For information and to RSVP, contact Jose Mendoza at Jose_Mendoza@uml.edu.

Sponsored by the UML Philosophy Department and the FAHSS Dean’s Offi ce. Also co-sponsored by Worcester State University Philosophy Department and Ethics and the Common Good Project at Hampshire College

NOV. 8-10, 2018 •UMass Lowell Inn & Conference Center,50 Warren Street, Lowell

Free registration for all UML, WSU, and Hampshire College students & faculty.Light refreshments will be served.

Founded in 1982, the Radical Philosophy Association offers an interdisciplinary and welcoming forum to those who struggle against capitalism, racism, sexism, homophobia, disability discrimination, environmental ruin, and all other forms of domination. Our efforts are guided by a vision of a society founded on cooperation instead of competition, in which all areas of society are, as far as possible, governed by democratic decision-making. Given the current state of affairs throughout the world, the RPA believes that we must start coming together in order to share and implement our strategies of resistance.

STRATEGIES OF RESISTANCE

UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS LOWELL FALL 2018

KEYNOTES:

Dr. Tommy Curry,“It’s Not Radical Because You Say So” Texas A&M University (Nov 8, 5:30pm)

Dr. Todd May, “How Would Jacques Rancière Organize?”Clemson University (Nov 9, 8pm)

Dr. Linda Martín-Alcoff, “Norming Sex”City University Of New York (Nov 10, 7:30pm)

THE 13TH BIENNIAL RADICAL PHILOSOPHY ASSOCIATION CONFERENCE

UML_Radical_Philosophy_Poster_11x17_Rev3.indd 1 10/25/18 10:59 PM

RPA201813thbiennialmeetingSTRATEGIESOFRESISTANCESponsoredby:TheUniversityofMassachusettsLowellPhilosophyDepartmentWorcesterStateUniversityPhilosophyDepartmentEthicsandtheCommonGoodProjectatHampshireCollegeProgramCommittee:SarahE.Vitale,Chair,BallStateUniversityCorwinAragon,CaliforniaStatePolytechnicUniversityPomonaGeorgeFourlas,HampshireCollegeAnnePomeroy,StocktonUniversitySebastianPurcell,SUNYCortlandCoryWimberly,UniversityofTexasRioGrandeValleyLocalOrganizers:JoséJorgeMendoza,UniversityofMassachusettsLowellChristaHodapp,UniversityofMassachusettsLowellRadicalPhilosophyAssociationOfficers:Co-Coordinators:BrandonAbsher,D’YouvilleCollege,andTanyaLoughead,CanisiusCollegeTreasurer:HarryvanderLinden,ButlerUniversitySecretary:RichardPeterson,MichiganStateUniversityWewouldliketothanktheInternationalHerbertMarcuseSociety,theLATINA/XFeminismsRoundtable,theSocietyforMexicanAmericanPhilosophy,PhilosophyBornofStruggle,andPhilosophyinanInclusiveKeySummerInstitute(PIKSI)forjoiningusandholdinginvitedsessions.

Thursday,November8 Session1(Concord1) Session2(Merrimack1) Session3(Merrimack2&3) Session4(Concord2&3)2-3:30

ResourcesforCriticalResistanceinandbeyondFoucault UtopiaandRevolution

Teaching,Learning,andInhabitingPoliticalProjects

RadicalUndergraduatesSession1:

TheorizingDemocracy:A

PhilosophicandSocialScientific

ApproachChair:PhilOpsasnick,StonyBrookUniversity

Chair:ElanGoldman,IndependentScholar

Chair:AdebayoOgungbure,TexasA&M

Chair:JasonPowell,BallStateUniversity

ErinnGilson,SkidmoreCollege,andBryanBannon,MerrimackCollege,“PracticesofSelf-RelationandRelationsofResistance”

KevinO’Meara,CarletonCollege,“TwoApproachesToRevolution?:AComparativeAnalysisofFrantzFanon&HerbertMarcuse”

