Cultural Studies Colloquium - Special Date & Time
Lawrence Grossberg, "Is There a Place for Intellectuals in the New Radicalism?"
Hokin Lecture Hall, 4pm
In recent essays, some notable left intellectuals (e.g. Latour, Ranciere, Hardt) have questioned the value of "critique." They seem to suggest that political acts of insurrection and experimentation displace the necessity for both analyses that might dis-cover "what's going on," and various projects of education. In this presentation, leading Cultural Studies scholar Larry Grossberg seeks to do three things: first, to engage with the logics of this internecine war; second, to place this event into a geneology of 20th century, anti-capitalist intellectual formations; and third, to put forth cultural studies as a unique formation that offers a vision of countercultural, counter-hegemonic politics.
Lawrence Grossberg is the Morris Davis
Distinguished Professor of Communication Studies and Cultural Studies;
Adjunct Distinguished Professor of Anthropology; and Director of the
University Program in Cultural Studies at the University of North
Carolina at Chapel Hill.
This lecture is co-sponsored by a mini-grant from the Critical Encounters initiative at Columbia College Chicago.
