An Open Letter to the GCAS Community: This is just an update about The Global Center for Advanced Studies. So we are four months old and already weve taught six 1 credit hour courses, and some have taken independent studies with our esteemed faculty. Weve been taught by J. Jack Halberstam, Clayton Crockett, Laurie Rodrigues, Katerina Kolozova, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Slavoj Zizek, Alain Badiou, Carl Raschke, Jeff Robbins, Jack Caputo, Peter Rollins, Levi Paul Bryant, Henry Giroux, Brad Evans, Lambert Zuidervaart, Peter Thompson, Lori Marso, Jason Adams, Mohammad Salemy, McKenzie Wark, Adrian Parr, Antonio Garcia, Azfar Hussain, Dorothea Olkowski, Maria Nikolakaki, J. J Kameron Carter, Jason Reed, Andrew Ross and others. Its been an amazing four months. And now we move into the next two months before the Summer Institute during which well have several courses: Reading Radical Philosophers taught by Katerina Kolozova & Michael ORourke) featuring: Jodi Dean, Lucca Fraser, Priyamvada Gopal, Avital Ronell (and then in September with Spivak, Marso, Holloway, and more). Claudia Landolfis course on emotions and power. Thomas B. Stubblefields course on Photography Well have a course with Clayton Crocket on Deleuzes _Difference & Repetition_ Marcus Pound, Introduction to Zizek & Psychoanalysis Berit Janes course on cultural studies and food (amazing)! Drew Burk will teach an introductory course on Non-Philosophy in preparation for François Laruelles seminar in the summer institute. Paul Levi Bryant will be teaching a course on A/Theology Peter Thompsons Course on Bloch! Carl Raschkes Critical Theology in A Global Context (with Goodchild, Rashkover, Robbins). Our second Political Economy Course on the Crisis in Capitalism will be offered. So were really moving forward. I would like to ask all of you to please spread the word to others who may be interested. We are doing something that many have only dreamed of and its only possible because of the community and bonds we have formed in solidarity for Justice with our brothers and sisters from all over the world. It is a real honor and pleasure. I would like to especially thank Bob Goodrich without whom GCAS would not be possible. I wish him great success as he runs for US Congress: Bob Goodrich Democrat for Congress! Thank you all for believing in what we can do together to change the world for justice. Love, Creston
Posted on: Thu, 10 Apr 2014 14:50:42 +0000