SarahLaChanceAdams,UniversityofWisconsinSuperior,“PedagogiesofResistance:HowCanSocialJusticebeTaught?”(roundtablediscussion) SorenPowell,BallStateUniversity

DevonyaHavis,CanisiusCollege,“FoucaultandBaldwin”

NickBraune,SouthTexasCollege,“DefendingUtopiabuthearingMarcuse’swarningabout‘Positivism’”

MelissaBurchard,UniversityofNorthCarolina,“ShouldawhitepersonteachAfricanaphilosophy?Resistingtheinertiaofmainstreamcurricula” OwenMiller,BallStateUniversity

JoannaCrosby,MorganStateUniversity,“FoucaultBeyond‘TheWest’:Benefactor/BeneficiaryRelationsinConfucianism”

JosephScottTrullinger,GeorgeWashingtonUniversity,“TheDreamerMayBeTeachable:UtopianUnfinishednessinBlochandFreire"

TanyaLoughead,CanisiusCollege,“MaturityasaPoliticalProject” ElianorPriebe,BallStateUniversity

3:45-5:15

TheWearinessofDemocracy LessonsofResistance

KnowingThyEnemy:TheorizingWhiteViolenceinitsEverydayandExceptionalForms

BookSession:TheMoralandPoliticalPhilosophyofImmigration:Liberty,Security,andEquality

Chair:LynRadke,VanderbiltUniversity

Chair:KatrinaVandeven,WesternIllinoisUniversity

Chair:GeorgeFourlas,HampshireCollege

Chair:ChristaHodapp,UniversityofMassachusettsLowell

ObedFrausto,BallStateUniversity,“PluraldemocracyandtheForeigner”

SagePerdue,GeorgeWashingtonUniversity,“MutualAidandMedicine:APhilosophicalAnalysisofUjimaMedics”

BenStumpf,IndependentScholar,“TheWhitenessofWatching:ATheoryofSurveillantCitizenship”

Author:JoséJorgeMendoza,UniversityofMassachusettsLowell

JasonPowell,BallStateUniversity,“TheDevil,DoubleConsciousness,andtheDemocraticIndividual”

JorgeM.Lizarzaburu,EmoryUniversity,“ZapatistasMorethanEver.LessonsofaRevolutionAmidstCapitalistCatastrophe”

ElanGoldman,IndependentScholar,“Erothanatics:AmbivalentWhiteTransgression,andtheCoherenceoftheRacialBorder”

Respondent:AdamHosein,NortheasternUniversity

SarahVitale,BallStateUniversity,“RevolutionaryPotentialinAgamben,Negri,andMarx”

MargaretMcLaren,RollinsCollege,“RainbowConstitution,BlackandWhiteEconomy:LessonsinPoliticalandEconomicJusticefromSouthAfrica”

AsaNeedle,IndependentScholar,“TheViralandtheVirulent:WhiteIdentityFormationandAlt--Right”

Respondent:AlexSager,PortlandStateUniversity

5:30–7:00

KeynoteAddress,GrandBallroomTommyJ.Curry(ProfessorofPhilosophy,TexasA&MUniversity),“It'sNotRadicalBecauseYouSaySo:WhythePoliticizationofThoughtisIneffectiveinOurBattlesAgainstRacistIdeologyandDehumanization”

8:00–9:30

Reception,GrandBallroom

Friday,November9 Session1(Concord1) Session2(Merrimack1) Session3(Merrimack2&3) Session4(Concord2&3)9-10:30

RadicalUndergraduatesSessionIICounteringtheRiseoftheAlt-Right SocialismandDemocracy TimeandResistance

Chair:SarahLaChanceAdams,UniversityofWisconsinSuperior

Chair:JoeWeiss,AppalachianStateUniversity

Chair:MladjoIvanovic,GrandValleyStateUniversity

Chair:RickElmore,AppalachianStateUniversity

NatalieMathes,IndependentScholar,“NoFreedomWithoutaFuture”

