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  • Announcement: Sean’s Russia Blog

    Announcement: Sean’s Russia Blog

    boundary 2 editor Nancy Condee is director of the Center for Russian and East European Studies (REES) at the University of Pittsburgh. Recently, REES announced that Sean’s Russia Blog has become a major addition to the center’s resources and electronic presence. Hosted by Sean Guillory, Digital Scholarship Curator at REES, Sean’s Russia Blog is an invaluable web source that features interviews with writers, filmmakers, academics, and policy figures from Russia, the US, and elsewhere. It joins such US web resources as NYU Jordan Center’s All the Russias blog, David Johnson’s Johnson’s Russia List at GWU’s Elliott School, or Maxim Trudolyubov’s The Russia File at the Kennan Institute (Wilson Center).

    Sean’s Russia Blog provides hour-long interviews ranging from Russian LGBTQ and New Left Activism to The Early Russian Empire and Reforging Roma into New Soviet Gypsies. Subscribers will find something for any vector of curiosity: interested in Russian Punk Rock? The Stillbirth of the Soviet Internet?  The Political Life of Vodka? Gangs in Russia? To subscribe, search Sean’s Russia Blog in your favorite podcast app or go directly to seansrussiablog.org.

  • Our Neoliberalism Conference is on YouTube!

    Our Neoliberalism Conference is on YouTube!

    All of the talks from b2‘s recent conference, “Neoliberalism, Its Ontology and Genealogy: The Work and Context of Philip Mirowski”, are now posted on our YouTube channel!

    Talks include:

    Philip Mirowski: Hell Is Truth Seen Too Late

    Bruce Robbins: Liberal Elites

    Chris Connery: China, Neoliberal Constellations and the Left

    Professor Robbins and Professor Connery’s post-talk Q&A panel can be found here.

    Frank Pasquale: Rethinking the Knowledge Problem: Preserving Professional Judgment in an Era of Metric Power

    Leah Feldman: Post-Soviet, Neoliberal, New Right Formations

    Christian Thorne: The Paleo-Neo and the New New: Periodizing Liberalism

    Professor Feldman and Professor Thorne’s post-talk Q&A panel can be found here.

    David Golumbia: Mirowski As Critic of the Digital

    Annie McClanahan: Serious Crises: Rethinking the Neoliberal Subject

    Donald E. Pease: The Cultural Fantasy-Work of Neoliberalism

    James Livingston: Fuck Work

  • Conference Announcement — Neoliberalism, Its Ontology and Genealogy: The Work and Context of Philip Mirowski

    Conference Announcement — Neoliberalism, Its Ontology and Genealogy: The Work and Context of Philip Mirowski

    LIVESTREAMING NOW: WATCH HERE

    boundary 2 is pleased to announce Neoliberalism, Its Ontology and Genealogy: The Work and Context of Philip Mirowski, a conference at the University of Pittsburgh. All talks will appear on boundary 2’s YouTube channel after the conference.

    Schedule

    Friday, March 17, 2017

    1:30pm EST – Panel: Bruce Robbins and Chris Connery

    Liberal Elites – Bruce Robbins, Old Dominion Foundation Professor in the Humanities, Columbia University

    China: Neoliberal Constellations and the Left – Chris Connery, Professor of Literature, University of California, Santa Cruz

    3:00pm EST – Rethinking the Knowledge Problem: Preserving Professional Judgment in an Era of Metric Power – Frank Pasquale, Professor of Law, Francis King Carey School of Law, University of Maryland

    4:30pm EST – Keynote: Hell is Truth Seen Too Late – Philip Mirowski, Carl E. Koch Professor of Economics and Policy Studies and the History of the Philosophy of Science, University of Notre Dame

    Saturday, March 18, 2017

    9:00am EST – Panel: Leah Feldman and Christian Thorne

    Post-Soviet, Neoliberal, New Right Formations – Leah Feldman, Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature, University of Chicago

