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3/13 | UPRISING

For Uprising 2/13, the CCCCT is curating a festival of Mao that will culminate in the second seminar on October 5th at 6:15pm with Claire Fontaine, Claudia Pozzana, and Alessandro Russo, moderated by Bernard E. Harcourt, Jeremy Kessler, and Jesús Velasco. A Reader's Companion to the readings for the seminar is available, as are all the readings. We will be focusing the discussion on Mao's thought and writings about insurgency and the Cultural Revolution, as well as his influence and legacy on the 1960s and 70s, and contemporary uptakes of his thought today. The purpose of this seminar series is to explore various modalities of uprising, disobedience, inservitude, revolt, or other forms of political contestation. Instead of including them all under the name of “revolution”—a term that has become conceptually and historically fraught—the seminar will consider how specific experiences and discourses articulate new forms of upheaval or reformulate well-known ones. By focusing on this conceptual, historical and political problematic, we intend to shine a light on experiences and manifestations that take place at the local and at the global level, as well as at the subjective and the collective level. The idea is to articulate how critical political practice is expressed and understood today.

1/13 | THE MODERN CONCEPT OF REVOLUTION  

In this final session, we will explore the writings of the Iranian critical thinker and revolutionary, Ali Shariati, as well as some more recent critical works from around the world that explore the writings of Nietzsche and may offer directions forward for critical thought.

In this session, we will focus on the writings of Hélène Cixous and the emergence of what is called “écriture feminine.”

With Bruno Bosteels, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, and Danielle Cohen-Levinas. In this session, we will explore the writings of Derrida, in conversation with the 1990s writings of Deleuze.

Luce Irigaray published a famous book on Nietzsche, titled Marine Lover of Friedrich Nietzsche, in 1980, which will give us an opportunity to explore in greater depth the relation between Nietzsche’s thought and certain strands of contemporary critical thought.

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