scholarly journals Ambivalent Promises—Reproductions of the Subject: A Forum on Jacques Derrida’s Specters of Marx after 25 Years, Part IV

2020 ◽  
Vol 42 (1) ◽  
pp. 125-148
Author(s):  
Thomas Clément Mercier ◽  
Paulo Chamon
Keyword(s):  
Jacques Derrida ◽  
Critical Assessment ◽  
University Of California ◽  
Quarter Century ◽  
Fourth Group ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Work Of Mourning ◽  
Antonio Negri ◽  
The University ◽  
Critical Literature

Abstract Jacques Derrida delivered the basis of The Specters of Marx: The State of the Debt, the Work of Mourning, & the New International as a plenary address at the conference ‘Whither Marxism?’ hosted by the University of California, Riverside, in 1993. The longer book version was published in French the same year and appeared in English and Portuguese the following year. In the decade after the publication of Specters, Derrida’s analyses provoked a large critical literature and invited both consternation and celebration by figures such as Antonio Negri, Wendy Brown and Frederic Jameson. This forum seeks to stimulate new reflections on Derrida, deconstruction and Specters of Marx by considering how the futures past announced by the book have fared after an eventful quarter century. In this fourth group of contributions, Thomas Clément Mercier shows how Derrida’s book, besides questioning reception and influence, yet remains to be read, especially in light of ongoing archival research on Derrida’s engagements with Marx’s writings in seminars from the 1970s; and Paulo Chamon offers a critical assessment of Derrida’s promise of a ‘New International’ by considering how the book spooks itself in such a way as to raise serious questions in regard to sovereignty and subjectivity.

scholarly journals On the Spectrality of the Inter-state-eal/International: A Forum on Jacques Derrida's Specters of Marx after 25 Years, Part III

2019 ◽  
Vol 41 (3) ◽  
pp. 663-687
Author(s):  
Jessica Auchter ◽  
Bruna Holstein Meireles ◽  
Victor Coutinho Lage
Keyword(s):  
Jacques Derrida ◽  
The State ◽  
University Of California ◽  
Quarter Century ◽  
Foreign Guest ◽  
Work Of Mourning ◽  
Antonio Negri ◽  
The University ◽  
Critical Literature ◽  
Inter State

Abstract Jacques Derrida delivered the basis of The Specters of Marx: The State of the Debt, the Work of Mourning, & the New International as a plenary address at the conference ‘Whither Marxism?’ hosted by the University of California, Riverside, in 1993. The longer book version was published in French the same year and appeared in English and Portuguese the following year. In the decade after the publication of Specters, Derrida’s analyses provoked a large critical literature and invited both consternation and celebration by figures such as Antonio Negri, Wendy Brown and Frederic Jameson. This forum seeks to stimulate new reflections on Derrida, deconstruction and Specters of Marx by considering how the futures past announced by the book have fared after an eventful quarter century. In this third group of contributions, Jessica Auchter, Bruna Holstein Meireles and Victor Coutinho Lage draw broadly on Derrida’s writings to explore the spectrality of the international or inter-state-eal: of politics itself being based on hospitality toward the ghost as foreign guest, of the possibility of enacting a politics of spectrality that might aspire to a new kind of universality, and of how a ‘without international’ might escape the series of prisons that constitutes the international.

scholarly journals Disobeying Marx, Disobeying Derrida—Hopes & Risks: A Forum on Jacques Derrida’s Specters of Marx after 25 Years, Part II

2019 ◽  
Vol 41 (3) ◽  
pp. 643-662
Author(s):  
Aggie Hirst ◽  
Tom Houseman ◽  
Paulo Cesar Duque-Estrada ◽  
Jenny Edkins ◽  
Cristiano Mendes
Keyword(s):  
Jacques Derrida ◽  
The State ◽  
University Of California ◽  
Quarter Century ◽  
Frederic Jameson ◽  
Work Of Mourning ◽  
Antonio Negri ◽  
The University ◽  
Critical Literature

