Center for Curatorial Studies Presents
Ray Brassier, "Wandering Abstraction" Seminar
Thursday, March 20, 2014
CCS Bard - Seminar room
Ray Brassier will be visiting CCS Bard to discuss his recent essay "Wandering Abstraction," published in Mute on February 13, 2014. This essay develops his own rationalist position in relation to recent accelerationist arguments and was originally presented at the Berlin Accelerationism conference. All are welcome to attend. The seminar will presume that those in attendance have read the essay (link below.) Ray will review it for about 15 minutes, followed by an extended discussion/Q&A.
http://www.metamute.org/editorial/articles/wandering-abstraction#
Ray Brassier teaches philosophy at the American University of Beirut. Author of Nihil Unbound: Enlightenment and Extinction (2007), his recent publications include: "That Which is Not: Philosophy as Entwinement of Truth and Negativity" in Stasis (2013), "Nominalism, Naturalism, and Materialism: Sellars’ Critical Ontology" in Contemporary Philosophical Naturalism and its Implications (2013), "The Reality of Abstraction" in Laruelle and Non-Philosophy (2012), and "Lived Experience and the Myth of the Given," in Filozofski Vestnik (2011).
For more information, call 845-758-7598, e-mail [email protected],
or visit http://bard.edu/ccs.
Location: CCS Bard - Seminar room