Join the Woodbine Research Group on Sunday the 16th at PIT for a conversation with Susan Buck-Morss on the vanguard and the avant-garde, commonist practice and ethics, and the role of visual studies in the global imagination. This is part of Woodbine's roving fall events series in partnership with different venues around the city. 2pm at 411 South 5th Street. 

Our discussion will focus on some key questions from a survey of Buck-Morss’ work: How are we to conceive of a commonist ethics? To what degree is intellectual, avant-garde, and vanguard production affecting the outside world and working against class and other forms of exploitation? What kind of community can we hope for from a global dissemination of images, and how can we create it? 

Susan Buck-Morss is a multi-disciplinary scholar whose political theory emerges out of a constellation of historical material, visual images, and contemporary events. She is a core faculty member of the CUNY Graduate Center’s Committee on Globalization and Social Change. Her focus on sensory experience as the source of philosophical revelation is the topic of her most recent experimental book, Seeing/Making Room for Thought (2023), co-authored with Kevin McCaughey (designer of Woodbine’s journal The Reservoir), and Inventory Press' Adam Michaels. Her early studies on the Frankfurt School are Dialectics of Seeing: Walter Benjamin and the Arcades Project (MIT Press, 1989) and The Origin of Negative Dialectics: Theodor W. Adorno, Walter Benjamin, and the Frankfurt School (Free Press, 1979).

READINGS: https://tinyurl.com/4t9mec9w
"Revolutionary Time: The Vanguard and the Avant-Garde" (2002)
"A Commonist Ethics" (2011): https://field-journal.com/issue-5/a-commonist-ethics/
"Visual Studies and Global Imagination" (2004)