[-empyre-] catastrophe: welcome to Verena Conley and Steve Redhead

[rtf9 at cornell.edu]

Many thanks to Jordan Crandall and Jotika Kumar for being our
guest moderators this week on empyre.  We are hoping that both of you will 
continue to participate in our discussion this week moderated by
Verena Conley and Steve Redhead.  Verena has been 
a fellow at Cornell's Society for the Humanities 
this semester so we have been enjoying her 
company regularly.  We saw Steve a few weeks ago 
  in San Francisco at the Virilio conference

We are looking forward to their own ideas about
Networked Catastrophe Artist's Responses and are 
encouraging all of you to open the topic up and 
participate. 


Verena Andermatt Conley (US) is a theorist of 
technologies, ecopolitics, and feminism.  Her 
writings range from Ecopolitics: The Environment 
in Poststructural Thought and ReThinking 
Technology to translations and analyses of the 
French writer Hélène Cixous.  A Professor of 
Comparative Literature and French Literature at 
Harvard University,  Cambrdige, Massachusetts, 
she  is now a Senior Scholar in Residence at 
Cornell University's Society for the Humanities.


Steve Redhead (UK) writes on subculture, popular 
culture, popular music, sport and media cultures. 
The editor of The Jean Baudrillard Reader and The 
Paul Virilio Reader, he is the author of Paul 
Virilio: Theorist for an Accelerated Culture.  He 
is Professor of Sport and Media Cultures in the 
Chelsea School at the University of Brighton.

Our best to all of you!  Renate and Tim


-- 
Renate Ferro
URL:  http://www.renateferro.net
Email:   <rtf9 at cornell.edu>
,
Visiting Assistant Professor of Art
Cornell University
Department of Art, Tjaden Hall
Ithaca, NY  14853

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