Open to members of the Philosophy department, and Harvard College undergraduates
Flirting with the conventions of blaxploitation and horror, Bill Gunn’s revolutionary independent film Ganja & Hess is a highly stylized and utterly original treatise on sex, religion, and African American identity...
Paul C. Taylor (Vanderbilt) The Influence of Dewey on Race Theory and Other Stories; or, How to Do Things With History
Come out to The Harvard Review of Philosophy‘s annual lecture by Paul C. Taylor on Friday, February 1st, in Emerson Hall 305 from 3-5pm. Professor Taylor is the W. Alton Jones Professor of Philosophy at Vanderbilt and has published books and articles on black aesthetics, Barack H. Obama,...
Autumn Patricia Ahn "Documentation as Poetic-Witness": a workshop
In this workshop, we will use listening and writing as a form of complex “secondary” poetry. “Secondary” in this case, meaning a peripheral consciousness. Using rapid association, this technique allows the senses to take precedent to the consciousness. Akin to the “automatic writing” practices developed by the Surrealist & Dada-ist art movements of the early 20th century, also recognized and employed by early psychologist philosophers such as William James and writers such as Gertrude...
