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AVITAL RONELL

University Professor of the Humanities Professor of German, English, and Comparative Literature Affiliated Professor of French and Performance Studies Chair of Comparative Literature

Jacques Derrida Professor of Media and Philosophy European Graduate School, Switzerland

New York University 37 Washington Square West Department of German New York, NY 10011 19 University Place, 3rd Fl. Tel. (212) 539-0899 New York, NY 10003 Fax (212) 979-6819 Email: [email protected]

Education

Princeton University, Ph.D. (Germanic Languages and Literatures), 1979 Freie Universität Berlin, 1976-77 Middlebury College, B.A. (German, French, Philosophy), 1970-74 Johannes Gutenberg-Universität, Mainz, 1972-73 Manhattan School of Music, 1960-70

Teaching

New York University, Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures, Department of Comparative Literature (1995-present), English Department (2001-present) European Graduate School, Saas Fee (Switzerland), Advanced Seminar, Chair Professor of Philosophy and Media, 1999-present , Humanities Council Residential Fellow, Department of English: graduate and faculty seminars, 2006; IHUM Distinguished Visiting Professor of the Humanities, Fall 2014 Baker-Nord Visiting Fellow, Case Western Reserve University, Fall 2006 Université de VIII, Études Féminines, Professor of Philosophy and Literature, 2004 AVITAL RONELL - CURRICULUM VITAE

University of California at Berkeley, Department of Comparative Literature, 1984-1995 Josai University, Tokyo, 1992 University at Siegen, Graduiertenkolleg 1988 University of California at Riverside, Modern Language Department, 1983-84 Université de Paris VIII, English Department (Hélène Cixous, Chair), 1982-83 , German Department, 1978-81 Princeton University, Teaching Assistant, Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures, 1977-78

Grants and Awards

Chevalier de l’Ordre des et des Lettres République Française, 2013 Fellow at the Zentrum für Literaturforschung, Berlin (chair: Prof. Sigrid Weigel), 2010 Commissioned by the City of Berlin to write and perform in theater piece and was awarded fellowship, Berlin, 2010 Distinguished Foreign Curator at the Centre Pompidou, Paris, 2009 Fellow for Distinguished Scholarship, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, 2008 and 2010 University Professor, New York University since 2007 NYU Humanities Council Grant (together with Judith Alpert and Shireen Patell) for Research in Trauma and Violence: Traumatic Effects, 2005-2006 NYU Research Challenge Fund Award, 2005-06 Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for Comparative Literature Studies, Honorable Mention for Stupidity, Modern Language Association, 2002 International Best Design Award, 2002 Faculty of Arts and Sciences Humanities Deans’ Discretionary Fund for Translation of Book into French, 2001 Faculty of Arts and Sciences Humanities Deans’ Discretionary Fund for Book Publication, 2001 Society of Fellows, New York University, 1999-present University of California President's Fellowship, 1995-96 Research Fellow Award, Summer 1993 University of California Humanities Research Institute, Irvine, Spring 1992 American Cultures Fellowship, Summer 1991 American Design Award for The Book, 1989, 1990 Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung Fellowship ( Institute, Berlin), 1981-83 Fulbright-Hayes Award, 1976-77

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Publications

1.

2015 (imminently forthcoming) Korean translation of Stupidity, with new preface. (forthcoming) Spanish translation of Crack Wars, with new preface. Losers [Loser Sons]. Paris: Editions Bayard. 2012 Loser Sons: Politics and Authority. University of Illinois Press. 2011 Fighting Theory. Avital Ronell in Conversation with . Trans. Catherine Porter. University of Illinois Press. Addict, Fixions, et Narcotextes [Crack Wars]. Oversaw translation for French Edition. Paris: Editions Bayard. Test Drive. La passion de l’épreuve. [The Test Drive]. Oversaw translation for French Edition. Paris: Edition Stock. What Was I Thinking? Conversations with Avital Ronell. Trans. Catherine Porter and adapted by Avital Ronell. 2008 Pulsión de Prueba. La filosofía puesta a examen [The Test Drive]. Oversaw translation for Spanish edition. Buenos Aires: IZ Ensayos. The ÜberReader: Selected Works of Avital Ronell. Ed. , with four new essays, University of Illinois Press, Dec. 2007 (with Eduardo Kac) Life Extreme: An Illustrated Guide to the New Life, Paris: Dis Voir, Nov. (with Eduardo Kac) Life Extreme: Guide Illustré de Nouvelles formes de Vie, Paris: éditions Dis Voir, Nov. Tipshut [Stupidity]. Oversaw translation for Hebrew edition, Tel Aviv: Resling, May. 2006 (with Anne Dufourmantelle) American Philo: Entretiens avec Avital Ronell. Paris: Editions Stock, Sept. Telephone Book. Technologie, schizophrénie et langue électrique. Oversaw translation and wrote new preface for French edition. Paris: Bayard Centurion, Collections Curiosités. Dictations: On Haunted Writing. Reprint with a new foreword. Urbana: University of Illinois Press. 2005 The Test Drive (on Nietzsche, , and the experimental disposition). Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press. Dostoevski. Manuscript submitted to and accepted for future publication by Editions Bayard, Paris. Stupidity. Trans. Céline Surprenant. Oversaw translation for French edition. Paris: Editions Stock, Collection L’autre pensée. Dummheit. Oversaw translation for German edition. Berlin: Brinkmann & Bose Verlag. 2001 Stupidity. (On modalities of cognitive failure). Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press.

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1994 Finitude’s Score: Essays for the End of the Millennium. (On war technology, medical , philosophy and literature). Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press. 1992 Crack Wars: Literature, Addiction, Mania. Urbana and Chicago: University of Nebraska Press, January 1992. German translation: Drogenkriege: Literatur, Abhängigkeit, Manie, Frankfurt a. M.: Fischer Verlag, 1994. French translation coming in 2008 Bourgois. 1989 The Telephone Book: Technology, Schizophrenia, Electric Speech. Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press, 1989. German translation: Das Telefonbuch. Technik, Schizophrenie, Elektrische Rede. Berlin: Brinkmann & Bose Verlag, 2001. 1986 Dictations: On Haunted Writing, Indiana University Press, 1986. Paperback with new introduction, Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press, 1993; German translation: Der Goethe-Effekt, München: Fink Verlag, 1994.

2. Books Edited

2015 (forthcoming) Jacques Derrida’s Last Lecture at the European Graduate School, New York: Atropos. 2006 (with Amy Scholder, Carla Harryman) Lust for Life: On the Writings of , London: Verso. 1986 (with Eduardo Cadava) Jacques Derrida, Mémoires for Paul de Man, trans. , Eduardo Cadava, and Cecile Lindsay, New York: Columbia University Press. 1985 (Supervision) Charles Malamoud, “Revenge and Sacrifice in Brahmanic India.” Trans. Peter T. Connor, Festschrift for Madeleine Biardeau, 1985.

3. Works in progress:

Ach! The of a Complaint A Philosophical Survival Kit, Paris: Editions Stock. Torture and Authority A Question of Politesse: The Abyss in Human Relations (The intersection of politics, aesthetics and ethics: on the figure of the refugee in Kant, Celan, Arendt, Lévinas).

4. Interviews with and Articles about (partial list):

2013 “Loser Sons.” France Culture (radio), February 28. 2012 “Dealing with Trauma and Disaster.” Euronews, February 24. 2011 “Je l’entends.” France Culture (radio), July 31. 2010 “Entretien (realisé par Éric Aeschimann).” La nouvelle revue française, 593: 189. Gallimard Press, Paris.

