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X-WR-CALNAME:Culler Theory Lecture: Pheng Cheah 
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DESCRIPTION:Pheng Cheah\, Professor of Rhetoric at the University of Califo
 rnia\, Berkeley\, will deliver the Society for the Humanities' annual Cull
 er Theory Lecture. \n\n"Beyond the World as Picture: Worlding and Becoming
  the Whole World [devenir tout le monde]"\n\nIn his well-known essay\, Die
  Zeit des Weltbildes\, Heidegger describes modernity as the age in which t
 he world has been reduced to a picture.  The conceptualization of the worl
 d as picture is the fundamental basis of globalization and the geopolitica
 l relations of power\, inequality and exploitation that characterize the w
 orld-system created by late capitalism.  The world as picture is also the 
 basis of various conceptual approaches for understanding worldliness infor
 ming various disciplines in the humanities and the narrative social scienc
 es: world literature\, world history\, globality (global exchange and inte
 rcourse) and environmental kinship.  But what the world as picture also im
 plies is the excess excluded by the picture frame: the framing presupposes
  as its ontological condition of possibility something that lies beyond th
 e picture. This talk examines two philosophical accounts of the ontologica
 l grounding of the world as picture: Heidegger’s idea of worlding and De
 leuze and Guattari’s idea of becoming the whole world as it is connected
  to their account of minor literature.  It elaborates in passing on the fu
 ndamental differences between these philosophies of world and the above ap
 proaches to worldliness.\n\nRegistration not required. Free and open to th
 e public. Reception to follow the lecture. \n\nRead "Pheng Cheah Ph.D. ’
 98 to deliver Culler Theory Lecture" for more on Cheah\, his research\, an
 d the Annual Culler Theory Lecture. \n\nIn addition to his lecture\, Pheng
  Cheah will host a graduate workshop on Thursday\, March 21\, from noon-2p
 m at the A.D. White House (Fellows' Lounge)\, lunch provided. \n\nEntitled
  "The Nonhuman: Worlding and Critiques of the Anthropocene\," this worksho
 p explores the converges and differences between the Heideggerian concept 
 of worlding and recent critiques of the anthropocene.  What are the concep
 tual distinctions between the non-human as an ontological issue\, the more
 -than-human and the entanglement of human beings and non-human beings?  Wh
 y are these distinctions important and what are some of their ethical and 
 political implications?\n\nPlease contact Chloe Wray (clw252@cornell.edu) 
 if you are interested in the workshop. Readings will be pre-circulated.
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LOCATION:A. D. White House\, Guerlac Room
SUMMARY:Culler Theory Lecture: Pheng Cheah 
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 cheah
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