Neil Postman Graduate Conference
Friday, March 23, 2012
20 Cooper Square, 7th Floor
About this Event
"Thinking Through Collapse"
Philosopher Simon Critchley, keynote speaker
In the past year we have been confronted with many sites of present and impending collapse: the collapse of oppressive regimes in the Arab world, a global economy pushed to its limits, our own political system in paralysis, the teetering of the fourth estate, continuing environmental collapse and so on. In each of these sites, visions of apocalypse exist alongside those of renewal, inviting the imagination of new forms of organization and sustainability. In the academy, they are prompting new interdisciplinary assessments of the conditions (historical, social, political, economic, cultural, technological) that have brought us to these limits, and are forcing the question: where might we go from here?
Philosopher Simon Critchley, keynote speaker
In the past year we have been confronted with many sites of present and impending collapse: the collapse of oppressive regimes in the Arab world, a global economy pushed to its limits, our own political system in paralysis, the teetering of the fourth estate, continuing environmental collapse and so on. In each of these sites, visions of apocalypse exist alongside those of renewal, inviting the imagination of new forms of organization and sustainability. In the academy, they are prompting new interdisciplinary assessments of the conditions (historical, social, political, economic, cultural, technological) that have brought us to these limits, and are forcing the question: where might we go from here?