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“Terminer/commencer” and “Comme je l’aime.” France Culture (radio), January 1 and September 5. 2009 “Drogues et philosophie,” “Table-ronde Essais/autour d’Avital Ronell,” and “Les matins.” France Culture (radio), May 8, May 12, and June 17. Weil, Nicolas. “Avital Ronell: Je veux faire mal aux textes.” , June 4. Scott DeShong: “The ÜberReader: Selected Works of Avital Ronell.” symplokë, vol. 16, nos. 1-2 (2008): pp. 382-383. Aude Lancellin: “Deux amazones à Paris.” (Interview with AR and ). Le Nouvel Observateur, June 11, 2009. Link: http://bibliobs.nouvelobs.com/20090611/13126/deux-amazones-a-paris Nicolas Weill: “Avital Ronell: “Je veux faire mal aux textes’.” Le Monde des Livres, May 6, 2009. Eric Aeschimann: “Américaine philo. Portrait Avital Ronell.” Libération, May 25, 2009. Link: http://www.liberation.fr/livres/0101569283-americaine-philo Maxime Rovere: “Avital Ronell, une époque d'épreuve, de test et d'expérimentation.” Magazine Littéraire, no. 487, June 2009, p. 36. Link: http://www.magazine- litteraire.com/content/critiques/article.html?id=13687 Maggiori Robert: “Le fix Caché d’Emma.” Libération Aliocha Wald Lasowski: “S’inventer des personnalités.” Magazine Littéraire, no. 483, January 2, pp. 68-69. 2008 “Derrida en séminaire.” France Culture (radio), December 12. “Telephone” (theatre play), by Ariana Reines, based on The Telephone Book: Technology, Schizophrenia, Electric Speech by Avital Ronell; directed by Ken Rus Schmoll. The Foundry Theatrs, New York City. 2007 Israeli Television, Jerusalem, interview on the Publication of Stupidity in Hebrew, May 2007. With three corresponding articles in Israeli magazines/Newspapers: “Time Out” and “Ha’aretz” Arthur J. Sabatini: “Testing Performance: Avital Ronell’s The Test Drive.” Mofa: Magazine of Performing Arts (Israel), 1.1 (Winter) “Confessions of an Anacoluthon.” Interview with Diana D. Davis. The Politics of Possibility: Encountering the Radical Imagination. Eds. Gary A. Olson and Lynn Worsham, Boulder, CO: Paradigm Publishers, August. 2006 Radio France Internationale, interview, 17 Dec., 11am “La Philosophie Voyou.” France Culture (radio), November 24. “La Philo, c’est bon pour la santé!” TV-conversation with Alexandre Jollien, Vincent Delecroix, Olivier Pourriol, Serge Roure, France 3 tv French Television, TV2, interview, November. “Entretien avec Avital Ronell.” Radio interview, Dailymotion (France), 23 Nov. Omar Berrada: “La philosophe à venir: Avital Ronell.” L'Humanité, Les Lettres Francaises, Nov. 4. Pascal Gibourg: “Souffle un vent imbecile.” [On Stupidity] Inventaire/Invention et les auteurs

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Robert Maggiori: “La carte Avital Ronell: Absolument non académique, elle a imposé la ‘French theory’ aux Américains.” Libération, Le Nouvel Observateur, Sept. 28. 2005 Austrian Radio 1: On Stupidity and Politics, March. BBC: Political Theory and Literature, April. 2004 Arno Böhler: “Einblicke in den Ab-Grund des Denkens: ‚Über die Dummheit’ (Avital Ronell).” Das integrale und das gebrochene Ganze: Zum 100. Geburtstag von Leo Gabriel. (Ed.) Yvanka B. Raynova and Susanne Moser, Vienna: Peter Lang Press. 2003 Diane D. Davis: “Responsible Stupidity,” Postmodern Culture, 14 (Sept.) Victor E. Taylor: “Refusing Theory: Avital Ronell and The Structure of Stupidity.” Journal for Cultural and Religious Theory, 4.2 (April) Patricia Ann Meyer Spacks: “Stupidity.” (Review). MLQ: Modern Language Quarterly 64.3: 377-379. Rudolf Mràzek: “Stupidity for Everyone: In Praise of the Latest Book by Avital Ronell.” (Review). Comparative Studies in Society and History 45: 873-880. 2002 “Den unblutigen Krieg testen.” Die amerikanische Philosophin Avital Ronell im gespräch mit Daniel Schreiber. Theater der Zeit 10 (2002): 42-44. BBC Cultural Critique, London and New York, March 1st. Susan Bernstein: “(Re)Viewing Stupidity.” Differences: A Journal of Cultural Studies, 13.3: 143-160. Diane Davis: “’The Interruption of Certitude.’ A Review Essay on Avital Ronell's Stupidity.” Poiesis: A Journal of the Arts & Communication 4: 130-134. Diane Davis: “Review of Avital Ronell's Stupidity.” JAC: A Journal of Composition Theory 22.4 (Fall): 981-990. 2000 “Confessions of an Anocoluthon: Avital Ronell on Writing, Technology, Pedagogy, Politics.” Interview with D. Diane Davis. JAC: A Journal of Composition Theory. 20.2 (Spring): 243-281. “Avital Ronell: On Hallucinogenres.” Interview with Gary Wolf. Mondo 2000, no. 4. 1994 Diacritics: A Review of Contemporary Criticism. Special Section on the work of Avital Ronell, 24.4 (Winter). Eduardo Cavada: “Toward an Ethics of Decision.” [on Crack Wars, Dictations, and The Telephone Book] Diacritics: A Review of Contemporary Criticism. Special Section on the work of Avital Ronell, 24.4 (Winter): pp. 4-29. “Avital Ronell Interview.” Interview with Alexander Laurence, AltX (1994), online: http://www.altx.com/interviews/avital.ronell.html. 1992 Akira Mizuta Lippit: “Crack Wars: Literature-Addiction-Mania by Avital Ronell.” Modern Language Notes 107 (December 1992): 1046-50. Scott Carpenter: “Avital Ronell, Crack Wars.” Nineteenth Century French Studies, 21, 1/2 (Fall/Winter): 223-4. 1991 “Avital Ronell.” Interview with Andrea Juno. Re/Search: Angry Women 13: 127-153. Craig Saper: “The Telephone Book, Avital Ronell.” SubStance 64 (Spring 1991): 134-136.

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1990 Sander Gilman: “Avital Ronell: The Telephone Book: Technology, Schizophrenia, Electric Speech.” (Review). Germanic Review 65: 134-5. 1989 Michael W. Jennings: “Avital Ronell, Dictations: On Haunted Writing.” The Yearbook of the Goethe Society of North America 5: 342-5. Liliane Weissberg: “Dictations: On Haunted Writing, by Avital Ronell.” Germanic Review 64: 135-6. 1988 Sander Gilman: “Avital Ronell, Dictations: On Haunted Writing.” (Review). German Quarterley 61: 118-9.

Film interviews and appearances include “Examined Life” (together with Judith Butler, Peter Singer, Cornel West, Slavoj Zizek, dir: Astra Taylor, Toronto 2008); “Great Genius / Profound Stupidity” (together with Oliver Sacks and Merce Cunningham, dir: Benita Raphan, New York, 2008); “The Call” (dir: Arno Böhler and Susanne Grenz, Vienna, 2004); “Stupidity” (together with Noam Chomsky Coolio, John Cleese, Salma Hayek and Bill Maher, dir: Albert Nerenberg, 2003); “On ” (Berlin and Freiburg); “The Electric Circle” (Berlin); “Derrida” (dir: Kirby Dick and Amy Ziering Kofman, California and Sundance, 2002), “Circle’ Short Circuit” (dir: Caspar Starcke, 1998), and “Drug-Taking and the Arts” (dir: Storm Thorgerson, 1994).

5. Articles

2015 “Friendship: Unauthorized.” Preface. Michal Ben Naftali, Chronicle of Separation: On 's Disillusioned Love. Fordham: New York. 2015. “A Rogue Preface.” Preface. Jeffrey Champlin, The Making of a Terrorist: On Classic German Rogues. Fordham: New York. 2015. “Secrétaires du fantôme.” Vincent Broqua, Récupérer. Paris: Les petits matins. 2015. 2014 “Teacher’s Pet.” Oxford Literary Review. 36.2: 289-295. “Breaking Down ‘Man’.” With Diane Davis. Philosophy & Rhetoric. 47.4: 354-385. 2013 “No Fly Zone.” Suzanne Doppelt and Daniel Loayza (ed.), Mouche: Une anthologie littéraire. Paris: Bayard. 2013 “An Autobiographeme.” Jeffrey Champlin (ed.), Terror and the Roots of Poetics. Atropos: New York. 2015. “Stormy Weather: Blues in Winter.” The New York Times, Feb. 2 2012 “Shame on you! 3 scandals on which to build or bail.” Yearbook of Comparative and General Literature. 2012. 58: 202-204 2011 “The Tactlessness of an Unending Fadeout” in Writing Death by Jeremy Fernando. Uitgeverij “Flaubert en Amérique.” Europe: revue littéraire mensuelle, 89.983. 2010 “Have I Been Destroyed? Answering to Authority and the Politics of the Father.” differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies, 21.1: 48-62.

