On February 27, 2016, longstanding boundary 2 board member Arif Dirlik gave his final lecture at the University of British Columbia. The talk, The Rise of China and the End of the World As We Know It, is available in full on the UBC Library’s website.
Category: Announcements
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Announcement: Titles for Review
b2o will consider proposals for reviews or review essays of books received by our office. A full list of these titles is located in the site’s About section and can also be found here.
Prospective authors should send a query note to boundary2@pitt.edu indicating the books in which they are interested, current position, and interest/expertise in the subject of the proposed review.
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Our Neoliberalism Conference is on YouTube!
All of the talks from b2’s recent conference, Neoliberalism, Its Ontology and Genealogy: The Work and Context of Philip Mirowski are now posted on our YouTube channel!
Talks include:
Philip Mirowski: Hell Is Truth Seen Too Late
Chris Connery: China, Neoliberal Constellations and the Left
Professor Robbins and Professor Connery’s post-talk Q&A panel can be found here.
Leah Feldman: Post-Soviet, Neoliberal, New Right Formations
Christian Thorne: The Paleo-Neo and the New New: Periodizing Liberalism
Professor Feldman and Professor Thorne’s post-talk Q&A panel can be found here.
David Golumbia: Mirowski As Critic of the Digital
Annie McClanahan: Serious Crises: Rethinking the Neoliberal Subject
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Conference Announcement — Neoliberalism, Its Ontology and Genealogy: The Work and Context of Philip Mirowski
boundary 2 is pleased to announce Neoliberalism, Its Ontology and Genealogy: The Work and Context of Philip Mirowski, a conference at the University of Pittsburgh. All talks will appear on boundary 2’s YouTube channel after the conference.
Schedule
Friday, March 17, 2017
1:30pm EST – Panel: Bruce Robbins and Chris Connery
Liberal Elites – Bruce Robbins, Old Dominion Foundation Professor in the Humanities, Columbia University
China: Neoliberal Constellations and the Left – Chris Connery, Professor of Literature, University of California, Santa Cruz
3:00pm EST – Rethinking the Knowledge Problem: Preserving Professional Judgment in an Era of Metric Power – Frank Pasquale, Professor of Law, Francis King Carey School of Law, University of Maryland
4:30pm EST – Keynote: Hell is Truth Seen Too Late – Philip Mirowski, Carl E. Koch Professor of Economics and Policy Studies and the History of the Philosophy of Science, University of Notre Dame
Saturday, March 18, 2017
9:00am EST – Panel: Leah Feldman and Christian Thorne
Post-Soviet, Neoliberal, New Right Formations – Leah Feldman, Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature, University of Chicago
The Paleo-Neo and the New New: Periodizing Liberalism – Christian Thorne, Professor of English, Williams College
10:45am EST – Mirowski as Critic of the Digital – David Golumbia, Associate Professor of English, Virginia Commonwealth University
1:30pm EST – The Cultural Fantasy-Work of Neoliberalism – Donald E. Pease, Ted and Helen Geisel Third Century Professor in the Humanities, Dartmouth College
3:00pm EST – Serious Crises: Rethinking the Neoliberal Subject – Annie McClanahan, Assistant Professor of English, University of California, Irvine
4:30pm EST – Fuck Work – James Livingston, Professor of History, Rutgers
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March 2: Brian T. Edwards — Trump, Twitter, Circulation
On March 2, Professor Brian T. Edwards of Northwestern University will give a talk titled Trump, Twitter, Circulation: American Politics as Global Entertainment.
The global circulation of Donald Trump’s political rhetoric ruptured the divide between American popular culture and US politics. This marks the postscript to the “American century,” during which the attractiveness of American culture had positive political benefits for the US. In the age of Trump, the US political system itself became a horrible form of global entertainment.
Professor Edwards will speak at the University of Pittsburgh at 5pm on March 2, 2017 in the Humanities Center (Cathedral of Learning 602). boundary 2 will also livestream the talk here.
