Feb9
W.E.B. DuBois Lecture
Thursday, February 9, 2023 10:30 AM to 11:45 AM EST
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Four authors from around Mason, the nation, and the globe, converge for Fall for the Book's first Mini Fest. View the full schedule at: https://fallforthebook.org/mini-fest/
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The Last Man Takes LSD: Foucault and the End of Revolution
Part intellectual history, part critical theory, The Last Man Takes LSD challenges the way we think about both Michel Foucault and modern progressive politics. Using his acid trip at Zabriskie Point as emblematic of his move from power to the self, this book argues that Foucault contributed to a tectonic shift in the intellectual and political life of the era and its legacy even today.
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Join us on February 23, 2023 for a virtual transfer information session with the College of Humanities and Social Sciences.
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Doing Cultural Studies in De-globalizing Times: China, Media, and Transpacific Entanglements
This talk draws on my on-going research to rethink a cultural studies approach to the study of media and politics amidst the rhetoric and reality of “de-globalization.”
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After Black Lives Matter: Policing and Anti-Capitalist Struggle
The historic uprising in the wake of the murder of George Floyd transformed the way Americans and the world think about race and policing. Why did it achieve so little in the way of substantive reforms?
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Join us on February 23, 2023 for a virtual transfer information session with the College of Humanities and Social Sciences.
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Afterlives of Jim Crow?
In his recent book, The South, Adolph L. Reed Jr. takes up the urgent task of recounting the granular realities of life in the last decades of the Jim Crow South.
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