14th Biennial RPA Conference
Facing Catastrophe: Environment, Technology, and Media
Thursday-Saturday, November 11-13, 2021
VIRTUAL
REGISTER HERE
Keynote Speakers
Wendy Brown, University of California, Berkeley
Colin Koopman, University of Oregon
CONFERENCE THEME:
The possibilities of impending doom once reserved to the threat of global thermonuclear warfare have unfolded and multiplied in the present day. Today there are a wide variety of reasons to anticipate catastrophe and even the end of all life on Earth. From environmental destruction, automation and the AI singularity, the saturation of mass communication with propaganda, to the twilight of democracy, we seem to be balancing at the tipping point on a number of fronts simultaneously. This meeting is focused on ‘facing’ catastrophe in the senses of describing its features, owning up to it, and tackling it, though papers on any topic of radical philosophy are welcome.
PANDEMIC NOTICE:
This conference is planned to take place VIRTUALLY.
For further information, contact the conference Program Committee:
Cory Wimberly, Program Committee Chair: corymwimberly@gmail.com
Cory Aragon, Program Committee: corwin.aragon@gmail.com
Mlado Ivanovic, Program Committee: mivanovi@nmu.edu
Brandon Absher, RPA Co-Chair and Program Committee: brandon.absher@gmail.com
Carlos Sanchez, Conference Organizer: carlos.sanchez@sjsu.edu
VIRTUAL
REGISTER HERE
Keynote Speakers
Wendy Brown, University of California, Berkeley
Colin Koopman, University of Oregon
CONFERENCE THEME:
The possibilities of impending doom once reserved to the threat of global thermonuclear warfare have unfolded and multiplied in the present day. Today there are a wide variety of reasons to anticipate catastrophe and even the end of all life on Earth. From environmental destruction, automation and the AI singularity, the saturation of mass communication with propaganda, to the twilight of democracy, we seem to be balancing at the tipping point on a number of fronts simultaneously. This meeting is focused on ‘facing’ catastrophe in the senses of describing its features, owning up to it, and tackling it, though papers on any topic of radical philosophy are welcome.
PANDEMIC NOTICE:
This conference is planned to take place VIRTUALLY.
For further information, contact the conference Program Committee:
Cory Wimberly, Program Committee Chair: corymwimberly@gmail.com
Cory Aragon, Program Committee: corwin.aragon@gmail.com
Mlado Ivanovic, Program Committee: mivanovi@nmu.edu
Brandon Absher, RPA Co-Chair and Program Committee: brandon.absher@gmail.com
Carlos Sanchez, Conference Organizer: carlos.sanchez@sjsu.edu
