Refusing Our Way of Life:
Praxis for a Radical Present
March 14-16, 2002
University of Florida
Panels on March 14 and 15 will take place in 215 Dauer Hall.
Panels on March 16 will take place in the O. Ruth McQuown room, 219 Dauer Hall.
The keynotes will take place in the Keene Faculty Center on the first
floor of Dauer Hall.
Thursday, March 14
12.00-1.45: Revolution 101
Brendan Riley, "Praxis through Hypertext: The Commitments, Deleuze's War Machine, and a Pedagogy of
Revolution"
Donald Judd, "A Radical Presence in the Classroom: Sequential Writing Assignments as Social Critique"
Kernan Willis, "Coalition Building Between Radicals"
Moderator: Harun Thomas
2.00-3.45: Curtains!
Michael Rowley, "Forgetting Sexy, Workshopping Beautiful: Accessibility Within Revolutionary
Literature and Theory"
John Fletcher, "The Artist as Intellectual: Community-Based Theater as Gramscian Radicality"
Moderator: Erica Pittman
4.00-5.45: Stepping Outside the Ring
Phil Wegner, "Where the Prospective Horizon is Omitted: Naturalism and Dystopia in Fight Club and Ghost Dog"
Maureen Turim, "On Homogeniety, Xenophobia, and Otherness in Japan and the films of Oshima Nagisa"
Tom Odde, "Sergei Eisenstein's Three-Ring Circus of Dialectical Time"
Moderator: Laura Sullivan
Friday, March 15
10.30-12.15: Cut to the Eye
Todd Reynolds, "Vote of no confidence: Conspiracy as subjectivity's negative in The Confidence Man and LA Confidential"
Reagan Ross, "A Postmodern (Popular) Aesthetic: The Didactic and the Political and Bullworth"
Franklin Cason, "Political Vision"
Moderator: Derek Merrill
2.00-3.45: And Now Presenting the Future
Laura Sullivan, "Beautopia"
Alison Van Nyhuis, "The Genevieve Taggard Effect:
Producing Poetic Narratives and Literary Misfits"
Sara Nadal, "Henri Lefebvre's Spatial Corrections:
The Event as a Non-Philosophical Totality"
Moderator: Audrey Wasser
4.00-5.45: Sex Acts
Nishant Shahani, "Resisting Mundane Violence – Towards a Feminist Queer Methodology"
Mindy Cardozo, "Pedagogy and the Politics of the Performative"
Kim Emery, "Marriage Vows; Sex Acts"
Moderator: Renuka Bisht
8.00 Keynote Address
Cesare Casarino, "Time Matters"
Reception to follow in the Keene Faculty Center.
Saturday, March 16
9.30-11.00: Citizens' Arrest
Brynnar Swenson, "Constituting Opposition: Antonio Negri and the Concept of Real Sumption"
Lindsey B. Simms, "Will the real Gramscian
please stand up? An analysis of where the American right and the
American left fall in relation to a gramscian project"
Alan Brech, "The Emperor's New Clothes: Pointing Out Israel's Naked Colonialism"
Moderator: Sherwin Mendoza
11.15-1.00: Westward Woes
Stephanie Smith, "Promising Science: The
Genetics of Billy Budd"
Craig Rinne, "Frontier Dreams in The Matrix"
Andrew Knighton, "Diffusion as Strategy: The Limits of American Productivity in the 19th Century"
Moderator: Aron Pease
2.00-3.45: When the Dust Clears, the Anthrax Comes
Rob Lehman, "A Future All used up: Film Noir, Modernism and the Borders of Utopian Speculation"
Scott Nygren, "Politics of representation in Shinoda's Double Suicide"
Chris Pavsek, "The One and All" (video)
Moderator: Susan Hegeman
4.00-5.45: Red Writing on the Wall
Ivan Ascher, "Theory, Practice, and Theater"
Brad Tabas, "Organic Revolution"
Dennis Badeen, "Is There a Marxist Ethics?"
Moderator: Brian Meredith
8.00 Keynote Address
Randy Martin, "Elaborating Marxism, Laboring Politics"
Sponsored by:
Board of College Councils at the University of Florida
The English Department at the University of Florida
CLASSC
&
The Marxist Reading Group