CONFERENCE SCHEDULE

International Herbert Marcuse Society Fifth Biennial Conference

University of Kentucky Lexington, Kentucky USA

November 7-9, 2013

Emancipation, New Sensibility, and the Challenge of a New Era: Theory, Practice, and Pedagogy

8:30-9:00am Meet and Greet/Coffee and Pastries Student Center, Room 206

9:00-10:40am Session 1: Concurrent Panels 1-3

Student Center, Room 206

Panel 1: Marcuse and Recent Social Movements

Robespierre de Oliveira Catastrophe of Liberation: New Sensibility and the Struggle for Changing the Way of Life

Lauren Langman May You Live in Interesting Times—And We Do

Student Center, Room 230

Panel 2: Wild Dark Times, or Liberating the End: An Exploration of Herbert Marcuse, the Apocalypse, and the Specters of Liberation

Thomas C. Was The Unfreedom of Rationality and Technology: Starvation by Wall Street

Stephen Bourque Our Blood is Thinning: Death, Destruction, and Residual Resistance

Andres Mesa Aesthetic Liberation: A Foundation For a New Critical Ecology

Student Center, Room 249

Panel 3: Teaching Contradictions

Andrew T. Lamas Short Talk, Video Excerpts, Student Artifacts, and Full-Room Discussion in a Workshop Style on Critical Pedagogy

Thursday, 7 November 2013

10:45am-12:25pm Session 2: Concurrent Panels 4-7 Student Center, Room 206

Panel 4: Liberation, Resource Limits, and the Revolutionary Subject

Michael Reno Resource Limits and the Objective Possibility of Liberation

Philip Walsh The Precariat as Revolutionary Subject? Insights from Herbert Marcuse

Mark Cobb Exile and Freedom: Marcuse and Our Post WWII Predicament

Andrés Ortiz Lemos The Fata Morgana of Technology as Ideological Interpellator: The Case of the Citizen Revolution in Ecuador

Student Center, Room 111

Panel 5: Critical Pedagogy

Theofilo M. B. de Oliveira The Teaching of Philosophy in Brazil, at Stake: The Problem of the Semi-formation and Emancipation Through the Development of a New Sensibility

Sarah Surak Critical Ecological Pedagogy: Assessing the State of Environmental Policy in Education

Amanda Lusky Critically Revising Technocratic Pedagogy: Applying Marcuse and Dewey for Transformative Education within a Global Community

Filip Kovacevic A Marcusean Pedagogy in the 21st Century: The Case of Michel Onfray

Student Center, Room 230

Panel 6: Ecology, Biopolitics, and Aesthetics

Silvio Ricardo Gomes Carneiro Specters of Aesthetics: Symbolic versus Biopolitics

Javier Sethness-Castro Ecology and Empire in Marx, Adorno, and Marcuse

Brandon Huson Agroecology: Food Production that Liberates

Student Center, Room 249

Panel 7: The Eros Effect

Jason Del Gandio Extending the Eros Effect: Sentience, Reality, and Emanation

AK Thompson Eros or Biological Hatred? Ontological Ambivalence in Katsiaficas and Marcuse

George Katsiaficas From Marcuse’s Political Eros to the Eros Effect

Douglas Kellner Discussant

12:25-2:30pm Lunch

2:30-5:00pm Welcome and Keynote Address

Student Center, Center Theater

2:30-2:45pm Arnold L. Farr Official Welcome

2:50-5:00pm Keynote Address

5:00-7:00pm Dinner

7:00-8:15pm Plenary Session 1

White Hall Classroom Building, CB Room 208

Jeremy Popkin Herbert Marcuse’s Years at UC San Diego: An Interview with Richard H. Popkin

Richard Wolin

Distinguished Professor of History CUNY Graduate Center

Marcuse and the New Left: Emancipatory Violence as a Problem of Political Philosophy

8:15-8:45am Meet and Greet/Coffee and Pastries William T. Young Library, Multipurpose Room

8:45-10:15am Plenary Session 2

William T. Young Library, Multipurpose Room

Shelly Johnson, Charles Reitz, Peter Marcuse, Arnold L. Farr, and Andy Lamas

A Discussion on Crisis and Commonwealth: Marx, Marcuse, McClaren and on Reitz’s Proposal for the Crisis and Commonwealth Working Group

10:15-10:30am Break

10:30-11:30am Plenary Session 3

William T. Young Library, Multipurpose Room

Douglas Kellner, Peter-Erwin Jansen, Charles Reitz, and Arnold L. Farr

Recent Marcuse Research

11:30am-12:45pm

William T. Young Library, Multipurpose Room

Business Meeting International Herbert Marcuse Society

12:45-2:15pm Lunch

Note: If you are not attending the Business Meeting, then your lunch break is from 11:30am-2:15pm.

