2021 Conference
Alternative Futures: Marcuse's Dialectic of Technology
International Herbert Marcuse Society
Ninth Biennial Conference
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 7
5:00 pm
Welcome Address
Vista 102
VDS
701 E Apache Blvd
Remarks and Presentations by Conference Organizers: Nicole K. Mayberry (ASU), Taylor Hines (ASU), and Robert Kirsch (ASU)
Recognition of Maria Érbia Carnaúba Scholarships
Awarding of Marielle Franco Prize to Rodney Doody (York University)
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 8, 2021
8:00 - 9:50 am
Technology, Automation, and Artificial Intelligence
Cereus 101
CERHAL
820 E Apache Blvd
Chair:
Robert Kirsch
Tech facilitator:
Nicole K Mayberry
The Limits of Humanist Refunctioning? Notes on Liberation from AI Capitalism
Kenneth Rösen & Alexander Kurunczi, Ruhr-University Bochum
A New One-dimensionality: Simulation, Artificial Intelligence and the Substitution of Screens for Sensuous Co-presence
Jeff Noonan, University of Windsor
Capital’s Sci-tech-economic Complex: On the Reasoning of Instruments
Lukas Meisner, University of Venice
Production and Dehumanization: Herbert Marcuse and the Marxian Response to Automation
Jason Dawsey, National WWII Museum
8:00 - 9:50 am
Feminist Futures and Marcuse's Concrete Utopia
Cereus 201
CERHAL
820 E Apache Blvd
Chair:
Savita Singh
Tech facilitator:
Taylor Hines
Feminist Futures: Marcuse's Concrete Utopia and the Possibility of a New Radical Politics
Savita Singh, Indira Gandhi National Open University
Feminist Futures: Exploring Marcuse for a politics of knowledge in the Global South
Madhulika Banerjee, University of Delhi
Composting Feminisms: Ecology and Revolution Inspired by Herbert Marcuse and the Amazon Rainforest
Marilia Mello Pisani, Federal University of UFABC
8:00 - 9:50 am
On Paulo Freire’s Centenary: A Dialogue with Marcuse for Today
Juniper 101
JNHAL
1250 S. Rural Rd
Chair:
Silvio Carneiro
Tech facilitator:
Caylen Cole
Celebrating Freire! A Dialogue with Herbert Marcuse for Today
Silvio Carneiro, Federal University of ABC Brazil
The Praxis of Critical Pedagogy: Beginning Before the Beginning
Andrew T. Lamas, University of Pennsylvania
Freire, Marcuse, and the Dialectics of Education and Liberation
Douglas Kellner, University of California Los Angeles
A Third World View on Marcuse's One-Dimensional Man: A Freirean Reading
Renan Rodrigues Gomes, University São Judas
8:00 - 9:50 am
Fascism and Repressive Democracy
Juniper 201
JNHAL
1250 S Rural Rd
Chair:
Shouta Brown
Tech facilitator:
Robert Kirsch
Social Movements, Critique and Liberation within Marcuse's Dialectics
Sergio Bedoya-Cortés, Universidad Libre (Colombia)
Fascism as Process - The Cases of Chile and the United States
Tyler James Olsen, City University New York
Robinson Torres-Salinas, Universidad de Concepción, Chile
Repressive Democracy
Wolfgang Leo Maar, Federal University of São Carlos, Brasil
(In)tolerance As Politics: The Speeches of Right and Left Wings on Facebook During the 2018 Election in Brazil
Rochelly Holanda, Universidade Federal do Ceará
Deborah Antunes, Universidade Federal do Ceará
10:00 -11:50 am
Prospects for Liberation in the Era of Repression
Cereus 101
CERHAL
820 E Apache Blvd
Chair:
Brandon Absher
Tech facilitator:
Nicole K Mayberry
Lessons not Learned from Pandemic: The Old “New Normal” and the Struggle for a Better Life
Robespierre de Oliveira, State University of Maringá, Brazil
Marcusian Multi-disciplinary Crisis Investigation; Phenomenology of Technology
Joe Hadar, Independent Scholar
Marcuse’s Critique of Technology as a form of Resistance
Arash Falasiri, York University
10:00 -11:50 am
Countercultural Reaction, Social Movements, & the Politics of Change
Cereus 201
CERHAL
820 E Apache Blvd
Chair:
Sergio Bedoya-Cortés
Tech facilitator:
Taylor Hines
The Return of the Great Refusals
Lauren Langman, Loyola University Chicago
Closing the Circle: Learning from the Invisible Native Peoples and their Protests
Jeffery Nicholas, Providence College
10:00 -11:50 am
Critical Theory and University Labor: Educate, Agitate, Organize (and Theorize)
Juniper 101
JNHAL
1250 S Rural Rd
Chair:
Andrew T. Lamas
Tech facilitator:
Caylen Cole
Round Table Discussion
Andrew T. Lamas, University of Pennsylvania
Terry Maley, York University
Silvio Carneiro, Federal University of ABC Brazil
Mark O’Brien, University of Liverpool
Craig R. Christiansen, University of Kansas
10:00 -11:50 am
Technology as a Mode of Production
Juniper 201
JNHAL
1250 S Rural Rd
Chair:
Robert Kirsch
Tech facilitator:
Robert Kirsch
Introjection and the Immediacy of Unfreedom
Kevin Lower, Villanova University
Technology and use value: Marx, Marcuse, Echeverría
Stefan Gandler, Universidad Autónoma de Querétaro
LUNCH (BROWN-BAG LUNCH FOR THOSE SCHOLARS INTERESTED)
HONORS HALL 118 (COPPER ROOM)
1:00 - 2:50 pm
The Ecological Marcuse: Critical Environmental Theory and Practice
Cereus 101
CERHAL
820 E Apache Blvd
Chair:
Keelyn Bradley
Tech facilitator:
Nicole K Mayberry
Translating Marcuse in the Colonized Pandemic World: Why Still Read Marcuse in Brazil?
