10TH INTERNATIONAL CRITICAL THEORY CONFERENCE IN ROME

May 10-12, 2018

John Felice Rome Center of Loyola University Chicago

PROGRAM
THURSDAY 10 MAY
PLENARY SESSION (MORNING) – CONFERENCE ROOM

09:00-09:30 BREAKFAST

09:30-10:15 Stefano Petrucciani, University of Rome, La Sapienza

Adorno's Anthropology and the Constitution of the Self

Chair: Hugh Miller

10:15-11:00 James Gordon Finlayson, Sussex University; Henry Pickford, Duke University
Adorno's Criticism

11:15-12:00 Deborah Cook, University of Windsor

Open Thinking: Adorno's Exact Imagination

12:00-12:45 Alessandro Ferrara, University of Rome, Tor Vergata

Sideways at the entrance of the cave: Plato and pluralism

13:00-14:00 LUNCH
 THURSDAY 10 MAY PARALLEL SESSIONS (AFTERNOON)

Conference Room Room 5 Room 6 Room 4 Room 3 Sala Teatro

Chairs Lars Rensmann Richard Westerman Rick Gruneau Mahmood Exiri Fard Yiorgos Moraitis Antonia Hofstätter
14:30 Jack Jacobs, City University Ivan Landa, Czech Academy of Graham Mackenzie, Simon Karyn Ball, University of Yiorgos Moraitis, Independent Camilla Flodin, Uppsala
of New York Sciences Fraser University Alberta Scholar University
15:00
Antisemitism, Islamophobia, The Critique of Technological Reason: Toward a Critical Theory of Toward a Libidinal Economy of Democracy against capital: In the Name of the Rhinoceros:
and Racism in the Era of Lukács and Kosík Financialization Reification: on the Death-Driven Critique and dialectics in David Expression beyond Human
Donald Trump: The Relevance Nature of 'Second Nature' Harvey Intention
of Critical Theory
15:00 Samir Gandesha, Simon Greg Zucker, Rutgers University Beverley Best, Concordia Christopher Bracken, Christos Memos, Abertay Lydia Goehr, Columbia
Fraser University The Irrationalist Sources of Fascism University University of Alberta University, Dundee University
15:30
'Authoritarian Personality’ and Populism: On the Contemporary A Critical Theory of Crisis and The Heirs of Mana: Revisiting Continuing critical theory: Open One-liners of Critical Theory: from
Reconsidered: Adorno, Marcuse Relevance of Lukács’ Analysis in Value Struggle Adorno's Animism Marxism and negative critique the Etruscan Vases in Rome to the
and the Spectre of ‘Left Fascism’ Destruction of Reason Cows of the Ku’damm in Berlin
15:30 Lars Rensmann, University Richard Westerman, University of Scott Timcke, University of the Mahmood Exiri Fard, Ilias Giannopoulos, Antonia Hofstätter, University
of Groningen Alberta West Indies University of Alberta Independent Scholar of Brighton
16:00
Revolt and Reification: Critical Reason and Social Relations in Critical Theory and the One "The Dawn of Things": on Between social resistance and The Armour of the Rhinoceros and
Theory in an Age of Lukács’ Antinomy of Nature and Dimensionality of Econometric Participation of Objects in precarious fetishization: Adorno's the Question of Subcutaneous
Authoritarian Populism Society Data: Assessing Acemoglu and Benjaminian Experience redemption of a modernistic art Philosophy
Robinson’s Formal Method
16:00 COFFEE BREAK
16:30
16:30 Luiz Repa, University of São Eric-John Russell, Kingston Will Stronge, University of Ali Mesbahian, University of Anders Bartonek, Södertörn Daniel Steuer, University of
Paulo, Brazil University Brighton Alberta University, Stockholm Brighton
17:00
Socialism and Democracy : on The eyes of Narcissus: the province of A Gramscian critique of labourism The Violence of Recognition: a The Future of Saying No. Adorno’s The Gaze of the Rhinoceros
the conception of emancipation reflection in Georg Lukács and Guy in Critical Theory Reinterpretation of Honneth's Critical Theory between Non-
in Axel Honneth's critical Debord Theory of Recognition identity and Incompatibility
theory
17:00 Karin Stoegner, University of Mariana Teixeira, Brazilian Center Callum Cant, University of West Daniel Kuchler, Freie Giorgos Papafragkou, Panteion Surti Singh, American
Vienna for Analysis and Planning London Universität Berlin University of Athens University in Cairo
17:30
Critical Theory, Identity, and The Standpoint of Zerrissenheit: The Class Composition Beyond Critique and Republicanism—An Adorno as an optimist The Paradox of Play: Aesthetic
(Anti-)Feminism Actuality of Lukács' Approach to Production: Developing the Concept Attempt at Reconciling Arendt Resistance from Lukács to Adorno
Reification and Resistance of ‘Social Composition’ and Adorno
17:30 David Seymour, City Konstantinos Kavoulakos, Iain Macdonald, Université de Luigi Corrias, Vrije Jakub Górski, Jagiellonian Brian Price, University of
University London University of Crete Montréal Universiteit Amsterdam University, Krakow Toronto
18:00
Elite-Theory, Populism and the Marx and Lukács on Reification Actualization, Deactualization: Dehumanization as Alienation: The Post-Secular Dimension of Between Apathy and Seriousness:
Shortcomings of Critique Marx, Modality, and Critical Theory Towards a Critical Theory of the Theodor Adorno's Critical Theory. On Objectivity in Adorno
Conditio Inhumana Introduction

