Biography Susan Buck-Morss
Susan Buck-Morss is Professor of Political Philosophy and Social Theory in the Department of Government at Cornell University, where she is also Professor of Visual Culture in the Department of Art History. Her books include The Origin of Negative Dialectics: Theodor W. Adorno, Walter Benjamin and the Frankfurt Institute (1979); The Dialectics of Seeing: Walter Benjamin and the Arcades Project (1991); Dreamworld and Catastrophe: the Passing of Mass Utopia in East and West (2002); and Thinking Past Terror: Islam and Critical Theory on the Left (2003).
Witte de With organizes in collaboration with V2_ a symposium focusing on the issues debated in the Under Fire mailing list in the period January – April, 2004. The main speakers are John Armitage, Asef Bayat, Susan Buck-Morss (through internet) …Read more
Under Fire is a year-long project initiated by Jordan Crandall that consists of a series of organized discussions that will occur online and in Rotterdam, throughout the year 2004. Co-editors Under Fire I: Asef Bayat, Susan Buck-Morss, Hamid Dabashi, Brian …Read more
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