Coming Events
“Goodbye Lenin, Hello Marx: An Introduction to Paul Reitter and Paul North’s Capital Translation.” Location TBD. February 7, 2025.
“Documenting the Anthropocene: A Metaphysics of Absence.” Stanford Humanities Center. March 7, 2025.
“Negentropic Orientations: The Legacy of Bernard Stiegler.” Leuphana Institute for Advanced Studies, Date TBD.
Past Talks
“Technics as a Form of Life? Stiegler on Hope and Symbolic Misery.” University of California Berkeley. November 13, 2024.
“Poetry at the End of the World: Hölderlin’s Andenken.” Goethe Atkins Conference. Trinity University, November 8, 2024.
“Introduction to Planetary Idealism: The Technics of Nature in German Romanticism.” Philosophy and Literature Workshop. Stanford University. October 21, 2024.
“Natur und Ursprung im Streit zwischen Kant und Herder.” Guest Lecture for Lara Scaglia’s “Lesekreis: lecturas filosóficas en alemán.” National Autonomous University of Mexico. Oct 14, 2024.
“Goethe and Marx: Technics, Alienation, and the Paradox of Production.” German Studies Association. Atlanta, GA, September 26, 2024.
“Introducción al Idealismo Planetario: Kant, el Fausto de Goethe y la tragedia de la filosofía de la naturaleza.” Institute for Philosophical Research. National Autonomous University of Mexico. September 11, 2024.
“Marx After Simondon: Metabolic Rift and the Analog of Computation.” Digital Aesthetics Workshop. Stanford Humanities Center. January 30, 2024.
“The Negentropic Spectator.” Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts Annual Conference. Arizona State University. October 26 – 29, 2023.
“Bernard Stiegler: Orientation and Organology.” Stanford Humanities Center. October 13, 2023.
“Hölderlins Poetik der Resonanz.” Friedrich Schiller Universität Jena. July 27, 2023.
“Politics and Aesthetics of the Invisual: Chatonsky’s Dysnovation and Geocinema’s The Making of Earths.” “Media and Environment” Guest Lecture. Stanford University. May 23, 2023.
“German Studies in Our Planetary Present.” Stanford Humanities Center. April 28, 2023.
“Fragments of the Concrete: Technical Media and Political Ecology in German Romanticism.” Stanford Humanities Center. April 1, 2023.
“Dialectics as perpetuum mobile; or, will the Novacene be Hegelian?” American Comparative Literature Association Annual Conference. Chicago, IL. March 18, 2023.
“What is Romanticism? Poetry, Politics, and the Nature of Freedom.” Structured Liberal Education. Stanford University. March 7, 2023.
“The Goethean Technics of Antizipation.” Modern Language Association Annual Conference. San Fransisco, CA. January 8, 2023.
“There Was No Planet A: Art, Technology, Extinction.” Art History Graduate Roundtable. Stanford University. November 9, 2022.
“World Souls, Perpetual Motion, Negentropy: the ‘Technik der Natur’ After Kant.” German Department Colloquium. Stanford University. November 1, 2022.
“Fragments of the Concrete: Ecology and Technical Media in German Romanticism.” University of Pennsylvania. April 22, 2022.