{"id":16,"date":"2017-02-23T19:19:16","date_gmt":"2017-02-23T19:19:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.c21uwm.com\/bigno\/?page_id=16"},"modified":"2017-04-13T18:05:51","modified_gmt":"2017-04-13T18:05:51","slug":"plenary-speakers","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.c21uwm.com\/bigno\/plenary-speakers\/","title":{"rendered":"Plenary Speakers"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"JoshuaJoshua Clover<\/strong>
\nJoshua Clover is a professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Davis. He specializes in 20th\/21st century poetry and poetics, literature and social movements, Marxism, political economy and histories of capitalism, crisis theory and cultures of finance, with an interest in environment, feminism, and critical race studies.<\/p>\n

He has two books of cultural theory (The Matrix<\/em> and 1989: Bob Dylan Didn\u2019t Have This to Sing About<\/em>) routed through film and popular music, respectively. His book Riot.Strike.Riot: the New Era of Uprisings<\/em>, a theorization of riot as historical phenomenon which opens onto a revised history of capital accumulation, was published by Verso in 2016. He has contributed articles to journals from Representations<\/em> to Critical Inquiry<\/em>. Forthcoming work focuses on poetry and the transformation of the world-system. He has also published three books of poetry, most recently Red Epic<\/em>; has been translated into a dozen languages; and has appeared in many anthologies, including the Norton Introduction to Literature<\/em>.<\/p>\n

\"Katerina
Photo: Igor Todorovski, July 2014<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Katerina Kolozova<\/strong>
\nKaterina Kolozova is director of the Institute of Social Sciences and Humanities\u2013Skopje, Macedonia, and professor of philosophy, gender studies, and sociological theory at the University American College\u2013Skopje. Her recent books include Toward a Radical Metaphysics of Socialism: Marx and Laruelle<\/em> (Punctum Books, 2015) and The Cut of The Real: Subjectivity in Poststructuralist Philosophy<\/em> (Columbia University Press, 2014). Previous books include The Lived Revolution: Solidarity with the Body in Pain as the New Political Universal<\/em> (2010), The Real and \u201cI\u201d: On the Limit and the Self<\/em> (2006), Conversations with Judith Butler: The Crisis of the Subject<\/em> (with Judith Butler and Zarko Trajanovski, 2002), and The Death and the Greeks: On Tragic Concepts of Death from Antiquity to Modernity<\/em> (2000).<\/p>\n

Kolozova is the editor of several books in the fields of gender studies and feminist theory, her most recent being After the \u201cSpeculative Turn\u201d: Realism, Philosophy, and Feminism<\/em> (with Eileen A. Joy, 2016). She is also editor-in-chief of the journal \u201cIdentities\u201d: Politics, Gender and Culture<\/em>; and a member of the Non-Philosophical Society (ONPHI), of the Association of Institutions for Feminist Education and Research in Europe (AOIFE), and of the European Association for Gender Research, Education and Documentation (AtGender).<\/p>\n

\"Fran\u00e7ois
Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Fran\u00e7ois Laruelle<\/strong>
\nOriginator of the concept of non-philosophy<\/em>, Fran\u00e7ois Laruelle, formerly of Coll\u00e8ge international de philosophie and Universit\u00e9 Paris Nanterre, now directs the Organisation Non-Philosophique Internationale<\/a>, a group dedicated to furthering the cause of non-philosophy.<\/p>\n

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\"Ariana
Via Poetry Foundation<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Ariana Reines<\/strong>
\nPoet, playwright, performance artist, and translator, Ariana Reines completed graduate work at both Columbia University and the European Graduate School, where she studied literature, performance, and philosophy. Her books of poetry include The Cow<\/em> (2006), which won the Alberta Prize from Fence Books; Coeur de Lion<\/em> (2007); and Mercury<\/em>. Her poems have been anthologized in Against Expression<\/em> (2011) and Gurlesque<\/em> (2010). She has taught at Columbia University and the European Graduate School, and was the Roberta C. Holloway Lecturer in Poetry at the University of California-Berkeley in 2009, the youngest poet to ever hold that position.<\/p>\n

