By Ava Kofman, Oct. 25, 2018, New York Times Magazine In the summer of 1996, during an international anthropology conference in southeastern Brazil, Bruno Latour, France’s most famous and misunderstood philosopher, was approached by an anxious-looking developmental psychologist. The psychologist had a… Continue Reading
Readings Bruno Latour, Down to Earth: Politics in the New Climactic Regime. Polity, 2018. (Special attention to the last chapters, 15 – 20). Herbert Marcuse, One Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society. Beacon Press, 1991. Please read… Continue Reading
Required books Bargu, Banu. Starve and Immolate: The Politics of Human Weapons. Columbia University Press, 2016. Butler, Judith. Notes Toward a Performative Theory of Assembly. Harvard University Press, 2015. El-Ariss, Tarek. Leaks, Hacks, and Scandal: Arab Culture in the Digital Age.… Continue Reading
The Praxis 13/13 seminars can be accessed virtually and you can fully participate in the series from a distance. Here are some ways to be part of the seminar even if you are not physically at Columbia University in New… Continue Reading