    The Paleo-Neo and the New New: Periodizing Liberalism – Christian Thorne, Professor of English, Williams College

    10:45am EST – Mirowski as Critic of the Digital – David Golumbia, Associate Professor of English, Virginia Commonwealth University

    1:30pm EST – The Cultural Fantasy-Work of Neoliberalism – Donald E. Pease, Ted and Helen Geisel Third Century Professor in the Humanities, Dartmouth College

    3:00pm EST – Serious Crises: Rethinking the Neoliberal Subject – Annie McClanahan, Assistant Professor of English, University of California, Irvine

    4:30pm EST – Fuck Work – James Livingston, Professor of History, Rutgers

     

  • The b2 Collective on Edward Said

    The b2 Collective on Edward Said

    boundary 2 sponsored a conference at the University of Pittsburgh on November 7-9 2013 on the life and work of Edward W. Said”.  We fmet to discuss his writings and his influence under the title, “Legacies of the Future.” Said was an important figure in boundary 2 from the 1970s. Some of us studied with or worked with him. We all learned from and argued with him. Rather than collect a set of talks from the conference, we decided to publicize our interactions by creating a bibliography of our written engagements with his work. 

  • Charles Bernstein–“Pitch of Poetry!”

    Charles Bernstein–“Pitch of Poetry!”

    I am happy to announce the publication of Pitch of Poetry, my new collection of essays from the University of Chicago Press. There will be launches for the book in Washington, DC (Bridge Street Books) on March 20, at Penn (Kelly Writers House) on April 12, and in New York (the Poetry Project) on April 20 (see below for details).

    Pitch of Poetry makes the case for echopoetics: a poetry of call and response
    , reason and imagination, disfiguration and refiguration.

    Publishers Weekly
    “Often elliptical, argumentative, and personal, this is a radical work about the nature of poetry and of language itself.”

    Library Journal
    “A strangely compelling amalgam of postulations, propositions, interviews, and opinions, this collection from Bernstein is as much a work of art as a work of criticism.”

    Craig Dworkin
    “The traits and energies that made Bernstein, the foremost poet-critic of our time, a leading figure of the 1980s-era avant-garde have continued unabated.”

    Pierre Joris
    “Pitch of Poetry is wide-ranging, protean, exhilarating.”

    Subjects range across the figurative nature of abstract art, Occupy Wall Street, and Shoah representation. Detailed overviews of formally inventive work include essays on—or “pitches” for—a set of key poets, from Gertrude Stein and Robert Creeley to John Ashbery, Barbara Guest, Larry Eigner, Leslie Scalapino, Maggie O’Sullivan, and Johanna Drucker. Bernstein also reveals the formative ideas behind L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E. The final section, published here for the first time, is a sweeping work on the poetics of stigma, perversity, and disability that is rooted in the thinking of Edgar Allan Poe, Emily Dickinson, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and William Blake.

    BOOK LAUNCHES (readings and signings):
    Bridge Street Books, Weds., March 30, 7:30pm (2814 Pennsylvania Ave NW, Washington, DC 20007):
    Kelly Writers House, University of Pennsylvania, Tues., April 12, 6pm
    Poetry Project, St. Mark’s Church,  New York: Weds., April 20, 8pm

    Information on ordering the book: University of Chicago Press page. The publication date is the first day of Spring, but the book is just now available.  Book cover image: © Lawrence Schwartzwald

  • b2 Conference: The Militarization of Knowledge

    On November 13 and 14, 2015, boundary 2 will host a conference at the University of Pittsburgh on The Militarization of Knowledge. This unique event will bring together distinguished scholars from a variety of disciplines. Click here to watch a livestream.

    Our talks will take place at the following times, all Eastern Standard Time.

