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Roundtable Course on the Poetry of Bob Dylan

Irene Small at Princeton University

Princeton University N107 (School of Architecture)

“For Doganova, discounting provides a key means to grasp futures in the present.” Discounting the Future reviewed in Economy & Society

“Explodes certain categories in art and art history, including representation itself and aesthetic experience.” Iconophages reviewed in ArtReview

“A rich historical account of how the American state came to simultaneously enact extravagance and austerity” Counterrevolution reviewed in JACOBIN

NYC Book Party for The Organic Line

The Francis Kite Club 40 Loisaida Ave. East Village, NY

Screening Fears by Francesco Casetti Wins the 2024 Limina Award

Brooklyn Book Festival 2024

Brooklyn Borough Hall and Plaza 209 Joralemon Street Brooklyn NY 11201

“An important study” Discounting the Future reviewed in Paradigm Explorer

“A wide-ranging exploration of financial accounting” Discounting the Future reviewed in The Boston Review

Melinda Cooper Interviewed in The Nation

Melinda Cooper Interviewed in n+1

LPE Project Hosts a Symposium on Counterrevolution

“Delightful…a fascinating Western history of eating images…an excellent feast for the senses.” Iconophages reviewed in Mutual Art

“ Screening Fears has the air of being a contemporary classic.” Screening Fears reviewed in Cinéma & Cie

“A compelling case for the contingency of responses to plagues and pandemics…fruitful and generative" Preexisting Conditions reviewed in H-Net

Melinda Cooper Interviewed on Red Medicine Podcast

“Casetti speaks of a multiverse that allows for the co-presence of different worlds”Screening Fears reviewed in Alphaville

Liliana Doganova Interviewed at Usbek & Rica

“A unique and fascinating consideration of the meaning and power of art, food, and ritual.” Iconophages reviewed in Publishers Weekly

“A vast amount of material that speaks to a shifting early modern worldview of America and Asia.”Amerasia reviewed in Art History

“Counterrevolution provides an exemplary history of ideas and our unhappy present.” —The New Statesman

Janina Wellmann interviewed on Against Everyone Podcast with Conner Habib

Liliana Doganova interviewed at New Books Network

Melinda Cooper interviewed in The Baffler

Melinda Cooper Presents Counterrevolution at Red Emma's

Red Emma’s 3128 Greenmount Avenue Baltimore, MD

Andrew Shanken delivers Keynote Speech at Stockholm University The Everyday Life of Urban Monuments Seminar

Copenhagen City Hall Stokholm University

Melinda Cooper presents Counterrevolution at Harvard University

Harvard University Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History Robinson Hall, Lower Library, Room 125

Daniel Heller-Roazen presents Absentees at McGill University

McGill University ROOM 16 SCOTT Old Chancellor Day Hall Faculty of Law

Janina Wellmann & Caroline Arni at Labyrinth Books

Labyrinth Books 122 Nassau Street Princeton, NJ 08542

NYC Double Book Launch with Janina Wellmann & Caroline Arni

McNally Jackson Seaport 4 Fulton St., New York, NY

CAPITAL VALUES: CUNY Center for Humanities Hosts A Double Book Launch & Discussion with Melinda Cooper & Liliana Doganova

The Center for Humanities, CUNY Graduate Center Skylight Room

“Unique… extensive work on the moralization of taxation via the nuclear family.” Counterrevolution reviewed in LA Review of Books

Janina Wellmann Presents Biological Motion at McGill University

McGill University Foyer of 3647 Peel Street Montreal, Quebec H3A 0G4 Canada

Counterrevolution named a 2024 “Best of Academic Presses” pick by The New Statesman

“A twenty-first century medical zoo” an essay by Janina Wellmann in the Princeton University Press Ideas Blog

Maria Stavrinaki on Prehistory in the Atomic Age in Aeon Magazine

Liliana Doganova Presents Discounting the Future at NYU's Remarque Institute

NYU Remarque Institute 60 5th Avenue, 8th floor

Life in Pixels: Francesco Casetti Speaks at Notre Dame

University of Notre Dame (Online)

Screening Fears reviewed in Yale Alumni Magazine

A Lecture by Francesco Casetti at Rutgers School of Arts and Sciences

Rutgers University Greenwall Classroom Zimmerli Art Museum

Lina Bolzoni reviews Amerasia in Domenica

Francesco Casetti Speaks at Northwestern University

Northwestern University Annie May Swift, room 109 633 Clark Street Evanston, IL 60208

“A rich collection…Crary’s broad subject is the way human perception is instrumentalized and commodified within the culture of modernity.”Leonardo

BEYOND HUMAN MEANING: A Conversation with Gary Tomlinson at Yale’s Whitney Humanities Center

Whitney Humanities Center | Yale University Humanities Quadrangle | HQ 136

“Tomlinson brings a humanist perspective to the biological and evolutionary debates"The Machines of Evolution reviewed in Critical Inquiry

Melinda Cooper interviewed in El País

“Screens, for Casetti, are a balm to the shocks and intensities that modernity has visited upon us.” Screening Fears reviewed in The Brooklyn Rail

“A powerful and provocative book” Screening Fears: On Protective Media reviewed in Critical Inquiry

