Audio
Mr Raul Ruiz
A complete radionovela written and directed by Raul Ruiz: Los Cinco Sentidos. (11 mp3s in a .zip file, 70.16 MB. En español.)
Video
Mr Raul Ruiz
On Tuesday 13th June, Mr Raoul Ruiz, the distinguished film director spoke to us in broad terms about his work in film (he has directed almost 100 films) and film theory (he is the author of a multi-volume book entitled "The Poetics of Cinema").
A video archive of this talk is available. Please select a link below based on your connection speed
Professor Christopher Fynsk
30 October 2006: Professor Christopher Fynsk presents his paper "Blanchot and the International Review." (This talk is presented with our thanks to the journal Paragraph, which will be publishing this paper in their forthcoming issue.)
Dr. Patrick Dove
13 November 2006: Dr. Patrick Dove presents his paper "Post-Politics, Technics, Aesthetics: Literature and Mass Media in Contemporary Argentina.
Professor Sergio Villalobos
4 December 2006: Professor Sergio Villalobos presents his paper "Visual Arts and Nihilism: The Current Southern Cone Debate on the Neo-Avantgarde and the Global Market." Accompanied by a seminar, available below.
5 December 2006: Professor Sergio Villalobos gives a seminar, "Post-Humanism in Contemporary Latin Narrative: The Literary Elaborations of Neoliberalism," expanding on his paper of the prior day.
Professor Federico Galende
6 December 2006: Professor Federico Galende gives a reading, "Destruction as an Allegory of Infancy," the first in a series of four linked presentations. (Galende presents in Spanish, with a simultaneous English translation by Professor Alberto Moreiras.)
8 December 2006: Professor Federico Galende gives a reading, "The Misery of Experience," the second in a series of four linked presentations. (Galende presents in Spanish, with a simultaneous English translation by Professor Alberto Moreiras.)
11 December 2006: Professor Federico Galende gives a reading, "On the Language of Dead Things," the third in a series of four linked presentations. (Galende presents in Spanish, with a simultaneous English translation by Professor Alberto Moreiras.)
(The fourth of Prof. Galende's presentations, "The Ruin of Critique,"
could not be recorded due to technical difficulties; we sincerely
apologize.)
Dr. Petar Bojanic
29 January 2007: Dr. Petar Bojanic begins the 2007 presentations at the Centre for Modern Thought with his paper "Terrorism, Terror and the Bomb:
'. . . the importance of fire and the construction of bombs . . .'"
Prof. Brett Levinson
12 February 2007: Prof. Brett Levinson of Binghamton University delivers his paper "Equality and Inequality in Literary Theory."
Prof. Brett Levinson (Seminar)
13 February 2007: Prof. Brett Levinson of Binghamton University hosts a seminar and takes questions on his paper of the previous day, "Equality and Inequality in Literary Theory."
Prof. Arturo Leyte
21 February 2007: Prof. Arturo Leyte of Universidade de Vigo delivers the first of three papers for the Centre, an analysis of the cave of Montesinos (chapters 22-23, book II) in Don Quixote. In Spanish, with simultaneous translation by Alberto Moreiras.
Dr. Sara Nadal-Melsio
26 February 2007: Dr. Nadal-Melsio, University of Pennsylvania, presents her paper "The Minor, the Masochist, and the State: Leopold Sacher-Masoch, Eugeni dÂOrs and the Externalization of Empire," and takes questions.
Dr. Sara Nadal-Melsio (Seminar)
27 February 2007: Dr. Nadal-Melsio gives a seminar related to her paper of the previous day, under the title "The Transports of Realism: On the Question of Ontological Transfer."
Prof. Arturo Leyte
5 March 2007: Prof. Arturo Leyte of Universidade de Vigo delivers the second of three papers for the Centre, examining paintings and other artworks in a moment of cultural transformation. In Spanish, with simultaneous translation by Alberto Moreiras.
Prof. Gil Anidjar
19 March 2007: Prof. Anidjar, from Columbia University, presents "Jesus' Kin: On the Fluidity of the Biopolitical, c. 1449" - an analysis from his forthcoming study of blood in the creation of historical Christian identity.
Prof. Arturo Leyte
21 March 2007: Prof. Arturo Leyte of Universidade de Vigo delivers the third of three papers for the Centre, entitled "Architectonic Figures in Philosophy." In Spanish, with simultaneous translation by Alberto Moreiras.
Raul Ruiz
1 May 2007: Raul Ruiz, filmmaker and professor of Visual Studies and Modern Thought, discusses the creative process and sources of his recently completed film, in the first of a two part seminar: "The Invention of a Film: Recta Provincia."
Raul Ruiz
2 May 2007: Raul Ruiz, filmmaker and professor of Visual Studies and Modern Thought, continues his discussion of the creative process of filmmaking from the previous day. In this, the second part of two, he discusses the inspiration and screenwriting of the film he'll shortly begin shooting, "Miss Cristina."
