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John Waters. Filth 101. 2000 3/4

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www.egs.edu John Waters, American filmmaker, director, writer, personality, visual artist and art collector talking about his films, work, biography, ideas and philosophy. John Waters, born 1946, in a public open lecture with students and faculty of the European Graduate School EGS, Media and Communication Studies department, film and movie program, Saas-Fee, Switzerland, Europe, 2000. John Waters. John Waters rose to fame in the early 1970s for his transgressive cult films. John Waters’ early films were all shot in the Baltimore area with his company of local actors, the Dreamlanders. In addition to Divine, the group included Mink Stole, Cookie Mueller, Edith Massey, David Lochary, Mary Vivian Pearce, and others. These early films were among the first picked up for distribution by New Line Cinema. John Waters’ films premiered at the Baltimore Senator Theatre and sometimes at the Charles Theatre. John Waters’ early campy movies present filthily lovable characters in outrageous situations with hyperbolic dialogue. His early films, Pink Flamingos, Female Trouble, and Desperate Living, which he labeled the Trash Trilogy, pushed hard at the boundaries of conventional propriety and movie censorship. A particularly notorious final segment of Pink Flamingos, simply added in as a non sequitur to the end of the film, featured, in one take without special effects, a small dog defecating and Divine eating the feces. The 1981 film Polyester starred Divine opposite once-teen-idol Tab …

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Manuel De Landa. Theory of Language. 2009 1/12

admin — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 10:58:58 +0000

www.egs.edu Manuel De Landa.speaking about the theory of language, Gilles Deleuze, Flix Guattari, A Thousand Plateaus, Postulates of Linguistics, language, linguistics, signifier, term, reference, meaning, grammar, changes in language, dialect and pronunciation, phonetics, phonology, sociolinguistics, standardization, Noam Chomsky, Ferdinand de Saussure and William Labov in a lecture at the European Graduate School EGS, in Saas Fee, Switzerland. Free Public open lecture for the students and faculty of the European Graduate School EGS Media and Communication Studies department program Saas-Fee Switzerland Europe 2009 Manuel De Landa. Manuel Delanda. Manuel DeLanda, (born 1952 in Mexico City), is a writer, artist and distinguished philosopher who has lived in New York since 1975. Manuel De Landa is an Adjunct Associate Professor at Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation at Columbia University (New York), a Professor for Contemporary Philosophy and Science at the European Graduate School in Saas-Fee, Switzerland, a professor at the Canisius College in Buffalo, New York, and professor at the University of Pennsylvania School of Design in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Manuel De Landa is the author of War in the Age of Intelligent Machines (1991), A Thousand Years of Nonlinear History (1997), Intensive Science and Virtual Philosophy (2002) and A New Philosophy of Society: Assemblage Theory and Social Complexity (2006). Manuel De Landa has published many …

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DJ Spooky / Paul D. Miller. Mixing as Social Sculpture. 2006 1/6

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www.egs.edu DJ Spooky aka Paul D. Miller aka That Subliminal Kid teaching about editing as a form of art, the functions of the DJ and sampling applied to cinema, mixing as social sculpture, the film The Birth of a Nation, sharing and collage, software, dematerialisation, his book Rhythm Science, the influence of pop and mass culture, the copy, creative commons, open source, a culture of cool, multicultural art, multiperspectives, database aesthetics, compression, mathematics, intuition, Marcel Duchamp, technology, music, video, and his work – a database remix expanding our notions of time and space. Free public open video lecture with students and faculty of the European Graduate School EGS, Media and Communication Studies department program, Saas-Fee, Switzerland, Europe, Paul Miller 2008 DJ Spooky, That Subliminal Kid (born Paul D. Miller, 1970), is a Washington DC-born electronic and experimental hip hop musician whose work is often called “illbient” or “trip hop”. He is a turntablist and producer. He borrowed his stage name from the character The Subliminal Kid in the novel Nova Express by William S. Burroughs. He is a professor at the European Graduate School where he co-teaches with Michael Schmidt an Intensive Summer Seminar. Th work of DJ Spooky, That Subliminal Kid, Paul D. Miller was featured in the Whitney Biennial; The Venice Biennial; the Ludwig Museum in Cologne, Germany; Kunsthalle, Vienna; The Andy Warhol Museum, Paula Cooper Gallery and many other museums …

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Agnès Varda. The Things We Leave Behind. 2004 1/6

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www.egs.edu Agns Varda, French director, photographer and filmmaker discussing and featuring the film Les Glaneurs et la glaneuse 2000 aka The Gleaners and I, a documentary about things we leave behind or throw away, the leftover, cleaning, what is left, what means picking, selecting, chosing and giving. Agns Varda, lecturing about making and directing movies and films for television, theatre and cinema, and working as an artist, director, documentary filmmaker, a voice for the people featured in her videos. Public open video lecture for the faculty and students of the European Graduate School, Media and Communication Studies Department Program, EGS, Saas-Fee, Switzerland, Europe, 2004. Agns Varda (born May 30, 1928) is a French film director. Her movies, photographs, and art installations focus on documentary realism, feminist issues, and social commentary with a distinct experimental style. Varda was born in Brussels, Belgium, to a Greek father and French mother. Her father’s family were Greek refugees from Asia Minor. For her first film La Pointe courte (editing by Alain Resnais), she drew her inspiration from the region of Ste, where she grew up. Varda traveled from France to San Francisco and shot a quasi-surreal documentary film on her father’s cousin, Jean Varda, titled Uncle Yanko. For the 1985 documentary-style feature film Vagabond/Without Roof or Rule she received the Golden Lion of the Venice Film Festival. Filmography Year English Title French Title …