“Essential for our historical moment.” Preexisting Conditions reviewed in Twentieth-Century Literature

“Handsomely produced…offers a detailed enquiry into the transformative power of concise literary narratives.” Civic Storytelling reviewed in TLS

Francesco Casetti Interviewed in Yale News

Florian Fuchs at Harvard University

Harvard University Nebel Room (Barker Center 359)

Jonathan Crary Presents Tricks of the Light at Book Culture

Book Culture 536 W 112th St New York, NY 10025

Francesco Casetti Presents Screening Fears at Yale University

Yale University Paul Rudolph Hall, Room 322

“This excellent book reflects on the success of short forms in 19th century German Literature” Civic Storytelling reviewed in Critical Inquiry

“We Are Our Apps: Visual Revolutions” Hal Foster writes about the work of Jonathan Crary in London Review of Books

Jonathan Crary on Late Capitalism and the Digital Age at Woodbine NYC

Woodbine 585 Woodward Ave. Ridgewood, Queens

Zone Books at the Brooklyn Book Festival

Brooklyn Borough Hall Plaza & Columbus Park

“An engaging study…Stavrinaki’s book does us all an inestimable service.”Transfixed by Prehistory reviewed in CAA Reviews

Florian Fuchs in Conversation with Daniel Heller-Roazen at Labyrinth Books

Labyrinth Books 122 Nassau Street, Princeton, NJ 08542

“This important study throws new light on the nineteenth-century European ‘discovery’ of prehistory” 21 Inquiries on Transfixed by Prehistory

“A statement in favour of a history of art that defies a reassuring linear narrative” Flashback, Eclipse reviewed in Historical Materialism

“As necessary as it is fascinating” The Everyday Life of Memorials reviewed in Cuaderno de Notas

“An innovative examination of NASA’s Golden Record as well as theories on how music should be defined”Alien Listening reviewed in Music & Letters

“Edifying” Tricks of the Light reviewed in Publishers Weekly

“A scholarly exploration of fragments and other literary genres distinguished by their brevity…Ingenius” Civic Storytelling reviewed in 4Columns

French edition of Absentees reviewed in Le Monde & Libération

THE EVERYDAY LIFE OF MEMORIALS Excerpted in Monument Lab

“An interesting chronology on the place of the memorial within modernism.” The Everyday Life of Memorials reviewed in the TLS

“A beautifully written, deeply researched, and ground-breaking book” Flashback Eclipse reviewed in Art History Journal

“Timely… Weber examines historical accounts of plagues written over the last two millennia.” Preexisting Conditions reviewed in Book Beat

“Marks a singular occurrence in recent attempts to grapple with the complicated temporal structure of prehistory” —Journal of Visual Culture

FRANCISCO DE GOYA AND THE ART OF CRITIQUE featured in Arquitectura Viva

SAH Philadelphia Book Chat with Andrew Shanken

Wendy Brown Interviewed on the Real News Network

1668: The Year of the Animal in France Excerpted in The Public Domain Review

“Goya is the visionary who never despairs” Francisco de Goya and the Art of Critique reviewed in La Vanguardia

THE MACHINES OF EVOLUTION AND THE SCOPE OF MEANING in Inside Higher Ed's Spring Books Roundup

Meaning and the Hard Problem of Life: An Essay by Gary Tomlinson in Princeton University Press Ideas Blog

Ukraine's Memorials: An Essay by Andrew Shanken in the Princeton University Press Ideas Blog

Berkeley Book Chat with Andrew Shanken

Townsend Center for the Humanities (Online Event)

Berkeley Book Chat with Anthony Cascardi

Townsend Center for the Humanities (Online Event)

Andrew Shanken Interviewed on Unfrozen Podcast

“This thoughtful, no-nonsense book would be a useful guide for anyone setting out on such an ambitious expedition.” —Rain Taxi

The Everyday Life of Memorials written up in Arquitectura Viva

“A reflective literary and cultural study… rigorous and suggestive” Cheerfulness reviewed in The London Magazine

A Dossier Feature on ABSENTEES in Critical Analysis Law

“An engagingly argued overview of the different ways society has told the tale of plague and pandemic.”—The Letterpress Project

“Chua and Rehding’s tour de force of erudition has laid the groundwork for a profound rethinking of music’s place in our universe."—JAMS

Alien Listening reviewed in The Los Angeles Review of Books

“Witty, surprising, and meticulous… invites its audience into all kinds of improbable corners of culture” Absentees reviewed in Modern Philology

THE EVERYDAY LIFE OF MEMORIALS Excerpted in Lapham's Quarterly

Market Civilizations Excerpted in ProMarket

Andrew Shanken on the Memorials of Central Park in LitHub

“This book shows how neoliberalism interacts with and within other historical dynamics.” Market Civilizations reviewed in Jacobin

Timothy Hampton on The Academic Minute

“Flashback, Eclipse stands out from other studies… It embraces art & politics in all of their messy imbrication” —Italian Culture

Andrew Shanken in Conversation with Paul Farber

Princeton University Library (Online Event)

“The best analytic study of the songwriter’s craft that I have ever read.” Bob Dylan: How the Songs Work reviewed in Popular Music