Deborah Antunes, Universidade Federal do Ceará
The Critiques of Modern Science and Technological Rationality: Senses of Possibility in Marcuse
Wesley Furlotte, Thompson Rivers University
Tekhné, Ars, and la Promesse du Bonheur
Imaculada Kangussu, Universidade Federal de Ouro Preto
Spacing Out in the Anthropocene and the Revolutionary Potential of Outer Space
Emily Ray, Sonoma State University
1:00 - 2:50 pm
Platform Capitalism and the Wasteland of Technological Neoliberalism
Juniper 101
JNHAL
1250 S Rural Rd
Chair:
Jeff Noonan
Tech facilitator:
Caylen Cole
The Ideology of Platform Capitalism - Neoliberalism, Precarity and Domination
Eduardo Altheman, University of São Paulo
The Memes of the Academy: Interrogating the Role of Fringe Academia in Violent Online Performance
Liam O'Brien, Kent State University
Hyper-pluralism Age: One-dimensional Man More than Ever
María Estela Navarro Robles, National Pedagogical University Mexico
‘Sublimated Slaves’ : Technological Rationality, the ‘In-Built’ Singular Purpose of Instrumental Servitude and (Over) Production in the Twenty-First Century
Christian Garland, King’s College London
1:00 - 2:50 pm
Technological Rationality, Subjectivity, and Political Praxis: Marcuse, Malignant Normality, and the Prospects for a Liberated Future
Juniper 201
JNHAL
1250 S Rural Rd
Chair:
Michael J. Sukhov
Tech facilitator:
Taylor Hines
Technological Rationality and Its Toxic Effects: Marcuse, Malignant Normality, and the Search for the Radical Subject
Michael J. Sukhov, University of Washington Tacoma
Neoliberalism and the Political Economy of Affect in the Work of Marcuse and Beyond
Terry Maley, York University
On the Consumption and Redemption of Nature in the Hidden Hope for a New Sensibility
Rodney Doody, York University
Marcuse, Technological Rationality, and Computerization
Jeremy J. Shapiro, Fielding Graduate University
3:00 - 4:50 pm
Prospects for the Aesthetic Dimension
Cereus 101
CERHAL
820 E Apache Blvd
Chair:
Robert Kirsch
Tech facilitator:
Robert Kirsch
Paths of Reconciliation: Nature and the Aesthetic Dimension within Herbert Marcuse’s Theorization of Technology
Juliano Bonamigo Ferreira de Souza, Catholic University of Louvain
How Marcuse Developed Schiller’s Aesthetic Concept of Play in an Environmental Direction
Norman Fischer, Kent State University
Trans Cultural Production and Twenty-First Century Technological Rationality: Contemporary Acts of Marcusian Refusal
Casey Robertson, York University
An Aesthetic Ethos?: A Fraternal Critique of Herbert Marcuse’s Dialectic of Technology Utilizing the Media Theory of Friedrich Kittler
Josef Chytry, University of California Berkeley
3:00 - 4:50 pm
Intersections of Race and Feminism
Cereus 201
CERHAL
820 E Apache Blvd
Chair:
Nicole K. Mayberry
Tech facilitator:
Nicole K Mayberry
Tolerating White Supremacy: A Marcusean Analysis
Jina Fast, Notre Dame of Maryland University
“Wake Work” as Affective-Aesthetic Technology: Theorizing Praxis for Marcuse’s “New Sensibility” in the Afterlives of Slavery
Alexandra ("Allie") Briggs, Virginia Tech
Gendering Technological Rationality
Nuzhat Khurshid, York University
The Technology of Total Terror: Black Screen, White Noise, and Herbert Marcuse’s Aesthetic Dimension
Keelyn Bradley, The European Graduate School
6:00 - 7:00 pm
Plenary
Vista 102
VDS
701 E Apache Blvd
Rethinking 'Alternative Futures' and 'Atrocious Presents' -- Marcuse's Dialectic of Technology
Timothy W. Luke, Virginia Tech
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 9, 2021
8:00 - 9:50 am
Rethinking the Dialectics of Technology in the Current Context
Cereus 101
CERHAL
820 E Apache Blvd
Chair:
Imaculada Kangussu
Tech facilitator:
Nicole K Mayberry
Dialectics of Technology: Marcuse and Gandhi
Maryam Rashid, Jawaharlal Nehru University India
Is the New Digital World Lived by New Political Subjects?
