Declensions of the Self – A Bestiary of Modernity

I spent last weekend at a conference in Edmonton, Alberta entitled:

Declensions of the Self – A Bestiary of Modernity

Excellent conference. Saw James, mi cuate from Mexico City. Also heard a lot of great presentations relating to Comparative literature, philosophy, linguistics, sociology, political science.

I made a collage of the titles to give an impression of what it was like:

“Existing in Subordination: Popular Music, Midgets, and a Vicious Cycle of Identity”

“If Adorno isn’t the Devil, it’s because He’s a Jew: Lyotard’s Mis-reading of Adorno’s Aesthetics through Thomas Mann’s Dr. Faustus”

“Wittgenstein’s Ordinary Language Rules and Thirteen Ways of Looking at Birds in Ulysses”

James Martell’s “Hamlet’s Rest (of silence): The Telos of a Declension”

“‘Playing True’, Playing Pure: Another (Re)thinking: Performance Enhancing Drugs and Repression and Liberation in Marcuse’s Eros and Civilization”

“Working at the Limit: Indoor Rowing and the Agony of Ecstasy”

“The Great Chain of Refuse: Capitalist Allegories in the Insect Kingdom”