2022 Small Press Flea

Brooklyn Public Library Grand Army Plaza

“Cheerfulness is a tool we can use to cope with the instability all around us, from the state of the economy to the war in Ukraine.” —The Observer

“Hampton’s lively new cultural history of cheerfulness is a convincing argument that modest feelings matter too” —The Atlantic

“You couldn’t wish for a more eloquently contemporary presentation of this radical rethinking” Alien Listening reviewed in The Musical Times

Timothy Hampton Interviewed on ABC Radio National

Reasons to be Cheerful: An Essay by Timothy Hampton in Aeon Journal

“Hampton’s invigorating book spans more than half a millennium of literary, philosophical & theological examples” Cheerfulness in The Spectator

“In his genial and scholarly guide, Hampton takes us through the evolution of cheerfulness” Cheerfulness reviewed at The Guardian

“Bynum’s latest addition to the study of medieval devotional objects compels us to see holy things anew.” Dissimilar Similitudes in Speculum

“A startlingly original reading of episodes in Italian art of the 1960s.” Flashback, Eclipse reviewed in Texte Zur Kunst

Timothy Hampton at the Townsend Center for the Humanities

UC Berkeley Online Event

“A complex & significant narrative about the ways in which Italy’s past affected the art of the 1960s.”Flashback, Eclipse reviewed in CAA Reviews

Timothy Hampton delivers the Martin Meyerson Berkeley Faculty Research Lecture

UC Berkeley Chevron Auditorium, International House 2299 Piedmont Avenue Berkeley, CA

Romy Golan at Museo Nazionale Delle Arti Del XXI Secolo

Museo nazionale delle arti del XXI secolo, Rome

Wendy Brown Interviewed in DISSENT MAGAZINE

Romy Golan at CCA Tel Aviv-Yafo

CCA Tel Aviv-Yafo

“Bynum’s collection of essays will be of transcultural relevance for today’s scholars.” Dissimilar Similitudes reviewed in HNA Reviews

Romy Golan at Università di Bologna

Università di Bologna Complesso di Santa Cristina piazzetta Giorgio Morandi 2 Bologna

Five Things I've Learned About Cheerfulness Webinar

“Unique and inspiring…one of the few music books that excites me on every page.” Alien Listening reviewed in Wire Magazine

THE CHINESE PLEASURE BOOK discussed in the TLS

Melinda Cooper on Family Capitalism & the Small Business Insurrection in Dissent Magazine

ABSENTEES discussed in The Baffler

Flashback, Eclipse named a Best Art Book of 2021 by The Brooklyn Rail

Romy Golan at The Graduate Center, CUNY

The Graduate Center, CUNY Online Event

“Bynum remains incomparable” Dissimilar Similitudes reviewed in The Sixteenth Century Journal

Bob Dylan's "Murder Most Foul" and National Memory: an essay by Timothy Hampton in Ideas Blog

Daniel Chua & Alexander Rehding Interviewed for New Books Network Podcast

Daniel Chua & Alexander Rehding Interviewed for Keeping Records Podcast

"The World as I Found it" an essay by Andrei Pop in Representations

Listening to Bob Dylan: Online Session with Timothy Hampton

Daniel Chua interviewed for The Economist's Babbage Podcast

“Ambitious, engaging…For scholars of music and science fiction, and perhaps general readers too.” Alien Listening reviewed in Library Journal

“Inclusiveness is vital in our music theory... Without a peaceful universe as a premise, there is really no point sending music into space.” Daniel Chua & Alexander Rehding interviewed at The Slowdown

“Shows how our disquiet about people who are neither here nor dead shapes the laws of different countries and cultures.” Absentees reviewed in GLT

“The people who created the Golden Record really believed in the power of music to communicate, and I love that ambition.” Alexander Rehding interviewed in the Harvard Gazette

“Fulfills, and at the same time delicately undoes, the romantic intentions behind the Golden Record,” Alien Listening reviewed in Bookforum.

Zone Books at SPF 21 Small Press Flea

Brooklyn Public Library Grand Army Plaza

“How welcome it is to read a book, manifestly about fin-de-siècle Symbolism, whose ambitions are to parse communication itself.” —CAA.Reviews

“Heuer’s thought-provoking book Into the White is a must-read.” Into the White discussed in Art News

“A fascinating study of devotional objects in the late European Middle Ages by a remarkable historian at the top of her game.” The Medieval Review

“The best kind of scholarly book…an extraordinary appraisal of Dylan’s entire oeuvre.” Bob Dylan: How the Songs Work in American Book Review

“With all its case studies it reads like a gripping (trans)historical docudrama” Absentees reviewed in London Review of Books

“A useful contribution to the slowly emerging field of Arctic Humanities.” Into the White reviewed in The Northern Review

Lorraine Daston & Peter Galison on New Books Network

Lessons from the Paris School: Romy Golan at Musée d'Art et d’Histoire du Judaïsme

Musée d'Art et d’Histoire du Judaïsme

Daniel Heller-Roazen at University of Toronto

University of Toronto (online event)

The Dylan Hours: Timothy Hampton on 88.5FM SoCal

Sending Music to Other Worlds: Alien Listening Featured on Wondros Podcast

“Growing up in the Shadow of Confederate Monuments,” an essay by Caroline Walker Bynum in Common Knowledge

