Kulturkritik at the IASC
from Edward Gitre's portfolio
In addition to conducting my own research and participating in bi-weekly seminars at the IASC, I am also co-convening a salon with Josh Yates, an Institute director. A small group of fellows will meet six times over dinner, roughly a month apart, three times each semester, to discuss various individuals, developments, and themes in modern cultural criticism. Our goal is not simply to survey and map an intellectual genealogy of academic thinking, but rather to seek out, discover, and construct positive models of engagement to further our own work and, by extension, the mission of the Institute.
Below is the list of conversations and a (tentative) lineup of critics.
1. Debating Modern Culture / Matt Mutter, facilitator
Matthew Arnold, selection from Culture and Anarchy (1869)
T.S. Eliot, selection from Notes Towards the Definition of Culture (1948)
W.H. Auden, "Criticism in a Mass Society" (1940)
Raymond Williams, conclusion to Culture and Society: 1780-1950 (1958)
2. The (Heterodox?) Frankfurt School / Ed Gitre
Walter Benjamin, "Paris, Capital of the Nineteenth Century," Convolutes N and K, Arcades Project (1999)
3. Christian Readings of Modernity / Josh Yates
Graham Ward, Ivan Illitch, William Cavanaugh
4. Beyond Reason and Truth -- The Debate / David Franz
Michel Foucault vs Charles Taylor
5. Governmentality and the Rule of Freedom / Ed Gitre
Nikolas Rose and Thomas Osborne
6. Technologies and Techniques of Modern Enchantment / Jeff Dill
Bruno Latour, Jane Bennett, et al.
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