aestheticsandpolitics.calarts.edu
The MA in Aesthetics and Politics program at CalArts is pleased to announce its Spring 2012 WHAP! schedule. Co-hosted by the city of West Hollywood and the MA program. WHAP! is a new lecture series ranging from critical and political theory to film screenings and conversations about art and architecture. All lectures are free and open to the public; seating is limited and will be assigned on a first come first serve basis.
WEST HOLLYWOOD LIBRARY
City Council Chambers
625 N. San Vicente Blvd.
West Hollywood, CA 90069
FRIDAY, MARCH 9, 7–9PM | CAN OR OUGHT THE POLITICAL AND THE RELIGIOUS BE SEPARATED?
Etienne Balibar
TUESDAY, APRIL 3, 7–9PM | BIOLOGY AND POLITICS
Catherine Malabou, Mike Bryant, and Arne De Boever
FRIDAY, APRIL 6, 7–9PM | AESTHETICS OF TRANSLATION
Erik Bullot, Rebecca Baron, and Jon Nelson-Wagner
FRIDAY, MAY 4, 7-9PM | CONSTRUCTING THE FUTURE
Ric Abramson, Norman Klein, and John D’Amico
Offering a one- or two-year option to earn an MA, the Aesthetics and Politics program focuses on the multiplicity of ways in which the aesthetic and the political intertwine. Students specialize in one of three areas of concentration: critical theory, media and urban studies, or global studies. From political art to the aestheticization of politics, and from phenomenological, post/structuralist, to speculative materialist theories of culture, politics, and society, this program operates at the cutting edge of creative and critical practice today.
Faculty include Arne De Boever (director), Douglas Kearney, Chandra Khan, Norman Klein, Martín Plot, and James Wiltgen. Spring 2012 visiting faculty is Kate Elswit.
Recent visiting speakers have included Alain Badiou, Andrew Arato, Ernesto Laclau, Hans Haacke, Sam Weber, Diedrich Diederichsen, Bonnie Honig, Fred Moten, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Jodi Dean, and Bernard Stiegler.
For more info: aestheticsandpolitics.calarts.edu.
