Sylvere Lotringer on Paul Virilio: Oct 29

Sylvere Lotringer: Paul Virilio: The Itinerary of Catastrophe
Thursday, October 29, 7pm
SVA Theatre, 333 West 23 Street

Writer and cultural theorist Sylvere Lotringer will give a talk on philosopher Paul Virilio’s proposition of speed and catastrophe as the generative principle of contemporary society, following a screening of The Itinerary of Catastrophe, a filmed conversation with Virilio. Lotringer is professor emeritus at Columbia University, where he founded the influential journal Semiotext(e). He is the co-author of Pure War (Semiotext(e), 1983) and Crepuscular Dawn (Semiotext(e), 2002) and the author of Overexposed: Perverting Perversions (Semiotext(e), 2007). Presented by the MFA Art Criticism and Writing Department. Free and open to the public

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