Distraction, desperation and historicism at the limits of abstract thought
“Abstract Desperation and the Limit Experience”
Bio: Eddy Troy is a PhD candidate in the Department of Comparative Literature and Foreign Languages at UC Riverside.
“Exorbitant Autonomy: Charles Gaines and the Concept of Black Art”
Bio: Ciarán Finlayson is a postgraduate student of Aesthetics and Art Theory at the Centre for Research in Modern European Philosophy at Kingston University London. He holds a B.A. in African American Studies, Art History, and Contemporary Critical Theory from Bard College at Simon’s Rock.
“ …and dishwater gives back no images”
Bio: Aaron Guerrero is a writer and artist with a MFA from UCI.
“Natural History and The Question of the 'Organism’”
Bio: James Goebel is a fourth year graduate student in the department of Comparative Literature at the University of California, Irvine. His research focuses on 20th century Anglo-, Hispano-, and Native American literatures of the Southwest American deserts; critical animal and environmental studies; and the history of biology, with particular interest in theorizations of “the organism.
“What is Labor?”
Bio: Varnitha Kurli Reddy is a heterodox economist, reading for a MSc in Computation, Logic, and Methodology at Carnegie Mellon University. Before moving to CMU, she received a BA and BSc in Economics and Mathematics from University of Massachusetts at Amherst. She also studied at University of Delhi briefly, before moving to Amherst. Although she spent a larger part of her adult life outside of her city, Hyderabad, India, she is deeply influenced by the secularity and cultural diversity that her city exposed her to. She is mainly interested in women and minority related issues, inequality and poverty. In her spare time, she enjoys modernism in the arts, Marxist-thought, cinema of all kinds, listening to carnatic music, and she continues to indulge in a twenty-two year long passion for painting whenever she finds time.
(Dis)placing Production
"Resistance to Abstraction’s Others: On Deformation and the Transition from Poet to Bookmaker"
Bio: Ana Baginski
“The Lotus and the Storm: Fragmentations of Gender and Cultural Hybridity”
Bio: Dino Benjamin-Alexander Kladouris received his Master’s in Literature from California Polytechnic State University, Pomona last spring. While his Master’s Thesis explored visions of queer femininity in the works of nineteenth-century American writers, he is now primarily drawn to contemporary studies. He plans to pursue a Ph.D. in queer and gender theory and 20th-21st-century American Literature. His current research interests include Homonationalism, gender performance, cultural hybridity, and motherhood.
“Art is not your life”: Frank O’Hara and Abstraction”
Bio: Ryan Sullivan
“The Avery Library: Real Abstraction and the Formation of Architectural Expertise in America”
Bio: Kevin Block is a sixth year doctoral student in the Rhetoric Department at UC Berkeley whose research focuses on the history and theory of architectural practice. This paper is part of his dissertation project, which is entitled Drawn Apart: Abstraction and the Formation of Architectural Expertise in Postbellum New York.
Experiencing Imbrication
"From Chaos to Cosmos, and Back: Spatializing Writing Theories and Displacing Hegemonies"
Ryan David Leack is an English Ph.D. student at UC Riverside, where he studies rhetoric, composition, and 20th century American poetry. He teaches English at Cal Poly Pomona and has been published in journals such as Westwind, Contemporary World Literature, Pif, Riprap, and Strong Verse, and as well as in Pomona Valley Review, of which he is now the Editor-in-Chief. He lives a quiet life with his wife and daughter in Pomona seeking Thoreauvian tranquility and harmony with words.
"Büchner's Algebra of the Flesh: Realism and Abstraction in the Dramatic Poetry of 'Danton's Death’"
Bio: I am a second year graduate student in the Comparative Literature department at UCI. I have a B.A. in Rhetoric from U.C. Berkeley. I am concerned primarily with questions of truth and nihilism, especially with regard to how these questions are thought about in the history of German philosophy and literature. This paper is part of a larger project that I am developing into a Masters Thesis that uses the work of Hans Blumenberg as a basis for exploring the crisis of truth and experience during the 'sattelzeit' (or 'saddle-period'), and how this crisis shaped the drama of Goethe, Kleist, and Büchner in particular ways.
"Abstraction, History, and Nominalism"
Bio: Richard Grijalva is a Doctoral Candidate in the Department of Rhetoric at UC Berkeley. He is currently working on his dissertation, which tracks the way that “Mexico” becomes a relevant term between the late eighteenth century and early nineteenth century.
"How the World Really Comes to an End: Adorno and Nuclear Catastrophe"
Bio: Michael Berlin started his academic career at UCI as a classicist, but now studies in the Department of Comparative Literature. His interests are, broadly, the relationship between literature and philosophy, and somewhat more precisely, the legacy of old materialisms at play in the new and American literature.
