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"Making Words Shine"

Gregory Flaxman

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Event Date: Friday, April 14, 2000
Location: Slought Foundation at University of Pennsylvania
I Call it Art: Conference on Naming & Abstraction Series | Organized by Aaron Levy, Jean-Michel Rabaté

Caption: Slought Foundation Event Space, 2003



Gregory Flaxman is a doctoral candidate in the Program of Comparative Literature and Literary Theory at the University of Pennsylvania. He specializes in American literature and cinema (20th century), literary and film theory, and philosophy of science. He received his M.A. in Communication Studies from the University of Iowa. His anthology "The Brain is the Screen: Deleuze and the Philosophy of the Cinema" is forthcoming in 2000 from University of Minnesota Press; recent articles include a disciplinary entry on "Film Studies" in "The Routledge Dictionary of Postmodernism" (London: Routledge Press, 2000), "Oedipa Crisis: Paranoia and Prohibition in "The Crying of Lot 49" (Pynchon Notes 40/41: 41-60), and "How to Do Things with Lacan: The Real cause of J.L. Austin’s Theory of Speech Acts (Spectator 16, n.2: 24-34). Through 2001, he was co-organizer with Aaron Levy of the lecture series "Theorizing."

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