Timothy Hampton Interviewed in 3:16

“Assembling marks of absence [Heller-Roazen] is delineating the frontiers of biography, autobiography & history itself.” Absentees reviewed in TLS

Daniel Heller-Roazen & Hal Foster in Conversation

Labyrinth Books Livestream Event

ABSENTEES excerpted in Literary Hub

“A fundamental inquiry into the disposition among bodies, language, and politics.” Absentees reviewed in 4Columns

Poetics & Theory: Some Ones Less with Daniel Heller-Roazen

NYU Department of Comparative Literature: Online Event

Timothy Hampton on American Folk Traditions and Modern Prophecy in Psyche Magazine

“Bynum’s work has become legendary among scholars of the Middle Ages” Dissimilar Similitudes reviewed in Religion & the Arts

“A tribute to the author’s four decades of scholarship” Dissimilar Similitudes reviewed in Church Times

“Another Speculation Is Possible: The Political Lesson Of R/Wall Street Bets” Michel Feher's take on GameStop in Progress in Political Economy

“Within the confines of art historical speculation, this book explodes like a hand grenade” Into the White reviewed in Renaissance Quarterly

“A pioneering work.” Into the White reviewed in Swedish newspaper Svenska Dagbladet

Deconstructing Bob Dylan

92nd Street Y (Online Event)

Absentees featured in Lit Hub's Most Anticipated Books of 2021

Timothy Hampton Interviewed at New Books Network

“Christopher Heuer’s Into the White is a pleasure both to behold and to read.” Into the White reviewed in Sixteenth Century Journal

“This ambitious & original study presents an entirely new interpretation of symbolist art” A Forest of Symbols reviewed in Art History

“Pop offers an expansive conceptual definition of symbolist art,” A Forest of Symbols reviewed in Journal of Art Historiography

Wendy Brown Interviewed in JACOBIN

“Bob Dylan in the Country: Rock Domesticity and Pastoral Song,” an essay by Timothy Hampton in Representations

“Looking at Medieval Objects,” an essay by Caroline Walker Bynum in Princeton University Press Ideas Blog

Caroline Walker Bynum at Labyrinth Books

Labyrinth Books Livestream

“It’s the rare art history text that is equally interesting historically and conceptually,” Gabriel Chazan reviews Into the White

“Bob Dylan’s Rowdy Ways and American Voice,” an essay by Timothy Hampton in PUP’s Ideas Blog

“Clastres presents his sensational findings in the most neutral way possible: to see everything in the Atchei’s way of life” Tourniquet Review

“Original, revisionist interpretations that illuminate avenues for further study” Dissimilar Similitudes reviewed in Foreword Reviews

“Readers interested in literary and visual symbolisms will find much to think through” A Forest of Symbols reviewed in H-France

“Heuer raises the critical relationship between imagery, environment, & capital accumulation that we reckon with still today.”—HNA Review of Books

Wendy Brown Interviewed in The Drift

“Heuer’s interest is how we see the Arctic, how we see it has implications for how we treat it,” Into the White reviewed in Rochester Newscenter

“An altogether meticulous, beguiling, and fascinating book” Bob Dylan’s Poetics reviewed in David Marx: Book Reviews

“This book reflects the complexity of the symbolist movement and its intellectual context.” A Forest of Symbols reviewed in Not Even Past

The Culture of The Copy excerpted in the MIT Press Reader

Christopher Heuer Interviewed in BLARB

Timothy Hampton interviewed about “Murder Most Foul” on Blue Mountain Radio

“ ‘Murder Most Foul’ & the Haunting of America” an essay by Timothy Hampton in the MIT Press Reader

Michel Feher interviewed in NacióDigital

Michel Feher interviewed in El País

Paul Preciado Interviewed in Vice

Zone Books to Partner with Princeton University Press

Michel Feher in Barcelona

Palau Macaya Passeig de Sant Joan, 108 Barcelona

“A thought-provoking book…required reading for an understanding of our times” A Forest of Symbols reviewed in Sun News

“An extraordinarily rich and ambitious book”No One’s Ways discussed on Syndicate

Andrei Pop at The Dial Bookshop

The Dial Bookshop 410 S Michigan Ave Chicago, IL

“A mesmerizing read… A truly interdisciplinary investigation” A Forest of Symbols reviewed in Leonardo

Andrei Pop at The Courtauld Institute of Art

Research Forum Seminar Room, The Courtauld Institute of Art Vernon Square, Penton Rise King’s Cross, London, WC1X 9EW

“A strong addition to a growing literature that traces how the neoliberal project laid the foundations for financialization…” —Public Books

Into the White picked as a Best Book on Northern Renaissance in Five Books

Interview with Andrei Pop in Journal of the History of Ideas Blog

“A major contribution,” Amy Knight Powell reviews Into the White in CAA.reviews

Q & A with Andrei Pop at The MIT Press Reader

“For activism in this domain to work, we need to break up the monolithic conception of investors”Rated Agency reviewed at (PERC) Goldsmiths

“One finds intense pleasure in reading this important page of French history.” 1668 reviewed in Seventeenth Century News