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“L’indélicatesse d’un interminable fondu au noir.” Europe: revue littéraire mensuelle, 88.973. 2009 Entry on Alexander Graham Bell and the telephone. A New Literary History of America. Harvard University Press: Cambridge. 2009. “Untread and Untried: Nietzsche Reads Derridemocracy.” diacritics, 38.1: 158-171. “Nietzsche Loves You: A Media-Technological Start-up.” Discourse, 31.1-2: 161-179. Contribution in Farimani 2 (Fall) “Der Liebesbeweis oder: Schlussmachen. (Nietzsche und Wagner).” Trans. Eckart Goebel. Narziß und Eros. Bild oder Text? Eds. Eckart Goebel, Elisabeth Bronfen. Manhattan Manuscripts Serie, vol. 2, Göttingen: Wallstein Verlag, 166-186. “On Meaning.” Examined Life: Excursions with Contemporary Thinkers. Ed. Astra Taylor. The New Press: June 2009. “Hitchcock et moi.” Cahiers du Cinéma. “Journal de Blessures.” [Diary of Injuries]. Transl. Jean-François Cornu. Les Artistes Femmes. Centre Pompidou Catalogue. 2008 “Faut-il craindre la perte de l’autorité?” Libération, Nov 13. “Aggressive Coexistence Or The Problem Of Authority.” Babel. Festschrift für Werner Hamacher. Ed. Aris Fioretos. Verlag Urs Engeler: Kollektion Andere Autoren, 316-323. “Saying Good-Bye: A Home Video.” Derrida and Legal Philosophy. Eds. Peter Goodrich, Florian Hoffmann, Michel Rosenfeld, Cornelia Vismann. Basingstoke, Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan. “Off Duty.” Essay in Elfriede Jelinek’s and Eva Meyers’ Veils. Berlin and Paris. Contribution in “L’hommage Américain à Baudrillard.” International Journal of Baudrillard Studies, 4.3 (October) “Ravages de l’impossible.” Europe: revue littéraire mensuelle, 86.949. 2007 “Literature and Pathology: Masochism Takes the Upper Hand.” The Dreams of Interpretation: A Century Down the Royal Road. Eds. Catherine Liu, John Mowitt, Thomas Pepper, and Jakki Spicer, Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 55-71. “On Risk-Taking in the Psychoanalytic Text: The Reality Test.” Experimenting: Essays with Samuel Weber. Eds. Simon Wortham, Gary Hall. Fordham University Press, 209- 217. “Tombeau pour Kathy Acker.” Fresh Théorie II: Black Album. Eds. Mark Alizart, Paola Nicolin, Pierre Zaoui, Collectif. Paris: Éditions Léo Scheer. “The Stealth Pulse of Philosophy.” Introduction to Blind Date: Sex and Philosophy. Ed. Anne Dufourmantelle, Urbana: University of Illinois Press. 2006 “On Testing, Torture, and Experimentation.” Avital Ronell and Eduardo Cadava in conversation with Jean-Michel Rabaté. Rrrevolutionnaire: Conversations in Theory,” vol. 1. Eds. Gregg Lambert and Aaron Levy. New York: Slought Books, 91-110. “Surrender and the Ethically Binding Signature: On Johnson’s Reparative Process.” differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies, 17.3: 129-150. “Kathy Goes to Hell: On the Irreversible Stupidity of Acker’s Death.” Lust for Life: On the Writings of Kathy Acker. Eds. Amy Scholder, Carla Harryman, Avital Ronell. London: Verso, 12-34.

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“Testing 1, 2, 3.” Intellektuelle Anschauung Figurationen von Evidenz in Kunst und Wissen. Eds. Sibylle Peters, Martin Jörg Schäfer. Bielefeld: Transcript Verlag, 279-294. 2005 “The Legacy of Jacques Derrida.” PMLA (Publications of the Modern Language Association of America, 120.2 (March): 488-90. “The Axes of Evil: A Nietzschean Test Site.” artUS, special issue 5/6 (Jan/Feb) “On the Misery of Theory without Poetry: Heidegger's Reading of Hölderlin’s ‘Andenken’.” PMLA (Publications of the Modern Language Association) 120.1 (January): 16- 32. “Haunted TV.” Theory in Contemporary since 1985. Eds. Zoya Kocur, Simon Leung, Oxford: Blackwell Publishing, 204-212. “On the Unrelenting Creepiness of Childhood: Lyotard, Kid-Tested.” Minima Memoria: Essays in the Wake of Jean-François Lyotard. Eds. Claire Nouvet, Zrinka Stahuljak, and Kent Still. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 139-165. 2004 “The Testamentary Whimper.” The South Atlantic Quarterly 103.2/3 (Spring/Summer): 489-499. “Cutting Remarks: Avital Ronell on ’s Scum Manifesto.” BookForum: The Review for Art, Fiction, and Culture, 11.1 (Spring): 30-33. “Koan Practice or Taking Down the Test.” Parallax 10.1 [30] (Jan-Mar): 58-71. “Deviant Payback: The Aims of Valerie Solanas.” Introduction to the 25th anniversary issue of SCUM Manifesto, London and New York: Verso, 1-31. “L’épreuve de la démocratie.” La démocratie à venir: Autour de Jacques Derrida. Paris: Éditions Galilée. “Epreuves nietzschéenes: la désistance et les philosophes à venir.” L’Herne: Derrida, Paris, Editions de L’Herne. 2003 “The Experimental Disposition: Nietzsche’s Discovery of America (Or, Why the Present Administration Sees Everything in Terms of a Test).” American Literary History, 15.3 (Fall): 560-574. “Proving Grounds: On Nietzsche and the Test Drive.” Modern Language Notes, 118.3 (April) [German Issue, Literatur und Wissenschaftsgeschichte/Literature and the History of the Science), ed. Rüdiger Campe]: 653-669. “Slow Learner: Remembering Roland Barthes.” Remembering Roland Barthes—20 Years Later. Eds. Tom Bishop, Coralie Girard, Center for French Civilization and Culture, New York University. “On Being Tested.” FAKtisch. Festschrift für Friedrich Kittler zum 60. Geburtstag. Eds. Peter Berz, Annette Bitsch, Bernhard Siegert. München: Wilhelm Fink Verlag. “On Pain.” Dreams of Interpretation: A Century Down the Royal Road. Eds. Catherine Liu, John Mowitt, Thomas A. Pepper, and Jakki Spicer, Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. 2002 “State of the Art: Julia Scher’s Disinscription of National Security.” Julia Scher Always There. Eds. Caroline Schneider, Andrew Horrigan, Giovanni Hultkrans. New York/Berlin: Lukas & Sternberg. (with Ulrich Baer) “Hungry Eye: The Photography of Suzanne Doppelt.” Artforum, 15.9 (May): 170-174.

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“Confessions of an Anacolouthon.” Thinking Otherwise: Difference and Pedagogy. Ed. Julian Wolfreys, Fordham University Press. “Sarah rit: une lecture d’une lettre de Kafka à Robert Klopstock, àpopros de sacrifice d’Isaac.” Vacarme, Nº18 (Hiver). “On Paul de Man and Technology.” Connect, Columbia University. 2001 “Ton dharma (Sur Benjamin et Dostoievski).“ Trans. Victor et Yves-Marie Visetti, Vacarme, Nº 14 (Hiver). “Reading 9-11-01.” Artforum International, 40.3: 33ff. “Forbidden Bodies: The Evacuation of the Sacred.” Studies in Practical Philosophy, (Spring) “Talking on the Telephone: An Historical Overview.” Talk, Talk, Talk: The Cultural Life of Everyday Conversation. Ed. S.I. Salamensky, London: Routledge, 219-224. 2000 “Haunted by Metaphysics.” 13 Alumni Artists. Ed. Emmie Donadio, Middlebury College Museum of Art. “Trauma-TV: Video als Zeugnis. Zwölf Schritte jenseits des Lustprinzips.” ‚Niemand Zeugt für den Zeugen’: Erinnerungskultur nach der Shoah. Ed. Ulrich Baer, Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp Verlag, 255-273. “… .” Hyperorganismus: Essays, Fotos, Sounds der Ausstellung “Wissen”. Ein Projekt des ZKM, Zentrum für Kunst und Medien, Karlsruhe im Themenpark der Expo 2000, Hannover: Internationalismus Verlag, 2000, pp. 1999 “Scoring Literature.” : A Reader and Guide. Ed. Julian Wolfreys, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. “Video/Television/: Twelve Steps Beyond the Pleasure Principle.” Violence and Abuse Abstracts, 5.3 1998 “Watson, I Need You.” Major Problems in the History of Technology. Ed. Merritt Roe Smith, Gregory Clancey, Houghton Mifflin, 247-255. “F.—Duras och telefonins natt” Ord & Bild: Nordisk Kulturtidskrift Grundad, Nº 6. 1997 “Formen des Widerstreits.” Das Vergessen(e): Anamesen des Undarstellbaren. Eds. Elisabeth Weber and Georg Christoph Tholen, Vienna: Turia und Kant. “Die Politik der Dummheit: Musil, Dasein, der Angriff auf Frauen und meine Erschöpfung.“ Die Philosophin. Forum für feministische Theorie und Philosophie, Nº 16 (Oktober). Trans. Astrid von Chamier. 1996 „The Uninterrogated Question of Stupidity.“ differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies, 8.2 (Summer): 1-22. “The Test Drive.” Deconstruction Is/In America: A New Sense of the Political. Ed. Anselm Haverkamp, New York: New York University Press, 200-220. “The Imperative of Testing.” ANY: Journal of Architecture. Ed. Cynthia Davidson, 1996. “Video, Fernsehen, Rodney King. Zwölf Schritte ‘Jenseits des Lustprinzips’.” Medien und Öffentlichkeit: Positionierungen – Symptome – Simulationsbrüche. Ed. Rudolf Maresch, Boer Verlag: München. 1995 “Introduction.” Time Capsule: A Concise Encyclopedia by Women Artists. Ed. Robin Kahn, New York: Creative Time in cooperation with SOS Int'l. (November).