CoryWimberly,UniversityofTexasRioGrandeValley,“Propaganda,theBlackPill,andtheAlt-Light”

RichardSchmitt,BrownUniversity,“SocialistDemocracy:ReachingforConsensus”

JoseRosales,StonyBrookUniversity,“‘WhatWouldItMeantoLoveasaCommunist?’:ReflectionsonFederici,Marx,andtheCategoryofTime”

GreyLorbetskie,UniversityofOttawa,“ACritiqueofAbsoluteFreeSpeech:ReinterpretingJohnStuartMill”

JoanBraune,GonzagaUniversity,“RebelsandFanatics:AFrommianCritiqueoftheNewFar-Right”

GeorgeFourlas,HampshireCollege,“ResistanceinRojava:Isonomia,DemocraticConfederalism,andOtherOverlookedAncientWays”"

AdamIsrael,StonyBrookUniversity,“ThePoliticsofTimeinHegel,Marx,andDussel”

SkylarKnight,RollinsCollege,“AmericanDemocracyandRacism:RedefiningFreeSpeechinaMulticulturalSociety”

WendyLee,BloomsburgUniversityofPennsylvania,“TPUSA'sProfessor'sWatchList”

PhilOpsasnick,StonyBrookUniversity,“TowardaTheoryofQueerTime:Muñoz,Halberstam,andStrykeronQueerTemporalitiesofNeoliberalResistance”

10:45–12:15

QueerPoliticsandthePoliticsofImmigration

FromHeideggertoFeministQueerTheory:ImpurePhilosophiesforanIntractable,Volatile,andDangerousPresent InvitedGroup:LatinaRoundtable RadicalUndergraduatesSessionIII

Chair:YuanfangDai,MichiganStateUniversity

Chair:JosephScottTrullinger,GeorgeWashingtonUniversity

Chair:JoséJorgeMendoza,UniversityofMassachusettsLowell

Chair:CorwinAragon,CaliforniaStatePolytechnicUniversityatPomona

AmandaRoth,SUNYGeneseo,"TheLGBTvs.QueerPoliticalRift:WhatItMeansforReproductiveEthicsandLGBTQ+Family-Making"

RuthanneCrapo,MinneapolisCommunityCollege,“TheoreticalImpurity,Ambiguity,andResistance:(R)evolutionaryEthics”

TaínaFigueroa,EmoryUniversity,“ElSentirdeComunidad:ThinkingPuertoRicoandCommunitythroughAnzaldúa”

EstherIsaac,AmherstCollege,“TheRevolutionaryPotentialoftheGeneralStrike:LessonsfromHistoryandTheory”

ZahraMeghani,UniversityofRhodeIsland,andStuartRosewarne,UniversityofSydney,“Locatingstrategiesofresistancewithinatransnationalcontext:Womenmigrantworkersandprivatesocialsecurityarrangements”

YannikThiem,VillanovaUniversity,“WeaponizingQueerness:TheUnbearableWhitenessofLifeAfterPerformativity”"

KatrinaVandeven,WesternIllinoisUniversity,andSergioA.Gallegos,JohnJayCollege,“Guerrillaarchiving:ThePhilosophicalFoundationsofanAnti-HegemonicArchivalParadigm”

ThomasGleason,WorcesterStateUniversity,“Language,SocialControl,andWealthExtractionintheNeo-ColonialWorld”

12:15–1:15

Lunch

1:15-2:45 LaborandImmigrationHistoryofLowellWalkingTourwithDr.RobertForrant,DistinguishedUniversityProfessorofHistory,UMassLowell

Session1(Concord2) Session2(Merrimack1) Session3(Merrimack2&3) Session4(Concord2&3)1:30-2:45 RadicalTactics

ConcretizingtheCritiqueofCapital EcosocialismandMarxistEthics

IrisMarionYoungGraduatePaperPrizeSession

Chair:AdamIsrael,StonyBrookUniversity

Chair:JamesManos,IndependentScholar

Chair:MargaretMcLaren,RollinsCollege

Chair:SebastianPurcell,SUNYCortland

AliKashani,SanFranciscoStateUniversity,“TheArtofRadicalResistance:CritiqueandPractice”

