Phillip E. Wegner Associate Professor Associate Graduate Coordinator Department of English University of Florida P.O. Box 117310 Gainesville, FL 32611-7310 Turlington Hall 4115 |
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Dr.
Susan Hegeman
Owen &
Nadia (9-30-03)
Owen & Nadia (March 2008)
Selected Publications:
Life
Between Two Deaths,
1989-2001:
U.S. Culture
in the Long 1990s
(Duke University Press: 2009)
Imaginary
Communities: Utopia, the Nation, and the Spatial Histories of Modernity
(University of California Press:
2002)
Reviews and discussions can be found at:
Politics
and Culture 2002, #3
Science
Fiction Studies 30, no. (2003)
Utopian
Studies 13, no. 2 (2002)
American
Literature 76, no. 1 (2004)
Comparative Literature 57, no. 2
(2005)
Cultural Logic (2006)
Political Theory 36, no. 2 (2008)
"Postmodernism." In The Edinburgh Dictionary of Continental Philosophy,ed. John Protevi (Edinburgh University Press: 2005).
"Utopian Fiction," & "Science Fiction." In
Encyclopedia
of Literature and Politics, ed. M.
Keith Booker (Greenwood Press: 2005).
"Utopia." In A Companion to
Science Fiction, ed. David Seed. (London: Blackwells, 2005).
"On World Bank Literature: A
Review of Bret Benjamin’s Invested
Interests: Capital, Culture, and
the World Bank." Politics and Culture 1 (2008).
“Más allá de las clausuras de la guerra fría: repeticiones y revisiones en el ciclo Terminator.” LiberArte: La Revista Virtual del Colegio de Artes Liberales, Universidad San Francisco de Quito. 1, no. 1 (2005).
| Recent Conferences Organized: 2008 UF American Cultures Symposium: Futures of American Studies 2007 Society for Utopian Studies Program |
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Fall 2009 ENG 6077 Toward An Ethics of the Real: Reading Lacan with Badiou Syllabus |
Spring 2009 ENG 6077 syllabus Spring 2008 LIT 6847 Syllabus Spring 2007 ENG 6076
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Spring 2006 ENG 6077 Syllabus Fall 2006 LIT 4930 description LIT 4483 description Spring 2005 ENG 4936 description ENG 6077 description |
Fall 2005 LIT 4188 Syllabus Fall 2004 Fall 2003 |
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Like the freed convict in Kafka's Penal
Colony,who
has survived the destruction of the machine that was to have executed
him,
these beings have left the world of guilt and justice behind them: The
light that rains down on them is that irreparable light of the dawn
following
the novissima diesof judgment. But the life that begins on
earth
after the last day is simply human life. . . . . Tricksters or fakes, assistants or 'toons, they are the exemplars of the coming community. Giorgio Agamben, The Coming Community My
friend the Angel climb'd up from his
station
into the mill; I remain'd alone, & then this appearance was no
more,
but I found myself sitting on a pleasant bank beside a river by
moonlight,
hearing a harper who sung to the harp; & his theme was: 'The man
who
never alters his opinion is like standing water, & breeds reptiles
of the mind." As long as man concentrates his interest
contemplatively
upon the past orfuture, both ossify into an alien
existence.
And between the subject and the object lies the unbridgeable
"pernicious
chasm" of the present. Man must be able to comprehend the present
as becoming. He can do this by seeing in it the tendencies out of
whose dialectical opposition he can make the future. Only
when he does this will the present be a process of becoming,that
belongs
to him. Alain Badiou
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 I believe we can survive in utopia... Ejigayehu “Gigi” Shibabaw |
Last revised: July 29, 2009
