Videos

	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...
	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...
	Wendy Brown, University of California, Berkeley Politics and Knowledge in Nihilistic Times: Thinking with Max Weber. The first, “Politics” October 22, 2019 Wendy 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...
	David Spergel, Astrophysicist Mapping the Universe October 14, 2019 When cosmologists map the universe, they are imaging its past. Our measurements of the cosmic microwave background fluctuations map the universe’s condition only a few hundred thousand years after the big bang. These...
	Brian Scassellati, Yale Mapping the Frontier between Man and Machine September 4, 2019 People divide the world into objects (like rocks and toasters) and agents (like people and dogs). How do we decide where robots should fall along this divide? In this talk, Professor Brian Scassellati discusses...