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WHAP! The Truth is a Joke? Performatives and Jokes in Derrida and Austin

  • Date: February 10, 2017 7:30 PM - 9:30 PM  
  • Location: West Hollywood Library Community Meeting Room
    625 N. San Vicente Boulevard

Speaker Jeffrey T. Nealon, author of “Post-Postmodernism; or, The Cultural Logic of Just-In-Time Capitalism”, and respondent Peggy Kamuf, director of USC’s Comparative Studies in Literature and Cultural Doctoral Program discuss performatives and jokes in the works of philosophers Jacques Derrida and J.L. Austin. The West Hollywood Aesthetics and Politics lecture program, or WHAP!, is co-hosted by the CalArts Aesthetics and Politics MA program and the City of West Hollywood through WeHo Arts. (www.weho.org/arts).

 

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CONTACT:  Michael Che, Economic Development and Cultural Affairs Coordinator (323) 848-6377, mche@weho.org

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