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Cities Without Citizens: Philadelphia Launch

Eduardo Cadava, Aaron Levy

Slought Foundation | Thursday, March 04, 2004; 6:30-8:00pm
Free , No reservation required



Please join us for the Philadelphia release of "Cities Without Citizens" at Slought Foundation on Thursday March 4, 2004, from 6:30-8:30pm. The first in the Slought Books Theory Series, this interdisciplinary publication is edited by Eduardo Cadava and Aaron Levy and comprises a collection of essays and documents engaging issues of citizenship, human rights, and the architecture of cities. It features contributions by noted artists, architects and theorists including Giorgio Agamben, Arakawa + Gins, Branka Arsic, Eduardo Cadava, Joan Dayan, Gans & Jelacic Architecture, Thomas Keenan, Gregg Lambert, Aaron Levy, David Lloyd, Rafi Segal Eyal Weizman Architects, and Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak.

Published with the Rosenbach Museum & Library in conjunction with "Cities Without Citizens," an exhibition at the Rosenbach Museum organized by Aaron Levy, 2003 artist-in-residence. Information on the exhibition is available: http://slought.org/content/11159/


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Eduardo Cadava teaches in the English Department at Princeton University. His publications include Words of Light: Theses on the Photography of History (1997), Emerson and the Climates of History (1997), Who Comes After the Subject? (co-editor with Peter Connor, and Jean-Luc Nancy; 1991). He is currently writing a collection of essays on the ethics and politics of mourning entitled Of Mourning and a book on music and techniques of reproduction, memorization, and writing entitled Music on Bones.

Aaron Levy is Executive Director of and a Senior Curator at Slought Foundation. He has edited Searching for Romberg, on artist Osvaldo Romberg, Untitled (After Cinema), on photography after cinema, and, with Jean-Michel Rabaté, Of the Diagram, on the work of Marjorie Welish. He organized the exhibition "Cities Without Citizens" at the Rosenbach Museum as their 2003 artist-in-residence.

This program is made possible in part through the generous sponsorship or support of The Rosenbach Museum & Library. We acknowledge financial support for the publication from the Vanguard Group Foundation and the 5-County Arts Fund, a Pennsylvania Partners in the Arts program of the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, a state agency, as well as the Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture, NY.