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SPRING 2006

CTheory Live:
Taiaiake Alfred in Conversation with Arthur Kroker

May 17, 2006

Taiaiake Alfred is a Kanien’kehaka (Mohawk) philosopher, writer and teacher and has emerged as an influential figure in the new generation of Indigenous leaders. Dr. Alfred holds a Canada Research Chair and is a Professor in the Indigenous Governance Programs and the Department of Political Science at the University of Victoria. He is the author of three books, Heeding the Voices of Our Ancestors, Peace, Power, Righteousness, and Wasase: Indigenous Pathways of Action and Freedom.

CTheory Live Interview Taiaiake Alfred

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References:
www.taiaiake.com
lecture series at PACATC: Indigenous Pathways of Action and Freedom [ click here ]

CTheory Live:
N. Katherine Hayles in Conversation with Arthur Kroker

April 26, 2006

N. Katherine Hayles is a noted postmodern literary critic and theorist as well as the author of How We Became Posthuman: Virtual Bodies in Cybernetics, Literature and Informatics which won the René Wellek Prize for the best book in literary theory for 1998-1999. Her most recent book is My Mother was a Computer: Digital Subjects and Literary Texts. She is currently the Hills Professor of Literature in English and Media Arts at the University of California Los Angeles, where she has taught since 1992.

CTheory Live Interview N. Katherine Hayles

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References:

N. Katherine Hayles. My Mother Was a Computer: Digital Subjects and Literary Texts. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2005.
N. Katherine Hayles, Ed. NanoCulture: Implications of the New Technoscience. London: Intellect Books, 2004.
N. Katherine Hayles. Writing Machines. Cambridge (MA): The MIT Press, 2002.
N. Katherine Hayles. Riding the Cusp: Locating Scientific Knowledge in the Body, Language and Culture. London: Routledge, 2001.
N. Katherine Hayles. How We Became Posthuman: Virtual Bodies in Cybernetics, Literature, and Informatics. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1999.
N. Katherine Hayles. Chaos and Order: Complex Dynamics in Literature and Science. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1991.
N. Katherine Hayles. The Cosmic Web: Scientific Field Models and Literary Strategies in the 20th Century. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1986.
N. Katherine Hayles. Chaos Bound: Orderly Disorder in Contemporary Literature and Science. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1980.

http://www.english.ucla.edu/faculty/hayles/

CTheory Live:
STELARC in conversation with Arthur & Marilouise Kroker

April 20, 2006

Stelarc is a world renowned Australian-based performance artist whose work explores and extends the concept of the body and its relationship with technology. He is Visiting Professor, School of Art and Design, at the Nottingham Trent University, Nottingham, UK.

CTheory Live Interview with Stelarc

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References:

Stelarc. "Prosthetic Head: Intelligence, Awareness and Agency," CTheory 28.3, article td018 (Fall 2005)
http://www.ctheory.net/articles.aspx?id=490

Julie Clarke. "Stelarc's Prosthetic Head," CTheory 28.3, article td019 (Fall 2005)
http://www.ctheory.net/articles.aspx?id=491

http://www.stelarc.va.com.au/

Marquard Smith, Ed. Stelarc: The Monograph, Cambridge, Mass.: The MIT Press, 2005.

Marina Grzinic, Ed. Stelarc: Political Prosthesis & Knowledge of the Body, Ljubljana, Maribor: Maska/MKC, 2002.

MICHEL FOUCAULT'S LEGACY

March 13- 14, 2006

Session One . Monday March 13 . 2:30 - 3:30

James Tully
Foucault and the Question of Agency