Samuel Weber
Samuel Weber: What Is A Literary Image? Remarks on Visibility, Invisibility and Divisibility
Samuel Weber: What Is A Literary Image? Remarks on Visibility, Invisibility and Divisibility
"Sam Weber has long been one of the most significant and original thinkers on the international scene." Gerhard Richter, UC Davis
Co-presented with the CalArts graduate Aesthetics and Politics Program.
One of America's foremost literary and media critics gives a wide-ranging disquisition that touches on subjects in aesthetic criticism, critical theory and contemporary politics--including a discussion of his landmark study of Walter Benjamin. A student of Paul de Man and Theodor Adorno, Weber is the Avalon Foundation Professor of Humanities at Northwestern University and co-director of the Northwestern's Paris Program in Critical Theory. He has published works on Balzac, Lacan and Freud; co-translated Adorno's Prisms and Jacques Derrida's Limited Inc.; and served as dramaturge for theater and opera productions in Germany, leading to a comprehensive study entitled Theatricality as Medium. His most recent publications engage the politics of "The War on Terror" in Targets of Opportunity: On the Militarization of Thinking and the complex, multifaceted Benjaminian oeuvre in Benjamin's-abilities--issued by Harvard University Press last year. Weber's talk is introduced by Sande Cohen and James Wiltgen.
Date/Time | G | ST | CA |
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THUR 5/14 8:30 pm | $10 | $5 | Free |
G - General Audience
M - REDCAT Members
ST - Students
CA - CalArts Students/Faculty/Staff