11TH INTERNATIONAL CRITICAL THEORY CONFERENCE in ROME

 FRIDAY 11 MAY

PLENARY SESSION (MORNING) – CONFERENCE ROOM

09:00-09:30 BREAKFAST

09:30-10:15 Idit Dobbs-Weinstein, Vanderbilt University

After Civilization: a return to the question whether there can be poetry or living after Auschwitz?

Chair: Hugh Miller

10:15-11:00 Andrew Feenberg, Simon Fraser University

Marcuse's Civilizational Politics

11:15-12:00 David Ingram, Loyola University Chicago

The Clash of Paradigms in the Age of Trump: Lyotard's Contribution to Critical Theory

12:00-12:45 Douglas Kellner, University of California Los Angeles

Toward a Frankfurt School critique of Donald Trump

13:00-14:00 LUNCH

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Conference Room
Chairs Mary Caputi
14:30 Mary Caputi, California State
University, Long Beach
15:00
'An Idiot With a Spoon:'
Petrini, Adorno, and the
Oppositional Politics of Slow
Food
15:00 Laurie Naranch, Siena
College
15:30
The Craft of Resistance: Critical
Theory, Sustainable Cloth, and
Defending Localities through
Creative Slow Time
15:30 Fabio Vighi, Cardiff
University
16:00
Technological Rationality and
Socio-Economic Crisis:
Determinism or Dialectics?
16:00
16:30
16:30 Amirhosein Khandizaji, Free
University of Berlin
17:00
David Riesman; A Different
Approach to the Culture
Industry
17:00 Graeme Gilloch, Lancaster
University
17:30
The Urban Orchestra: Kracauer,
Berlin and the Rhythm of the
Ratio
17:30 Simon Susen, City,
University of London
18:00
The Economy of Enrichment:
Towards a New Form of
Capitalism?
FRIDAY 11 MAY PARALLEL SESSIONS (AFTERNOON)
Room 5
Saulius Jurga
Saulius Jurga, University of
Messina
From imputation to action:
Lukács' normative subject of
praxis
Rob Jackson, Manchester
Metropolitan University
Lukács and Postone: Subjectivity
Past and Present
Frank Engster, Independent
Scholar; Phoebe Moore,
University of Leicester
Lukács’ Existentialism
Frederic Montferrand,
Nanterre University
Genesis and Complexity. Georg
Lukács' Two Ontologies
Mateus Soares de Souza,
Universidade Federal do ABC,
Sao Paolo
Lukács adheres to Marxism:
'What is Orthodox Marxism?'
and the necessity of the category of
totality
Thorsten Fuchshuber,
Université libre de Bruxelles
In Quest of Sovereignty? The
Frankfurt School and the Critique
of the State
Room 6
Ben Roberts
David Berry, University of
Sussex
Automating Thought
Caroline Bassett, University
of Sussex
Automation as the End of the
Human Condition? Arendt and
the Technological
Beatrice Fazi, University of
Sussex
Adorno, Turing and the
Automation of Thinking
COFFEE BREAK
Ben Roberts, University of
Sussex
This Time It's Different:
automation and postcapitalist
futures
Bruna Della Torre de
Carvalho Lima, University of
São Paulo
Culture industry in the 21st
century: platform capitalism and
free time
Eduardo Altheman Camargo
Santos, University of São
Paulo
The late Marcuse and the
critique of neoliberalism
Room 4
Panagiota Schoina
Panagiota Schoina, Independent
Researcher
"Experience: The prejudice of form,
The matter of originality". A
reading of Benjamin's "Erfarung"
Margarita Karkagianni,
Independent Researcher
The functions of memory in
aesthetic experience: Benjamin and
Bergson
Kyriaki Goudelis, University of
Patras
Benjamin and Schelling on the
magic of the word
Laura Smith, KU Leuven
Georges Didi-Huberman’s Image
Critique: The Secular Aura
Alicia Valdés, Carlos III
University, Spain
Violence and legitimation. Jacques
Lacan and Walter Benjamin
Wacyl Azzouz, University of
Basel