Abstract Jacques Derrida delivered the basis of The Specters of Marx: The State of the Debt, the Work of Mourning, & the New International as a plenary address at the conference ‘Whither Marxism?’ hosted by the University of California, Riverside, in 1993. The longer book version was published in French the same year and appeared in English and Portuguese the following year. In the decade after the publication of Specters, Derrida’s analyses provoked a large critical literature and invited both consternation and celebration by figures such as Antonio Negri, Wendy Brown and Frederic Jameson. This forum seeks to stimulate new reflections on Derrida, deconstruction and Specters of Marx by considering how the futures past announced by the book have fared after an eventful quarter century. In this group of contributions, Aggie Hirst and Tom Houseman, Paulo Cesar Duque-Estrada, Jenny Edkins and Cristiano Mendes reflect on the legacies of Marx and Derrida: on whether Derrida emphasized the wrong Marxian heritage, on the promise and risks of hauntology, on the ghostly potential for justice amidst devastation, and on the paradox of deconstruction’s legacy itself.

scholarly journals The Political Import of Deconstruction—Derrida’s Limits?: A Forum on Jacques Derrida’s Specters of Marx after 25 Years, Part I

2019 ◽  
Vol 41 (3) ◽  
pp. 621-642
Author(s):  
Maja Zehfuss ◽  
Antonio Y. Vázquez-Arroyo ◽  
Dan Bulley ◽  
Bal Sokhi-Bulley
Keyword(s):  
Jacques Derrida ◽  
The State ◽  
Global Politics ◽  
University Of California ◽  
The Political ◽  
Quarter Century ◽  
Work Of Mourning ◽  
Antonio Negri ◽  
The University ◽  
Critical Literature

Abstract Jacques Derrida delivered the basis of The Specters of Marx: The State of the Debt, the Work of Mourning, & the New International as a plenary address at the conference ‘Whither Marxism?’ hosted by the University of California, Riverside, in 1993. The longer book version was published in French the same year and appeared in English and Portuguese the following year. In the decade after the publication of Specters, Derrida’s analyses provoked a large critical literature and invited both consternation and celebration by figures such as Antonio Negri, Wendy Brown and Frederic Jameson. This forum seeks to stimulate new reflections on Derrida, deconstruction and Specters of Marx by considering how the futures past announced by the book have fared after an eventful quarter century. Maja Zehfuss, Antonio Vázquez-Arroyo and Dan Bulley and Bal Sokhi-Bulley offer sharp, occasionally exasperated, meditations on the political import of deconstruction and the limits of Derrida’s diagnoses in Specters of Marx but also identify possible paths forward for a global politics taking inspiration in Derrida’s work of the 1990s.

scholarly journals Detours and Deviations of Letter and Spirit: A Forum on Jacques Derrida’s Specters of Marx after 25 Years, Part VI

2020 ◽  
Vol 42 (1) ◽  
pp. 173-197
Author(s):  
Jean Tible ◽  
Dirce Eleonora Nigro Solis ◽  
Michael J. Shapiro
Keyword(s):  
Jacques Derrida ◽  
The State ◽  
University Of California ◽  
Quarter Century ◽  
The Past ◽  
Frederic Jameson ◽  
Work Of Mourning ◽  
Antonio Negri ◽  
The University ◽  
Critical Literature

Abstract Jacques Derrida delivered the basis of The Specters of Marx: The State of the Debt, the Work of Mourning, & the New International as a plenary address at the conference ‘Whither Marxism?’ hosted by the University of California, Riverside, in 1993. The longer book version was published in French the same year and appeared in English and Portuguese the following year. In the decade after the publication of Specters, Derrida’s analyses provoked a large critical literature and invited both consternation and celebration by figures such as Antonio Negri, Wendy Brown and Frederic Jameson. This forum seeks to stimulate new reflections on Derrida, deconstruction and Specters of Marx by considering how the futures past announced by the book have fared after an eventful quarter century. In this sixth group of contributions, Jean Tible sketches how spectrality and phantasmagoria continue to animate recent inheritances of both Derrida’s and Marx’s texts so as to inspire novel thought-struggles; Dirce Eleonora Nigro Solis considers Derrida’s engagement with the question ‘Whither Marxism?’ as a politico-philosophical model of deviation that provokes the displacement of Marxian axioms and a renovation of Marxist and deconstructive thinking for the period of neoliberalism; finally, Michael Shapiro traces a different detour in Derrida’s thought and shows that Derrida’s deviant reading of Freud’s construction of repression opens up the past and the archive to non-official constructions of collective history.

scholarly journals Specters of Colonialidade: A Forum on Jacques Derrida’s Specters of Marx after 25 Years, Part V

