Rrrevolutionnaire

Slought Foundation, in conjunction with the 122nd annual convention of the Modern Languages Association (MLA), is pleased to announce a special event celebrating the release of the publication Rrrevolutionnaire: Conversations in Theory, on Friday, December 29, 2006 at 8:00pm at Slought. Brief remarks will be delivered by contributors Jean-Michel Rabaté and Catherine Liu, and editors Gregg Lambert and Aaron Levy. Branka Arsic, Eduardo Cadava, Avital Ronell, and other contributors to the publication will also be present.

Rrrevolutionnaire, based on the "Conversations in Theory" event series at Slought, responds to those who would quickly dismiss "Theory" as a sterile form of inquiry unable to produce change. This new publication presents dynamic conversations about violence, mourning, and revolution in contemporary art and life. Each of the contributors to this volume consider the relationship between theoretical practice and cultural and historical transformation to explore the ways theory is itself revolutionary. The "Rrrevolutionnaire" publication has also been conceived as an installation or curatorial intervention, such that the conversations have not been merely transcribed, but transformed with the intent of raising questions about how knowledge is situated and how certain forms of authority are archived and reproduced. The result is a unique and timely book that will interest a broad selection of readers concerned with literary theory, cinema studies, contemporary art and the historic avant-gardes.

Rrrevolutionnaire is edited by Gregg Lambert and Aaron Levy, with contributions by distinguished theorists and cultural critics including Branka Arsic, Eduardo Cadava, Rebecca Comay, Gregg Flaxman, Gregg Lambert, Thomas Y. Levin, Catherine Liu, Dorothea Olkowski, Jean-Michel Rabaté, Avital Ronell, Keith Sanborn, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, and Anthony Vidler. The volume includes photographs by Argentinean artist Julio Grinblatt documenting the physical space in which these conversations were staged.