Event Date: Thursday, March 18, 2004 Location: Van Alen Institute (30 West 22 Street, NYC)
Slought Books Series
Please join us for the New York release of "Cities Without Citizens" at the Van Alen Institute on Thursday March 18, 2004, from 6:30-8:30pm. Editors Eduardo Cadava and Aaron Levy, as well as contributors Gayatri Spivak, Joan Dayan, Deborah Gans, Thomas Keenan, and Gregg Lambert, will be in attendance.
The first in the Slought Books Theory Series, this interdisciplinary publication is edited by Eduardo Cadava and Aaron Levy and comprises a collection of essays and documents engaging issues of citizenship, human rights, and the architecture of cities. It features contributions by noted artists, architects and theorists including Giorgio Agamben, Arakawa + Gins, Branka Arsic, Eduardo Cadava, Joan Dayan, Gans & Jelacic Architecture, Thomas Keenan, Gregg Lambert, Aaron Levy, David Lloyd, Rafi Segal Eyal Weizman Architects, and Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak.
Published with the Rosenbach Museum & Library in conjunction with "Cities Without Citizens," an exhibition at the Rosenbach Museum organized by Aaron Levy, 2003 artist-in-residence. Information on the exhibition is available: http://slought.org/content/11159/
Eduardo Cadava teaches in the English Department at Princeton University. His publications include Words of Light: Theses on the Photography of History (1997), Emerson and the Climates of History (1997), Who Comes
After the Subject? (co-editor with Peter Connor, and Jean-Luc Nancy; 1991). He is currently writing a collection of essays on the ethics and politics of mourning entitled Of Mourning and a book on music and techniques of reproduction, memorization, and writing entitled Music on Bones.
Aaron Levy is Executive Director of and a Senior Curator at Slought Foundation. He has edited Searching for Romberg, on artist Osvaldo Romberg, Untitled (After Cinema), on photography after cinema, and, with Jean-Michel Rabaté,
Of the Diagram, on the work of Marjorie Welish. He organized the exhibition "Cities Without Citizens" at the Rosenbach Museum as their 2003 artist-in-residence.
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak is the Avalon Foundation Professor in the
Humanities and presently the director of The Center for Comparative Literature and Society at Columbia University. She is the author of In Other Worlds: Essays in Cultural Politics (1988), The Post-Colonial Critic:
Interviews, Strategies, Dialogues (1990), Outside in the Teaching Machine
1993), A Critique of Postcolonial Reason: Toward a History of the Vanishing Present (1999) and Death of a Discipline (2003). She was the translator of Jacques Derrida’s Of Grammatology (1976) and of Mahasweta Devi’s Imaginary Maps (1994) and Chotti Munda and His Arrow (2003).
Branka Arsic teaches critical theory and American literature at the University of Albany. Her book The Passive Eye: Gaze and Subjectivity in Berkeley (via Beckett) was recently published by Stanford University Press. She is currently completing a volume on Melville's Bartleby, The Scrivener, and has begun a project on Henry David Thoreau.
Deborah Gans is a partner in the office of Gans & Jelacic, Architecture and Design. Their work in the fields of industrial design and architecture has been exhibited at RIBA, London, IFA, Paris and the Van Alen Institute in New York City. Their recent investigation into disaster relief housing has won international awards and a grant for development from the Johnny Walker Fund. Gans is a Professor in architecture at Pratt Institute in New York, the author of The Le Corbusier Guide (Princeton Architectural Press) and the editor of The Organic Appproach (Architecture/John Wiley- London).
Thomas Keenan teaches media theory, literature, and human rights at Bard College, where he is Associate Professor of Comparative Literature and directs the Human Rights Project. He is author of Fables of Responsibility(1997), and editor of books on the museum and on the wartime journalism of Paul de Man. His current manuscript is called Live Feed: Crisis, Intervention, Media, and is about the news media and contemporary conflicts.
Gregg Lambert, Professor of English & Textual Studies, Syracuse University, has written and published on the philosophy of Gilles Deleuze, contemporary literary theory, aesthetics, and the fate of the Humanities' disciplines in the contemporary university. Publications include "Non-Philosophy of Gilles Deleuze" (Continuum, 2002) and "Report to the Academy" (Critical Studies in the Humanities, Davies 2001). Forthcoming in 2003 from Continuum is "The Return of the Baroque: Art, History, and Theory in the Modern Age."
Rafi Segal established his architectural practice with Eyal Weizman in Tel Aviv in 2000 after working together with Zvi Hecker. Their office attempts to integrate architectural projects with research and writing. Amongst their
recent works are the re-design of the Ashdod Museum of Art, a set design for “Electra,” and the exhibition and publication “A Civilian Occupation” (Verso, 2003). Rafi Segal worked together with Zvi Hecker on the design of the
Palmach History Museum in Tel Aviv.
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Eduardo Cadava, et al. "Cities Without Citizens: New York Launch." Slought Foundation Online Content.
[18 March 2004;
Accessed 13 October 2008]. <http://slought.org/content/11203/>.
This program was made possible in part through the generous sponsorship of The Van Alen Institute and the Rosenbach Museum & Library. We acknowledge financial support for the publication from the Vanguard Group Foundation and the
5-County Arts Fund, a Pennsylvania Partners in the Arts program of the Pennsylvania Council on
the Arts, a state agency, as well as the Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture, NY.
