D. Alderson氏特別講演＆新自由主義特別例会

いつも告知ばかりというのもアレなので、いつもとはちがう告知を。

1.　Dr. David Alderson特別講演
4月11日14時〜
中央大学駿河台記念館（御茶ノ水駅最寄り）にて
http://www.chuo-u.ac.jp/access/surugadai/
英語（通訳なし）　
主催：レイモンド・ウィリアムズ研究会

It is often argued that capitalism is progressive in relation to sexuality, with Marx being invoked in order to render this plausible for the left. This paper interrogates such claims by critically returning to the arguments of Herbert Marcuse, and highlighting that we must understand the impact of production, not merely consumption, on sexuality. It also rejects the tendency within much queer theory to elide neoliberalism with neoconservatism as a means of justifying the radicalism of its own project. The alternative proposed here is to interrogate what we mean by progress, and not assume that it is something that must be done to us.

マルクーゼ再読とのことです。どうぞご参加ください。
そして、その翌日は、新自由主義研究会の特別例会です。

これについては私のブログに載せるのは筋ではないかもしれませんが、解題担当でもありますし、良いと思います。

２．新自由主義研究会特別例会
めずらしく英語でやります。

The 44th Meeting of the Neoliberalism Reading Group

Date & Time: 12 April 2015, 16:00-18:00
Venue: Seminar Room2, Kokusai Kenkyu Kan 5F, Hitotsubashi University (Building#44 in the map below.)
http://www.hit-u.ac.jp/eng/about/direction/guide/campus/e-campus/index.html
Book for Discussion: Michael Denning, Culture in the Age of Three Worlds. London: Verso, 2004.
Discussants: Ryota Nishi, Masashi Hoshino, Shintaro Kono, Ayumu Tajiri
(The meeting will be conducted in English.)

The book we take up this time is Michael Denning’s Culture in the Age of Three Worlds (2004). In this book, the energetic American historian, greatly influenced from CCCS, seeks to historicize British Cultural Studies movement and “the cultural turn” in the Cold War period, mapping them onto what he calls “the global cultural turn” in “the age of three worlds.” As an extension of what we have read, Denning’s understanding of “the cultural turn” would be helpful in reexamining the notions of “culture”: “culture” as a metaphor of unacknowledged social realities depoliticized in the course of the practice of tolerance (W. Brown), or “culture” as a new concept emerged within the dream and catastrophe of mass production and mass sovereignty (S. Buck-Morss). His attitude toward culture and “the cultural turn” itself would also have to be examined carefully, because if his own account of this book, “a product of, and reflection on, that cultural turn,” is accurate, his attitude toward, or distance from, the radical studies of culture may explain the neoliberalist hostile apathy toward them, which we are facing now as the university reform. In addition, some means to contextualize the prosperity of so-called postcolonial theories may be pursued in the session.

ネタ本はこちらです。

Culture in the Age of Three Worlds

こちらも、参加は自由です。
どうぞご参集ください。