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"The Future of an Event (in Art and Technology)"

Krzystof Ziarek, Ewa Ziarek, Jean-Michel Rabaté

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Event Date: Saturday, February 22, 2003
Location: Slought Foundation
Conversations in Theory Series | Organized by Aaron Levy

Caption: Slought Foundation Event Space, 2003

Event sponsored by the English Department at the University of Pennsylvania


Krzysztof Ziarek is Associate Professor of English at the University of Notre Dame, where he teaches 20th century poetry and poetics, philosophy and literature, aesthetics, and literary theory. He has published "Inflected Language: Toward A Hermeneutics of Nearness. Heidegger, Levinas, Stevens, Celan (SUNY 1994) and "The Historicity of Experience: Modernity, the Avant-Garde, and the Event" (Northwestern UP, 2001), and has co-edited a collection of essays entitled "Future Crossings: Literature Between Philosophy and Cultural Studies" (Northwestern UP, 2000). He has also published numerous essays on Heidegger, Benjamin, Levinas, Irigaray, Stein, Clark Coolidge, avant-garde aesthetics, and literary theory. He writes poetry in Polish and has published a volume of poems entitled "Zaimejlowane z Polski" ("Emailed from Poland"). He has received NEH and ACLS fellowships.

Ewa Plonowska Ziarek is Professor of English and Gender Studies at the University of Notre Dame, where she teaches modernism, feminism, and literary theory. She is the author of "The Rhetoric of Failure: Deconstruction of Skepticism, Reinvention of Modernism" (SUNY, 1995), "An Ehtics of Dissensus: Feminism, Postmodernity, and the Politics of Radical Democracy" (Stanford, 2001), the editor of "Gombrowicz's Grimacess: Modernism, Gender, Nationality (SUNY 1998), and co-editor of "Revolt and Affect: The Unstable Boundaries of Kristeva's Polis" (forthcoming) and "Intermedialities" (forthcoming). She has published numerous articles on Kristeva, Irigaray, Derrida, Foucault, Levinas, Fanon, and literary modernism.

Jean-Michel Rabaté, Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Pennsylvania since 1992, has authored or edited twenty books on Modernism, Joyce, Pound, Beckett, Lacan, Derrida, psychoanalysis and literary theory. Among these, Lacan in America (2000), Jacques Lacan: Psychoanalysis and the subject of literature (2001), James Joyce and the Politics of Egoism (2001), and The Future of Theory (2002). He is the editor of the Cambridge Guide to Jacques Lacan (2002).

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