2020 ◽  
Vol 42 (1) ◽  
pp. 149-171
Author(s):  
Carla Rodrigues ◽  
Rafael Haddock-Lobo ◽  
Marcelo José Derzi Moraes
Keyword(s):  
Jacques Derrida ◽  
The State ◽  
University Of California ◽  
Quarter Century ◽  
European Philosophy ◽  
Work Of Mourning ◽  
Antonio Negri ◽  
The University ◽  
Forms Of Violence ◽  
Critical Literature

Abstract Jacques Derrida delivered the basis of The Specters of Marx: The State of the Debt, the Work of Mourning, & the New International as a plenary address at the conference ‘Whither Marxism?’ hosted by the University of California, Riverside, in 1993. The longer book version was published in French the same year and appeared in English and Portuguese the following year. In the decade after the publication of Specters, Derrida’s analyses provoked a large critical literature and invited both consternation and celebration by figures such as Antonio Negri, Wendy Brown and Frederic Jameson. This forum seeks to stimulate new reflections on Derrida, deconstruction and Specters of Marx by considering how the futures past announced by the book have fared after an eventful quarter century. In this fifth group of contributions, three philosophers explore the specters of colonialidade, the specifically Brazilian legacies of Portuguese and European coloniality. Carla Rodrigues opens the dialogue by exploring the haunting and melancholy provoked by colonial forms of violence and shows how confronting Brazilian necropolitics sustains the Derridean legacy; Rafael Haddock-Lobo offers a meditation on the difficulties of being before the law and standing before specters as a means of being justly haunted by the others of European philosophy in Brazil; finally, Marcelo Moraes continues the theme of Europe as a specter-producing machine and invokes specifically the presences of indigenous and Afro-Brazilian political resistances with the aim of deconstructing coloniality.

Subjectivity, Point of View, and Dreaming

2011 ◽  
pp. 159-174
Author(s):  
Gary A. Berg
Keyword(s):  
Los Angeles ◽  
San Francisco ◽  
Formal Education ◽  
Evolutionary Process ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
University Of California ◽  
Educational Environments ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Research In Education ◽  
The University

I come to the subject of this book from a very different path than most of those thinking about the use of computers in educational environments. My formal education focused originally on literature and film studies, and film production at the University of California at Berkeley, San Francisco State University, and the University of California at Los Angeles. I became professionally involved in educational administration through the backdoor of continuing education focused first on the entertainment industry, and then more broadly. It was after this combined experience of studying film and television and working in adult education that I began research in education and earned a doctorate in the field of higher education from Claremont Graduate University, with a special emphasis on distance learning. I hope that the different point of view I have developed from my eclectic background gives me the ability to make something of a unique contribution to this evolving new field. What follows is an attempt to spark a discussion that will lead to answers to the question of what are the most effective techniques for the design of computer learning environments. This is not a how-to book—we are too early in the evolutionary process of the medium to give such specific guidance. Rather, my intention is to offer some theories to elevate the thinking bout computers in education. Because the subject is interdisciplinary, combining science with the humanities, the theoretical discussion draws from abroad range of disciplines: psychology, educational theory, film criticism, and computer science. The book looks at the notion of computer as medium and what such an idea might mean for education. I suggest that the understanding of computers as a medium may be a key to re-envisioning educational technology. Oren (1995) argues that understanding computers as a medium means enlarging human-computer interaction (HCI) research to include issues such as the psychology of media, evolution of genre and form, and the societal implications of media, all of which are discussed here. Computers began to be used in educational environments much later than film, and I would have to agree with others who claim that the use of computers instructionally is still quite unsophisticated.

Tutorial Method

2011 ◽  
pp. 28-38
Author(s):  
Gary A. Berg
Keyword(s):  
Los Angeles ◽  
San Francisco ◽  
Formal Education ◽  
Evolutionary Process ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
University Of California ◽  
Educational Environments ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Research In Education ◽  
The University