Friday, 8 November 2013

2:15pm-3:45pm Session 3: Concurrent Panels 8-11

Student Center, Room 249

Panel 8: Marcuse, Marx, and Marxisms

Fred Mecklenburg Marx’s Marxism: A New Attitude to Objectivity

David M. Peña-Guzman The Marxism-Heideggerianism Tension: A Philosophical Disjunction

Karla Encalada Falconi Marx and Lacan: The Comparison of the Impossible

Russell Rockwell Marcuse’s and Fromm’s Marxism: Their Trajectories, Intersections, and Social Relevance

Student Center, Room 206

Panel 9: Pedagogy, Liberation, Utopia

Karen Abney Korn Teaching Sustainability to Undergraduate Students: Marcuse’s “End of Utopia,” Ideas of Progress, and Daniel Quinn’s “Ishmael”

Shelly Johnson Eros and Pedagogy: Marcuse and Freire on Liberating Praxis

Joshua Rayman The Specter of Liberation

Maria Érbia C. Carnaúba The Contradictions of Utopia in Critical Theory

Student Center, Room 357

Panel 10: Repression, Authority, and Power: Obstacles to Liberation

M. Clark Sugata and Steven Marotta Crowdfunding the Self: Human Capital Contracts and the Illusion of Liberation

Clancy Smith Negative Thinking in an Age of Authority

Craig R. Christiansen The Ties that Bind: The Role of Professional Identity in Repression and Compliance

James McMahon Power and Culture: What Makes Hollywood Run?

White Hall Classroom Building, CB Room 333

Panel 11: Marcuse in Conversation with Liberalism and Traditional Political Philosophy

Michael J. Thompson Marcuse and the Critique of Liberal Political Philosophy

Christopher Holman Marcuse, Machiavelli, and the Concept of Political Sublimation

Larry Udell Rawls and Neoclassical Economics

Tyler Suggs Punishment, Alterity, and One Dimensionality

3:45-4:00pm Break

4:00-5:30pm Session 4: Concurrent Panels 12-15

Lucille C. Little Fine Arts Library, LCLI Room 311

Panel 12: Marcuse, Kafka, Echeverria, and the Culture of Exclusion

Ali Gooyabadi Marcuse, Kafka, and the Dialectic of Bureaucracy

Adriana Yeyetzi Cardiel Pérez Marcuse’s Pleasure Principle and Bolivar Echeverria’s Baroque Ethos: Notes for a Construction of Sensibility and Subjectivity that Resists Capitalist Impositions

Lissette Silva Lazcano A Critical Approach to the Culture of Exclusion

Lucille C. Little Fine Arts Library, LCLI Room 312

Panel 13: Digital Dimensionality

Sascha Engel Author, Authority, Authenticity: The Death and Discourse of Aaron Swartz

Saby Ghoshray Revisiting Marcusean One Dimensionality through the Lenses of Seduction to Symmetry and Digital Immersion in Contemporary Society

Stuart Smithers The Digital Gaze: Conscious Labor and Captured Attention in the Age of the Intellectual-Information Worker

Student Center, Room 111

Panel 14: The Challenge of Social, Digital, and Mass Media, and the Problem of Political Discourse

Charles Joshua Horn Hope for Economic Liberation: Social Media and the New Capitalist Revolution

Clint Jones Techno-Eroticism: Marcuse and The Politics of Friendship in the Age of Social Media

Deborah C. Antunes Are the Digital Media the Message? Analyzing the “Ceará Digital Belt” Contradictions

Elliott Buckland Tolerance and Objectivity in Contemporary Political Discourse

Student Center, Room 249

Panel 15: Reading Marcuse Reading the Western Philosophical Tradition

Jeffery Nicholas The Dimensions of Tradition: Or How Substantive Reason Overcomes One-Dimensional Thinking

Brandon Absher “A Picture Held Us Captive”: Rethinking Marcuse’s Critique of Wittgenstein

5:30-7:30pm Dinner

7:30-9:00pm Keynote Address

Student Center, Ballroom

9:00-10:00pm Reception

Cynthia Willett

Professor, Department of Philosophy Emory University

Interspecies Ethics: Cosmopolitanism Across Species

8:30-9:00am Meet and Greet / Coffee and Pastries Student Center, Room 206

9:00-10:30am Session 6: Concurrent Panels 16-19

Student Center, Room 206

Panel 16: Marcuse, Psychoanalysis, and Postmodernism

Hanna-Maija Huhtala Marcuse and Adorno on Freud’s Psychoanalytic Theory

Ryan E. Artrip Hyperreality, Principality, and the Politics of Refusal: Psychoanalysis after Post-Modernism

