I will be in California at the end of October 2016 in order to give  two lectures there, one at UCLA and one at UC Berkeley.

October 25th, UCLA.

• « Democracy in History. Snowden, Assange, Manning« , UCLA, Dept of French and Francophone Studies, 4:30 pm, Royce Hall 236. For more details, click here.

October 27th, UC Berkeley

• « Democracy in History, Snowden, Assange, Manning« , UC Berkeley, The Program in Critical Theory, 5 pm, 3335 Dwinelle Hall. For more details, click here.

Berkeley

UCLA

Abstract :

Edward Snowden, Julian Assange, and Chelsea Manning are often simply considered “whistleblowers” whose activities involved diffusing information. But, in fact, they are much more than that. They are the protagonists of a movement that is questioning the dispositives defining our present. Their very lives express something that must be heard: the advent of a new political subject. As such, they enable us to interrogate received ways of thinking about politics, democracy and resistance and to imagine other modes of relation to the law, the nation, citizenship, and the state. How are we to address the emergence of something new in the political sphere?

Mises à jour : quelques images de ce séjour en Californie.

A Los Angeles, avec Alain Mabanckou et Erin Cooney

Au consulat de France à San Francisco, avec Emmanuel Lebrun-Damiens, Sergio Coronado….

Devant le département de Français et d’Etudes Francophones à UCLA

Pendant le diner, après ma conférence à Berkeley, avec Michael Lucey, Didier Eribon, Judith Butler, Edouard Louis, Debarati Sanyal, Stéphane Ré, Damon Young,

Lors de ma conférence à Berkeley

Avec Dominic Thomas, le directeur du département de Français de UCLA.