The "primal pseudos": The Concept
of the Nation and the Natural Form
of Society
11TH INTERNATIONAL CRITICAL THEORY CONFERENCE in ROME
Room 3
Darryl Cressman
Stefano Papa, University of
Vienna
Space. Hapticity. Property. For a
Critical Theory of Urban Studies,
Especially concerning property
rights
Yehotal Shapira, Technion -
Israel Institute of Technology
Frankfurt School and Feminism:
Israeli Women Architects and
Activists Negotiate the Morality of
East Jerusalem Architecture
Edward Hamilton, Capilano
University
Critical theory of technology and
the limits of democratic agency:
The case of educational technologies
Darryl Cressman, Maastricht
University
Recovering Sociotechnical Critique:
Feenberg's Contribution to Critical
Theory
Robert Vigliotti, Rockhurst
University
Artificial Intelligence and
Education: Disrupted Economy
and Disrupted Selves
Alessandro De Cesaris,
University “Federico II”, Naples
The Digital Implosion of Man. Eros
and Monodimensionality in
Herbert Marcuse and Byung-Chul
Han
Sala Teatro
Ingrid Cyfer
Ana Claudia Lopes, University of
Campinas, Brazil
Normative criticism or Effects of Power?
On Seyla Benhabib's critique of Joan Scott
Rúrion Melo, University of São Paulo
Civil Disobedience and Political
Legitimacy: Disputes about the occupation
movement in Brazil
Ingrid Cyfer, Federal University of São
Paulo
The 2017 demonstrations against Judith
Butler´s visit to Brazil in the light of her
thought on Violence and Recognition
Felipe Gonçalves Silva, Federal
University of Rio Grande do Sul
Political theory and the centrality of time
diagnosis
Raphael Neves, Federal University of
São Paulo
If populism is the answer, what is the
question? A critical approach to Mouffe
and Laclau
Gundula Ludwig, University of
Vienna - Medical regimes of truth and the
genealogy of Germany's democracy. How
history of medicine can help us to better
understand the current crisis of
democracy
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9:00 BREAKFAST
9:30
Conference Room Room 5 Room 6 Room 4 Room 3 Sala Teatro
Chairs Paulo Yamawake Andreas Gelhard Ioannis Kampourakis Andrea Aureli Nathan Ross Moreno Rocchi
9:30 Inara Luisa Marin, Andreas Gelhard, University Elke Wagner, University of Alexey Savin, Russian Academy of Jarno Hietalahti, University of Pierre-François Noppen,
Unicamp/Cebrap of Vienna Würzburg Sciences Jyväskylä, Finland University of Saskatchewan
10:00
The dialectics of anxiety The Cause of the Other. On Doing Critique: Interpretation of Hegel’s dialectics in Theodor W. Adorno’s Tragic Thinking and Suffering: Adorno on
Honneth’s Debate with Rancière Convergences and Divergences the early Marcuse’s philosophy Vision in Comparison to Erich the Conative Dimension of
between Systems Theory and the Fromm’s Utopian Realism Rationality
Frankfurt School
10:00 Ricardo Lira, Unicamp Sergej Seitz, University of Lyana Francot, VU University Marius Dahmen, Freie Universität Kieran Durkin, University of F.Tony Carusi, Massey
Philosophy of new Music as an Vienna Amsterdam Berlin York University; Tomasz Szkudlarek,
10:30
excurse to Dialectic of Of what is beyond Justice. No risk, no glory – the possibility Psychoanalysis between Functionality Minima Moralia or the Perennial University of Gdansk
Enlightenment. Adorno's concept Honneth on Derrida and of a critical systems theory and the ‘Great Refusal’ - Delineating Philosophy: Fromm and Adorno on Adorno and Laclau: How can
of musikalische Naturbeherrschung Levinas Emancipation in US Social Theory Ethics and Morality negative dialectic contribute to the