“A remarkable book…worthwhile to those interested in song, literature, and creative invention.” Bob Dylan’s Poetics reviewed in Chicago Life

Andrei Pop at University Press Books

2430 Bancroft Way Berkeley, CA 94704

Andrei Pop at Literati Bookstore

124 E. Washington St. Ann Arbor, MI 48104

Andrei Pop and Christopher Heuer at Harvard Book Store

Harvard Book Store 1256 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge, MA 02138

Andrei Pop at Book Culture

Book Culture on Columbus 450 Columbus Ave New York, NY 10024

Christopher Heuer at Seminary Co-op Bookstore

Seminary Co-op Bookstore
5751 S. Woodlawn Ave. Chicago, IL 60637

Andrei Pop at Seminary Co-op Bookstore

Seminary Co-op Bookstore 5751 S. Woodlawn Ave. Chicago, IL 60637

Christopher Heuer at Fundació Antoni Tàpies

Carrer d’Aragó 255 08007 Barcelona (Spain)

“Library Love,” An Essay by Paul Preciado in Passa Porta

“An extraordinarily influential book, and deservedly so.” LARB on Undoing the Demos

Brooklyn Book Festival 2019

Brooklyn Borough Hall Plaza

Christopher Heuer at Scandinavia House

Scandinavia House 58 Park Avenue New York, NY 10016

Melinda Cooper interviewed in Society and Space

“Echoes of a Fantasy: On Bob Dylan's Rolling Thunder” an essay by Timothy Hampton on Vesto PR Blog

Small Press Flea 2019

Brooklyn Public Library Central Branch at Grand Army Plaza

The Chinese Pleasure Book reviewed in The Journal of Asian Studies

“Michel Feher is one of the most insightful observers of financialized capitalism writing today.” Melinda Cooper reviews Rated Agency in PPE

“A fascinating and innovative study” Perfection’s Therapy reviewed in HNA Review of Books

Christopher Heuer Recommends Five Best Arctic Adventure Books for The Wall Street Journal

Michel Feher Interviewed in Los Angeles Review of Books

“Richly allusive and smart…this is a convincing book as well as an exhilarating one” Bob Dylan’s Poetics reviewed in Arkansas Democrat Gazette

“[Written] with a style that turns analysis into a form of suspense” Bob Dylan’s Poetics reviewed in Rolling Stone

“Open Verification,” an essay by Eyal Weizman on e-flux Architecture

“Bob Dylan in Trumpland: The Working Man in ‘Modern Times,’” an essay by Timothy Hampton in the MIT Reader

An Interview with Melinda Cooper in Medium

“Hampton interprets Dylan in close-to-the-grain poetic ways of composition that have never been done before.” Bob Dylan’s Poetics reviewed in LARB

“[An] original and timely contribution” Rated Agency reviewed in Lateral

Christopher Heuer at I Tatti: Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies

Gould Hall, I Tatti Florence, Italy

Christopher Heuer at Offprint London

Tate Modern Turbine Hall Bankside London SE1

Forensic Architecture at the 2019 Whitney Biennial

Christopher Heuer’s INTO THE WHITE excerpted in Lapham’s Quarterly

“Takes on the crucial task of imagining a politics capable of responding to the dominance of finance.” Rated Agency reviewed in Books & Ideas

Public Seminar Interviews Michel Feher

“Best account thus far of Dylan’s poetics…an impressive and prescient achievement” Bob Dylan’s Poetics reviewed in Spectrum Culture

Timothy Hampton at the Bay Area Book Festival

The Marsh Theater 2120 Allston Way, Berkeley, CA 94704

Christopher Heuer at Book Culture

Book Culture 536 West 112th St. New York, NY 10025

Timothy Hampton at Mrs. Dalloway's Bookstore

2904 College Avenue Berkeley, CA 94705

Timothy Hampton at The Townsend Center for Humanities

University of California, Berkeley Geballe Room, 220 Stephens Hall

Michel Feher at University of Sydney

University of Sydney Sydney, NSW 2000 Australia

Michel Feher at Gleebooks

Gleebooks 49 Glebe Point Road, Glebe, Sydney Australia

Timothy Hampton at City Lights Bookstore

City Lights Bookstore 261 Columbus Avenue at Broadway, San Francisco, CA 94133

Bob Dylan: Maker of Songs

Smithsonian Associates S. Dillon Ripley Center 1100 Jefferson Dr SW

Timothy Hampton at Labyrinth Books Princeton

Labyrinth Books 122 Nassau Street Princeton, NJ 08542

Timothy Hampton at McNally Jackson Books

McNally Jackson Books Williamsburg 76 North 4th St., Unit G Brooklyn, NY 11249

Timothy Hampton at The American Writers Museum

The American Writers Museum 180 N. Michigan Avenue, Second Floor Chicago, IL 60601

Michael Nylan at Oxford Literary Festival

Oxford Martin School: Lecture Theatre

“[A] useful interpretation of the present and a plausible vision of the future.” Rated Agency reviewed in The Baffler

Michael Nylan at Labyrinth Books

Labyrinth Books 122 Nassau Street Princeton, NJ 08542

Timothy Hampton interviewed on The Not Old Better Show

“A stimulating and wide-ranging study” Bob Dylan’s Poetics reviewed in Stride Magazine

