Upcoming Events

Vatnajokull Glacier, Iceland | Picture courtesy of Fernando Moleres

Feb
3

Bernard Stiegler Working Group Meeting

Bernard Stiegler, Technics and Time, 1. The Fault of Epithemeus. (Stanford: Stanford UP, 1998)

This is a continuation of the Fall 2024 Working Group on Critical Theory, cosponsored by the Humanities and the Anthropocene Initiative. Please see the working group’s page for more information and a full semester schedule.

Date: February 3, 2025

Time: 10:00 am

Location: Zoom

Reading: 1-72

To be included in emails and receive zoom links, please contact Alberto Moreiras.

Contact: Alberto Moreiras [moreiras@tamu.edu]

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Feb
3

A Workshop on Frederic Jameson’s ‘The Years of Theory. Postwar French Thought to the Present’ (London: Verso, 2024)

This is a workshop on Frederic Jameson’s last, posthumously published book that engages with the main currents of critical theory in France in the historical context of the Liberation of Paris, the Algerian War, the uprisings of May 68, and the creation of the European Union. As Jameson discusses existentialism, poststructuralism, feminism, psychoanalysis, and Marxism, his book is particularly relevant for us as we are in the inaugural year of the Texas A&M Critical Theory Collective.

This event is cosponsored by the Humanities and the Anthropocene Initiative.

Date: February 3, 2025

Time: 11:30 am - 3:00 pm

Location: GLAS 311 (Glasscock Library)

Participants: Benjamin Davis, Manuela Marchesini, Stephen Miller, Alberto Moreiras, Savannah Payne, Teresa M. Vilarós

There will be pizza served.

Contact: Alberto Moreiras [moreiras@tamu.edu]

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Feb
11

Jean Vioulac Working Group Meeting

Jean Vioulac, L’epoque de la technique. Marx, Heidegger, er l’accomplishment de la métaphysique (2009).

Please visit the working group’s page for more information and a full schedule of meetings.

Date: February 11, 2025

Time: TBA

Location: Zoom

Reading: 59-111

Contact: Alberto Moreiras [moreiras@tamu.edu]

If you want to be included in the mailing list, please email Alberto Moreiras.

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Feb
24

Bernard Stiegler Working Group Meeting

Bernard Stiegler, Technics and Time, 1. The Fault of Epithemeus. (Stanford: Stanford UP, 1998)

This is a continuation of the Fall 2024 Working Group on Critical Theory, cosponsored by the Humanities and the Anthropocene Initiative. Please see the working group’s page for more information and a full semester schedule.

Date: February 24, 2025

Time: 10:00 am

Location: Zoom

Reading: 72-133

To be included in emails and receive zoom links, please contact Alberto Moreiras.

Contact: Alberto Moreiras [moreiras@tamu.edu]

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Mar
4

Jean Vioulac Working Group Meeting

Jean Vioulac, L’epoque de la technique. Marx, Heidegger, er l’accomplishment de la métaphysique (2009).

Please visit the working group’s page for more information and a full schedule of meetings.

Date: March 4, 2025

Time: TBA

Location: Zoom

Reading: 113-179

Contact: Alberto Moreiras [moreiras@tamu.edu]

If you want to be included in the mailing list, please email Alberto Moreiras.

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Mar
24

Bernard Stiegler Working Group Meeting

Bernard Stiegler, Technics and Time, 1. The Fault of Epithemeus. (Stanford: Stanford UP, 1998)

This is a continuation of the Fall 2024 Working Group on Critical Theory, cosponsored by the Humanities and the Anthropocene Initiative. Please see the working group’s page for more information and a full semester schedule.

Date: March 24, 2025

Time: 10:00 am

Location: Zoom

Reading: 135-203

To be included in emails and receive zoom links, please contact Alberto Moreiras.

Contact: Alberto Moreiras [moreiras@tamu.edu]

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Apr
1

Jean Vioulac Working Group Meeting

Jean Vioulac, L’epoque de la technique. Marx, Heidegger, er l’accomplishment de la métaphysique (2009).

Please visit the working group’s page for more information and a full schedule of meetings.

Date: April 1, 2025

Time: TBA

Location: Zoom

Reading: 181-240

Contact: Alberto Moreiras [moreiras@tamu.edu]

If you want to be included in the mailing list, please email Alberto Moreiras.

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Apr
15

Bernard Stiegler Working Group Meeting

Bernard Stiegler, Technics and Time, 1. The Fault of Epithemeus. (Stanford: Stanford UP, 1998)

This is a continuation of the Fall 2024 Working Group on Critical Theory, cosponsored by the Humanities and the Anthropocene Initiative. Please see the working group’s page for more information and a full semester schedule.

