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  • Table of Contents for Volume 39, number 3 Fall 2012

    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

  • In memoriam: María Rosa Menocal

    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.

  • Ruth Hung Revisiting Woju

    “Imagination in the Box:  Woju’s Realism and the Representation of Xiaosan,” Television, Sex and Society: Analyzing Contemporary Representations.  Continuum; 1 edition (June 14, 2012)  Amazon.

     

  • boundary 2 Spring Editorial Meeting and Conference at UCLA

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  • Wolfgang Fritz Haug: High-Tech Capitalism and the Great Crisis

    A major part of this book, in English, in the recent b2.

  • "The Tunisian Revolution of Dignity"

    In volume 39, no 1., forthcoming as the Spring 2012 issue, b2 present a dossier of materials from the streets of Tunisia.  Edited and translated by RA Judy, these eight pieces give the most immediately thoughtful evidence of human imaginative effort underlying the start and continuation of the Tunisian revolution.  

  • A boundary 2 symposium

    A boundary 2 Symposium

     

    Saturday, November 5, 2011 – CL 501

     

    What Is the Proper Agenda for a Critical Journal?

     

     

    9 – 9:50 AM, Ronald Judy, Pittsburgh:  Poetic Socialities:  Signs of a Neo-Humanism

     

    10 – 10:50 AM, Bruce Robbins, Columbia:  Cosmopolitanism, Time, and Inequality

     

    11 – 11:50 AM, Aamir Mufti, UCLA:  Real Life:  Lyric and the Critical Imagination

     

    Lunch

     

    1 – 1:50 PM, Daniel O’Hara, Temple:  A Poetics of the Imagination

     

    2 – 2:50 PM, Jonathan Arac, Pittsburgh:  Writing Presentist Historical Criticism

     

    3 – 3:50 PM, Richard Purcell, CMU:  The University, the Journal, and Proper Education

     

    4 – 4:50 PM, Daniel Morgan, Pittsburgh:  French Moralism Revisited: Cinephilia and Criticism, Imagination and Ethics

  • Blue Port Jazz Festival

    Soka Performing Arts Center
Trio da Paz
Geoffrey Keezer
Anat Cohen
Mike Garson
Peter Sprague
OCTOBER 28 ~ 30
Featuring Trio da Paz
Friday ~ Oct. 28, 7:30 pm Saturday ~ Oct. 29, 3:00 & 7:30 pm Sunday ~ Oct. 30, 3:00 pm
Purchase Three-day Festival Package: $84 ~ Seniors & Students: $63
Trio da Paz updates the infectious spirit of jazz oriented Brazilian music.
The Trio redefines Brazilian Jazz with their harmonically adventurous
interactions, daring improvisations and dazzling rhythms.
Tierney Sutton
Opening season for the new 1000-seat performing arts center, acoustics by
Walt Disney Concert Hall designer Yasuhisa Toyota
1 University Drive, Aliso Viejo, CA 92656 • 949.480.4ART (4278) • tickets@soka.edu
Purchase tickets online at www.performingarts.soka.edu or tickets@soka.edu
Water is Rising:
Music and Dance amid Climate Change
General Admission: $33
Seniors & Students: $23
Sunday, October 23, 3:00 pm
New Zealand String Quartet
The quartet is known for their revelatory
performances of the standard classical
quartet repertoire.
General Admission: $33
Seniors & Students: $23
Official Airline Sponsor
Saturday, November 5, 8:00 pm
Faculty Recital featuring
Wan-Chin Chang, pianist and Friends
General Admission: $10
Seniors & Students: $5
Sunday, November 13, 4:00 pm
Jazz Monsters Concert Series
The Josh Nelson ~
Mike Golden Jazz Outlaws
General Admission: $28
Seniors & Students: $21
Friday, November 18, 7:00 pm
Aliso Viejo’s
10th Anniversary Holiday Show
Adults: $10 Children: $5
or 2 cans of donated food
Saturday, December 10, 7:00 pm
Trio de Paz
Mauchet Adnet
Friday, October 28, 7:30 pm
Trio da Paz with Maucha Adnet
and Geoffrey Keezer / Peter Sprague Band
General Admission: $28 Seniors & Students: $21
Saturday, October 29, 3:00 pm
The Bert Turetzky-Chuck Perrin Dynamic Duo and
Tierney Sutton with Mike Garson
General Admission: $18 Seniors & Students: $16
Saturday, October 29, 7:30 pm
Trio da Paz with Anat Cohen and
Charles McPherson Quintet with Gilbert Castellanos
General Admission: $28 Seniors & Students: $21
Sunday, October 30, 3:00 pm
The Ron Escheté Trio and Mike Garson Sextet starring
Kornel Fekete-Kovacs
General Admission: $28 Seniors & Students: $21
Aliso Niguel High School
Orchestra Benefit Concert
for Carnegie Hall Tour
Ticket information: ayjeung@capousd.org
General Admission: $15
Seniors & Students: $8
Tuesday, November 15, 7:30 pm
Albert Jeung,
ANHS Orchestra Teacher

  • Tunisia

    The forthcoming b2 will have several original pieces from within Tunisia itself.  Ronald Judy made an important contribution to our efforts by soliciting, translating, and introducing a cluster of materials that for the first time give a sense of the humanistic developments within the Tunisian’s struggle for dignity and the right to their own imaginative formation.

  • "Some of My Best Friends Are Zionists"

    Bruce Robbins has just launched a kickstarter campaign to raise the remaining funds needed to complete film of this title.  Here is the link:  http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/496652315/some-of-my-best-friends-are-zionists-0

    Please contribute.