November 6, 2017
Claire Colebrook is Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of English, Philosophy, and Women’s and Gender Studies at Pennsylvania State University. She has written extensively on contemporary European philosophy, literary history, gender studies, queer theory, visual culture, and feminist philosophy. Her books include Deleuze and the Meaning of Life (2010), William Blake and Digital Aesthetics (2011), two recent collections of essays on extinction—The Death of the Posthuman and Sex after Life (both 2014)—as well as the coauthored volumes Agamben (with Jason Maxwell; 2015) and Twilight of the Anthropocene Idols (with Tom Cohen and J. Hillis Miller; 2016). She is now completing a book on fragility (of the species, the archive, and the earth).