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SCA Culture @ Large 2010
presents:
Professor David Theo Goldberg
(Comparative Literature and Criminology, Law, and Society, UC Irvine)
"The Militarization of the Social"
Saturday, November 20
8:00-9:45 a.m.
SCA Chair: Cori Hayden (UC Berkeley)
Discussants: Brackette Williams (University of Arizona and Open Society Institute), Nadia Abu El-Haj (Barnard College), Teresa Caldeira (UC Berkeley), and David Vine (American University).
Professor Goldberg ‘s work ranges from interventions in political theory, race, and critical theory to initiatives in the digital humanities. Goldberg’s present work is leading him to interrogate the increasing militarization of the social. In this session, he will address how New Orleans brings into sharp relief the tensions in governing of and through race, in the neoliberalizing recourse to militarizing violence as a response to the challenges of heterogeneity, and in recourse to markets and privately run enterprises both for defining and provisioning security and for social (re)development. Post-Katrina New Orleans also shows how militarized rationalities shape contemporary regimes of social truth and delimit freedom of thought and expression politically and academically. The forum will offer a space to think together about militarizing and the possibilities of "demilitarizing" the social.
Goldberg is Director of the University of California Humanities Research Institute. He also holds appointments as Professor of Comparative Literature and Criminality, Law, and Society at UC Irvine. His recent books include The Threat of Race (2008), The Racial State (2002), and Racial Subjects: Writing on Race in America (1997), as well as The Future of Thinking: Learning Institutions in a Digital Age (2010), co-authored with Cathy Davidson. Goldberg and Davidson are co-founders of the Humanities, Arts, Science and Technology Advanced Collaboratory (HASTAC). Particularly germane to this year’s meetings, Goldberg has put these two intersecting areas of interest to work in a recent special issue of the online multimedia journal Vectors: "Blue Velvet: Re-Dressing New Orleans in Katrina's Wake" (co-authored with Stefka Hristova).
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