Scales of Violence
"Hooding Liberalism: Materiality and the Afterlives of Biopolitical Subjects"
Bio: Colin Eubank is a graduate student of Political Theory within the Department of Political Science at Johns Hopkins University. His interests include statelessness and refuge(es), alternative conceptions of movement and politics, the decolonial thought and history of North Africa, Middle-Eastern diasporic film and literature, materialisms, critical theorizations of biopolitics and race, material culture, feminist and queer theory, and the aesthetics and politics of Rancière.
"Immanence and the Body Politic"
Katherine Ding: I am PhD candidate in the English department at UC Berkeley. I am finishing a dissertation entitled Honesty: William Blake, Immanence, and the Body Politic. Although I work predominantly in Romanticism (and have published on gothic fiction), I am interested in political theology from the seventeenth century through the present day, as well as new, old, and rehabilitated critical theories that explore alternative to Cartesian dualism.
"A Contextual Approach: Beyond the Abstractions of the Critical Theory”
Bio: Andrea Arango
Impossible inevitabilities, Distance, and Collectivity
"Disjunctive Abstraction: Opacity, Race, and Singularity in Glissant and Saer"
“Abstract Desperation and the Limit Experience”
Bio: Eddy Troy is a PhD candidate in the Department of Comparative Literature and Foreign Languages at UC Riverside.
“Exorbitant Autonomy: Charles Gaines and the Concept of Black Art”
Bio: Ciarán Finlayson is a postgraduate student of Aesthetics and Art Theory at the Centre for Research in Modern European Philosophy at Kingston University London. He holds a B.A. in African American Studies, Art History, and Contemporary Critical Theory from Bard College at Simon’s Rock.
“ …and dishwater gives back no images”
Bio: Aaron Guerrero is a writer and artist with a MFA from UCI.
“Natural History and The Question of the 'Organism’”
Bio: James Goebel is a fourth year graduate student in the department of Comparative Literature at the University of California, Irvine. His research focuses on 20th century Anglo-, Hispano-, and Native American literatures of the Southwest American deserts; critical animal and environmental studies; and the history of biology, with particular interest in theorizations of “the organism.
“What is Labor?”
Bio: Varnitha Kurli Reddy is a heterodox economist, reading for a MSc in Computation, Logic, and Methodology at Carnegie Mellon University. Before moving to CMU, she received a BA and BSc in Economics and Mathematics from University of Massachusetts at Amherst. She also studied at University of Delhi briefly, before moving to Amherst. Although she spent a larger part of her adult life outside of her city, Hyderabad, India, she is deeply influenced by the secularity and cultural diversity that her city exposed her to. She is mainly interested in women and minority related issues, inequality and poverty. In her spare time, she enjoys modernism in the arts, Marxist-thought, cinema of all kinds, listening to carnatic music, and she continues to indulge in a twenty-two year long passion for painting whenever she finds time.
(Dis)placing Production
"Resistance to Abstraction’s Others: On Deformation and the Transition from Poet to Bookmaker"
Bio: Ana Baginski
“The Lotus and the Storm: Fragmentations of Gender and Cultural Hybridity”
Bio: Dino Benjamin-Alexander Kladouris received his Master’s in Literature from California Polytechnic State University, Pomona last spring. While his Master’s Thesis explored visions of queer femininity in the works of nineteenth-century American writers, he is now primarily drawn to contemporary studies. He plans to pursue a Ph.D. in queer and gender theory and 20th-21st-century American Literature. His current research interests include Homonationalism, gender performance, cultural hybridity, and motherhood.
“Art is not your life”: Frank O’Hara and Abstraction”
Bio: Ryan Sullivan
“The Avery Library: Real Abstraction and the Formation of Architectural Expertise in America”
Bio: Kevin Block is a sixth year doctoral student in the Rhetoric Department at UC Berkeley whose research focuses on the history and theory of architectural practice. This paper is part of his dissertation project, which is entitled Drawn Apart: Abstraction and the Formation of Architectural Expertise in Postbellum New York.
Experiencing Imbrication
"From Chaos to Cosmos, and Back: Spatializing Writing Theories and Displacing Hegemonies"
Ryan David Leack is an English Ph.D. student at UC Riverside, where he studies rhetoric, composition, and 20th century American poetry. He teaches English at Cal Poly Pomona and has been published in journals such as Westwind, Contemporary World Literature, Pif, Riprap, and Strong Verse, and as well as in Pomona Valley Review, of which he is now the Editor-in-Chief. He lives a quiet life with his wife and daughter in Pomona seeking Thoreauvian tranquility and harmony with words.
