Videos

Achille Mbembe, University of the Witwatersrand

The Idea of a Borderless World

March 28, 2018

Mbembe is a research professor in history and politics at the Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research (WiSER), University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa. He holds a PhD in history from the...

Achille Mbembe, University of the Witwatersrand

"The New Global Mobility Regime"

March 27, 2018

Mbembe is a research professor in history and politics at the Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research (WiSER), University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa. He holds a PhD in history from the...

Bernard Geoghegan, Coventry University

"The Difficulty of Gift-Giving: Cybernetics and Postwar French Thought"

November 8, 2017

A historian and theorist of digital media, Geoghegan is a senior lecturer in Media and Communications at Coventry University and a visiting associate professor in Film and Media Studies at Yale University. He also...

Claire Colebrook, Pennsylvania State University

Fragility, Globalism, and the End of the World

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...

Alyson Shotz, Artist

The Shape of Space

October 11, 2017

Alyson Shotz is one of the most innovative contemporary multi-media artists. Deeply inspired by science, she has the remarkable ability to translate abstract scientific and mathematical concepts into...

Jacques Lezra, University of California Riverside

"Atomic Sex: Lucretius's Material Republic"

September 18, 2017

Jacques Lezra is Professor of Hispanic Studies at the University of California Riverside. He has taught at Yale, the University of Wisconsin Madison, and NYU and held visiting positions in comparative literature at...

Anne Harrington, Harvard University

"Mindful Minds, Different Brains: Historical Reflections on America’s Love Affair with Meditation"

April 26, 2017

Anne Harrington is the Franklin L. Ford Professor of the History of Science and Director of Undergraduate Studies in the Department of the History of Science at Harvard University. She is also Faculty Dean of...

Rüdiger Campe and Joanna Radin in conversation with Rosi Braidotti

"Posthuman, All Too Human"

March 3, 2017

Philosopher Rosi Braidotti of Utrecht University in the Netherlands will deliver the 2017 Tanner Lectures on Human Values this spring at the Whitney Humanities Center.  Her talks are jointly titled “Posthuman, All...

Rosi Braidotti, Utrecht University

"Aspirations of a Posthumanist"

March 2, 2017

Philosopher Rosi Braidotti of Utrecht University in the Netherlands will deliver the 2017 Tanner Lectures on Human Values this spring at the Whitney Humanities Center.  Her talks are jointly titled “Posthuman, All...

Rosi Braidotti, Utrecht University

"Memoirs of a Posthumanist"

March 1, 2017

Philosopher Rosi Braidotti of Utrecht University in the Netherlands will deliver the 2017 Tanner Lectures on Human Values this spring at the Whitney Humanities Center.  Her talks are jointly titled “Posthuman, All...