Arnold L. Farr Repression, Discourse, and Power: Marcuse and Foucault on Sexuality, Domination, and Identity-Formation

Student Center, Room 249

Panel 17: Nature, Anthropology, and Biology In Marcuse’s Critical Theory

Maria Clara Cescato Marcuse: Critical Method and Historical Transformation of Nature

Marilia Mello Pisani Critical Theory and Anthropology in Herbert Marcuse

Paul Mazzocchi The Biological Invariant and Emancipation in Marcuse and Merleau-Ponty

Student Center, Room 357

Panel 18: Marcusean Reflections on Organizing, Community, and Political Movements

Jon Cariba Phoenix How to Change the World by Taking Power

Elliot Ratzman Towards a Materialist Account of Surplus Virtue: Supererogation, Social Justice and the Promise of Community Organizing

Robert Kirsch Toward a Political Economy of Liberation? A Critical Assessment of Neo-Chartalism

Student Center, Room 359

Panel 19: Resistance, Counter-Resistance, and Emancipatory Possibilities

Dennis Rogers Herbert Marcuse, the Possible Impossible, and the Impact on Angela Davis

Jennifer Lawrence Technological Rationality and the Normal Accident: A Critical Analysis of the Deepwater Horizon Disaster

Devin Penner Revisiting Late Capitalist Society

Saturday, 9 November 2013

10:30-10:45am Break

10:45am-12:15pm Session 7: Concurrent Panels 20-22

Student Center, Room 206

Panel 20: Marcuse, Freud, Fromm, and Freire

Stefan Bird-Pollan Kulturpessimismus, Kulturoptimismus; Freud and Marcuse on the Psychic Origins of Cultural Strife

Jeffrey Jackson Repression and Loss: Reading Marcuse’s Account of Social Conditions through Late Freud

Joan Braune Critical Encounter: Erich Fromm, Paulo Freire, and the Socialist Virtue of Hope

Student Center, Room 249

Panel 21: Roundtable Workshop: Exploring Marcuse’s Eros: Animator of Selfhood and Sustainer of Community

James Block, Morgan Shipley, and Adnan Selimović

Student Center, Room 357

Panel 22: Art, Technology, and System

Justin Harmon Art, Being, and Value: Understanding the Anti-Instrumentalism of Heidegger and Marcuse’s Critique of Technology

Daniel Amorim Gomes Two Moments of the Political Dimension of Forms, An Essay on Liberation and Counter-Revolution and Revolt

Carmelito nomer S. Abolencia Jose Rizal’s Dapitan Project: A Look into Jean Baudrillard’s System of Objects

12:15-2:00pm Lunch

2:00-3:45pm Session 8: Concurrent Panels 23-24

Student Center, Room 206

Panel 23: Hegemony, One Dimensionality, and Human Rights

Peter Marcuse The Other Dimension

Harold Marcuse Herbert Marcuse as a Specter for the Anti-Establishment Right

Ben Luongo Austerity as a Hegemonic Tool of Exploitation

Peter-Erwin Jansen Critical Theory, Social Works, and the Relevance of Human Rights

Student Center, Room 249

Panel 24: Marcuse and German Idealism

Joseph Trullinger The Liberating Possibilities of the Kantian Sublime for Marcuse’s Project of Aesthetic Liberation

Mari Jarris Rescuing the Concept of Freedom: The Frankfurt School’s Critique of Idealist Philosophy from Kant to Sartre

Thiago Silva The Importance of Hegelian Negativity for the Dialectical Thought of Herbert Marcuse

3:45-4:00pm Break

4:00-6:00pm Session 9: Concurrent Panels 25-26

Student Center,

Panel 25: Violence, Women, and Liberation

Natalie Nenadic The Imperative of “Thinking” After Auschwitz: The Genealogy of the Concept of Genocidal Rape

Christa Hodapp Ending Violence Where Love Begins: Marcuse, Eros, and Gender Liberation

Edith Wilson What Durkheim Missed: Women as Profane in Elementary Forms and Beyond

Student Center,

Panel 26: Marcuse and the Frankfurt School on Rationality and Praxis

Richard Peterson Rationality’s Dependence on Historical Mediums: Rethinking Social Learning

Patrick Gamsby In a Box Marked Miscellaneous: Remembering Herbert Marcuse at Brandeis University

Andrew Feenberg Realizing Philosophy: Marx, Lukács, and the Frankfurt School

6:00-6:30pm Conference Wrap-Up Student Center, Center Theater

6:30pm-until Dinner and Celebration of Eros