“An immensely valuable study” 1668: The Year of the Animal in France reviewed in The Journal of Modern History

Melinda Cooper on Behind the News podcast

IDS Public Lecture Series: Michel Feher at Cooper Union

Cooper Union Frederick P. Rose Auditorium 41 Cooper Square 10003 New York, NY

“Ambitious, cross-disciplinary…fascinating.” The Form of Becoming reviewed in Radical Philosophy

Michel Feher at 2019 Night of Philosophy & Ideas

Central Library, 10 Grand Army Plaza, Brooklyn, NY

Eyal Weizman Delivers Keynote Address at The Met's Architecture Symposium

The Met Fifth Avenue 1000 Fifth Avenue New York, NY 10028

A Forum Discussion of 1668: The Year of the Animal in France by Peter Sahlins in H-France

Beyond the Wall: A Q&A with Wendy Brown in THE NATION

The Political Ascendancy of Creditworthiness: Michel Feher in PUBLIC BOOKS

Melinda Cooper Interviewed on THE DIG: Jacobin Radio

The Chinese Pleasure Book excerpted in The LA Review of Books

Michel Feher: Public Lecture at City University of London

City University of London College Building A130 St John Street London EC1V 4PB

The Age of Appreciation: Michel Feher at Goldsmiths University of London

Goldsmiths University of London, 312, Richard Hoggart Building, 8 Lewisham Way, New Cross, London SE14 6NW, UK

“may be an enduring contribution to political economy” Rated Agency reviewed in Hyperallergic

“[A]n extraordinarily learned, deeply thoughtful, and thoroughly contemporary response” Perfection’s Therapy reviewed in Critical Inquiry

Michel Feher interviewed on KPFA's Against the Grain

“This book advances important perspectives on the many facets of absolutism in Early Modern Europe” 1668 reviewed in Historically Speaking

“This book accounts for why so many are fascinated by European visualized wisdom” Perfection’s Therapy reviewed in CAA Reviews

“brilliant and original” Family Values reviewed in the London Review of Books

When Capitalism Changes Direction: Political Engagements with Our Invested Selves

Geballe Room, 220 Stephens Hall, UC Berkeley

Michel Feher: “Creditworthiness – The Political Stake of a Speculative Age”

Center For Cultural Studies / UC Santa Cruz, Humanities 1, Room 210, 1156 High St., Santa Cruz, CA 95060

Michel Feher at UC Santa Barbara

University of California Santa Barbara Social Science and Media Studies 3145 Santa Barbara, California 93106

Michel Feher at the Seminary Co-op Bookstore

The Seminary Co-op Bookstore 5751 S. Woodlawn Ave. Chicago, IL 60637

Michel Feher at NYU Maison Française

NYU / La Maison Française, 16 Washington Mews, New York, NY 10003

Rated Agency: Michel Feher at Columbia Maison Française

Columbia Maison Française Buell Hall, 515 W. 116 St., New York, NY 10027 East Gallery

The Hegemony of Finance: A Conversation with Michel Feher

Ministry of Ideas / Harvard Divinity School 45 Francis Ave., Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138

Michael Nylan at Aeon Bookstore

Aeon Bookstore 151 East Broadway New York, NY

A Q&A with Michael Nylan at The MIT Press

“an important contribution to theorising the contemporary economy” Portfolio Society reviewed in LSE Review of Books

Michael Nylan at University Press Books

University Press Books 2430 Bancroft Way Berkeley, CA 94704

Peter Sahlins's 1668:The Year of the Animal in France wins the 2018 J. Russell Major Prize

“…fascinating…[Sahlins’s] analysis of animal-related cultural productions is full of detail.” 1668 reviewed in The TLS

“A ground-breaking work” The Return of Comrade Ricardo Flores Magón reviewed in The Latin American Review of Books

“[T]he phenomena that Feher describes and the counterstrategy he outlines are likely to spark intra-left debate.” Rated Agency reviewed in PW

“[F]urther shaping what architecture can mean.” Forensic Architecture reviewed in n+1

“[A] leading voice in socially engaged spatial culture.” Forensic Architecture reviewed in Review 31

“One of the most telling and influential books on neoliberalism” Undoing the Demos reviewed in American Book Review

“…many things to savor in Merback’s book…it erects an intriguing mode of interpretation…” Perfection’s Therapy reviewed in PopMatters

“Cooper’s book will change our conversation. It provides such a detailed and comprehensive argument…” Family Values reviewed in Theory & Event

“…highly speculative, erudite and informed” Perfection’s Therapy reviewed on Leonardo

The New Books Network Interviews Peter Sahlins

“…interrogates the contemporary tasks of academic research and production of critical knowledge” Forensic Architecture in Radical Philosophy

Ivan Ascher speaks at CUNY's 2018 Left Forum Conference

John Jay College of Criminal Justice 524 W 59th St, New York, New York 10019

H-Diplo Roundtable XIX: A Discussion of Melinda Cooper's Family Values

Forensic Architecture Discussed in The NYRB Daily

“Sahlins’s account is a model of what can be accomplished by cultural history” 1668: The Year of the Animal in France reviewed in NYRB

