Emancipation, New Sensibility, and the Challenge of a New Era: Theory, Practice, and Pedagogy

CONFERENCE SCHEDULE
International Herbert Marcuse Society Fifth Biennial Conference University of Kentucky Lexington, Kentucky USA November 7-9, 2013

Thursday, 7 November 2013

8:30-9:00am
Student Center, Room 206

Meet and Greet/Coffee and Pastries

9:00-10:40am
Student Center, Room 206

Session 1: Concurrent Panels 1-3

Panel 1: Marcuse and Recent Social Movements

Robespierre de Oliveira Lauren Langman Student Center, Room 230 Catastrophe of Liberation: New Sensibility and the Struggle for Changing the Way of Life May You Live in Interesting TimesAnd We Do

Panel 2: Wild Dark Times, or Liberating the End: An Exploration of Herbert Marcuse, the Apocalypse, and the Specters of Liberation
Thomas C. Was Stephen Bourque Andres Mesa The Unfreedom of Rationality and Technology: Starvation by Wall Street Our Blood is Thinning: Death, Destruction, and Residual Resistance Aesthetic Liberation: A Foundation For a New Critical Ecology

Student Center, Room 249

Panel 3: Teaching Contradictions

Andrew T. Lamas Short Talk, Video Excerpts, Student Artifacts, and Full-Room Discussion in a Workshop Style on Critical Pedagogy

10:45am-12:25pm
Student Center, Room 206

Session 2: Concurrent Panels 4-7

Panel 4: Liberation, Resource Limits, and the Revolutionary Subject

Michael Reno Philip Walsh Mark Cobb Resource Limits and the Objective Possibility of Liberation The Precariat as Revolutionary Subject? Insights from Herbert Marcuse Exile and Freedom: Marcuse and Our Post WWII Predicament

Andrs Ortiz Lemos The Fata Morgana of Technology as Ideological Interpellator: The Case of the Citizen Revolution in Ecuador Student Center, Room 111

Panel 5: Critical Pedagogy

Theofilo M. B. de Oliveira Sarah Surak Amanda Lusky Filip Kovacevic Student Center, Room 230 The Teaching of Philosophy in Brazil, at Stake: The Problem of the Semiformation and Emancipation Through the Development of a New Sensibility Critical Ecological Pedagogy: Assessing the State of Environmental Policy in Education Critically Revising Technocratic Pedagogy: Applying Marcuse and Dewey for Transformative Education within a Global Community A Marcusean Pedagogy in the 21st Century: The Case of Michel Onfray

Panel 6: Ecology, Biopolitics, and Aesthetics

Silvio Ricardo Gomes Carneiro Javier Sethness-Castro Brandon Huson Student Center, Room 249 Specters of Aesthetics: Symbolic versus Biopolitics Ecology and Empire in Marx, Adorno, and Marcuse Agroecology: Food Production that Liberates

Panel 7: The Eros Effect

Jason Del Gandio AK Thompson George Katsiaficas Douglas Kellner Extending the Eros Effect: Sentience, Reality, and Emanation Eros or Biological Hatred? Ontological Ambivalence in Katsiaficas and Marcuse From Marcuses Political Eros to the Eros Effect Discussant

12:25-2:30pm

Lunch

2:30-5:00pm
2:30-2:45pm Arnold L. Farr 2:50-5:00pm

Welcome and Keynote Address

Student Center, Center Theater Official Welcome Keynote Address

Richard Wolin
Distinguished Professor of History CUNY Graduate Center

Marcuse and the New Left: Emancipatory Violence as a Problem of Political Philosophy

5:00-7:00pm

Dinner

7:00-8:15pm
Jeremy Popkin

Plenary Session 1
Herbert Marcuses Years at UC San Diego: An Interview with Richard H. Popkin

White Hall Classroom Building, CB Room 208

Friday, 8 November 2013

8:15-8:45am Meet and Greet/Coffee and Pastries
William T. Young Library, Multipurpose Room

8:45-10:15am

Plenary Session 2

William T. Young Library, Multipurpose Room Shelly Johnson, Charles Reitz, Peter Marcuse, Arnold L. Farr, and Andy Lamas A Discussion on Crisis and Commonwealth: Marx, Marcuse, McClaren and on Reitzs Proposal for the Crisis and Commonwealth Working Group

10:15-10:30am 10:30-11:30am

Break Plenary Session 3

William T. Young Library, Multipurpose Room Douglas Kellner, Peter-Erwin Jansen, Charles Reitz, and Arnold L. Farr Recent Marcuse Research

11:30am-12:45pm
William T. Young Library, Multipurpose Room

Business Meeting International Herbert Marcuse Society

12:45-2:15pm

Lunch

Note: If you are not attending the Business Meeting, then your lunch break is from 11:30am-2:15pm.

