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To Catch a Falling Star: Lacan Meets Warhol
Catherine Liu
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Listen to a 76 minute recording, or download the file
Event Date: Thursday, February 21, 2002
Location: Slought Foundation at University of Pennsylvania
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Catherine Liu received her Ph.D. in French Literature from The Graduate Center of the City University of New York. She is an associate professor in the Department of Cultural Studies and Comparative Literature, and in the Department of French and Italian at the University of Minnesota. From 1997-1999, she was awarded a McKnight Land-Grant Professorship at the University of Minnesota. She has published articles on psychoanalytic theory, issues in feminist criticism and French literature of the ancien régime, and Walter Benjamin, and Conspiracy Theory. She has curated exhibitions of contemporary art in New York City and Los Angeles, as well as having worked as a regular reviewer for Artforum, and Flash Art. In 1992, she edited a special issue of Lusitania, on issues of contemporary theory and cultural production called The Abject, America. In addition to having written and published on contemporary art and theory, she has also published a novel, Oriental Girls Desire Romance (Kaya Press, 1997). She is presently at work on a second novel, Suicide of an Assistant Professor. Her book, Copying Machines: Taking Notes for the Automaton, a collection of theoretical essays around the genealogy of the machine and technologies of difference was published the University of Minnesota Press. She also translated Gérard Pommier’s Erotic Anger: A User’s Manual.
Organized by
Aaron Levy
Media files on the Slought.org website are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 2.5 License.
MLA Style:
Catherine Liu. "To Catch a Falling Star: Lacan Meets Warhol." Slought Foundation Online Content. [21 February 2002;
Accessed 4 February 2012]. <http://slought.org/content/11057/>.
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