Forensic Architecture Shortlisted for the Turner Prize 2018

“…thoroughly commendable…a thought provoking and intelligently written volume” History and Obstinacy reviewed in Radical Philosophy Review

An Interview with Wendy Brown in Eurozine

“… a crucial work…This book stands alone as a rare musicological examination of music’s origins” A Million Years of Music reviewed in MAKE

Ivan Ascher featured in Project Syndicate

“Sahlins traces the effects of the new Classical naturalist paradigm ” 1668: The Year of the Animal in France reviewed in The LA Review of Books

Mitchell B. Merback at NYU Deutsches Haus

Deutsches Haus at NYU 42 Washington Mews, New York, NY 10003

Five Minutes with Mitchell B. Merback at The MIT Press

“…brilliant and richly researched…a book that will reside comfortably on a shelf with other classics” Family Values reviewed in Lateral

NY Times writes a commentary on the mission of Forensic Architecture

“Merback’s stunning book makes the case for the inception of a new genre of imagery in Melencolia I” Perfection’s Therapy reviewed in 3AM Magazine

“…[an] erudite new study of Dürer’s engraving.” Perfection’s Therapy reviewed in The Times Literary Supplement

“may be the most important contribution to musicology in its short history” The Royal Musical Association reviews A Million Years of Music

Melinda Cooper Interviewed in Viewpoint Magazine

“A true pleasure to read… a complex and vivid picture of the debates about the animal theme in the 1660s” 1668 reviewed in Francia Recensio

“Counter-investigations on State Crimes.” An interview with Eyal Weizman

Mitchell B. Merback at Book Culture

Book Culture 536 W 112th St. New York, NY 10025

Counter Investigations: A Survey Exhibition of Forensic Architecture

Institute of Contemporary Arts, The Mall London SW1Y 5AH

“Every page documents unbelievable work…to counter-investigate state violence.” Forensic Architecture reviewed in The Brooklyn Rail

Eyal Weizman Featured in The Guardian

“An indispensable theoretical companion to the performance practice which is the (re)composition of sensory history.” The Classical Review

“ …its object is both as mesmerizing and as difficult to embrace as a bodiless echo.” The Ancient Phonograph reviewed in Classical Philology

Peter Sahlins Interviewed in Sniffing the Past

“…[a] masterful new study of capitalism and the American right…” Family Values reviewed in Jacobin

“Who is not a neoliberal today?” An interview with Wendy Brown in Tocqueville 21

“Animals and Absolutism” Peter Sahlins on Against the Grain on KPFA 94.1

Ivan Ascher's Portfolio Society Discussed in Public Books

Peter Sahlins’s 1668: The Year of the Animal in France reviewed in Hyperallergic

Wendy Brown’s Undoing the Demos wins the 2017 David and Elaine Spitz Prize

Melinda Cooper’s Family Values featured in the Boston Review’s Top Ten Reads on Inequality

Eyal Weizman’s Forensic Architecture picked as a Financial Times Best Book of 2017

“The vivacity of its prose and the quickness of its wit cast Portfolio Society among the racers.” A new review in Contemporary Political Theory

“…a (re)reading of Marx that critically analyzes the constitutive role of finance in the social world.” Portfolio Society in Cultural Politics

An Interview with Gary Tomlinson in Lapham’s Quarterly

“Beauty, in this scenario, is not just a privilege, but also a meaningful indicator of humanity.” — The Form of Becoming in BOMB

Five Minutes with Peter Sahlins at The MIT Press

A Million Years of Music featured in Nature Magazine

Peter Sahlins’s 1668: The Year of the Animal in France excerpted in Lit Hub

Eyal Weizman’s Forensic Architecture reviewed in the October issue of Artforum.

“…an outstanding example of the growing trend to engage with questions of political economy.” Portfolio Society reviewed in Theory & Event

Gary Tomlinson’s A Million Years of Music discussed in Frontiers in Neuroscience

Melinda Cooper discusses Family Values on WFHB's Interchange

Eyal Weizman at e-flux

e-flux
311 E Broadway
New York, NY 10002

Eyal Weizman at Yale University

Yale University
Hall of Graduate Studies
320 York Street
Room 211
New Haven, CT 06520

Eyal Weizman at McGill University

Macdonald Harrington Building
Room G10
815 rue Sherbrooke Ouest
Montreal, QC
H3A 0C2
CA

“Demonstrates how…those who design the built environment can contribute positively against intimidating forces.”Forensic Architecture in Spacing

Eyal Weizman at The Museum of Modern Art

Celeste Bartos Theatre
4 West 54th Street
Cullman Education and Research Building
Manhattan, NY 10019

Eyal Weizman at Cooper Union

The Frederick P. Rose Auditorium
41 Cooper Square
New York, NY 10003

Eyal Weizman at Bard College

Weiss Theater
Bertelsmann Campus Center
Bard College
Annandale-on-Hudson, NY 12504

Eyal Weizman at The Museum of Modern Art

The Museum of Modern Art
T1, Theater 1
11 West 53 Street
Manhattan, NY 10019

“The perspective shift he offers is no less than the image of a planet overrun by human machinations.” Forensic Architecture in New Scientist

