Event overview
A part of the series "China and the Political: Conversations with Wang Hui"
Wang Hui is professor of intellectual history at Tsinghua University in Beijing. Sent for compulsory “re-education” for his role in the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989, Wang is a leading member of China’s “new left” movement and a past editor of Dushu, one of China’s most influential literary journals. His most recent book is "The End of the Revolution: China and the Limits of Modernity."
Bernard Stiegler is director of the Institute for Research and Innovation at the Centre Pompidou in Paris, a Professorial Fellow at Goldsmiths College in London and a professor at the University of Technology of Compiègne where he teaches philosophy. He is one of the founders of the political group Ars Industrialis based in Paris, which calls for an industrial politics of spirit, by exploring the possibilities of the technology of spirit, to bring forth a new “life of the mind”. Professor Stiegler has published numerous books and articles on philosophy, technology, digitization, capitalism, consumer culture, etc. Among his writings, his three volumes of "La technique et le temps" (English Translation: "Technics and Time"), two volumes of "De la misère symbolique," three volumes of "Mécréance et Discrédit" and two volumes "Constituer l'Europe" are particularly well known.
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Dates & times
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16 Oct 2013 | 5:00pm - 7:00pm |
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