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“Art and the Disappearance of Community in Virtual Reality.” Immersed in Technology: Art and Virtual Environments. Eds. Daina Augaitis, Douglas MacLeod, Mary Anne Moser, MIT Press. “Strassenverkehr: Ecce Fama.” Körper/Kultur: Kalifornische Studien zur deutschen Moderne. Ed. Thomas W. Kniesche, Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann, 25-54. 1994 “Television and the Fragility of Testimony.” Public: Aspects of Human Rights, Issue 9, York University, Toronto. “Finitude’s Score.” Thinking Bodies. Eds. Juliet Flower MacCannell and Laura Zakarin, Stanford: Stanford University Press, 87-108. “Video/Television/Rodney King: Twelve Steps Beyond the Pleasure Principle.” Culture on the Brink: Ideologies of Technology. Ed. Gretchen Bender and Timothy Druckrey, Seattle: Bay Press, 277-304. 1993 “Our Narcotic Modernity.” Re-thinking . Ed. Verena Andermatt Conley, Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 59-73. “A Note on the Failure of Man's Custodianship: AIDS Update.” Public: The Ethics of Enactment, Issue 8, York University, Toronto. “November 22, 1992.” Assemblage, 20 [Violence, Space] (April), 66-67. “Ectopia.” 1993 Biennial Exhibition, New York: Whitney Museum of American Art. “Support our Tropes I: Reading Desert Storm.” Rhetorical Republic: Governing Representations in American Politics. Eds. Frederick M. Dolan and Thomas L. Dumm. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 13-37. 1992 “Support our Tropes II (Or Why in Cyburbia There Are a Lot of Cowboys).” Yale Journal of Criticism, 5 (Spring) “Support our Tropes II.” On Justifying The Hypothetical Nature Of Art And The Non- Identicality Within The Object World. Eds. Peter Weibel, Robert Fleck, Köln: Walther Koenig Bookshop. “Video/Television/Rodney King: Twelve Steps Beyond the Pleasure Principle.” differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies, 4.2: 1-15. “Haunted TV.” Artforum 31.1 (September 1992): 70-73. “Cybernetic Corporeality and the Computer Prototype.” Semiotext(e)/Architecture. Ed. Hraztan Zeitlian, New York: Semiotext(e). “…” On Justifying The Hypothetical Nature Of Art And The Non-Identicality Within The Object World. Ed. Robert Fleck, Köln: Walther Koenig, pp. 1991 “Opera and Technology: Scoring on the Telephone.” 1-800 2 (Spring/Summer): 40-45, 55, 63-65. 1990 “La voix humaine.” Trans. Pierre Alferi. Detail 3/4 (Winter): 16-23. “The Walking Switchboard.” SubStance: A Review of Theory and 61 [Special Issue: Voice-Over: On Technology]: 75-94. “Access Code: Technology and the Schizofeminine.” The Other Perspective in and Culture. Ed. Juliet Flower MacCannell, New York: Columbia University Press, 85-116. “Namely Eckermann.” Looking After Nietzsche. Ed. Laurence Rickels, Buffalo: SUNY Press, 233-257.

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“Eurozeit.“ Zeit-Zeichen: Aufschübe und Interferenzen zwischen Endzeit und Echtzeit. Ed. G.C. Tholen, Weinheim: Acta Humaniora VHC Verlag, 201-210. “Call Me Ma Bell.” Armaturen der Sinne: Literarische und Technische Medien 1870 bis 1920. Eds. Jochen Hörisch, Michael Wetzel, München: Fink 1989 “The Differends of Man.” Diacritics 19.3-4 (Fall-Winter) [Special Issue: Heidegger, Art and Politics]: 63-76. “The Worst Neighborhoods of the Real.” differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies 1.1: 125-145. “Last Call.” 1-800, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, 1.1: 25-30. “Street-Talk.” Benjamin's Ground: New Readings of . Ed. Rainer Nägele, Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 119-145. 1989 “Condensed Article.” Visible Language 22.4 (Fall): 459-482. 1988 “The Differends of Man.” diacritics 19 (Fall-Winter): 63-75. “Introduction to Jacques Derrida's 'A Number of Yes'.” Qui Parle: Literature, Philosophy, Visual Arts, History 2.2 (Fall): 118-33. “Starting from Scratch: The Mastermix.” Socialist Review 18.2: 73-85. “On the Way to Lainguage: Heidegger and Schizophrenia.” Qui Parle: Literature, Philosophy, Visual Arts, History 2.1 (Spring): 55-69. “The Sujet Suppositaire: Freud and the .” On Puns: The Foundation of Letters. Ed. Jonathan Culler, London: Basil and Blackwell, 115-39. 1987 “Doing Kafka in The Castle: A Poetics of Desire.” Kafka and the Contemporary Critical Performance. Ed. Alan Udoff, Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 214-235. 1986 “Hitting the Streets: Ecce Fama.” Stanford Italian Review, 6.1-2 (Fall) [Special Issue on Nietzsche in Italy, ed. John Freccero]: 119-140. “Street Talk.” Studies in Twentieth Century Literature, 11.1 (Fall): 105-131. 1985 “Mimus Polyglottus.” Qui Parle: Literature, Philosophy, Visual Arts, History 1.1 (Fall): 1-11. “Taking it Philosophically: Torquato Tasso's Women as Theorists.” MLN (Modern Language Notes), 100.3 (April): 599-631. 1984 “Goethezeit.” Taking Chances: Derrida, , and Literature (Psychiatry and the Humanities, vol. 7). Eds. Joseph H. Smith and William Kerrigan, Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 146-82. “Weak-end Reading.” Milano: Edizione Galleria del Naviglio, 1-7. “Sutura Goethei: L'articulations Freud-Goethe.” Cahiers Confrontation 12 (Fall): 131-140. 1983 “Queens of the Night: Nietzsche's Antibodies.” Genre: Forms of Discourse and Culture 16.4 (Winter) [The World as Text: Nonliterary Genres, ed. Richard Macksey]: 405-422. (with Marylin Gaddis Rose, Manfred Frank, Bernhard Boschenstein, Pierre Bertaux) “Discussion on Boschenstein”. Boundary 2, 11.3 [The Criticism of Peter Szondi] (Spring): 107-111. 1982 “La bouche emissaire.” Cahiers Confrontation 8 (Fall): 115-27.