    FRIDAY, 11/13/15

    2pm – Operationalizing Basic Research and Scholarship: A System-of-Systems Approach for the Military Application of Knowledge, Carey Balaban, Professor, Departments of Otolaryngology, Neurobiology, Communication Science & Disorders, and Bioengineering, University of Pittsburgh, Director of Center for National Preparedness

    3:30pm – Terror, Talk, and Political Management, David Simpson, Distinguished Professor of English, UC Davis

    SATURDAY, 11/14/15

    9:30am – Of Partisans and Paranoid Experts: How We Came to Think about Terrorism, Julian Bourg, Associate Professor of History, Boston College

    11am – The Representation of Atrocity, Bruce Robbins, Old Dominion Foundation Professor in the Humanities, Columbia University

    1:15pm – The Militarization of Language, David Golumbia, Associate Professor of English, Virginia Commonwealth University

    2:45pm – Military Aesthetics: Technology, Experience, and Late Modern War, Anders Engberg-Pedersen, Associate Professor of Comparative Literature, University of Southern Denmark

    4pm – Summary Discussion, led by Jonathan Arac, Mellon Professor of English and Director, Humanities Center, University of Pittsburgh, and Anthony Bogues, Asa Messer Professor of Humanities and Critical Theory, Professor of Africana Studies, Brown University; Director, Center for the Study of Slavery and Justice

  • Leah Feldman Joins B2 Masthead…

    Leah Feldman

    The Editorial Collective happily welcomes Leah Feldman to our editorial board, effective immediately.

    Leah Feldman is currently a fellow at the Institute of Advanced Study at The Central European University in Budapest. In the fall of 2015 she will join the University of Chicago as Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature. Her research interests include comparative literary and cultural networks across the Russian/Soviet empires and the Turko-Persianate world, the relationship between aesthetics and politics, theories of modernity, theories of translation, comparative (post)colonialisms, and semiotics. Her current book project On the Threshold of Eurasia: Orientalism and Revolutionary Aesthetics in the Caucasus, 1905-1929 exposes the ways in which representations of the figure of revolution informed the interplay between orientalist and anti-colonial discourses in Russian and Azeri poetry, prose, and propaganda. She is the author of “Orientalism on the Threshold: Reorienting Heroism in Late Imperial Russia” in boundary 2 and a forthcoming collection of translations of Azeri plays. 

  • Colin Dayan Joins b2 Masthead

    Colin Dayan Joins b2 Masthead

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    The Editorial Collective happily welcomes Colin Dayan to our editorial board.

    Colin Dayan is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences as well as Robert Penn Warren Professor in the Humanities at Vanderbilt University.  She has held Guggenheim as well as other distinguished fellowships.

    Her areas of expertise include American literature, English and French Caribbean Literatures, Haitian historiography, and American legal scholarship. In 1977, she introduced the writings of René Depestre to the English-speaking world. She has published major books on Edgar Allan Poe and the colonial history of Haiti “from the composite perspectives of legal and religious texts, letters, fiction, and my own knowledge of the country.”  Her more recent books include The Story of Cruel and Unusual, a study of the legal and practical implications of the 8th Amendment to the US Constitution, and The Law Is a White Dog: How Legal Rituals Make and Unmake Persons. Her journalism appears in The Boston Review and she can be heard on NPR.

    Colin’s latest article can be read here.

  • Christian Thorne joins the b2 Advisory Board

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    boundary 2 is proud and honored to announce that Christian Thorne has joined the Advisory Board.

    Christian Thorne teaches critical theory at Williams College and is the author of The Dialectic of Counter-Enlightenment. His writings on monsters, superheroes, and political ontologists can be found here.

  • Legacies of the Future

    Legacies of the Future

    On the Life and Work of Edward Said
    – November, 2013:

    Video coverage of boundary 2‘s Fall conference, featuring Joseph Cleary, Aamir Mufti, Nuruddin Farah, Wlad Godzich, Stathis Gourgouris, RA Judy, QS Tong, Jonathan Arac, Donald Pease, Bruce Robbins and Paul Bové.