Ivan Ascher interviewed on New Books in Sociology

“Constructs a rich empirical analysis of how neoliberalism creates economic inequality.” Undoing the Demos reviewed in Foucault Studies

“The problem isn’t images; it’s us.” —The Civil Contract of Photography reviewed in The New Yorker

“Offers inspiring and thought-provoking reading throughout.” Form of Becoming reviewed in The British Society for Literature and Science

Gary Tomlinson Featured on SHOWCASE Podcast “Ways of Hearing”

Near Futures Online / Near Futures Online

Ebbing and Flowing: The EU’s Shifting Practices of (Non-) Assistance and Bordering in a Time of Crisis

CHARLES HELLER + LORENZO PEZZANI

“Brilliantly shows how enmeshed we are, as political and economic agents, into the family form.” Family Values reviewed in Dissent Magazine

“In this highly readable publication, the author covers original ground” Portfolio Society in Science & Public Policy

“Profiting Off Finance” Ivan Ascher on Against the Grain on KPFA 94.1

“A call to take seriously the task of understanding our self-understanding.” No One’s Ways reviewed in Los Angeles Review of Books

Near Futures Online / Family Values

Between Neoliberalism and the New Social Conservatism

Melinda Cooper

Melinda Cooper at Bookculture

Bookculture 536 W 112th St New York, NY 10025

Neoliberalism and the Rise of Finance

The Center for the Humanities The Graduate Center 365 Fifth Avenue Martin E. Segal Theatre New York, NY 10016

Series / Spring 2017

Near Futures Series

Family values melinda cooper

Portfolio society ivan ascher

Undoing the demos wendy brown

Edited by Wendy Brown and Michel Feher

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Watch Melinda Cooper discuss Family Values at The Center for the Humanities, CUNY

“Andriopoulos investigates the recurring & polyvalent references to the ghostly and phantasmagoric,” Ghostly Apparitions reviewed in Project MUSE

Ivan Ascher’s Portfolio Society reviewed in Lateral: Journal of the Cultural Studies Association

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Zone Readers

Access to knowledge krikorian

Nongovernmental politics michel feher

Sensible politics meg mclagan yates mckee

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Five Minutes with Ivan Ascher at The MIT Press

“Plays an invaluable role.” Family Values reviewed in openDemocracy

Watch Felicity D. Scott discuss Environmental Insecurities at the Center for the Humanities

Five Minutes with Melinda Cooper at the MIT Press

“How Neoliberals and Social Conservatives Found Common Ground in the Family” Melinda Cooper interviewed on This is Hell! radio broadcast

Melinda Cooper Interviewed on Who Makes Cents?: A History of Capitalism Podcast

“Such a well-written book of economic and political theory–no small feat for the genre.” Portfolio Society reviewed in Fila Sophia

“Tomlinson cuts a fascinating path … ” A Million Years of Music reviewed in Notes

“Dismantles the fantasy formatting the vision of liberal democratic triumph” Undoing the Demos reviewed in Critical Inquiry

“ [Scott] offers hope that we, as designers, are not bound to reproducing the status quo.” Outlaw Territories reviewed in Harvard Design Magazine

Wendy Brown’s Undoing the Demos reviewed in Theory Culture & Society

“…a demonstration of how contemporary neoliberalism legitimizes political behavior” Undoing the Demos reviewed in Cleaver Magazine

Thomas Laqueur Interviewed on NPR's Fresh Air

Wendy Brown’s Undoing the Demos reviewed in The Boston Review

“Compelling…[Andriopoulos] finds much to unearth, dust off, and catalog for future use,” Ghostly Apparitions reviewed in Art Bulletin

“In this engaging book… Brown provides a realistic appraisal of what democracy was and might have been.” Undoing the Demos in Society & Space

Wendy Brown’s Undoing the Demos reviewed in the Los Angeles Review of Books

Wendy Brown discusses Undoing the Demos on The Majority Report with Sam Seder

An Interview with Wendy Brown in Dissent Magazine

“The real ghosts in the new media machine are the spectators themselves,” Ghostly Apparitions reviewed in ArtReview

“A hugely suggestive and important study,” Ghostly Apparitions reviewed in Review 31

“… an insightful and innovative book that defies straightforward classification” Close Up at a Distance reviewed in Society & Space

“Essential reading for activists!” Sensible Politics: The Visual Culture of Nongovernmental Politics reviewed in LSE Review of Books

“Kafka has assembled an excellent cast through which to retell the story of bureaucracy as reality” The Demon of Writing in Reviews in History

“…provocative, original, and a very good read” The Demon of Writing reviewed in The New York Review of Books

“… distinctiveness [of] … proposoal” Nietzsche Circle reviews Inner Touch

The New Books Network Interviews Judith Farquhar

The New Books Network Interviews Hanna Rose Shell

Vital Nourishment Reviewed inNotre Dame Philosophical Reviews

“A fundamental study of Riegl” Historical Grammar of the Visual Arts reviewed in Bryn Mawr Classical Review

“The best introduction to Riegl’s thought”Historical Grammar of the Visual Arts reviewed in CAA Reviews

“… there is much to be heard in the silences” Current Musicology reviews Making Noise

“A fascinating, learned, and honest invitation to discussion” Anachronic Renaissance reviewed in CAA Reviews