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The annual meeting of the Association for Adorno Studies is postponed until the end of May 2022.
15 Thursday Apr 2021
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The annual meeting of the Association for Adorno Studies is postponed until the end of May 2022.
02 Friday Apr 2021
Posted Critical Theory, Frankfurt School, Publications, Theodor W. Adorno
inChristos Memos has shared with us the news about the upcoming publication of his new book by Routledge. The full title of his book is: Global Economic Crisis as Social Hieroglyphic: Genesis, Constitution and Regressive Progress.
Here’s the flyer.
And here’s the publisher’s description.
This book examines the 2008 global economic crisis as a complex social phenomenonor “social hieroglyphic”, arguing that the crisis is not fundamentally economic, despite presenting itself as such. Instead, it is considered to be a symptom of a long-standing, multifaceted, and endemic crisis of capitalism which has effectively become permanent, leading contemporary capitalist societies into a state of social regression, manifest in new forms of barbarism. The author offers a qualitative understanding of the economic crisis as the perversion, or inversion, of the capitalistically organized social relations. The genesis of the current crisis is traced back to the unresolved world crisis surrounding the Great Depression in order to map the course and different “inverted forms” of the continuous global crisis of capitalism, and to reveal their inner connections as derivative of the same social constitution. From a historical and interdisciplinary perspective, the book expounds critical social theory, elaborating on the intersection between the early critical theory of the Frankfurt School – mainly Adorno, Horkheimer, and Marcuse – and the “social form” analysis of the Open Marxism school. Global Economic Crisis as Social Hieroglyphic critically addresses the permanent character of the 1920s–1930s crisis and the “crisis theory” debates; the political crisis in Eastern Europe (1953–1968); the crisis of Keynesianism; the crisis of subversive reason; the crisis, negative anthropology and transformations of the bourgeois individual; the state of social regression and the destructive tendencies after the rise of neoliberalism; and finally, the 2008 financial crisis and its ongoing aftermath.
Introduction
1. Capitalism in permanent crisis, 1920s–1930s
2. Political crisis and the crisis of modernity: Eastern Europe (1953–1968)
3. The crisis of Keynesianism, the transformation of liberal oligarchies and the critique of politics
4. The crisis of critique, the eclipse of subversive reason and the question of social constitution
5. The crisis and metamorphoses of the bourgeois individual: On negative anthropology
6. Capitalism as social regression: Destructive tendencies and new forms of barbarism
7. The 2008 economic crisis as an alienated critique of capitalism
Christos Memos is Lecturer in Social and Political Theory at the Abertay University, UK. He is the author of Castoriadis and Critical Theory: Crisis, Critique and Radical Alternatives (2014).
(Global Economic Crisis and Social Hieroglyphic Genesis is available now Via Routledge with 20% off by using code SOC21 at the checkout.)
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05 Saturday Oct 2019
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inMariana Fidelis wrote to let us know about a special issue of Dissonancia that she will be co-editing with Mariana Teixeira on Decolonial and Critical Theory. The call for papers can be found here (submission deadline Dec. 31, 2019).
Some possible topics:
24 Sunday Mar 2019
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24 Thursday May 2018
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American University in Cairo, Annual Meeting, Association for Adorno Studies, Kathy Kiloh, Mae Saafan, Martin Shuster, Pierre-François Noppen, Recap, Reham Mohammed El Morally, Robert Switzer, Roger Foster, Surti Singh, Tahrir Square Campus, Theodor W. Adorno, William Ross
Earlier this month (May 4-5, 2018), members of the Association for Adorno Studies gathered at the American University in Cairo for our 7th annual meeting. As summer was taking a early start in Egypt – with temperatures surging to 40°C/104°F! – the meeting was held in the sumptuous (and cool) Oriental Hall of the Tahrir Square Campus.