"Büchner's Algebra of the Flesh: Realism and Abstraction in the Dramatic Poetry of 'Danton's Death’"
Bio: I am a second year graduate student in the Comparative Literature department at UCI. I have a B.A. in Rhetoric from U.C. Berkeley. I am concerned primarily with questions of truth and nihilism, especially with regard to how these questions are thought about in the history of German philosophy and literature. This paper is part of a larger project that I am developing into a Masters Thesis that uses the work of Hans Blumenberg as a basis for exploring the crisis of truth and experience during the 'sattelzeit' (or 'saddle-period'), and how this crisis shaped the drama of Goethe, Kleist, and Büchner in particular ways.
"Abstraction, History, and Nominalism"
Bio: Richard Grijalva is a Doctoral Candidate in the Department of Rhetoric at UC Berkeley. He is currently working on his dissertation, which tracks the way that “Mexico” becomes a relevant term between the late eighteenth century and early nineteenth century.
"How the World Really Comes to an End: Adorno and Nuclear Catastrophe"
Bio: Michael Berlin started his academic career at UCI as a classicist, but now studies in the Department of Comparative Literature. His interests are, broadly, the relationship between literature and philosophy, and somewhat more precisely, the legacy of old materialisms at play in the new and American literature.
Scales of Violence
"Hooding Liberalism: Materiality and the Afterlives of Biopolitical Subjects"
Bio: Colin Eubank is a graduate student of Political Theory within the Department of Political Science at Johns Hopkins University. His interests include statelessness and refuge(es), alternative conceptions of movement and politics, the decolonial thought and history of North Africa, Middle-Eastern diasporic film and literature, materialisms, critical theorizations of biopolitics and race, material culture, feminist and queer theory, and the aesthetics and politics of Rancière.
"Immanence and the Body Politic"
Katherine Ding: I am PhD candidate in the English department at UC Berkeley. I am finishing a dissertation entitled Honesty: William Blake, Immanence, and the Body Politic. Although I work predominantly in Romanticism (and have published on gothic fiction), I am interested in political theology from the seventeenth century through the present day, as well as new, old, and rehabilitated critical theories that explore alternative to Cartesian dualism.
"A Contextual Approach: Beyond the Abstractions of the Critical Theory”
Bio: Andrea Arango
Impossible inevitabilities, Distance, and Collectivity
"Disjunctive Abstraction: Opacity, Race, and Singularity in Glissant and Saer"
Bio: Peter Lehman is a lecturer and visiting scholar in the department of Comparative Literature at UCLA. He specializes in modern and contemporary Latin American literature, with a focus on Brazil and Argentina, critical theory, and the discourses of world literature. He is currently working on a book manuscript of his dissertation, Alter-Worlds, Mixed Events, and the End(s) of Latin American Literature.
"The Absurd and the Abstract: Language and The Real Yet To Come in Waiting for Godot"
Bio: Elizavetta Koemets is a 2nd-year graduate student in the Department of Comparative Literature and Folklore Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She works primarily with English, Russian, and German modernist texts, and is particularly interested in lostness, undecidability, and rupture in language.
Bio: Elizavetta Koemets is a 2nd-year graduate student in the Department of Comparative Literature and Folklore Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She works primarily with English, Russian, and German modernist texts, and is particularly interested in lostness, undecidability, and rupture in language.
"Writing abstraction 'for a fuller understanding of our own epoch': or, why Sohn-Rethel’s investigation took so long
Bio: Williston Chase is a 3rd year PhD student in the Department of Comparative Literature at UC Irvine. His research focuses on the relation between the state and the university in 20th century Latin America. His research interests include: 20th century Latin American literature, film, and culture; critical
theory; critical university studies; neoliberalism; and anarchist pedagogies
"Abstraction as the Positing of Collective Distance"
Bio: Eunha Choi is a Lecturer at California State University, Long Beach. Situated where literature, cinema, and philosophy meet and fail to meet, her research interrogates realism less as an aesthetic or literary form of representation than as an always in flux theory of the real and a model of critique. Transversing from the literary theory of Erich Auerbach through the film theory of Andre Bazin to the philosophy of Markus Gabriel, her work contends that, only by posing questions about realism's ontology, can new models of viewing and critiquing cinema and literature be forged.
"Abstraction as the Positing of Collective Distance"
Bio: Eunha Choi is a Lecturer at California State University, Long Beach. Situated where literature, cinema, and philosophy meet and fail to meet, her research interrogates realism less as an aesthetic or literary form of representation than as an always in flux theory of the real and a model of critique. Transversing from the literary theory of Erich Auerbach through the film theory of Andre Bazin to the philosophy of Markus Gabriel, her work contends that, only by posing questions about realism's ontology, can new models of viewing and critiquing cinema and literature be forged.
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