BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//132.216.98.100//NONSGML kigkonsult.se iCalcreator 2.20.4// BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20260808T043039EDT-02148MDK7s@132.216.98.100 DTSTAMP:20260808T083039Z DESCRIPTION: \nA workshop with Janell Watson\, Associate professor of Forei gn\nLanguages\, Virginia Tech.\nThe culture concept has been criticized be cause it\nhierarchizes\, divides\, isolates\, standardizes\, categorizes\, and\nexcludes\n(among other ill effects). Guattari declares that 'the con cept of\nculture is\ndeeply reactionary\,' and replaces it with a variety of other\nnotions\, the\nmost encompassing of these being 'ecosophy.' Is t his idea indeed\npreferable\nto that of culture?\nJanell Watson is Associa te Professor in the Department of\nForeign Languages at Virginia Tech\, an d incoming editor of the\nMinnesota Review. She is the author of Guattari’ s Diagrammatic\nThought (Continuum 2009) and Material Culture and Literatu re from\nBalzac to Proust (Cambridge University Press 1999).\nNo registrat ion is required\, but there will be discussion based\non assigned readings \; for more information on the readings for the\nworkshop\, please contact Alanna.Thain [at] mcgill.ca.\n DTSTART:20091110T223000Z DTEND:20091110T223000Z LOCATION:Arts Building\, CA\, QC\, Montreal\, H3A 0G5\, 853 rue Sherbrooke Ouest SUMMARY:Ecosophy: Rethinking the Culture Concept with Guattari URL:/channels/event/ecosophy-rethinking-culture-concep t-guattari-111911 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR