Susan Buck-Morss is a professor of political science at the Graduate Center, CUNY. Her publications include Hegel, Haiti, and Universal History (2009), Thinking Past Terror: Islamism and Critical Theory on the Left (2003), Dreamworld and Catastrophe: The Passing of Mass Utopia in East and West (2000), and The Dialectics of Seeing: Walter Benjamin and the Arcades Project (1991). A longtime professor of political philosophy and social theory at Cornell University’s Department of Government, she was also a member of Cornell’s graduate fields in comparative literature, history of art, German studies, and the School of Art, Architecture and Planning.
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Programming
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Lecture
Wed, May 11, 2016,
06:30 PM –
08:30 PM
Ariella Azoulay—The Imperial Condition of Photography in Palestine: Archives, Looting, and the Figure of the Infiltrator
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Conversation
Thu, Feb 28, 2013,
05:30 PM –
05:30 PM