post-WWII theory of hegemony
10:30 Raquel Patriota, Unicamp Anna Wieder, University of Kolja Möller, Goethe Lisbet Rosenfeldt Svanøe, Aarhus Olli-Pekka Moisio, University of Andrea Walsh, Michigan State
The "organized meaninglessness": Vienna University Frankfurt/Main University Jyväskylä, Finland University
11:00
Adorno on Beckett From Resilience to Resistance. Toward a critical theory of Thinking and Reading - Preparations Erich Fromm’s Early Work and the Modal Authenticity as Critical
Vulnerability between Populism? for Active Life Frankfurt School’s Critical Theory Social Practice: Integrating
Governmental Technology and Heidegger's Existential Analytic
Critical Ethos with Adorno's Negative Dialectic
11:00 COFFEE BREAK
11:30
11:30 Fernando Del Lama, USP Gerald Posselt, University of Jan Overwijk, University of Dror Yinon, Bar-Ilan University Sokthan Yeng, Adelphi Hugh Miller, Loyola University
"Materialist categories (which in Vienna Amsterdam The Libidinal Economy of a Basic University Chicago
12:00
no way coincide with Marxists)", Rhetoric as Critique: Foucault Retrieving the Critical in Income Society: Reflections on Eros Benjamin and Agamben on ‘Damaged Life’ and the Possibility of
or the sui generis Marxism of and Derrida Luhmann's Systems Theory and Civilization Violence: From Protest to Moral Philosophy: On Butler’s
Walter Benjamin Governmentality Reading of Adorno
12:00 Olavo Ximenes, Unicamp Matthias Flatscher, Ioannis Kampourakis, Free Agostino Cera, Università della Corey McCall, Elmira College James Ingram, McMaster
Mode of production as a critical University of Vienna University of Berlin Basilicata Walter Benjamin and Pierre: University
12:30
concept in the Grundrisse of Karl Is there an Alterity-Oriented New governance as reflexive law: The Performance Paradigm. On the Herman Melville's Arcades Project After Two Ends of Utopia: The Place
Marx Theory of Institution? Remarks A materialization of Critical Actuality of a Marcusean Topic of Utopia in Critical Theory
on Levinas's Figure of the Third Systems Theory?
12:30 Paulo Yamawake, Unicamp Eva Buddeberg, Goethe- Mena Mitrano, Loyola Dagmar Wilhelm, University of the Nathan Ross, Oklahoma City Onur Doğanay, Humboldt-
Ego formation and the introversion University Frankfurt University Chicago JFRC West of England, Bristol University Universität zu Berlin
13:00
of sacrifice: a psychoanalytical A Wager for Communication Critical Theory and Italian Utopia and progress in Marcuse and Memory as Fulfillment of Walter Identity Thinking as Alienation in
approach to the Dialectic of beyond Liberalism Theory Adorno Benjamin's Philosophy of Adorno
Enlightenment Experience
13:00 - 14:00 LUNCH
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Conference Room
Chairs Moreno Rocchi
14:30 Andrew Cutrofello, Loyola
University Chicago
15:00
Revolutionary Metaphysical
Poetry
15:00 Anne-Marie Feenberg-Dibon,
Simon Fraser University
15:30
Phantasmagorias of modernity,
Walter Benjamin on detective
fiction
15:30 Dianne Rothleder, Loyola
University Chicago
16:00
Scenes of Walking: Socrates in
Sandals, Henry V in a Cloak,
Trayvon Martin in a Hoodie
16:00
16:30
16:30 Tamara Tagliacozzo,
Università degli Studi Roma
17:00
Tre
Monad, Knowledge and
Redemption. Benjamin's
Concept of History
17:00 Alison Ross, Monash
University, Melbourne
17:30
Revolution and Historical
Experience: Walter Benjamin’s
‘materialist historiography’
17:30 Ulrich Mathias Gerr, Carl
von Ossietzky-University
