Videos

	Terrell Carver, University of Bristol, UK Das Kapital: Critique, History, Knowledge September 16, 2020 Terrell Carver is Professor of Political Theory at the University of Bristol, UK. He has published widely on Marx and Engels, including translations, editions, and commentary; on sex, gender, sexuality, and...
	Ross Andersen, Deputy Editor of The Atlantic Writing at the Intersection of Science and the Arts February 24, 2020 In this talk, Ross Andersen discusses what he has learned about bringing the humanities to bear on the sciences, drawing from his own essays and other pieces in The Atlantic, where he is Deputy Editor.
	Steven Meyer, Washington University The Two Silos: Literature, Science, and Agents of Overlap in Twenty-First-Century Science Studies February 20, 2020 Meyer teaches English and American literature and modern intellectual history at Washington University in St. Louis, where he specializes in twentieth- and twenty-first-century poetry, literature, and science. He is...
	Philippe Lançon, French journalist and cultural critic Did I Write a Feel-Good Book? January 28, 2020 In 2015, Lançon was injured during the terrorist attack against the satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo. He spent nine months in different hospitals, including La Salpêtrière and Les Invalides, has undergone...
	Brian Cantwell Smith, University of Toronto Reckoning and Judgment: The Promise of AI January 27, 2020 New developments in Artificial Intelligence, particularly deep learning and other forms of “second-wave” AI, are attracting enormous public attention. Both triumphalists and doomsayers are predicting that human-level...
	Hilton Als, Pulitzer Prize-winning author The Walk: a reading November 20, 2019 Als is a staff writer and chief theater critic at The New Yorker. He is the author of two acclaimed works of nonfiction that explore gender, race, and identity: The Women (1996) and White Girls...
	Galen Joseph-Hunter, Executive Director of Wave Farm and Tom Roe, Director at Wave Farm Radio Out of Bounds: Artist Experiments with the Electromagnetic Spectrum November 11, 2019 Galen Joseph-Hunter has served as Executive Director of Wave Farm, a nonprofit arts organization driven by experimentation with broadcast media and the airwaves, since 2002. Wave Farm’s programs—Transmission Arts,...
	David Goren, Journalist Tracing Neighborhoods in the Sky: Pirate Radio in New York City October 28, 2019 David Goren is a radio producer and audio archivist based in Brooklyn. He has created programming for the BBC, Jazz at Lincoln Center Radio, The Wall Street Journal Magazine, and NPR’s Lost and Found Sound...
	Kathryn Lofton and Paul North in conversation with Wendy Brown Politics and Knowledge in Nihilistic Times: Thinking with Max Weber October 24, 2019 Brown is Class of 1936 First Chair at UC Berkeley, where she teaches political theory. Drawing from Freudian, Weberian, Marxist, and Foucauldian angles of vision, she writes about the powers operating beneath the...
	Wendy Brown of the University of California, Berkeley Politics and Knowledge in Nihilistic Times: Thinking with Max Weber. The second, “Knowledge" October 23, 2019 Brown is Class of 1936 First Chair at UC Berkeley, where she teaches political theory. Drawing from Freudian, Weberian, Marxist, and Foucauldian angles of vision, she writes about the powers operating beneath the...