I come to the subject of this book from a very different path than most of those thinking about the use of computers in educational environments. My formal education focused originally on literature and film studies, and film production at the University of California at Berkeley, San Francisco State University, and the University of California at Los Angeles. I became professionally involved in educational administration through the backdoor of continuing education focused first on the entertainment industry, and then more broadly. It was after this combined experience of studying film and television and working in adult education that I began research in education and earned a doctorate in the field of higher education from Claremont Graduate University, with a special emphasis on distance learning. I hope that the different point of view I have developed from my eclectic background gives me the ability to make something of a unique contribution to this evolving new field. What follows is an attempt to spark a discussion that will lead to answers to the question of what are the most effective techniques for the design of computer learning environments. This is not a how-to book—we are too early in the evolutionary process of the medium to give such specific guidance. Rather, my intention is to offer some theories to elevate the thinking bout computers in education. Because the subject is interdisciplinary, combining science with the humanities, the theoretical discussion draws from abroad range of disciplines: psychology, educational theory, film criticism, and computer science. The book looks at the notion of computer as medium and what such an idea might mean for education. I suggest that the understanding of computers as a medium may be a key to re-envisioning educational technology. Oren (1995) argues that understanding computers as a medium means enlarging human-computer interaction (HCI) research to include issues such as the psychology of media, evolution of genre and form, and the societal implications of media, all of which are discussed here. Computers began to be used in educational environments much later than film, and I would have to agree with others who claim that the use of computers instructionally is still quite unsophisticated.

Honesty Requiring a Self-Initiated Response

1980 ◽  
Vol 46 (1) ◽  
pp. 87-90 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ron Hays
Keyword(s):  
University Of California ◽  
External Knowledge ◽  
Dollar Bill ◽  
Student Union ◽  
Subject Variables ◽  
The Subject ◽  
And Behavior ◽  
The University ◽  
The Relationship

33 patrons of the University of California, Riverside student union were given $1.05 in change for a dollar bill (three quarters, two dimes, and two nickels). Honesty was assessed by the criterion of self-initiating the return of the extra nickel, and behavior was examined as a function of sex, age, and manner of dress. Results indicate that the over-all honesty of patrons was low (45%), but no significant findings for the relationship between the subject variables and honesty were shown. The 45% rate of honesty indicates that subjects who believe there will not be any external knowledge of their dishonesty are likely to exhibit dishonest behavior.

scholarly journals The long road to Megalopolis

2003 ◽  
Vol 70 (418/419) ◽  
pp. 23-35
Author(s):  
Luca Muscarà
Keyword(s):  
Los Angeles ◽  
Political Geography ◽  
Associate Professor ◽  
University Of California ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The University

The author is associate professor of geography at the Università degli Studi del Molise, Italy; and teaches at the GIS Masteřs Program of the Università di Roma La Sapienza. He holds a doctorate in political geography from the Università di Trieste (1998) and is dottore in lettere at the Università di Venezia (1985). He was a visiting professor at the University of California Los Angeles (2000, 2001) and is a member of the editorial board of Cybergeo: European Journal of Geography, based in Paris, and co-editor of Sistema Terra. He focused his research on the life and work of Jean Gottmann and is writing a book on the subject.

Stories, Simulations and Case Studies

2011 ◽  
pp. 175-186
Author(s):  
Gary A. Berg
Keyword(s):  
Los Angeles ◽  
San Francisco ◽  
Formal Education ◽  
Evolutionary Process ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
University Of California ◽  
Educational Environments ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Research In Education ◽  
The University

I come to the subject of this book from a very different path than most of those thinking about the use of computers in educational environments. My formal education focused originally on literature and film studies, and film production at the University of California at Berkeley, San Francisco State University, and the University of California at Los Angeles. I became professionally involved in educational administration through the backdoor of continuing education focused first on the entertainment industry, and then more broadly. It was after this combined experience of studying film and television and working in adult education that I began research in education and earned a doctorate in the field of higher education from Claremont Graduate University, with a special emphasis on distance learning. I hope that the different point of view I have developed from my eclectic background gives me the ability to make something of a unique contribution to this evolving new field. What follows is an attempt to spark a discussion that will lead to answers to the question of what are the most effective techniques for the design of computer learning environments. This is not a how-to book—we are too early in the evolutionary process of the medium to give such specific guidance. Rather, my intention is to offer some theories to elevate the thinking bout computers in education. Because the subject is interdisciplinary, combining science with the humanities, the theoretical discussion draws from abroad range of disciplines: psychology, educational theory, film criticism, and computer science. The book looks at the notion of computer as medium and what such an idea might mean for education. I suggest that the understanding of computers as a medium may be a key to re-envisioning educational technology. Oren (1995) argues that understanding computers as a medium means enlarging human-computer interaction (HCI) research to include issues such as the psychology of media, evolution of genre and form, and the societal implications of media, all of which are discussed here. Computers began to be used in educational environments much later than film, and I would have to agree with others who claim that the use of computers instructionally is still quite unsophisticated.

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