Thursday, April 7, 2011
5:00-7:00 p.m.
Weaver Conference Center
Institute of the Americas
10111 N Torrey Pines Road
La Jolla CA 92037

Michael Hardt will read two of Foucault's texts (or groups of texts) in order to comment on current forms of crisis and the political responses to them. First, his final lecture series, and particularly his treatment in them of the ancient Cynics, will serve as a basis for analyzing the current economic and financial crisis. Second, Foucault's essays on the Iranian Revolution in 1978 and 1979 will lead to a discussion of the current events in Tunisia and Egypt. Professor Hardt's aim is to understand the kind of biopolitical militancy that Foucault imagines -- a struggle to create and institute new forms of life -- in the context of contemporary political conditions. Michael Hardt teaches in the Literature Program at Duke University. His most recent books, co-authored with Antonio Negri, are Empire (2000), Multitude (2004), and Commonwealth (2009). He is editor of The South Atlantic Quarterly.

Co-Sponsored by:

Dean’s Opportunity Fund, Division of Arts & Humanities
Dean’s Initiative Fund, Division of Arts & Humanities
Department of Anthropology
Department of Communications
Department of Ethnic Studies
Department of History
Department of Literature
Department of Political Science
Helen Edison Lecture Series

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