18:00
Oldenburg
‘Thinking in extremes‘ – Walter
Benjamin‘s notion of the
‘extreme’
SATURDAY 12 MAY PARALLEL SESSIONS (AFTERNOON)
Room 5
Mena Mitrano
Sid Simpson, University of Notre
Dame
Dialectic, Genealogy and the Critique
of Culture: Dialektik der Aufklärung
and its Methodological Roots
Marcel Stoetzler, Bangor
University
Labour and identity according to
Dialectic of Enlightenment
Christine Brueckner McVay,
School of Visual Arts, New York
Utopia on the Waterfront : Illusion /
Disenchantment
Mauro Ponzi, University of Rome
“La Sapienza”
"The Music of Future". Adorno,
Thomas Mann and the Avantgarde
Art in the End Times
Stan Erraught, Bucks New
University
Silent Music of Refusal: Adorno,
Silence and Resistance
Noora Tienaho, University of
Tampere, Finland
Adorno, Technology, and Music
Room 6
Paul Giladi
Matt Congdon, Vanderbilt
University
Epistemic Injustice as a Failure of
Recognition
Paul Giladi, University College
Dublin
Overcoming the Social Pathology of
Hermeneutical Injustice
Katherine O’Donnell, University
College Dublin
Irish Magdalenes and the Ontological
Implications of Fricker and Honneth’s
Models of Justice
COFFEE BREAK
Vanessa Capistrano Ferreira, Sao
Paulo State University
Justice and Self-Realisation: Revisiting
the Honnethian Theory for creating an
European project based on the
recognition on differences in identity
Douglas Giles, University of Essex
Recognition, Ideology, and Racial
Oppression
Gulay Ugur Goksel, Istanbul Aydin
University
The Theory of Recognition and the
Integration of Immigrants: Integration
of Syrian Refugees in Turkey
Room 4
Dan Wood
James Murphy, Loyola
University Chicago
Cybernetics and Empirical Social
Research
Dan Wood, Villanova
University
Athena's One-liners: The
Aphorism in the Gay and
Melancholy Sciences
Ashley Fleshman, DePaul
University
Foucault, Materialism, and the
Problem of Second Nature
Daniel Pepe, DePaul
University
The Metaphysical Antinomy of
History in Kant, Lukács and
Adorno
Eric Aldieri, DePaul
University
Is the angel of history a child?
Camilla Brenni, Université de
Strasbourg
Criticising empiricism,
salvaging the empirical,
Adorno's double gesture
11TH INTERNATIONAL CRITICAL THEORY CONFERENCE in ROME
Room 3
Taila Picchi
Sebastiano Taccola, SNS, Pisa
The Anamnesis of the Genesis
and the Critique of Politics
Francesco Marchesi, SNS,
Pisa
Politics of the Historical
Transition: Borkenau,
Horkheimer and Manufacture
Andrea Di Gesu, SNS, Pisa
Redemption and profanity:
Benjamin and the impolitical
community
Taila Picchi, Università di
Pisa e Firenze
The Power of Illusion: Marcuse
between Literature and Politics
Chris Vandenberg, York
University, Toronto
Bleakness & Praxis: Horkheimer
& Marcuse's Responses to
Despair
Patrick Ahern, University of
Dayton
Inconsolable Truths:
Storytelling, Silencing, and
Human Rights
Sala Teatro
Andrea Aureli
Melis Menent, Sussex University
Legitimation Through Human
Rights for Habermas
Belén Pueyo-Ibáñez, Emory
University
Truth and Discourse: Foucault and
Habermas on the Practice of Ethics
Thomas Wren, Loyola University
Chicago
Habermas, Kant, and Transcendental
Idealism
Siyang Liu, Durham University
Could Habermas's Theory of Law as
the Medium between Facticity and
Validity recognise the intrinsic value
of political emotion?
Marjan Ivković, Belgrade
University
Social Philosophy and the Divergent
Imperatives of Critique: An
Impossible Middle Way?
Radu Neculau, University of
Windsor
When Systems Go Native:
Functional Autonomy, Cultural
Identity, and Ideological Recognition