2:15pm-3:45pm
Student Center, Room 249

Session 3: Concurrent Panels 8-11

Panel 8: Marcuse, Marx, and Marxisms

Fred Mecklenburg David M. Pea-Guzman Karla Encalada Falconi Russell Rockwell Marxs Marxism: A New Attitude to Objectivity The Marxism-Heideggerianism Tension: A Philosophical Disjunction Marx and Lacan: The Comparison of the Impossible Marcuses and Fromms Marxism: Their Trajectories, Intersections, and Social Relevance

Student Center, Room 206

Panel 9: Pedagogy, Liberation, Utopia

Karen Abney Korn Shelly Johnson Joshua Rayman Maria rbia C. Carnaba Student Center, Room 357 Teaching Sustainability to Undergraduate Students: Marcuses End of Utopia, Ideas of Progress, and Daniel Quinns Ishmael Eros and Pedagogy: Marcuse and Freire on Liberating Praxis The Specter of Liberation The Contradictions of Utopia in Critical Theory

Panel 10: Repression, Authority, and Power: Obstacles to Liberation

M. Clark Sugata and Steven Marotta Clancy Smith Craig R. Christiansen James McMahon Crowdfunding the Self: Human Capital Contracts and the Illusion of Liberation Negative Thinking in an Age of Authority The Ties that Bind: The Role of Professional Identity in Repression and Compliance Power and Culture: What Makes Hollywood Run?

White Hall Classroom Building, CB Room 333

Panel 11: Marcuse in Conversation with Liberalism and Traditional Political Philosophy
Michael J. Thompson Christopher Holman Larry Udell Tyler Suggs Marcuse and the Critique of Liberal Political Philosophy Marcuse, Machiavelli, and the Concept of Political Sublimation Rawls and Neoclassical Economics Punishment, Alterity, and One Dimensionality

3:45-4:00pm 4:00-5:30pm

Break Session 4: Concurrent Panels 12-15

Lucille C. Little Fine Arts Library, LCLI Room 311

Panel 12: Marcuse, Kafka, Echeverria, and the Culture of Exclusion

Ali Gooyabadi Adriana Yeyetzi Cardiel Prez Marcuse, Kafka, and the Dialectic of Bureaucracy Marcuses Pleasure Principle and Bolivar Echeverrias Baroque Ethos: Notes for a Construction of Sensibility and Subjectivity that Resists Capitalist Impositions A Critical Approach to the Culture of Exclusion

Lissette Silva Lazcano

Lucille C. Little Fine Arts Library, LCLI Room 312

Panel 13: Digital Dimensionality

Sascha Engel Saby Ghoshray Stuart Smithers Author, Authority, Authenticity: The Death and Discourse of Aaron Swartz Revisiting Marcusean One Dimensionality through the Lenses of Seduction to Symmetry and Digital Immersion in Contemporary Society The Digital Gaze: Conscious Labor and Captured Attention in the Age of the Intellectual-Information Worker

Student Center, Room 111

Panel 14: The Challenge of Social, Digital, and Mass Media, and the Problem of Political Discourse
Charles Joshua Horn Hope for Economic Liberation: Social Media and the New Capitalist Revolution Clint Jones Techno-Eroticism: Marcuse and The Politics of Friendship in the Age of Social Media

Deborah C. Antunes Are the Digital Media the Message? Analyzing the Cear Digital Belt Contradictions Elliott Buckland Tolerance and Objectivity in Contemporary Political Discourse

Student Center, Room 249

Panel 15: Reading Marcuse Reading the Western Philosophical Tradition

Jeffery Nicholas Brandon Absher The Dimensions of Tradition: Or How Substantive Reason Overcomes One-Dimensional Thinking A Picture Held Us Captive: Rethinking Marcuses Critique of Wittgenstein

5:30-7:30pm

Dinner

7:30-9:00pm

Keynote Address

Student Center, Ballroom

Cynthia Willett
Professor, Department of Philosophy Emory University

Interspecies Ethics: Cosmopolitanism Across Species

9:00-10:00pm

Reception

Saturday, 9 November 2013

8:30-9:00am
Student Center, Room 206

Meet and Greet / Coffee and Pastries Session 6: Concurrent Panels 16-19

9:00-10:30am
Student Center, Room 206

Panel 16: Marcuse, Psychoanalysis, and Postmodernism

Hanna-Maija Huhtala Ryan E. Artrip Arnold L. Farr Marcuse and Adorno on Freuds Psychoanalytic Theory Hyperreality, Principality, and the Politics of Refusal: Psychoanalysis after Post-Modernism Repression, Discourse, and Power: Marcuse and Foucault on Sexuality, Domination, and Identity-Formation

