Dawn Herrera’s bio:
Dawn Herrera is a theorist whose teaching and writing are dedicated to the invigoration of the political imaginary. She holds a Ph.D. from the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago, where she completed a dissertation on non-sovereign conceptions of freedom in the work of Hannah Arendt and Michel Foucault. Related research interests include the spatiality and temporality of politics, play, metaphor, violence, and the critique of political economy. Her current book project traces the genealogy of the nation-state in Foucault’s Collège de France lectures.

Ben Helphand’s bio:
For more than twenty years, Ben Helphand has focused on ways to help communities have a direct hand in the creation and stewardship of the built environment.  He is the Executive Director of NeighborSpace, a nonprofit urban land trust dedicated to preserving and sustaining community-managed open spaces in Chicago.  NeighborSpace shoulders the responsibility of property ownership for a network of flower, vegetable, and prairie gardens across the City so that community groups can focus on gardening and community building.  In addition to his work at NeighborSpace, Helphand is Co-founder and President of the Friends of the Bloomingdale Trail (FBT), an all-volunteer, community-based organization that advocated for the conversion of the under-used Bloomingdale rail embankment into a public greenway from 2002 until the project's completion in 2015.  As the official Park Advisory Council for the Bloomingdale Trail, FBT now serves as its long-term community steward.  Helphand has also served as a board member of the Active Transportation Alliance, the Mayor's Pedestrian Advisory Committee, Grow Greater Englewood, and the Chicago Housing Trust.  In 2012, he was awarded a Chicago Community Trust Emerging Leader Fellowship, and was part of Next City's 2018 Vanguard class.  Originally from Oregon, he holds a degree in the history of religion from the University of Chicago and studied at Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism.

Readings

Hannah Arendt, selections from The Human Condition (1998, 1958):  Prologue, 1-6; Chapter IV, 139-174
Hannah Arendt, “The Crisis in Culture” Between Past and Future (1977), 194-222

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Phyllis Chesler, Women and Madness
Julia Kristeva, Tales of Love

Fern Thompsett was raised in Gubbi Gubbi Country, also known as the Sunshine Coast, in Queensland, Australia, and is currently working on her Ph.D. in cultural anthropology at Columbia University. Her research explores ways in which people are living according to “anti-civilisation” theories based on environmental, anti-capitalist, and anti-colonial critiques of mass agriculture. She lived and worked for a decade in Meanjin, or Brisbane, where she co-founded the Brisbane Free University, co-hosted a community radio show on 4ZZZ fm, and played in several bands. With Richard Hill and Kristen Lyons, she is author of Transforming Universities in the Midst of Global Crisis: A University for the Common Good, published by Routledge Press in 2021.

Readings

Jacques Ellul, “The Conditions for the Existence of Propaganda,” Propaganda: The Formation of Men’s Attitudes, 88-117

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We’ll begin with the collection of essays on the pandemic found on the website of the European Journal of Psychoanalysis at <https://www.journal-psychoanalysis.eu/?s=coronavirus>.  The journal relies on the good will and appreciation of readers.  Donations can be made at <https://www.journal-psychoanalysis.eu/coronavirus-and-philosophers/>

Note: In accordance with an agreement reached with Routledge, many of the previously available papers that were found in these Tribunes on the Coronavirus have been permanently removed. These essays are included in the forthcoming book: Coronavirus, Psychoanalysis and Philosophy: Conversations on Pandemics, Politics and Society (Editors: Fernando Castrillón & Thomas Marchevsky).  The book can be purchased at <https://www.routledge.com/Coronavirus-Psychoanalysis-and-Philosophy-Conversations-on-Pandemics/Castrillon-Marchevsky/p/book/9780367713669>

Coronavirus and philosophers (M. Foucault, G. Agamben, S. Benvenuto):

Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish: The Birth of the Prison, translated by A. Sheridan, 195-228. In collaboration with the journal Antinomie
Giorgio Agamben, “The Invention of an Epidemic.” Originally published in Italian by Quodlibet
See also Giorgio Agamben, “The state of exception provoked by an unmotivated emergency.” A translation of an article that first appeared as “Lo stato d’eccezione provocato da un’emergenza immotivata,” il manifesto
Sergio Benvenuto, “Welcome to Seclusion.”  Originally published in Italian on Antinomie
Giorgio Agamben, “Clarifications”
Sergio Benvenuto, “Forget about Agamben”

Miguel Vatter, “Stay Safe, Protect the Health System, Save Lives”
Daniel James Smith, “On the Viral Event”
Achille Mbembe, Diogo Bercito, “The Pandemic Democratizes the Power to Kill”:  An Interview.  Originally published in Gauchazh
Renato Cristi, “Pandemics and Philosophy”
Massimo Cacciari, “Our Homes Are Hell”:  An Interview
Giorgio Agamben, “Reflections on the Plague,” translated by Journal of European Psychoanalysis.  First published on the website of Quodlibet, translated from the Italian by Gianmaria Senia
Roberto Esposito, Francesco Borgonovo, “Debate on the Green Pass.”  Originally published in Italian at La Verità
Duane Rousselle, “The Lonely Anti-Racist”
Patricia Gherovici, “A Polemic on the Pandemic: Death Does Not Make Us Equal”
Darian Leader, “Some Thoughts on the Pandemic”
Zsuzsa Baross, “Philosophy in the Time of the Epidemic:  Two Transcripts”
Lutz Goetzmann, “On the Real of Plague”:  Notes from Berlin, in the Summer of Sars-CoV-2
Arka Chattopadhyay, “Psychoanalysis, Corporeality and Haptics in Covid-19 Times”

On Pandemics (Nancy, Dwivedi, Mohan, Esposito, Nancy, Ronchi). Published in Italian on Antinomie:

Jean-Luc Nancy, “Viral Exception”
Roberto Esposito, “Cured to the Bitter End”
Riposte by Jean-Luc Nancy to Roberto Esposito (through email to Sergio Benvenuto)
Divya Dwivedi and Shaj Mohan, “The Community of the Forsaken: A Response to Agamben and Nancy”
Rocco Ronchi, “The Virtues of the Virus”
Massimo De Carolis, “The Threat of Contagion”
Shaj Mohan, “What Carries Us On”
Jean-Luc Nancy, “A Much Too Human Virus” 

See the European Journal of Psychoanalysis for other readings

If there is time, we will also revisit the resources put together by Philippe Theophanidis at Aphelis, an iconographic and text archive related to communication, technology and art: <https://aphelis.net/agamben-coronavirus-pandemic-interventions/>