Adam Takacs, Eötvös Loránd University of Budapest
A Critique of Technology in the Modern Age: A Dialogue Between Marcuse and Benjamin
Juliana Viana Ford & Fernanda Andrade Garcia, São Paulo State University
Marcuse 2.0: Digitality, Politics, and Liberation
Maggie Walker, University of Louisville
8:00 - 9:50 am
Applications to the Current Context: Students Integrate Marcuse
Cereus 201
CERHAL
820 E Apache Blvd
Chair:
Arnold Farr
Tech facilitator:
Taylor Hines
Profits of deceit: The culture industry, fake news, and social media
Sam Gonzalez-Freedson, Arizona State University
The Administration and Domination of Time in the Virtual World During COVID-19
Alexa Bozzano, Arizona State University
Pseudo-individuality, Self-commodification, and the Eclipse of Autonomy Online
Thomas Lobato, Arizona State University
Capitalism and Mental Health
Evelyn Raccuia, Arizona State University
8:00 - 9:50 am
Ecology and Revolution Today
Juniper 101
JNHAL
1250 S Rural Rd
Chair:
Thais Gobo
Tech facilitator:
Robert Kirsch
Authentic Ecology and Liberation: The Refusal of the Domination of Nature Against the Apparatus
Thais Gobo, Unioeste
Ecological crisis, capitalism and critique
Sergio Bedoya Cortés, Universidad Libre
Let Nature Play: Total Liberation from Compulsory Work
Dan Fischer, New Politics/Food Not Bombs
Critical Theory in Ursula Le Guin's Always Coming Home
Javier Sethness, Independent Scholar
10:00 -11:50 am
The Endurance of Psychoanalysis in Marcuse's Social Theory
Cereus 101
CERHAL
820 E Apache Blvd
Chair:
Taylor Hines
Tech facilitator:
Taylor Hines
The Contours of Technological Aggression: The Instincts and Their Relation to Technological Rationality
Shouta Brown, Emory University
Marcuse and the Death Drive: A Strategic Appropriation
Djibril Ernesto Pereira, University of São Paulo
Psychoanalysis, Technological Rationality, and Rational Authority
Maor Levitin, York University
Marcuse: Critical Theory and Psychoanalysis for Revolution
Fernando Huesca, Meritorious Autonomous University of Puebla
10:00 -11:50 am
Polymorphous Perversity: Homo Ludens and the Politics of Play
Cereus 201
CERHAL
820 E Apache Blvd
Chair:
Robert Kirsch
Tech facilitator:
Robert Kirsch
Laughter as a Form of Emancipation
Ruth Benoni Flores Arroyo, Institute of Higher Education Mexico City
Queer Utopianism and Marcuse's New Individuality
Joseph Trullinger, George Washington University
Marcuse, Witchcraft, and Techno-Utopias of the Future
Clint Jones, Independent Scholar
Technology and counter-technology in Marcuse's dialectic of technology
Mahfoudh Saidi, University of Kairouan,Tunisia
10:00 -11:50 am
Author Meets Critics: Jeffery Nicholas' Love and Politics
Juniper 101
JNHAL
1250 S Rural Rd
Chair:
Tech facilitator:
Caylen Cole
Narrativity and Nature in Historical Materialism and Jeffery L. Nicholas’s Love and Politics: Persistent Human Desires as a Foundation for Liberation
Joan Braune, Gonzaga University
Erich Fromm, Motherhood, and Marxist-Christian dialogue in Jeffery L. Nicholas’s Love and Politics
Nick Braune, South Texas College
Marcuse, Desires, Ideology and Liberation and Jeffery L. Nicholas’s Love and Politics
Sid Simpson, Sewanee University
Author Response to Critics
Jeffery Nicholas, Providence College
10:00 -11:50 am
The Responsibility to Protect in the Twenty-First Century
Juniper 201
JNHAL
1250 S Rural Rd
Chair:
Javier Sethness
Tech facilitator:
Nicole K Mayberry
Panel recording
Realism, Egalitarianism, and Internationalism
Javier Sethness, Independent Scholar
For solidarity; Against Dictators and Campism
Bill Weinberg, CounterVortex
LUNCH
1:00 - 2:50 pm
Radical Pedagogy: Marcuse in the Classroom
Cereus 101
CERHAL
820 E Apache Blvd
Chair:
Jason Dawsey
Tech facilitator:
Nicole K Mayberry