Date: April 15, 2025

Time: 10:00 am

Location: Zoom

Reading: 204-276

To be included in emails and receive zoom links, please contact Alberto Moreiras.

Contact: Alberto Moreiras [moreiras@tamu.edu]

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Apr
22

Diana Toucedo Visit

Spanish filmmaker, Diana Toucedo, is a well-known cinema amateur and film editor based in Barcelona and Amsterdam. Her work deeply engages with Anthropocene themes. Toucedo’s 2017 full-length film debut, Trinta Lumes/Thirty Souls, engages in an eco-anthropological exploration of the limits of life and death in rural Galicia. Her documentary, Camille & Ulysse (2021), co-produced by the CCCB (Barcelona) and the Centre Pompidou in Paris, was done in collaboration with Donna Haraway and Vinciane Despret, offering an adaptation of Haraway’s Staying With the Trouble: Making Kin in the Chthulucene (2016), and Despret’s Autobiographie d’un pulpe (2021). Among many other projects, Diana Toucedo is currently in post-production with her last full-length film, Puerto Deseo/Port Desire (2022-24). In it, she explores the ravages of the sea through life on board of a fishing boat in the icy waters of the Argentinian South Atlantic Ocean.

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Apr
22

Jean Vioulac Working Group Meeting

Jean Vioulac, L’epoque de la technique. Marx, Heidegger, er l’accomplishment de la métaphysique (2009).

Please visit the working group’s page for more information and a full schedule of meetings.

Date: April 22, 2025

Time: TBA

Location: Zoom

Reading: 240-293

Contact: Alberto Moreiras [moreiras@tamu.edu]

If you want to be included in the mailing list, please email Alberto Moreiras.

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May
5

Bernard Stiegler Working Group Meeting

Jacques Derrida and Bernard Stiegler, Ecographies of Television. (Cambridge, UK: Polity Press, 2002)

This is a continuation of the Fall 2024 Working Group on Critical Theory, cosponsored by the Humanities and the Anthropocene Initiative. Please see the working group’s page for more information and a full semester schedule.

Date: May 5, 2025

Time: 10:00 am

Location: Zoom

Reading: 3-72

To be included in emails and receive zoom links, please contact Alberto Moreiras.

Contact: Alberto Moreiras [moreiras@tamu.edu]

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May
13

Jean Vioulac Working Group Meeting

Jean Vioulac, L’epoque de la technique. Marx, Heidegger, er l’accomplishment de la métaphysique (2009).

Please visit the working group’s page for more information and a full schedule of meetings.

Date: May 13, 2025

Time: TBA

Location: Zoom

Reading: 293-321

Contact: Alberto Moreiras [moreiras@tamu.edu]

If you want to be included in the mailing list, please email Alberto Moreiras.

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May
19

Bernard Stiegler Working Group Meeting

Jacques Derrida and Bernard Stiegler, Ecographies of Television. (Cambridge, UK: Polity Press, 2002)

This is a continuation of the Fall 2024 Working Group on Critical Theory, cosponsored by the Humanities and the Anthropocene Initiative. Please see the working group’s page for more information and a full semester schedule.

Date: May 19, 2025

Time: 10:00 am

Location: Zoom

Reading: 73-163

To be included in emails and receive zoom links, please contact Alberto Moreiras.

Contact: Alberto Moreiras [moreiras@tamu.edu]

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Jan
21

Jean Vioulac Working Group Meeting

Jean Vioulac, L’epoque de la technique. Marx, Heidegger, er l’accomplishment de la métaphysique (2009).

Please visit the working group’s page for more information and a full schedule of meetings.

Date: January 21, 2025

Time: TBA

Location: Zoom

Reading: L’epoque de la technique, 13-57

Contact: Alberto Moreiras [moreiras@tamu.edu]

If you want to be included in the mailing list, please email Alberto Moreiras.

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Oct
10

Seminar with Avery Slater

Avery Slater will lead a seminar on DNA computing, focusing on readings from Jacques Derrida’s Life Death (Sessions 1 and 4) and Kaushik Sunder Raman’s Biocapital (Chapter 1). Lunch will be provided.

Location: GLAS311

Please RSVP to Adam Rosenthal [arrosenthal@tamu.edu] for the seminar readings and lunch count.

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Oct
9

Write to Memory: DNA Computing’s Archive Fever

Avery Slater, Associate Professor of English and research lead at the Schwartz Reisman Institute for Technology and Society at the University of Toronto, will present “Write to Memory: DNA Computing’s Archive Fever.” DNA computing involves the encoding, storage, and recovery of information, within the tissues of living cells. In “Write to Memory,” Dr. Slater explores the biopolitical implications of this new direction in computing and its place within the history of archival technologies.

