A Civilization of Discontents. Social Media in the Golden Age of Crisis in the Humanities – A conversation with Nein. Quarterly.
Presented by: University of CalgaryCategory: Other Event
Price: $0
Date: November 17, 2014 – November 17, 2014
Address: 2500 University Drive NW, Calgary, Alberta T2N 1N4
Website: http://www.ucalgary.ca/
Eric Jarosinski is an expert on modern German literature, culture, and critical theory, who recently left academia to devote himself to his post as founding editor of Nein. Quarterly, a critically acclaimed compendium of utopian negation. This talk is part of the FailedIntellectual Goodwill Tour 2014-15 Is the Tour a lecture? Nein. Though it may include one upon request. Its negative utopian potential is often best realized as a conversation with a moderator, some visuals, possibly music, and a theme we will work out in advance. Some examples: 1. Theory as Tragedy. Praxis as Farce. — A Conversation with Nein. Quarterly about What Matters. And Why it Doesn’t. 2. A Civilization of Discontents. A Conversation with Nein. Quarterly about Social Media in the Golden Age of Crisis in the Humanities. 3. Nothing New. A Conversation With Nein. Quarterly about Critical Theory and Nihilist Praxis. 4. How to Become a #FailedIntellectual. And Why. – A Conversation with Nein. Quarterly about Living the Broken Dream. 5. This is not a pipe. — A Conversation with Nein. Quarterly about the Lost and Found Art of the Aphorism. Is the Tour art? Nein. It is, however, a performance of sorts. An aesthetic and intellectual experiment only slightly less pretentious than it sounds. It has been called the death of the academy. Somewhat entertaining. Moderately edifying. And the dawn of a new age. Is the Tour philosophy? Nein. It is, however, frozen music, thawed in the refrigerator light of its own sad redemption. Refrozen. Then gone bad. It is thought resigned to always already being misunderstood. It is beauty and truth as dialectic. A Doppelgänger without a Doppelgänger. A Welt without Anschauung. Plus Schmerz.
Location:
The Gallery Hall – TFDL
Speaker:
Eric Jarosinski, founding editor of Nein. Quarterly.
More information at http://www.ucalgary.ca/events/calendar/civilization-discontents-social-media-golden-age-crisis-humanities-conversation-nein