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5. Translations

1995 (with Peter Connor) Jacques Derrida, “’Eating Well,’ or the Calculation of the Subject.” Points . . . : Interviews, 1974-1994. Ed. Elisabeth Weber, Stanford: Stanford University Press, 255-287. 1990 (with Peter Connor) Jacques Derrida, “Interview with Jean-Luc Nancy.” Who Comes After the Subject? Eds. Eduardo Cadava and Peter Connor, London: Routledge. 1988 Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe, “The Response of Ulysses.” Topoi 7.2 (September) [Special Issue: "Who Comes After the Subject?"]: 155-60. 1987 Jacques Derrida, “Devant la Loi.” Kafka and the Contemporary Critical Performance: Centenary Readings. Ed. Alan Udoff, Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 128-149. 1985 Jacques Derrida, “Otobiographies: The Teaching of Nietzsche and the Politics of the Proper Name.” The Ear of the Other: Otobiography, , Translation. Ed. Christie V. McDonald, New York: Schocken. 1984 (with Irene Harvey) Jacques Derrida, “My Chances/Mes Chances: A Rendezvous with Some Epicurean Stereophonies.” Taking Chances: Derrida and Psychoanalysis. Eds. Joseph H. Smith and William Kerrigan, Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1-31. Also in: Psyche: Inventions of the Other, vol. 1. Eds. Peggy Kamuf and Elizabeth Rottenberg, Stanford UP, 2007, 344-376. 1982 Jacques Derrida, “All Ears: Nietzsche's Otobiography.” Yale French Studies 63 [The Pedagogical Imperative: Teaching as a Literary Genre, ed. Barbara Johnson]: 245-250. 1980 Jacques Derrida, “The of Genre.” Glyph: Textual Studies 7: 176-232, and Critical Inquiry 7.1 (Fall): 55-81. 1979 Jacques Derrida, “Living On. Border Lines.” Deconstruction and Criticism. New York: Seabury Press, 75-176.

6. More Translations of own Work (partial list)

“Goethezeit.” Cahiers Confrontation 19 (Spring 1988) [Special Issue: Derrida]: 167-206. “Weak-end Reading.” Disegno di Camilla Adami, trans. Giulia Angarano (Milano: Edizione galleria del naviglio, 1984): 1-7. “Heidegger I Mesto Drzavne Invazije.” Trans. Selma Dizdarevic, Gledista: casopis za dustvenu kritiku i teoriju 5-6 (maj-juni 1989) [Special issue on Heidegger and philosophical practice]: 71-95.

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Lectures and Conferences (partial list)

2015 “Transhuman Truckin’.” Choreo-politics of the Trans-human. MoMA PS1. New York, January 2015. “Habe nun, ach! IN IT TO WIN IT.” Conatus und Lebensnot: Konzepte des Überlebens. ICI Berlin, January 2015. 2014 “The Trouble with Deconstruction.” Unpacking Derrida’s Library. Princeton University, October 2014. The Telephone Book @ 25. Deutsches Haus at NYU. October 2014. “One can also fall upwards.” Pew Center for the Performing Arts. Philadelphia, June 2014. “The Test Drive.” EMPAC Rensselear. Troy, May 2014. “Ach! The History of a Complaint.” Northwestern University. Chicago, May 2014. 2013 Concluding Remarks. Work/Ethics. German Department Graduate Colloquium. New York, December 2013. On Being “All Alone:” Kafka’s “Letter to the Father.” Rodig Seminar, Rutgers University, October 25. “Ach! The History of a Complaint.” Rodig Lecture Series, Rutgers University, October 24. “Found in Translation” keynote address with Frederic Boyer, NYU, October 18. “Testo Junkie: Sex, Drugs, and Biopolitics in the Pharmacopornographic Era” with Beatriz Preciado, NYU, October 15. Re-Thinking Literature, NYU, September 20. “Dialogue between the individual and…” with Vanessa Place. for Social Research, May 2. The Sirens Go Silent: A Commemorative Colloquium for Friedrich Kittler, NYU, March 14-16. Co-organizer. Link: http://german.as.nyu.edu/object/kittlerconferencehome Political Concepts: A Critical Lexicon, Humanities Initiative at NYU, March 1-2. Link: http://www.politicalconcepts.org/conference-2013/ The Disappearance of Authority. Bard College, February 12. 2012 Pussy Riot: Performance, Politics, and Protest. Roundtable with Yanni Kotsonis, Eliot Borenstein, Barbara Browning, Katharine Holt, and Katrina vanden Heuvel, NYU, September 14. “Thinking Disaster.” Plenary Panel, American Comparative Literature Association Annual Conference, Brown University, March 31 Book Discussion with Mantha Diawara for Loser Sons, NYU, March 20. 2011 “Schrift: Writing and Image-Character in the Work of Walter Benjamin.” Biennial Conference of the International Walter Benjamin Society, Princeton University,

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November 3. Book Presentation for Éloge du risque by Anne Dufourmantelle. School of Visual Arts, October 31. “The Other 9/11: Philosophical Reflections.” Panel with Drucilla Cornell, Simon Critchley, Ruth Johnston, and Aseel Sawalha, Pace University, September 9. 2010 National Distinguished Seminar for French Honors High School, Dec. “ and American Culture: Semiotext(e) between Theory, Art, and Politics - A Celebration.” Panel with Sylvere Lotringer, Bruce Benderson, Gregg Bordowitz, Tim Griffin, Emily Apter, and Denis Hollier. Fales Library & Special Collections, NYU, March 11. Lecture with Judith Butler at NYU, March 8. “Thinking Through Violence: An Interdisciplinary Conversation.” Roundtable Discussion with Banu Bargu, Drucilla Cornell, Allen Feldman, Mary Louise Pratt, and Avital Ronell. The Humanities Initivative, NYU, Feb. 9. 2009 “Les Fils Défaitistes et la Destruction d’un Monde. Le problème de l’autorité et avec l’autorité, production et besoin de jouissance de la défaite, et autres motifs.” Anne Dufourmantelle in conversation with Avital Ronell. E.N.S., Paris, Dec. 16. “De-capitalization and the Way of the World: Religion, Secularism, and Multiplicity.” Lecture Series: One World in Relation. Four Conversations with Édouard Glissant. Panelist (together with Richard Sennett, Francois Noudelman, Craig Calhoun, and Arjun Appadurai). Moderator (together with Manthia Diawara). The Institute of African Affairs at NYU, Nov. 30. “Roots & Imaginary Offshoots: Ecstatic Difference.” Panel: Theory of “Relation and Difference.”Lecture Series: One World in Relation. Four Conversations with Édouard Glissant. Panelists include Francois Noudelmann, Mary Ann Caws, Breyten Breytenbach, Fred Moten, Emily Apter, Manthia Diawara and Avital Ronell (Moderators). The Institute of African Affairs at NYU, Nov. 18. “Opacity, Stupidity and the History Unintelligibility: The Right to Opacity as a Prerequisite for Politics and Philosophy.” Lecture Series: One World in Relation. Four Conversations with Édouard Glissant. Panelists include Avital Ronell, Francois Noudelmann, Joan Retallack, Sylvere Lotringer, Tracie Morris, Manthia Diawara and Denis Hollier. The Institute of African Affairs at NYU, Oct. 27. “Bringing Up the Rear.” (Concluding Remarks). Lecture. Inside Out: A Workshop on Projection. New York University, Sept. 25. “On Authority. Have I been destroyed?” European Graduate School, Saas-Fes, Switzerland, July-Aug. “Crack Wars: Littérature et addiction.” Selon Avital Ronell: Lecture/Discussion with Fréderic Boyer, Dennis Cooper, Suzanne Doppelt, Anne Dufourmantelle, Daniel Loayaz, Xavier Person, and Avital Ronell at the Centre Pompidou, Paris, June 19. “The Test Drive: Littérature et technologie.” Selon Avital Ronell: Lecture/Discussion with Jean Lassègue, Jean-Luc Nancy, and Avital Ronell at the Centre Pompidou, Paris, June 17. “Des enfants, des monstres et des vampires.” Selon Avital Ronell: Lecture/Discussion with Pierre Alferi, Laurence Rickels, and Avital Ronell at the Centre Pompidou, Paris, June 11.

