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Project: An event series of public conversations and interviews on the future of art and theory.

No current or upcoming projects in this series are scheduled
57 past projects are available



Radical Atheism: Derrida's Notion of Desire

Choose From Past Projects In The Series

On the Psychotheology of Everyday Life (2002-10-31)
Featuring: Eric Santner


The Future of Theory? (2002-11-01)
Featuring: Jean-Michel Rabaté, Gregg Lambert


The Future of an Event (in Art and Technology) (2003-02-22)
Featuring: Krzystof Ziarek, Ewa Ziarek, Jean-Michel Rabaté


Palm reading: Fazal Sheikh's Handbook of Death (2003-03-06)
Featuring: Eduardo Cadava


Art versus Philosophy: A Debate (2003-03-20)
Featuring: Joe Margolis, Osvaldo Romberg, Jean-Michel Rabaté


On the Art of the Future (2003-04-09)
Featuring: Susan Stewart


Digital Fever: Archiving Art and Poetry Online (2003-04-10)
Featuring: Craig Dworkin, Kenny Goldsmith, Brian Kim Stefans, Darren Wershler-Henry


Collaboration Between Two Worlds: Selling Russia to the West (2003-04-16)
Featuring: Komar & Melamid, Arden Reed, Kevin Platt


On Paranoia, Superstition and Irrationality (2003-04-18)
Featuring: Catherine Liu, Jean-Michel Rabaté


The Future of Theory, II (Feminism, Phenomenology, Philosophy) (2003-05-08)
Featuring: Dorothea Olkowski, Jean-Michel Rabaté, Greg Flaxman


On Coprophilia and the Avant-garde (2004-01-31)
Featuring: William Anastasi


Beckett and the Unfilmable (2004-02-12)
Featuring: Branka Arsic, Jean-Michel Rabaté


A Conversation on Joyce and Duchamp via Jarry with Anastasi (2004-02-28)
Featuring: William Anastasi, Jean-Michel Rabaté


Introduction to the New Society (2004-02-28)
Featuring: Lenore Malen


A Civilian Occupation: The Politics of Israeli Architecture (2004-03-13)
Featuring: Rafi Segal, Eyal Weizman


The City as Art-Work of the 21st Century (2004-03-26)
Featuring: Diane Lewis, Deborah Gans


Neurotic Cities: Barnes in Philadelphia (2004-04-01)
Featuring: Jeremy Braddock, Kimberly Camp


Poetry Engines and Prosthetic Imaginations (2004-04-29)
Featuring: Jim Carpenter, Bob Perelman, Nick Montfort, Jean-Michel Rabaté


My Lacan is Burning: Revisiting 'Television' (2004-06-02)
Featuring: Catherine Liu, Charles Shepherdson, Jean-Michel Rabaté


The Mechanism of Death (2004-09-30)
Featuring: Dorothea Olkowski, Jean-Michel Rabaté


On Revolutions (2004-11-04)
Featuring: Rebecca Comay, Eduardo Cadava, Jean-Michel Rabaté


The 'Civilization' of the Cinema (2004-11-19)
Featuring: John Mowitt, Gregory Flaxman


The Politics of Mourning (2004-12-27)
Featuring: Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Eduardo Cadava, Jean-Michel Rabaté, Aaron Levy


Ubu meets Gertrude (Towards A Post-textual Avant-garde) (2004-12-28)
Featuring: Johanna Drucker, Christian Bök, Jean-Michel Rabaté, Nick Montfort, Scott Rettberg


Literary Honeycombs: Storage and Retrieval of Texts Before Modern Times (2005-02-17)
Featuring: Anthony Grafton


Museum Politics in France and the New European Art Scene (2005-02-17)
Featuring: Lorand Hegyi


On Body & Performance (2005-03-03)
Featuring: Hal Foster, Brigid Doherty


PAIN-FASHION (2005-03-17)
Featuring: Branka Arsic, in conversation


Pioneering art in the 1960s: Philadelphia (2005-04-06)
Featuring: Paul Makler, Hope Makler, John Ollman, Judith Stein

Morphology / Face Shift: Live Performance by Elsenaar + Scha (2005-09-30)
Featuring: Arthur Elsenaar, Remko Scha


Cities: Public Seminar by Cixous (2005-10-08)
Featuring: Hélène Cixous


East & East: Divergent Readings in Culture and Politics (2005-11-03)
Featuring: Lorand Hegyi, Nebojsa Seric Soba

¡Zizek! and the Public Intellectual Craze (2005-12-01)
Featuring: Astra Taylor, Eduardo Cadava, Anne Norton, Jean-Michel Rabaté, Daniel Dayan