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Jun
10
to Jun 14

The Humanities & the Anthropocene at Derrida Today

June 11 | 1:30-3:30

Panel 1

Chair: Adam Rosenthal

Matrianarchy: Khōra and Gaia - Maddalena Cerrato

Parasitism and Hospitality in a Gaian Planet - Raúl Carrillo Covarrubias

Sade’s Khōra or Derrida and the 44 Journées - James Martell

The (m)other(er): Figures of Engendering, Care and Abandonment - Peter Baker

June 13 | 3:30-5:30 pm

Panel 2: Gaia and the Khora

Chair: Adam Rosenthal

Respondent: Rafael Fernández López

On Names and Gardens: Khora, Gaia, Derrida, Heidegger, and Bosch (Hieronymus) - Teresa Vilarós

Gaia and the Khora. A Case for Meontology - Alberto Moreiras

Khōra, Gaia, Chaos: Deconstructing Blanchot’s ‘Note on Transgression’ - Phil Lynes

June 14 | 10:30-12:30

Panel 3: Gaia and Khora: Plasticity, Messianicity, and Negentropics

Chair: Adam Rosenthal

Respondent: Laura Campos de Gónzalez

World Wounded: Destructive Plasticity and the Anthropocene - Ananya Usharani Ravishankar

Khōra, Pharmakon, and the Possibility of the Future: Derrida, Stiegler, and Negentropic Potentials - Humberto González Núñez

Messianicity Without Messianism Through Nishida’s Logic of Basho - Rodrigo E. De los Santos

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Apr
22
to Apr 26

Nigel Clark Visit

Mon, Apr 22 12:00 pm | GLAS 311

Lunch Conversation with Faculty and Students

Tue, Apr 23 3:30 pm | GLAS 300

Meeting with members of the Humanities and the Anthropocene initiative (open to any and all who are interested)

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Wed, Apr 24 5:30-8:30 | ACAD 206

Meeting with Fculty and Students at Dr. Moreiras’ seminar ‘Anthropological Discourses on Indigenous Latin America’

Thu, Apr 25 4:00 pm | GLAS 311

Public Lecture: “Transubstantiation: Human Fire USe and the Time of the Earth”

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Alicia Juarrero Visit
Mar
19
to Mar 22

Alicia Juarrero Visit

Wednesday, March 20

1200-1:00pm, Lunch | GLAS311

1:00-7:00pm, Symposium, “Physics, Life, Gaia: In Context” | GLAS311

7:30pm, Dinner | TBD

Thursday, March 21st

10:00am-12:00pm, Alicia Juarrero Seminar on Context Changes Everything | GLAS311

12:00-1:00pm, Lunch | TBD

5:30-7:30pm, Alicia Juarrero Public Presentation: “Why Context Matters” | GLAS311

8:00pm, Dinner | TBD

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Richard Doyle Visit
Feb
21
to Feb 24

Richard Doyle Visit

📎 The Ecognosis Seminars

Wed Feb 21 | 11 am - 12 pm | GLAS 311:

DMNinishment: The Default Mode Network & “You” (Tune in)

Wed Feb 21 | 1 pm - 2pm | GLAS 311:

Shut Up and Chant (Turn on)

Thur Feb 22 | 10 am - 11 am | GLAS 311:

Stoned on Algorithmic Botany, With Special Reference to Your Very Own Breath (Drop Out)

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Interview with Albert Serra
Nov
17

Interview with Albert Serra

Cinema and Thought in the Times of the Anthropocene / Cinema i pensament en el temps de l’ Antropocè

6 PM / 18h CET

Organized by Teresa Vilarós and Rafael Fernández

Contact: vilaros@tamu.edu / rafel@tamu.edu

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‘Limits of the Living: Reading Life as Bio-technology’ Symposium
Nov
2
to Nov 3

‘Limits of the Living: Reading Life as Bio-technology’ Symposium

Nov 2 - 7:30 AM - 6:30 PM

Nov 3 - 7:30 AM - 6:30 PM

“Limits of the Living” is a two-day symposium hosted by the Department of Global Languages and Cultures and sponsored by the Glasscock Center and the Humanities and Anthropocene Initiative. Featuring a multidisciplinary group of philosophers, literary critics, and natural and social scientists, it considers the ontological, discursive, and historical factors that have contributed to what, today, has become the undeniable entanglement of the biological and technological.

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