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Project Website (with 58 min. multimedia recording): http://slought.org/content/11287/
Slought Foundation, an organization rethinking contemporary arts, presents “Wiliam Anastasi's Pataphysical Society,” a symposium on Saturday, December 11, 2004 critically engaging William Anastasi's work in relation to literary and artistic predecessors and contemporaries including Jarry, Joyce, Duchamp and Cage. This one-day symposium, sponsored by the University of Pennsylvania Research Foundation, features presentations by and conversations with a variety of noted critics and academics including Thomas McEvilley, Steve McCaffery, Joseph Masheck, William Anastasi, Jean-Michel Rabaté, Alison Armstrong, and Ian Hays. For documentation and audio recordings from past Slought Foundation projects with William Anastasi, visit: http://slought.org/search/anastasi/
Jean-Michel Rabaté, Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Pennsylvania since 1992, has authored or edited twenty books on Modernism, Joyce, Pound, Beckett, Lacan, Derrida, psychoanalysis and literary theory. Among these, Lacan in America (2000), Jacques Lacan: Psychoanalysis and the subject of literature (2001), James Joyce and the Politics of Egoism (2001), and The Future of Theory (2002). He is the editor of the Cambridge Guide to Jacques Lacan (2002). He recently edited Of the Diagram: The Work of Marjorie Welish (2003), with Aaron Levy, and the Summer Issues (No. 21/22) of the journal Interfaces addressing work by artists and architects Arakawa+Gins.
This program is made possible in part through the generous sponsorship or support of University of Pennsylvania Research Foundation and the French Institute for Culture and Technology
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Detail, "du jarry" series, 2004