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“Lectures de Poésie.” Selon Avital Ronell, Lecture/Discussion with Jean-Cristophe Bailly, Frédéric Boyer, Suzanne Doppelt, and Avital Ronell at the Centre Pompidou, Paris, June 4. “Finis Gloria Mundi.” Selon Avital Ronell, Lecture/Discussion with Stéphane Audeguy, Edward J. Sullivan, and Avital Ronell at the Centre Pompidou, Paris, June 3. “Troubles dans les genre.” Selon Avital Ronell, Lecture/Discussion with Judith Butler and Avital Ronell at the Centre Pompidou, Paris, May 27. “Selon Avital Ronell,” Lecture/Discussion at the Centre Pompidou, May 13. “The Future of Commentary: A Roundtable discussion.” With Avital Ronell, Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht, Jesús Rodriguez Velasco. Conference Glossing is a Glorious Thing: The Past, Present, and Future of Commentary. The Graduate Center, City University of New York, April 10. “Nietzsche Loves You.” Lecture at Art in the First Person Lecture Series, School of Visual Arts, New York City, April 7. 2008 “The White Diamond: Un débat entre Avital Ronell et Werner Herzog.” Centre Pompidou, Paris, Dec. 11. “Derridémocratie.” Colloque International Derrida Politique, L’Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris, Dec 7. “Poetry and the Figure of Idiocy.” Public Lecture at the European Graduate School, Saas- Fes, July 2008. “Six Lectures on Kleist and Heidegger.” European Graduate School, Saas-Fes, Switzerland, July-Aug. 2008. “The Fable of Media Technology: On my Watch.” Keynote Lecture at the Conference In Medias Res: Kulturwissenschaftliche Positionen der Medienforschung, Universität Basel, July 11. Link: http://blogs.mewi.unibas.ch/archiv/130 (with Denis Hollier): Organizer of the Colloquium Catastrophe and Caesura: Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe Today, New York University, April 10-12. Link: http://www.lacoue- labarthe.org “What Was Authority?” Lectures in Criticism, Boston University, Department of Romance Studies, March 27. “Phantom Remarks.” Graduate Student Workshop Ghost As a Trope, New York University, German Department, Feb. 23. 2007 Introduction to Slavoj Zizeks’s lecture: “Fear Thy Neighbor as Thyself.” New York University, Trauma and Violence Transdisciplinary Studies and Department of German, Dec. 7. “What Was Authority?” (Keynote speaker). Conference: The Future of Feminism, Rutgers University, Oct. 19. “Falling For The Narcissus.” Conference: Narcissus and Eros: Image or Text? New York University, German Department, Sept. 28. “Kleist’s Militerary Strategy: Overturning the Story Line in The Marquise von O…” Lecture at Brown University, Department of , Sept. 20. “What Was Authority?” Lecture at the European Graduate School, Saas-Fes, Switzerland, July

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Speaker at Renato Poggioli Lecture, Harvard University, April 5. Organizer and Convener: Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe Memorial, New York University, March 23. Link: http://www.slought.org/content/11356/ 2006 Division Chair in Comparative Studies in Romanticism and the 19th Century, panel: “Nanomutations: The Next Generation of Thought,” Modern Language Association 122nd Convention, Dec. Speaker and organizer: Exhibition of Suzanne Doppelt’s photographs and a reading from her recent book, RING, RANG, WRONG. Deutsches Haus/New York University, Dec. 1. (with Anne Dufourmantelle) “Une soirée Hitchcock (La Corde).” Lecture at the Centre Pompidou, Paris, France, Nov. 15 Conversation with Hélène Cixous, Maria Chevska, Judith Miller, Eric Prenowitz, Jean- Michel Rabaté, Aaron Levy) “Celebrating Hélène Cixous and Maria Chevska.” Slought Foundation, Conversation in Theory Series, The Drawing Center, New York City, Oct. 14. “The Test Drive.” Lecture Series “Information,” Baker-Nord Center for the Humanities, Case Western Reserve University, Oct. 5. (with Amy Sholder, Bec Stupak, Phiiliip, Nayland Blake, Kathleen Hanna): Kathy Acker: Lust for Life. Performance and Spoken Word – Radio Theatre and Spoken Word, Cake Shop, New York City, Sept 11. [http://www.wps1.org/new_site/content/view/1437/160/text/css] READING FROM ACKER’S PUSSY KING OF THE PIRATES. (with Judith Butler): “Contemporaneity of Philosophy.” Lecture at the European Graduate School, Saas-Fee, Switzerland. July. “Kafka’s Letter to the Father.” Opening Lecture at the European Graduate School, Saas Fee, Switzerland, July. “Is it worth living?” (Keynote speaker). Poetics & Theory Conference: Life–Ordinary vs. Biological, New York University, April 21. “My New Best Fiend: Kathy Acker Goes to Hell” (closing and keynote address). Graduate Student Conference: Making Friendship: Bonds, Boundaries, and Becomings, New York University, April 8. “Trouble in Parricide: A Parasite Goes Postal (On Kafka’s ‘Letter to Father’).” Lecture, Princeton University, April 5. (Conversation with Eduardo Cadava and Jean-Michel Rabaté) “On Testing, Torture, and Experimentation: The Test Drive.” Slought Foundation, Conversation in Theory Series, organized by Aaron Levy, March 15. Humanities Council Residential Fellow at Princeton University, Department of English; graduate and faculty seminars: “The Abandoned: From Wordsworth to Dennis Cooper, Cixous & Lispector,” Spring Semester. 2005 “The Torture Pharm.” Panel: “Thinking After Derrida III: Literature and Art.” Chair: Rei Terada, Modern Language Association 121st Convention, Washington D.C., Dec. 30. “Authority Figures.” Panel: “Inside/Out: Psychoanalysis and Derrida.” Chair: Ellen Lee McCallum, Modern Language Association 121st Convention, Washington D.C., Dec. 29. Division Executive Committee Member in Comparative Studies in Romanticism and The Nineteenth Century, panel: ???, Modern Language Association 2005 Convention, Dec. ???

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“Traumatic Effects: Violence & Culture” (respondent and speaker). Research in Trauma & Violence Workshop, New York University, Dec. 7. Lecture and Faculty Seminar on Philosophy and Technology, Brown University, Nov. 13-16. (Keynote Speaker) Jacques Derrida Memorial Symposium, SUNY, Stony Brook, Nov. 4. “Trouble in Parricide: A Parasite Goes Postal” (Keynote lecture). Second Annual Comparative Literature Graduate Student Association: Pounce! Predators, Parasites, and Critics: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Living Off Others. University of Texas, Austin, Oct. 7. Lecture on Jacques Derrida, European Graduate School, Saas-Fee, Switzerland, July. (Roundtable Discussion) Conference on: Communication: Questioning the Dialogue, panel: Specters of Derrida: Thought in Dialogue, International Communication Association, New York City, May 28. “The Test Drive: On Trials, Torture, & Hypothetical Positing.” Heinz Bluhm Memorial Lecture, Boston College, April 26. “Untread & Untried: How Nietzsche Reads Derridemocracy.” Symposium Diacritics, Cornell University, April 15-16. “Research in Trauma and Violence.” Workshop on Culture and Politics, Amherst College, April 9. Keynote lecture, Graduate Student of Arts and Science Colloquium. New York University, April 5. “The Koan.” Conference on Textual Enigmas. Brown University, March 3. “Derrida/America.” Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law of Yeshiva University, Feb. 20. (Conference organizer together with Tom Bishop) “New York Remembers Derrida: A Tribute to Jacques Derrida (1930-2004).” New York University, Jan. 21. 2004 “The Test Drive: How Philosophy & Literature Ride Technology.” New York University, Jurow Lecture Hall, Silver Center, Dec. 2. Celebration of Philosopher Jacques Derrida, Barnard College, Nov. 19. (with Christina von Braun, Humboldt-Universität, Berlin) “’Holy War’ and Gender: The New Face of Warfare and its Sexual Implications.” Bard College, New York, Nov. 1. Columbia University Remembering Derrida, Oct. 20. “Nietzschean Proving Grounds.” Conference Graduiertenkolleg Zeiterfahrung und historische Wahrnehmung, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt/Main (Germany), June 17. 2003 “On Sexual Warfare.” Keynote lecture. The Otto and Ilse Mainzer Foundation Lecture, New York University, Nov. 6. “Testing the Waters.” Conference on: Irreconcilable Differences? Jacques Derrida and the Question of Religion, organized by Elisabeth Weber and Thomas A. Carlson, Department of Religious Studies and of Germanic, Slavic, and Semitic Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara, Oct. 25. “The Experimental Disposition: Nietzschean Proving Grounds.” Respondent: John G. Hanhardt. Solomon Guggenheim Museum, New York, Oct. 15. Commencement Speech at the European Graduate School, Saas-Fee, Switzerland, July.

