Ecosophy: Rethinking the Culture Concept with Guattari
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A workshop with Janell Watson, Associate professor of Foreign Languages, Virginia Tech.
The culture concept has been criticized because it
hierarchizes, divides, isolates, standardizes, categorizes, and
excludes
(among other ill effects). Guattari declares that "the concept of
culture is
deeply reactionary," and replaces it with a variety of other
notions, the
most encompassing of these being "ecosophy." Is this idea indeed
preferable
to that of culture?
Janell Watson is Associate Professor in the Department of Foreign Languages at Virginia Tech, and incoming editor of the Minnesota Review. She is the author of Guattari’s Diagrammatic Thought (Continuum 2009) and Material Culture and Literature from Balzac to Proust (Cambridge University Press 1999).
No registration is required, but there will be discussion based on assigned readings; for more information on the readings for the workshop, please contact Alanna.Thain [at] mcgill.ca.