Who Am I For Myself? Anxiety & The Tyranny of Choice (2006-02-16)
Featuring: Renata Salecl, Charles Shepherdson, Patricia Gherovici, Jean-Michel Rabaté


On Testing, Torture, and Experimentation: The Test Drive (2006-03-15)
Featuring: Avital Ronell, Eduardo Cadava, Jean-Michel Rabaté


Film as Critical Practice: The Cinema of Guy Debord and the Spectre of the Situationist International (2006-04-06)
Featuring: Thomas Y. Levin, Keith Sanborn, Jean-Michel Rabaté, Anthony Vidler


BODYANALYSIS / Violence as Vulnerability: Günter Brus’s Surgical Art (2006-09-27)
Featuring: Cecilia Novero


On Bareback Subcultures and the Pornography of Risk (2006-10-06)
Featuring: Tim Dean, Robert Caserio, Heather Love, Jean-Michel Rabaté


Celebrating Hélène Cixous and Maria Chevska | Ex-Cities Book Launch (2006-10-14)
Featuring: Hélène Cixous, Maria Chevska, Avital Ronell, Judith Miller, Eric Prenowitz, Jean-Michel Rabaté, Aaron Levy


On the Advantages and Disadvantages of Negativity for Life (2006-11-10)
Featuring: Barrett Watten


Cross-Catalytic Architectures with Cecil Balmond (2006-12-05)
Featuring: Cecil Balmond, Peter Lloyd Jones, Peter Davies, David Ruy, Jenny Sabin


Rrrevolutionnaire Book Launch / Philadelphia (2006-12-29)
Featuring: Branka Arsic, Eduardo Cadava, Gregory Flaxman, Gregg Lambert, Aaron Levy, Catherine Liu, Jean-Michel Rabaté, Avital Ronell


Honoring the Work and Person(s) of Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe (1940-2007) (2007-03-23)
Featuring: Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Avital Ronell, Jean-Michel Rabaté, Shireen Patell, Mark Nichanian, Claire Nancy, Dennis Hollier, Eckart Goebel, Paul Fleming, Patricia Dailey, Stanley Corngold, Susan Bernstein, Emily Apter, et al.


The Scandals of H.G.: Photography, Literature, Activism (2007-04-20)
Featuring: Emily Apter, Anne-Cécile Guilbard, Jean-Michel Rabaté


Screening the Avant-Garde Face (2007-09-27)
Featuring: Mary Ann Doane


Conversations with Braco Dimitrijević's 'The Casual Passer-By I Met...' (2007-10-11)
Featuring: With Braco and Nena Dimitrijevic, David Brownlee, Katherine Carl, Laura Heffernan, David Hollenberg and Mark Kocent, Jean-Michel Rabaté, Michael Howard, and Aaron Levy,

Introduced and moderated by undergraduate students in the RBSL Bergman Foundation Curatorial Seminar at the University of Pennsylvania



Walking on Ice: Werner Herzog's Metaphysics of Filmmaking (2007-10-22)
Featuring: Timothy Corrigan, Alan Singer, Heidi Schlipphacke


A Conversation with Werner Herzog (2007-10-25)
Featuring: Werner Herzog, Karen Beckman


Radical Atheism: Derrida's Notion of Desire (2007-11-01)
Featuring: Martin Hägglund


Democracy and Disappointment: Alain Badiou/Simon Critchley on the Politics of Resistance (2007-11-15)
Featuring: Alain Badiou, Simon Critchley


Is there a world beyond media? Art as a rewriting program | Public Seminar by Peter Weibel (2008-02-07)
Featuring: Peter Weibel


Modernism: The Time of the Unconscious (2008-02-08)
Featuring: Karen Beckman, Andy Gaedtke, Benjamin Kahan, Steven Meyer, Jean-Michel Rabaté, Paul Saint-Amour, Joshua Schuster, Pamela Thurschwell, Marina van Zuylen, and Liliane Weissberg, moderated by Detlef Mertins, Michael Leja, and Heather Love

Nazi Art in Museums? Canonization and Controversy (2008-02-15)
Featuring: Gregory Maertz


FROM WORD TO ACTION TO ARCHITECTURE | Public Lecture by Vito Acconci (2008-02-29)
Featuring: Vito Acconci, Acconci Studio


Love from Both Sides: Public Lecture by Bruce Fink (2008-03-29)
Featuring: Bruce Fink

City Girls, Flappers, and Feminist Film Theory (2008-03-31)
Featuring: Laura Mulvey


Blood Orgies: Hermann Nitsch in America (2008-04-10)
Featuring: Hermann Nitsch, Aaron Levy, Jean-Michel Rabaté, Osvaldo Romberg, Andreas Stadler, et al.




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