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“The Enemy.” Keynote address. Conference: The Enemy, Graduiertenkolleg European Cultures, Europa-Universität Viadrina (Frankfurt/Oder). New York University, May 1. 2002 “Just Testing,” panel: “Adjustments: Nineteenth-Century Justice after 9/11.” Chair: Jann Matlock, Modern Language Association 118th Convention, Dec. 28. “Human Rights Kid-Tested,” panel: “The Politics of Human Rights I.” Chair: Ian Grant Balfour, Modern Language Association 118th Convention, Dec. 27. “Lust for Life: The Works of Kathy Acker.” Keynote Address. Fales Library, New York University, Nov. 4. “On Nietzsche and Derrida.” Keynote address. Conference: Discussions with Derrida. Columbia University, Oct. 26. Panel on 19th century France and the Question of Justice, Modern Language Association 118th Convention, New York, Dec. 28. Panel on Human Rights, Modern Language Association 118th Convention, New York, Dec. 27. (with Michael Taussig) “Trauma and History.” Program for America and its Others Colloquium, New York University, Dec. 13. Keynote, Conference on Philosophy and Technology, University of Penn State, Sept. 12. “Testing Your Love, or, Breaking Up.” Lecture at the European Graduate School, Saas Fee, Switzerland, Aug. Lectures and Seminars on Media Technology, Art and Philosophy, European Graduate School, with Jean-Luc Nancy, Slavoj Zizek, Peter Greenaway and Claude Lanzmann, Saas-Fee, Switzerland, Aug. 8-20. “L’épreuve de la démocratie.” Colloquium: La démocratie à venir (autour de Jacques Derrida). Cérisy-la-Salle, France, July 18. “On Stupidity.” Municipal Art Society’s Urban Center, New York City, June 4. “Lyotard Reads Oppression: On Childhood Politics.” Philosophy Department, SUNY at Stony Brook, May 2. “Philosophy and Technology.” Key Note, Pembroke Center for Teaching and Research on Women, Brown University, April 4. 2001 “The Unrelenting Creepiness of Childhood: Lyotard, Kid-tested.” Lecture at the European Graduate School, Saas Fee, Switzerland, Aug. 10. (with Jean-Luc Nancy, Wolfgang Schirmacher) “Love and Community.” Roundtable discussion, European Graduate School, Saas-Fee, Switzerland, Aug. “Nietzsche and Legal Theory.” Keynote speaker at Cardozo Law School, Oct. 15. “Slow Learner: On Roland Barthes.” International Conference commemorating Roland Barthes, New York University, March 30. “Walter Benjamin: The Arcades Project,” sponsored by Harvard University Press, Brown University, March 15. “The Fate of French Theory.” Conference at Columbia University, organized by Sylvère Lotringer, Feb. 20. 100th Anniversary of Freud’s Interpretation of Dreams, Keynote, University of Minnesota, Feb. 14.

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“The Pornography of the Cogito.” Special Conference on the Works of Dennis Cooper. Fales Library, New York University, Feb. 2. 2000 “The Sacred Alien,” panel: “The Posthuman I.” Chair: Thomas Dana Cohen, Modern Language Association 116th Convention, Dec. 29. “The Forbidden Body: On Stupidity.” Lecture at the European Graduate School, Saas Fee, Switzerland, Aug. “The Sacred Body: On Jean-Luc Nancy and .” European Graduate School, Saas Fee, Switzerland, Oct. 8. [?] “On The Figure of Abraham in Kafka and Derrida.” Derrida Conference. New York University, Oct. 26. “The Forbidden Body.” University of California, Berkeley, April 24. Eros and Poetry, Artforum, New York City, Feb. 14. 1999 “Irony and Destruction.” Deutsches Haus/Columbia University, Nov. 6. 1997 “…” Symposium: French Theory in America, Center for French Civilization and Culture, NYU. 1996 Forum on Feminist Philosophy, Keynote speaker. Pembroke Center, Oct. 19. 1994 “Breaking Up.” Symposium Nietzsche Today/Nietzsche Heute/Nietzsche Aujourd'hui, organized by Tom Bishop and Bernd Hüppauf, Center for French Civilization and Culture, New York University, Oct. 7. “The Derelict Community.” Keynote lecture. Conference organized around the works of Jean-Luc Nancy and Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe, Duke University, May 21. “The Test Site.” Keynote lecture. Politics, Technology and Literature Series, Princeton University, May 15. 1993 “The Test Drive.” Conference Deconstruction is/in America with Jacques Derrida, Thomas Bishop, Anselm Haverkamp, Barbara Johnson, Judith Butler, and others. New York University, Oct. 7. “Philosophy and Literature Today.” The Birgit Baldwin and Julia Dahl Memorial Lecture, Yale University, Oct. 5. “Electronic Culture and the Future of Philosophy.” The Guggenheim Museum and DIA Foundation, New York, Oct. 2. 1992 “Questioning Masculinist Premises.” Public lecture: Seminar on Art and Technology, San Francisco Art Institute, Aug. 17-22. “Spectacle, Subculture, and Style.” Public Access (Toronto Arts), July 3. Lecture and Seminar on: Philosophies of Technology. Department of Comparative Literature, Stanford University, May 30. “The Catastrophe of .” Humanities Institute, University of California at Riverside, May 15. “Future .” Presentation and Seminar on: Politics and Deconstruction. University of California Humanities Research Institute, University of California, Irvine, May 9. “Technology and the End of History.” English Department Symposium, University of California at Irvine, May 5.

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1) Lecture with “Future of Deconstruction” group. 2) Chair of double session, “Masters of the University,” at the Symposium Persons, Passions, Powers, organized by Professor Anthony Cascardi, University of California at Berkeley, May 1. “Television-Video-Catastrophe.” Lecture followed by discussion with video theorist Steve Fagin. California College of Arts and Crafts, April 27. “Haunted TV: The Ethics of Sight Storage.” Symposium on: Technology and Power. DIA Center for the Arts, New York City, April 12. “Twelve Steps Beyond the Pleasure Principle.” The Poetics Institute, Walter Benjamin Centennial, New York University, April 10. Three seminars and one public lecture, sponsored by the German Department and Humanities Center, The Johns Hopkins University, March 19-30. “Book Talk/Round Table with David Levi Strauss.” Exhibit organized around Crack Wars: Literature/Addiction/Mania, Southern Exposure Gallery at Project Artaud, San Francsico, Feb. 27. Papers on “Deconstruction and Marxism.” With Martin Jay, Richard Rorty, Jonathan Culler, Andrzej Warminski, Catherine Gallagher, Hayden White and others. University of California, Santa Barbara, Feb. 21. “A Reading of Madame Bovary.” Sponsored by the French and Italian Department, University of California at Irvine, Feb. 4. 1991 “Atopos.” Lecture on: Architecture and Deconstruction, New Langton Arts, San Francisco, Nov. 22. “The Prosthetic Subject. (Literature, Cultural Anthropology and Technology).” Faculty Seminar Amherst College, Oct. 15. “Poetic Courage: Benjamin's Reading of Hölderlin's 'Dichtermut.'” Symposium Walter Benjamin and Literary Theory, organized by Professor David Ferris. With Hans Jost Frey, Rainer Nägele, Manfred Frank, and others. Yale University, Sept. 11. “Simulated Design.” San Francisco Art Institute. Symposium Mass Media, Virtual Reality and the Persian Gulf War, June 21. “Our Narcotic Modernity.” Diesel Bookstore, Berkeley, May 29. “Bring Home the Tropes.” Artists and Writers Out Loud (a.w.o.l.): Reading Desert Storm, reThinking Resistance. Ubik Gallery, San Francisco, May 17. Dialogue with Maryse Condé. Department of French, University of California, Berkeley, May 13. “Rereading Feminist Trajectories.” Faculty Seminar Center for the Humanities and Social Sciences, Williams College, Williamstown, April 30. “Literature/Addiction/Mania.” Spring Lecture Series on Technology and Politics. Williams College, Williamstown, April 29. “Being-on-Drugs. Heidegger and the Theme of Dependency.” SUNY, Buffalo, April 26. “On Probation: Cybernetic Corporeality.” Princeton University, School of Architecture, April 24. “Feminist Assignments.” Pacific Rim Conference: International Feminism. Josai University, Japan, March 8.