\"Frank
Photo: Howard Gluss, 2014<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Frank B. Wilderson III<\/strong>
\nFrank B. Wilderson III is professor of African American Studies and Drama, and director of the Culture & Theory PhD program, at the University of California, Irvine. A leading figure in Afro-Pessimism thought, his books include Red, White & Black: Cinema and the Structure of U. S. Antagonisms<\/em> (Duke University Press, 2010); and Incognegro: A Memoir of Exile and Apartheid<\/em> (South End Press, 2008), which won The Eisner Prize for Creative Achievement of the Highest Order, The Zora Neale Hurston\/Richard Wright Legacy Award for Creative Nonfiction, and The National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellowship. His scholarly and creative writing have been published in Social Identities<\/em>, Social Justice<\/em>, Les Temps Modernes<\/em>, Konch Magazine<\/em>, Callaloo<\/em>, Obsidian II<\/em>, Paris Transcontinental<\/em>, and the Yardbird Press Anthology<\/em>.<\/p>\n

He has also worked as an institutional dramaturge for Lincoln Center Theater\u2019s productions of Zora Neale Hurston and Langston Hughes\u2019s Mule Bone<\/em> and Mbongeni Ngema\u2019s Township Fever<\/em>; and as a creative dramaturge for the Market Theater in Johannesburg\u2019s production of George C. Wolfe\u2019s The Colored Museum<\/em>. He is director of the film Reparations . . . Now <\/em>(2005), a critical documentary that that captures the terror of unnamable loss shouldered by twenty-first-century descendants of slaves.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Joshua Clover Joshua Clover is a professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Davis. He specializes in 20th\/21st century poetry and poetics, literature and social movements, Marxism, political economy and histories of capitalism, crisis theory and cultures of finance, with an interest in environment, feminism, and critical race studies. He has … Continue reading Plenary Speakers<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-16","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P8pr2T-g","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5,"url":"https:\/\/www.c21uwm.com\/bigno\/","url_meta":{"origin":16,"position":0},"title":"The Big No","author":"c21@uwm.edu","date":"February 23, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"What does no say? Who and what says no? No\u2019s eruptive force transforms the argumentative landscape. From two-year old children to mature nation-states, the interruptive immediacy of naysaying can occur at surprising and inconvenient moments. The ability to refuse emerges early and maintains its appeal and power. In cultures of\u2026","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"The Big No logo","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.c21uwm.com\/bigno\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/TheBigNo230.png?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":18,"url":"https:\/\/www.c21uwm.com\/bigno\/plenary-abstracts\/","url_meta":{"origin":16,"position":1},"title":"Plenary Abstracts","author":"c21@uwm.edu","date":"February 23, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"Joshua Clover \"No without Ontology: Absorption and Coloniality\" The revolutionary subject is history\u2019s Big No. The transformations in our understanding of revolutionary subjects are in turn conditioned by historical transformations. One fundamental cleavage within materialist analyses opens a gap between, on the one hand, Marx\u2019s account of the laboring proletariat\u2026","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":20,"url":"https:\/\/www.c21uwm.com\/bigno\/schedule\/","url_meta":{"origin":16,"position":2},"title":"Schedule","author":"c21@uwm.edu","date":"February 23, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"Thursday, April 27 2:30 pm Curtin 175 Registration 3:30 - 4:00 pm Curtin 175 Welcome Johannes Britz Provost, UWM Introduction Kennan Ferguson Director, Center for 21st Century Studies Recorded video 4:00 - 5:30 pm Curtin 175 Frank B. Wilderson III \"Violence and the Limits of Redemption\" Recorded video 5:30 -\u2026","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":22,"url":"https:\/\/www.c21uwm.com\/bigno\/panel-abstracts\/","url_meta":{"origin":16,"position":3},"title":"Panel Abstracts","author":"c21@uwm.edu","date":"February 23, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"Breakout Session 1No BodiesNo SocietyNo End Breakout Session 2No ConnectionsNo SpaceNo States Breakout Session 3No CopyNo LawNo Truth Breakout Session 4No ObjectNo AlienNo Education No BodiesCurtin 939Panel Chair: William Bristow Nicholas Anthony Eppert (New York University)\"Against Conscious Experience: Towards an Immanent Praxis of the Mind-Body Gap\" Joseph Giardini (Johns Hopkins\u2026","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.c21uwm.com\/bigno\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/16","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.c21uwm.com\/bigno\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.c21uwm.com\/bigno\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.c21uwm.com\/bigno\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.c21uwm.com\/bigno\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.c21uwm.com\/bigno\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/16\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":104,"href":"https:\/\/www.c21uwm.com\/bigno\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/16\/revisions\/104"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.c21uwm.com\/bigno\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}