 is publishing a fabulous interview with J. Hillis Miller, reflecting on his career, criticism, and poetic language. Thanks to Brad Fest for skillful and intelligent questions and to each for eloquence and wit.
From the 2012 Carl Bode-Norman Holmes Pearson Prize for Outstanding Contributions to American Studies, Don Pease’s new provocative essay analyzes the recent populist conservatism in terms of the disparate fantasies convoking its disparate constituencies.
On August 13th, The University of Capetown hosts a conversation between our esteemed colleague Anthony Bogues and the renowned scholar Achille Mbembe.
In the second issue of its fortieth volume, boundary2 introduces the young scholars of “the future of criticism,” examines the functions, rules and formats of literature and the modern-day moral philosopher, questions the role and development of “world” literature as a form and product of globalization, initiation and resistance, and much more, all while earning professional next-level experience points across the board. Read our featured essay, Gamification and Other Forms of Play by Patrick Jagoda, and subscribe now for full access to all the journal’s offerings. Preview the Summer 2013 issue here.
For all our friends in London, NYC, and Western Europe on 19 June, a chance to hear Barrymore Anthony Bogues, an heir to this tradition, discuss the emergence of a new type of intellectual with consequences and influences around the world. University College London (UCL) sponsors this lecture.
The world-famous course of lectures and seminars begins again this summer. Here is the Institute’s Schedule. Don Pease, the Institute’s director, will be delivering his lecture, “Between the Camp and the Commons.”
This essay argues that notions of the subject, individualism, freedom, agency, change, and history (in other words, the ideas that are used to mark the boundaries of the West, and that generate the most sensitized aporias of modernity) have come to cluster around the figure of the Muslim woman (for whom the metonym is increasingly the veil): object of imperial rescue, justification for imperial warfare, Orientalist cipher, target of jihadist violence, and increasingly the discursive site upon which is worked out the central preoccupation of our time: How do you free yourself from freedom?