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“Toward a Narco-Analysis.” University of California, Berkeley, Department of Rhetoric, Feb. 13. 1990 “Hard Drugs: Creatures of the Simulacrum,” panel: ”Electronic Culture: ‘Conference Call’.” Chair: Catherine J. Griggers, Modern Language Association 106th Convention, Dec 28. “Heidegger and Rilke,” panel: “Intersections I: Literature in Philosophy.” Chair: Rainer Nägele, Modern Language Association 106th Convention, Chicago, Dec 28. “The Art of Censorship: Drawing the Line.” Keynote Panel: Against the Law. Society for Photographic Education, Western Regional Conference, Monterey, CA, Nov. 2. “Crack Wars: Literature, Addiction, Mania.” Second L.P. Irvin Colloquium: Questioning Technologies. Miami University, Ohio, Oct. 20. “Being-on-Drugs.” Conference/Festival on Performance Studies. New York University, Tisch School of the Arts, Oct. 4-7. 1) Chaired panel entitled “Technofuture (Schreber's Children)”; 2) Delivered talk, “Finitude's Score.” . [Bodies: Image, Writing, Technology]. International Association for Philosophy and Literature, Irvine, CA, April 26. “Literature and Addiction.” University of California, Santa Barbara. Departments of German and English, April 24. “Finitude's Score.” Art, Technology and the Institution. Whitney Museum, New York, March 31. 1989 “Music, Art and War.” University of California, Berkeley, Nov. 14. Untitled paper on: Spatial Transference. Conference on and Beyond: Architecture as the Critical Art of Contemporary Culture. With Peter Eisenman, Jacques Derrida, Jean-Francois Lyotard. University of California, Irvine, Oct. 27. “Finitude's Score.” Department of English, Princeton University, Sept. 29. “Opera and Technology: Finitude's Score.” William R. Kenan Lecture Series, Amherst College, Sept. 27. “Heidegger's Call of Conscience.” Also gave seminar on Heidegger. University of Massachusetts, Amherst, September. “Eurozeit.” Conference Zu Heideggers 100. Geburtstag. Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Bonn, West Germany, April. 1988 Gave seven-week seminar on Nietzsche, Heidegger and Derrida. Graduate College, University of Siegen, West Germany, Dec. 28, 1988—Feb. 4, 1989. Directed two colloquia: 1) Radio and Schizoanalysis; 2) Heidegger and Technology. Institute for European and Comparative Studies, University of Florida Gainesville, Nov. 30. Paper given in colloquium Feminism and Philosophy. Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, November. 1987 “The Telephone to the Beyond: Nietzsche ad the Technology of Mourning,” panel: ”Mourning, Writing, Ritual.” Chair: Meta Zitelli, Modern Language Association 103rd Convention, San Francisco, Dec. 29. “Bad Weibs: Heidegger and Schizophrenia.” Comparative Literature Graduate Student Union, University of California, Berkeley, Dec. 8.

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“On the Way to Lainguage: Heidegger and Schizophrenia.” Colloquium on Speculative Philosophy and Hermeneutics: Hegel and Hölderlin. Yale University, Oct. 1987. “Bad Weibs II.” Colloquium on: Paranoia and Schizophrenia. University of California, Santa Barbara, May. “Dial B for Being.” The Humanities Center, Johns Hopkins University, April. Respondent in colloquium: The States of Theory, University of California at Irvine, April. “Napoleon and the Demonology of Goethe and Nietzsche.” Weekend seminar on Bonaparte: Adventurer, Reformer, Conqueror, Legend. University of California, Berkeley, March. 1986 “Bad Weibs,” panel: “Arrangement with a Master: Productive Literary Reception of Goethe.” Chair: Walter Keutel, Modern Language Association 102nd Convention, New York, Dec. 30. “On Lyotard and Post-Modern Architectural Aesthetics.” Conference on Aesthetics: A Panel Discussion at the College of Environmental Design. University of California, Berkeley, May. “Bad Weibs.” Keynote Speaker at conference on The Other Perspective in Gender and Culture. University of California, Irvine, May. “Ecce Fama.” Conference on Nietzsche in Italy: An International Symposium. Respondent: Angus Fletcher. Departments of French and Italian, Stanford University, April. “Starting from Scratch: The Mastermix.” Works in Progress Series sponsored by the Comparative Literature Graduate Student Union, University of California, Berkeley, February. 1985 Chaired panel: “Looking After the Frankfurt School,” arranged by the Division on Philosophical Approaches to Literature, Modern Language Association 101st Convention, Chicago, Dec. 29. “Cervantes, Kafka, and Marthe Robert,” panel: “Cervantes Viewed by Modern Literary Theorists: Lukács, Bakhtin, and Marthe Robert.” Chair: Ruth S. El Saffar, Modern Language Association 101st Convention, Chicago, Dec. 28. “Le sujet suppositaire: Rat-Man and Rousseau.” Conference on The Call of the Phoneme: Puns and the Foundation of Letters. The Society for the Humanities. Cornell University, Sept. “Goethezeit.” Lecture at , German and French Departments, University of California, Irvine, April. “Foucault Comma Literature And.” Conference: Foucault, Literature and Literary Criticism. University of California, Berkeley, March. “The Genre of Madness.” Conference: Nineteenth Century Literary Studies. Stanford University, Feb. 23. Lecture series on The Theory of War. Wissenschaftliches Institut vom Menschen, Vienna, Spring. 1984 “The Rhetoric of Nuclear War,” panel: “Nuclear Criticism.” Chair: E. S. Burt, Modern Language Association 100th Convention, Washington D.C, Dec. 29. Panelist on “Kant: On Pleasure Principles.” Chair: Laurence A. Rickels, Modern Language Association 100th Convention, Washington D.C., Dec. 28.

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“The Joke and Other Unsigned Texts.” Lecture at Department of Critical Theory, University of California, Irvine. “Problems in Women's Studies.” Women’s Conference. University of California, Irvine. “On Obsessional Neurosis.” Conference: Structural and Intellectual Strategies in Women's Studies. University of California, Irvine. 1983 “Queens of the Night,” panel: “: The Psychology of Resentment.” Chair: Laurence A. Rickels, Modern Language Association 99th Convention, New York, Dec. 29. “Trauma, fantasme et cryptonomie.” Series of lectures directed by Maria Torok, Psychoanalytic Society, Paris, February. “Writing on the Crypt.” University Lecture. University of California, Riverside, 1983. “Polemology.” Paper presented to the Mission pour la Création du College International de Philosophie (Founding Members: Francois Châtelet, Jacques Derrida, Jean-Pierre Faye, Dominique Lecourt). 1982 “Namely, Eckermann.” Colloquium on: Nietzsche's Psychology of Ressentiment. University of California, Santa Barbara.

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For: Oxford University Press, Duke University Press, University of Minnesota Press, University of Nebraska Press, Stanford University Press, “Sub-stance,” “MLN,” “electronic culture,” “Journal of the American Semiotic Association,” “Digital Futures,” etc.

Academic Services

New York University: Division Executive Committee Member in Comparative Studies in Romanticism and the Nineteenth Century, Modern Language Association, 2009 Chair, Committee for promotion to Tenure for Paul Fleming, 2007 Chair, Committee for promotion to Full Professor for Ulrich Baer, 2005 Co-Chair, NYU Departmental Hiring Committee, 2005; successfully hired Professor Eckart Goebel

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Faculty Council Senator, Faculty of Arts and Science, NYU, 2005-2008 Division Executive Committee Member in Comparative Studies in Romanticism and the Nineteenth Century, Modern Language Association, 2005 Director, Research in Trauma & Violence, NYU (2004-present) Submission of mission statement and project accreditation: Research in Trauma & Violence, NYU Chair, Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures (1996-2005) Chair, NYU Departmental Hiring Committee, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003 Member, Committee to appoint Director for Center for Gender and Sexuality Studies. (1998- 2000) Steering Committee, Conference on the Works of Kathy Acker, with Fales Library, NYU 2002

University of California at Berkeley: Member, Curriculum Committee for Health and Medical Sciences School (1988-90) Adjunct Member, Energy Resources Department Chair, Graduate Admissions Committee (1991-) Chair, Hiring Committee (1990, 1992) Chair, Lecture Committee (1987-89, 1993-94) Chairman's Advisory Committee (1990-94) Chair, M.A. Program Revision Committee (1989-91) Chair, Ph.D. Program Development (1992-94) Graduate Advisor (1985-present) Undergraduate Advisor (1984-89) Chair, Affirmative Action Committee Chair, Placement Committee (1984-87) Student Employment and Continuing Fellowships Committee (Mellon, Mentor, etc., 1989-92). Faculty Advisor, Journal of Literary Criticism: Qui Parle (1986-90).

Outside the university Oxford Literary Review, Advisory Board, 2008- Director, Bayard Editions, (Paris), International Philosophers of Urgency project (2005- ) Member, Executive Committee, Derrida Archives, (2005- ) Culture Machine, International Editorial Advisory Board, 2005- Regular contributor and reader, Vacarme, Paris Division Chair, Comparative Literature, MLA (2005-2010) Theory Advisor and director, Art University, Monterrey, Mexico

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Digital Futures Series, University of Toronto Press, Editorial Advisory Board (2004-present) PMLA, Editorial Board (2001-2003) Germanic Review Editorial Board (1999-present) Postmodern Culture, Editorial Board (1991-1997) Modernity and Culture, Editorial Board (1994-present) Voted by membership as Chair of Modern Language Association 1) Division of Philosophy and Literature and 2) Chair of Division of Comparative Literature (1993-96).

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