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Title: | 'Climate Change' and the Humanities -Terrestriality, Reinscription, and Memory Regimes (A Benjaminian Preamble with an Excursus on Hitchcock's "Bird War")Finished |
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| Date: | Wed, 27 Feb, 2008. 17ｈ00-19ｈ00 |
Place: | Building 18 Collaboration Room No.3, Komaba Campus, The University of Tokyo |
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Speaker: Tom Cohen
(Professor, University at Albany State University of New York; Project Director, The Institute on Critical Climate Change)
(Language: English; Admission Free)
The talk addresses the impact of “climate change” on the humanities, and more specifically, on the legacies of 20th century theory. If what we call climate change entails a shift from the anthropocentric discourses of the tradition to take account of a “threat without enemy” that compresses time lines, the question arises whether 21st century horizons constitute a break or caesura in the current critical culture―and a re-orientation as regard models of time, reference, and perception. Is the question of whether, today, post-global politics has not become epistemological, and how this relates to representational and writing systems. More specifically, it asks what reinscriptions are possible, or necessary, I intend to embed the discussion in a parallel discussion of mutations in what Derrida calls the “archive,” teletechnics, reading, war, and cinema, examining Hitchcock’s The Birds as parable and marker.
⇒［Report］
Bibliography of Tom Cohen
Anti-Mimesis from Plato to Hitchcock, Cambridge UP, 1994.
Ideology and Inscription: "Cultural Studies" after Benjamin, de Man, and Bakhtin, Cambridge UP, 1998.
Material Events: Paul de Man and the Afterlife of Theory, Contributing Editor, University of Minnesota Press, 2000.
Jacques Derrida and the Humanities: a Transdisciplinary Reader, Contributing Editor, Cambridge UP, 2002.
Hitchcock's Cryptonymies 1: Secret Agents, University of Minnesota Press, 2005.
Hitchcock's Cryptonymies 2: War Machines, University of Minnesota Press, 2005.
