Event overview
Operative Thought: An annual lecture series on the Political Practices of Ideas sponsored by Visual Cultures.
This new lecture series sponsored by Visual Cultures brings philosopher and Zone Book editor Michel Feher to Goldsmiths for a series of six public lectures to be presented over the next two years with the first taking place on November 20 2013.
The Age of Appreciation: Lectures on the Neoliberal Condition
1. The Neoliberal Condition and its predecessors: Redemption, Fulfillment, Appreciation (20/11/13)
2. Improve Your Credit: What Human Capital Wants
3. The Journey to Self-Esteem: How Human Capital Blossoms
4. Thank You for Sharing: The Social Life of Human Capital
5. When Human Capital Rebels: The Case for Embracing Our Neoliberal Condition
6. Investee Activism: Another Speculation is Possible
Michel Feher is a philosopher who has taught at the École Nationale Supérieure, Paris, and at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the publisher and a founding editor of Zone Books, NY (in 1986) as well as the president and co-founder of Cette France-là, Paris (in 2008), a monitoring group on French immigration policy. He is the author of Powerless by Design: The Age of the International Community (2000) and the co-editor of Nongovernmental Politics (2007), with Gaëlle Krikorian and Yates McKee. He most recently co-authored, with Cette France-là, Xénophobie d’en haut: le choix d’une droite éhontée and Sanas-papiers et préfets: la culture du résultat en portraits (2012).
Operative Thought: An annual lecture series on the Political Practices of Ideas
Dates & times
| Date | Time | Add to calendar |
|---|---|---|
| 20 Nov 2013 | 6:00pm - 8:00pm |
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