'The Truth is a Joke? Performatives and Jokes in Derrida and Austin'

'The Truth is a Joke? Performatives and Jokes in Derrida and Austin'

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Off Campus Community Room, West Hollywood Public Library
625 N. San Vicente Blvd., West Hollywood

WHAP! Lecture Series

 

SPEAKER: 

Jeffrey T. Nealon is Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of English and Philosophy at Penn State University. His most recent books are Foucault Beyond Foucault (2007), Post-Postmodernism; or, The Cultural Logic of Just-In-Time Capitalism (2012), and Plant Theory: Biopower and Vegetable Life (2016), all from Stanford University Press. 

RESPONDENT: 

Peggy Kamuf lives in Los Angeles and teaches French and comparative literature at the University of Southern California where she is also director of the Comparative Studies in Literature and Culture Doctoral Program. She has published, most recently, To Follow: The Wake of Jacques Derrida (2010). She is a co-editor of the series The Seminars of Jacques Derrida