So we press on: join InterCcECT for the penultimate session on Adorno (reading Part Three, Section 2 — “World-Spirit and Natural History”), Thursday, 31 July, 4pm, at Moody’s again (libraries full alas).
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So we press on: join InterCcECT for the next round of Adorno (reading Part Three: Structure of the Third Antinomy through the end), Wednesday, 16 July, 4pm, Chicago Public Library Lincoln Park location (our old standby, but in the “small meeting room” this time).
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So we press on: join InterCcECT for the next round of Adorno (reading Part Three: Models but just through “Contemplation” ), Tuesday, 1 July, 4pm, Moody’s Pub, 5910 N Broadway. (NOTE this is not a library session due to unavailability all over, but Moody’s tends to be quiet outdoors.)
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So we press on: join InterCcECT for the next round of Adorno (reading part two: negative dialectics, concepts and categories), Wednesday, 18 June, 4pm, Lincoln Belmont Public Library meeting room. PLEASE NOTE due to Juneteenth this session is NOT on a Thursday, and due to availability it is NOT at the regular LP library location.
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So we press on: join InterCcECT for the next round of Adorno (reading part one: relationship to ontology), Thursday 5 June, 4pm, Lincoln Park Public Library large meeting room.
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The times call for Negative Dialectics. Join InterCcECT as we embark on an intensified summer project of Adorno. We’ll aim to meet every two weeks, for as long as we can stand it. Summer schedule remains open for your proposals for alternate/ additional events too.
First session: read the Introduction (pages 1-60, or as deep as you get).
Thursday 22 May, 4pm, Sheffield’s Beer Garden (outside).
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In search of other worlds, in quest of cultural heritage, and in complement to last month’s discussion of asset managerial aesthetics, InterCcECT convenes to celebrate the publication of LATE STAR TREK, the latest book from stalwart Adam Kotsko. Seminary Coop hosts a conversation between Kotsko and Gerry Canavan, editor of the series Mass Markets: Storyworlds Across Media, Thursday 8 May, 4pm. Directly afterwards we’ll adjourn to Jimmy’s (aka Woodlawn Tap) for libations.
As semesters wind down and quarters begin to feel the spring breeze, fire up your summer theory desires. InterCcECT always takes proposals for events, and we welcome guests on book tours / with miniseminar ideas. Coming to town? Schedule your fall event now. And mark your calendars for our first summer ambition, an initial session on Theodor Adorno’s Negative Dialectics on 22 May! Behave, and we’ll have multiple summer sessions devoted to carefully reading it.
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How do the financial instruments deployed in Hollywood shape its aesthetic output? A new book tracking the financialization of culture industries offers a comprehensive theory of the derivative form structuring contemporary music, television, and film. Join InterCcECT for a discussion of Derivative Media, with special guest, Professor Andrew deWaard. We’ll read the Introduction and Chapter 2. University of California Press has an open-access initiative ; rsvp to interccect at gmail for pdfs.
Monday 7 April 2025
4pm
Lincoln Park Public Library (large meeting room), 1150 W Fullerton. (The library has a parking lot.) Red, Brown, Purple Lines: Fullerton
Mark your calendars now for our May event, a celebration of long time InterCcECTer Adam Kotsko’s new book, Late Star Trek! Thursday 8 May, 4pm, Seminary Coop and festivities after.
As spring dawns, let us know what’s on your summer theory agenda; InterCcECT always welcomes event proposals.
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“It is indeed necessary to improvise, it is necessary to improvise well,” Jacques Derrida told a crowd of unsuspecting Ornette Coleman devotees who’d come to hear Coleman perform with German pianist Joachim Kühn at the Parc de la Villette on July 1, 1997. Coleman’s fans did not react well to the experiment: in fact, the heckling eventually caused Derrida to leave the stage before he’d finished reading (improvising, pretending to read) his text, despite Coleman’s encouragement. Yet while Derrida’s performance might have gone awry (he describes it as a disaster unlike anything that had happened to him in his years of standing before large audiences), the event (or non-event) enables us to delve further into what Erin Graff Zivin insists is a necessary encounter between deconstruction and improvisation.
Join us for a miniseminar on this encounter, led by Professor Graff Zivin, Thursday 20 March, 4pm. We’ll read Derrida’s interview of Coleman as well as his piece “Play – The First Name.” RSVP to interccect at gmail for pdfs.
UIC University Hall, room 1850 (18th floor, 601 S Morgan, Blue Line: UIC Halsted).
mark your calendars now for our upcoming events:
7 April with special guest Andrew DeWaard on his new book Derivative Media
8 May InterCcECT stalwart Adam Kotsko discusses his new book Late Star Trek
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Secular stagnation looks different around the globe, yet across those differences it commonly orients the rise of a global right. Join InterCcECT for a reading session on Endgame: Economic Nationalism and Global Decline, focusing on the introduction and first chapter. Author Jamie Merchant will be our special guest! 19 Feb, 5pm, back room of The Long Room .
RSVP to interccect at gmail for pdf, and mark your calendars now for our social spring of great guests: 20 March with Erin Graff Zivin, and 7 April with Andrew DeWaard!
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