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Mark B. N. Hansen — Bernard Stiegler, Philosopher of Desire?
In the current print issue of boundary 2, Mark B. N. Hansen on Bernard Stiegler.
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The b2 Collective on Edward Said
boundary 2 sponsored a conference at the University of Pittsburgh on November 7-9 2013 on the Life and Work of Edward W. Said. We found an apt title in his work and we met to discuss his writings and his influence under the title, “Legacies of the Future.” Edward W. Said was an important figure in b2 from the 1970s. Some of us studied with or worked with him. We all learned from and argued with him. Rather than collect a set of talks from the conference, we decided to publicize our interactions by creating a bibliography of our written engagements with his work.
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Nuruddin Farah Discusses His Novel, “Maps”
b2 editor Nuruddin Farah discussed his novel, Maps, with the BBC World Service last week.
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Announcing Charles Bernstein’s “Pitch of Poetry!”
by Charles Bernstein
I am happy to announce the publication of Pitch of Poetry, my new collection of essays from the University of Chicago Press. There will be launches for the book in Washington, DC (Bridge Street Books) on March 20, at Penn (Kelly Writers House) on April 12, and in New York (the Poetry Project) on April 20 (see below for details).
Pitch of Poetry makes the case for echopoetics: a poetry of call and response
, reason and imagination, disfiguration and refiguration.Publishers Weekly
“Often elliptical, argumentative, and personal, this is a radical work about the nature of poetry and of language itself.”Library Journal
“A strangely compelling amalgam of postulations, propositions, interviews, and opinions, this collection from Bernstein is as much a work of art as a work of criticism.”Craig Dworkin
“The traits and energies that made Bernstein, the foremost poet-critic of our time, a leading figure of the 1980s-era avant-garde have continued unabated.”Pierre Joris
“Pitch of Poetry is wide-ranging, protean, exhilarating.”Subjects range across the figurative nature of abstract art, Occupy Wall Street, and Shoah representation. Detailed overviews of formally inventive work include essays on—or “pitches” for—a set of key poets, from Gertrude Stein and Robert Creeley to John Ashbery, Barbara Guest, Larry Eigner, Leslie Scalapino, Maggie O’Sullivan, and Johanna Drucker. Bernstein also reveals the formative ideas behind L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E. The final section, published here for the first time, is a sweeping work on the poetics of stigma, perversity, and disability that is rooted in the thinking of Edgar Allan Poe, Emily Dickinson, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and William Blake.
BOOK LAUNCHES (readings and signings):
Bridge Street Books, Weds., March 30, 7:30pm (2814 Pennsylvania Ave NW, Washington, DC 20007):
Kelly Writers House, University of Pennsylvania, Tues., April 12, 6pm
Poetry Project, St. Mark’s Church, New York: Weds., April 20, 8pmInformation on ordering the book: University of Chicago Press page. The publication date is the first day of Spring, but the book is just now available. Book cover image: © Lawrence Schwartzwald
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Announcing Our Winter Issue: Econophonia: Music, Value, and Forms of Life
This issue theorizes what questions of value might contribute to our understanding of sound and music. Divesting sound and music from notions of intrinsic value, the contributors follow various avenues through which sound and music produce value in and as history, politics, ethics, epistemology, and ontology. As a result, the very question of what sound and music are—what constitutes them, as well as what they constitute—is at stake. Contributors examine the politics of music and crowds, the metaphysics of sensation, the ecological turn in music studies, and the political resistance inherent to sound; connect Karl Marx to black music and slave labor; look at Marx, the Marx Brothers, and fetishism; and explore the tension between the voice of the Worker who confronts Capital head-on and the voices of actual workers.
Contributors include Amy Cimini, Bill Dietz, Jairo Moreno, Rosalind Morris, Ana María Ochoa Gautier, Ronald Radano, Gavin Steingo, Peter Szendy, Gary Tomlinson, and Naomi Waltham-Smith.