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Michael Hardt. About Love. 2007 2/6

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www.egs.edu Michael Hardt, the author of Multitude and Empire talks about love, how can love function as a political concept, why love, the proper and improper ways love has functioned politically, love as activism, and evil and its relationship to love. Public open video philosophy lecture for the faculty and students of the European Graduate School, Media and Communication Studies Department Program, EGS, Saas-Fee, Switzerland, Europe, 2007. Michael Hardt. Michael Hardt, born 1960 is an American literary theorist and political philosopher based at Duke University. Perhaps his most famous work is Empire written with Antonio Negri. The sequel to Empire, called Multitude: War and Democracy in the Age of Empire, was released in August, 2004, and details the idea of the multitude (which Hardt and Negri initially elaborated in Empire) as the potential site of a global democratic movement. Sometimes referred to as the “Communist Manifesto of the 21st Century”, Empire proposes that the forces of current class oppression, namely – corporate globalization and commodification of services (or “production of affects”) have the potential to fuel social change of unprecedented dimensions. Born in Washington DC, Hardt attended Winston Churchill High School in Potomac, Maryland. He studied engineering at Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania from 1978 to 1983. In college during the 1970s energy crisis, he began to take an interest in alternative energy sources. Talking about his college …

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John Waters. Filth 101. 2000 2/4

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Michael Hardt. Identity and Difference. 2005

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www.egs.edu Michael Hardt talks about Antonio Negri and todays activism in relation with Spinoza’s thoughts on love among others. A fragment from his public open lecture for the students of the European Graduate School EGS, Media and Communication Studies department program, Saas-Fee, Switzerland, Europe, 2005

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SMU Pres. Brother William speaks at the graduate school’s June 2010 graduation

admin — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 13:23:05 +0000

SMU President Brother William Mann speaks at the graduate school’s June 6, 2010 graduation ceremony in Minneapolis, MN.

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Jacques Derrida. Gilles Deleuze: On Forgiveness. 2004 4/11

admin — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 13:27:22 +0000

www.egs.edu Jacques Derrida speaking about Forgiveness in his Paris seminar “A Critique of Psychoanalysis”, a reading focusing on texts from Gilles Deleuze. Public open video lecture with students of the European Graduate School EGS, Media and Communication Studies department program, Saas-Fee, Switzerland, Europe, France, 2004 Jacques Derrida (born July 15, 1930 — October 8, 2004) was an Algerian-born French philosopher, known as the founder of deconstruction. His voluminous work had a profound impact upon continental philosophy, French philosophy, and literary theory. Derrida taught philosophy at the Sorbonne, and from 1964 to 1984 at the cole Normale Superieure. He completed his Thse d’tat in 1980; the work was subsequently published in English translation as “The Time of a Thesis: Punctuations”. Beginning with his 1966 lecture at Johns Hopkins University, at which he presented his essay “Structure, Sign, and Play in the Discourse of the Human Sciences” (see below), his work assumed international prominence.In 1967 Derrida published his first three books Writing and Difference, Speech and Phenomena, and Of Grammatology. Until his death Derrida was director of studies at the cole des Hautes tudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris. With Franois Chtelet and others, he co-founded the Collge international de philosophie (CIPH) in 1983, a research institution intended to give a place to philosophical research and lectures which could not be carried out elsewhere in …

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Donna Haraway. Cyborgs, Dogs and Companion Species 2000 2/9

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www.egs.edu Donna Haraway speaking about the birth of the kennel, cyborgs, dogs and companion species, humans, machines, computer, organisms, technoscience, genetics, nature, culture, consciousness, philosophy, emergent ontologies, social relationships, societies, michel foucault, figure, reference, cyborg manifesto, and socialist feminism. Free public open video lecture for the students and faculty of the European Graduate School EGS, Media and Communication Studies department program, Saas-Fee, Switzerland, Europe, 2000. Donna Haraway. Donna Haraway, born September 6, 1944 in Denver, Colorado, is the author of Crystals, Fabrics, and Fields: Metaphors of Organicism in Twentieth-Century Developmental Biology (1976), Primate Visions: Gender, Race, and Nature in the World of Modern Science (1989), Simians, Cyborgs, and Women : The Reinvention of Nature (1991), and Modest_Witness@Second_Millennium.FemaleManMeets_OncoMouse (1997). Haraway earned a degree in Zoology and Philosophy at the Colorado College and received the Boettcher Foundation scholarship. She lived in Paris for a year, studying philosophies of evolution on a Fulbright scholarship before completing her Ph. D. from the Biology Department of Yale in 1972. She wrote her dissertation on the functions of metaphor in shaping research in developmental biology in the twentieth century. Haraway has taught Women’s Studies and General Science at the University of Hawaii and Johns Hopkins University. In September, 2000 …

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