An Emancipatory Proposal for Distance Art Education from Marcuse's Perspective
Lizzett Morales Guzmán, National Pedagogical University Mexico
Beyond Critical Thinking: Technological Rationality and One-Dimensional Pedagogy
Brandon Absher, D’Youville College
"Education in Sickness:" Teaching Subversion against the Managerial Revolution
Christopher Simony, Georgia State University
The Idea of Modern Education – Exploration into the One Dimensionality in Modern Education
Komal Yadav, Jawaharlal Nehru University
Exhuming the Ghosts which Haunt English Education in Japan
Peter Joun, Kansai University
1:00 - 2:50 pm
Making Sense of Marcuse: A Critical Scholar’s Companion
Cereus 201
CERHAL
820 E Apache Blvd
Tech facilitator:
Robert Kirsch
[This workshop is open to anybody interested in contributing to this Marcusean dictionary]
1:00 - 2:50 pm
Confronting the Internal Dynamics of Repression: Sharing New Strategies of Emancipation
Juniper 101
JNHAL
1250 S Rural Rd
Chair:
James Block
Tech facilitator:
Caylen Cole
Roundtable on the Project of Facilitating Liberation and Transformation
James Block, DePaul University
Michael Thompson, WIlliam Paterson University
Joel Crombez, Kennesaw State University
1:00 - 2:50 pm
The Place of an Analytic Social Psychology Today
Juniper 201
JNHAL
1250 S Rural Rd
Chair:
Taylor Hines
Tech facilitator:
Taylor Hines
On Cohan and Serby’s “The Two Souls of Marcuse’s One-Dimensional Man”
Taylor Hines, Arizona State University
Psychiatry in the Time of Technological Rationality
Greg Gabrellas, Cornell Medical College/Columbia University
For a Narrow Definition of the Political
Christie Offenbacker
Benjamin Fong, Arizona State University
3:00 - 4:50 pm
Marcuse's Interlocutors
Cereus 101
CERHAL
820 E Apache Blvd
Chair:
Emily Ray
Tech facilitator:
Nicole K Mayberry
Rationality of the Human Heart: A Marcusean Theme
Teodros Kiros, Berklee College of Music / Harvard University
Why Philosophical Method Matters for Society: Marcuse on Dialectical vs. Formal Logic
Jeremiah Morelock, Boston College
Transcending Technological Rationality: Communicative and Dialectical Reason in Habermas and Marcuse
Bernardo Bárzana, Northwestern University
The Ontological Conquest Of Technological Rationality
Megan Sherman, Independent Scholar
3:00 - 4:50 pm
Marcuse's German Roots: Phenomenology and Technology
Cereus 201
CERHAL
820 E Apache Blvd
Chair:
Jina Fast
Tech facilitator:
Taylor Hines
Marcuse and Goal-Rational, Instrumental Rationality in Weber's CHS
J. I. (Hans) Bakker, University of Guelph
The Historical, Political and Aesthetic Dimension of Technology: Reading Herbert Marcuse
Luca Mandara, University of Naples
The “Uncritical Theory:” A Historical Overview on the Newest Philosophy of Technology
Agostino Cera, University of Ferrara
Marcuse's Philosophy of Technology
Andrew Feenberg, Simon Fraser University
3:00 - 4:50 pm
Marcusean Politics Today
Juniper 101
JNHAL
1250 S Rural Rd
Chair:
Andrew T. Lamas
Tech facilitator:
Caylen Cole
Anti-Humanism on the Left
Shon Meckfessel, Highline College
A Critical Theory of Authority
Javier Sethness, Independent Scholar
Fascism as Bourgeois Reaction
Rocío Lopez, Transnational Solidarity Network
5:30 - 6:00 pm
Marcuse Society Updates And Awards
Vista 102
VDS
701 E Apache Blvd
Marcuse Society Announcements & Presentation of the Bolívar Echeverría Prize to Stefan Gandler
Arnold L. Farr, University of Kentucky
Andrew T. Lamas, University of Pennsylvania
6:00 - 7:00 pm
Plenary
Vista 102
VDS
701 E Apache Blvd
Marcuse and the Weaponization of “Free Speech”
Martin Jay, University of California Berkeley
CLOSING REMARKS
Robert Kirsch, Arizona State University
8:00 - ? CELEBRATION OF EROS: Pedal Haus Brewery, 730 South Mill Avenue, Tempe, AZ
Conference Convenors: Robert Kirsch, Nicole Mayberry, Taylor Hines