Surti Singh (our host), Robert Switzer (Dean of the School of Humanities and Sciences at AUC) and Pierre-François Noppen (our outgoing President) opened the meeting with remarks. (Our outgoing Vice-President, Roger Foster, couldn’t attend the meeting this year.) Speakers from Canada, the US, Norway, France, Brasil and Egypt were invited to present their latest work on Adorno. The sharp, insightful and thought-provoking papers fueled open and very stimulating discussions throughout the meeting. Continue reading
03 Tuesday Apr 2018
Posted Critical Theory, Publications, Theodor W. Adorno, Uncategorized
inEstelle Ferrarese wrote to let us know that her new book is coming out in France, which might be of interest to the readers of this blog. Estelle’s book proposes a renewal of Critical Theory through feminism. The book examines Adorno’s social philosophy and mobilizes insights drawn from the ethics of care to articulate the question of the social fragility of our concern for others. The book expands on some of the insights she presented at our last meeting at Duke (2017).
The full title is:
La fragilité du souci des autres: Adorno et le care
(The Fragility of Concern for Others: Adorno and Care)
03 Tuesday Apr 2018
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29 Sunday Oct 2017
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We are pleased to announce that the 7th annual meeting of the Association for Adorno Studies will be hosted by Surti Singh and the American University in Cairo. The meeting will be held May 4 and 5, 2018 at the downtown Tahrir Square campus of the AUC.
More details will be posted here later this fall.
Previous meetings were held at:
March 24-25, 2017 – Duke University
April 29-30, 2016 – Université de Montréal
October 9-10, 2015 – The New School
March 7-8, 2014 – University College Dublin
March 22-23, 2013 – Temple University
March 2-3, 2012 – Johns Hopkins University
01 Saturday Apr 2017
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Annual Meeting, Espen Hammer, Gordon Finlayson, Henry Pickford, Iain Macdonald, Joseph Winters, Kathy Kiloh, Martin Shuster, Peter E. Gordon, Pierre-François Noppen, Roger Foster, Theodor W. Adorno, Thomas Manganaro
The 6th annual meeting of the Association for Adorno Studies was held last weekend at Duke University (March 24-25, 2017). As cherry blossoms were bursting in color on Duke’s gorgeous campus, speakers and participants were gathered in the Fredric Jameson Gallery.
The meeting was opened by remarks from Henry Pickford, Joseph Winters, and Pierre-François Noppen. Unfortunately, the Association’s vice-president, Roger Foster, couldn’t attend this year’s meeting due to the restrictions imposed by CUNY on travels to North Carolina in protest against the sex discrimination laws that the North Carolina State legislature has introduced. The meeting was attended by speakers and participants from the United States of America, Canada, the United Kingdom, France, Sweden, Germany, and Austria. The high-caliber papers led to very engaging discussions throughout the meeting. This year’s author-meet-critics panel was devoted to Peter Gordon’s new book, Adorno and Existence (Harvard UP, 2016), which addresses an important weakness in the scholarship, namely Adorno’s repeated confrontation with Kierkegaard, Husserl and Heidegger. It made for a very stimulating exchange between the author and his three respondents, Espen Hammer, Gordon Finlayson and Iain Macdonald. The first day ended with a reception to celebrate the publication of the first volume of Adorno Studies: an interdisciplinary journal. It was also the Association’s way of thanking the editors, Martin Shuster and Kathy Kiloh, for their outstanding work on developing this unique platform.
As is our custom, all were invited to discuss questions relative to the journal and the development of the Association in our annual business meeting (day one, at lunch time). Plans were discussed for next year’s meeting (a number of options are being explored). The location of the meeting will be announced on our website at the end of summer. Once again, we held an informal roundtable discussion on the second day (at lunch time), which focused on the shifts and disruptions in the contemporary political landscape.
On behalf of all the members of the Association, we would like to extend our gratitude to Henry Pickford, and to Thomas Manganaro, who assisted Henry in organizing this most productive and successful event.
Here are a few snapshots of the event.