Jacques Derrida. Gilles Deleuze: On Forgiveness. 2004 4/11

www.egs.edu Jacques Derrida speaking about Forgiveness in his Paris seminar “A Critique of Psychoanalysis”, a reading focusing on texts from Gilles Deleuze. Public open video lecture with students of the European Graduate School EGS, Media and Communication Studies department program, Saas-Fee, Switzerland, Europe, France, 2004 Jacques Derrida (born July 15, 1930 — October 8, 2004) was an Algerian-born French philosopher, known as the founder of deconstruction. His voluminous work had a profound impact upon continental philosophy, French philosophy, and literary theory. Derrida taught philosophy at the Sorbonne, and from 1964 to 1984 at the École Normale Superieure. He completed his Thèse d’État in 1980; the work was subsequently published in English translation as “The Time of a Thesis: Punctuations”. Beginning with his 1966 lecture at Johns Hopkins University, at which he presented his essay “Structure, Sign, and Play in the Discourse of the Human Sciences” (see below), his work assumed international prominence.In 1967 Derrida published his first three books — Writing and Difference, Speech and Phenomena, and Of Grammatology. Until his death Derrida was director of studies at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris. With François Châtelet and others, he co-founded the Collège international de philosophie (CIPH) in 1983, a research institution intended to give a place to philosophical research and lectures which could not be carried out elsewhere in

In September 2008, the Graduate School held the first of four best practices seminars that are part of the Graduate School’s Initiative to Optimize Doctoral Completion. Four faculty members shared ideas about the information that they have included on their Websites to help prospective doctoral students make good decisions about applying to their programs and the reasons they thought this information was important for recruiting the best students. Dr. Kevin DeWeaver from Social Work spoke about student resources.
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DJ Spooky / Paul D. Miller. Mixing as Social Sculpture. 2006 4/6

www.egs.edu DJ Spooky aka Paul D. Miller aka That Subliminal Kid teaching about editing as a form of art, the functions of the DJ and sampling applied to cinema, mixing as social sculpture, the film The Birth of a Nation, sharing and collage, software, dematerialisation, his book Rhythm Science, the influence of pop and mass culture, the copy, creative commons, open source, a culture of cool, multicultural art, multiperspectives, database aesthetics, compression, mathematics, intuition, Marcel Duchamp, technology, music, video, and his work – a database remix expanding our notions of time and space. Free public open video lecture with students and faculty of the European Graduate School EGS, Media and Communication Studies department program, Saas-Fee, Switzerland, Europe, Paul Miller 2008 DJ Spooky, That Subliminal Kid (born Paul D. Miller, 1970), is a Washington DC-born electronic and experimental hip hop musician whose work is often called “illbient” or “trip hop”. He is a turntablist and producer. He borrowed his stage name from the character The Subliminal Kid in the novel Nova Express by William S. Burroughs. He is a professor at the European Graduate School where he co-teaches with Michael Schmidt an Intensive Summer Seminar. Th work of DJ Spooky, That Subliminal Kid, Paul D. Miller was featured in the Whitney Biennial; The Venice Biennial; the Ludwig Museum in Cologne, Germany; Kunsthalle, Vienna; The Andy Warhol Museum, Paula Cooper Gallery and many other museums

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