B5: Finitude, or the Limits of the Left

Seminar Leader: Adriana Johnson, University of California � Irvine and Kate Jenckes, Rice University

Friday, April 16, 10:30 AM� � 12:30 PM, Vanderbilt

Kate Jenckes, Rice University: �Finitude, or the Limits of the Left�

Jan Mieszkowski, Reed College: �How to Do Things with �No�: Freud, Benjamin, and the Romance of a Finite Language�

Catherine Liu, University of Minnesota: �From the Stars Down to Earth: Adorno�s Astrology and the Limits of Critique�

Teresa Vilaros, Duke University: �Finis Terrae and the Waning of the Left�

Saturday, April 17, 10:30 AM � 12:30 PM, Vanderbilt

Gareth Williams, University of Michigan: �Accumulation and the Limits of Biopower�

Brett Levinson, Binghamton University: �Discounting the Proletariat: Ranci�re after Althusser�

Adriana Johnson, University of California � Irvine: �Rousseau, Paz, Rulfo: The Limits of Community�

Carsten Strathausen, University of Missouri: �What�s Left Beyond Dialectics?�

Sunday, April 18, 10:30 AM � 12:30 PM, Vanderbilt

David Johnson, SUNY Buffalo: �Badiou, Ethics, Politics�

Bruno Bosteels, Cornell University: �Radical Anti-philosophy�

Horacio Legras, Georgetown University: �The Prisonhouse of Finitude�

Alberto Moreiras, Duke University: �A Post-theology of Praxis: Donoso Cortes and the Political