Student Center, Room 249

Panel 17: Nature, Anthropology, and Biology In Marcuses Critical Theory

Maria Clara Cescato Marilia Mello Pisani Paul Mazzocchi Student Center, Room 357 Marcuse: Critical Method and Historical Transformation of Nature Critical Theory and Anthropology in Herbert Marcuse The Biological Invariant and Emancipation in Marcuse and Merleau-Ponty

Panel 18: Marcusean Reflections on Organizing, Community, and Political Movements

Jon Cariba Phoenix Elliot Ratzman Robert Kirsch How to Change the World by Taking Power Towards a Materialist Account of Surplus Virtue: Supererogation, Social Justice and the Promise of Community Organizing Toward a Political Economy of Liberation? A Critical Assessment of Neo-Chartalism

Student Center, Room 359

Panel 19: Resistance, Counter-Resistance, and Emancipatory Possibilities

Dennis Rogers Jennifer Lawrence Devin Penner Herbert Marcuse, the Possible Impossible, and the Impact on Angela Davis Technological Rationality and the Normal Accident: A Critical Analysis of the Deepwater Horizon Disaster Revisiting Late Capitalist Society

10:30-10:45am

Break

10:45am-12:15pm
Student Center, Room 206

Session 7: Concurrent Panels 20-22

Panel 20: Marcuse, Freud, Fromm, and Freire

Stefan Bird-Pollan Jeffrey Jackson Joan Braune Student Center, Room 249 Kulturpessimismus, Kulturoptimismus; Freud and Marcuse on the Psychic Origins of Cultural Strife Repression and Loss: Reading Marcuses Account of Social Conditions through Late Freud Critical Encounter: Erich Fromm, Paulo Freire, and the Socialist Virtue of Hope

Panel 21: Roundtable Workshop: Exploring Marcuses Eros: Animator of Selfhood and Sustainer of Community
James Block, Morgan Shipley, and Adnan Selimovi Student Center, Room 357

Panel 22: Art, Technology, and System

Justin Harmon Daniel Amorim Gomes Carmelito nomer S. Abolencia Art, Being, and Value: Understanding the Anti-Instrumentalism of Heidegger and Marcuses Critique of Technology Two Moments of the Political Dimension of Forms, An Essay on Liberation and Counter-Revolution and Revolt Jose Rizals Dapitan Project: A Look into Jean Baudrillards System of Objects

12:15-2:00pm

Lunch

2:00-3:45pm
Student Center, Room 206

Session 8: Concurrent Panels 23-24

Panel 23: Hegemony, One Dimensionality, and Human Rights

Peter Marcuse Harold Marcuse Ben Luongo Peter-Erwin Jansen Student Center, Room 249 The Other Dimension Herbert Marcuse as a Specter for the Anti-Establishment Right Austerity as a Hegemonic Tool of Exploitation Critical Theory, Social Works, and the Relevance of Human Rights

Panel 24: Marcuse and German Idealism

Joseph Trullinger Mari Jarris Thiago Silva The Liberating Possibilities of the Kantian Sublime for Marcuses Project of Aesthetic Liberation Rescuing the Concept of Freedom: The Frankfurt Schools Critique of Idealist Philosophy from Kant to Sartre The Importance of Hegelian Negativity for the Dialectical Thought of Herbert Marcuse

3:45-4:00pm 4:00-6:00pm
Student Center,

Break Session 9: Concurrent Panels 25-26

Panel 25: Violence, Women, and Liberation

Natalie Nenadic Christa Hodapp Edith Wilson Student Center, The Imperative of Thinking After Auschwitz: The Genealogy of the Concept of Genocidal Rape Ending Violence Where Love Begins: Marcuse, Eros, and Gender Liberation What Durkheim Missed: Women as Profane in Elementary Forms and Beyond

Panel 26: Marcuse and the Frankfurt School on Rationality and Praxis
Richard Peterson Patrick Gamsby Andrew Feenberg Rationalitys Dependence on Historical Mediums: Rethinking Social Learning In a Box Marked Miscellaneous: Remembering Herbert Marcuse at Brandeis University Realizing Philosophy: Marx, Lukcs, and the Frankfurt School

6:00-6:30pm

Student Center, Center Theater

Conference Wrap-Up

6:30pm-until

Dinner and Celebration of Eros