FredMoseley,MountHolyokeCollege,“TheUniversalandtheParticularsinHegel’sLogicandMarx’sCapital”

KarstenStruhl,JohnJayCollegeofCriminalJustice,“Ecosocialism:ABuddhist-MarxistApproach”

DevinZaneShaw,DouglasCollege,“Prefiguration,DiversityofTactics,andNonviolence:ACriticalResponsetoToddMay”

TonySmith,IowaStateUniversity,“The‘IntangibleEconomy’:APerverseCapitalism,oraCapitalismwithoutCapital?”

NormanArthurFischer,KentStateUniversity,“TheUseofMarxistRepublicanismtoOpposeTrumpism’sAttackonRepublicanGovernment”

SeanLovitt,UniversityofDelaware,“WagerAgainstPrefiguration:SocialReproductionTheoryintheDiggersandDianediPrima’sRevolutionaryLetters”

DanKrier,IowaStateUniversity,“God’sGold:EconomicTheologyandMarx’sCapital”

3:00–4:30 RadicalApproachestoEthicaland

EpistemicIssuesResistingTechnologicalDomination TheEthicsandPoliticsofCare

BookSession:TheEndofProgress:DecolonizingtheNormativeFoundationsofCriticalTheory

Chair:DevinZaneShaw,DouglasCollege

Chair:TonySmith,IowaStateUniversity

Chair:JoseRosales,StonyBrookUniversity

Chair:AnnePomeroy,StocktonUniversity

ElizabethLanphier,VanderbiltUniversity,andShannonFyfe,GeorgeMasonUniversity,“WhyEthicalSexDemands[thecategoryof]NonconsensualSex”

AlecStubbs,LoyolaUniversityChicago,“SurveillanceCapitalism,Autonomy,andDemocraticTechnology”

AnnFerguson,UniversityofMassachusettsAmherst,“TheRighttoCareasaPoliticalVisionandStrategy”

Author:AmyAllen,PennStateUniversity

AlidaLiberman,SouthernMethodistUniversity,“‘IFearedForMyLife’:IgnoranceBolstering,EpistemicInjustice,andStrategiesforResistance"

RichardPeterson,MichiganStateUniversity,“Facebook,commodification,andthepoliticsofmediums”

KellyGawel,TheNewSchool,“CareasSocialContradictionandPracticeofResistance”

Respondent:CynthiaPaccacerqua,UniversityofTexasRioGrandeValley

JeffreyL.Nicholas,ProvidenceCollege“FromFrankensteintoSerenity:CognitiveEstrangementasaStrategyofResistancetotheDominationofNature”

Respondent:JeffreyFlynn,FordhamUniversity

Session1(Concord1) Session2(Merrimack1) Session3(Merrimack2&3) Session4(Concord2&3)4:45–6:15 AbolitionistEpistemologies

AgainstDemocracy?What’sGoingOnHere? FeministIdentityandSolidarity

BookSession:DecolonizingDialectics

Chair:KarstenStruhl,JohnJayCollegeofCriminalJustice

Chair:SebastianPurcell,SUNYCortland

Chair:BarrettEmerick,St.Mary’sCollegeofMaryland

Chair:SarahVitale,BallStateUniversity

MeckeNagel,SUNYCortlandDavidSchweickart,LoyolaUniversityChicago

YoujinKong,MichiganStateUniversity,“IdentityPolitics:ReproducingEssentialismorChallengingIntersectionalOppressions?”

Author:GeorgeCiccariello-Maher,Writer,Organizer,andVisitingScholarattheHemisphericInstituteofPerformanceandPolitics

DevonyaHavis,CanisiusCollege

YuanfangDai,MichiganStateUniversity,“ConnectingEastandWestwithaChineseTransculturalPerspective:RethinkingDifferenceandSolidarityinFeministPhilosophy”

Respondent:MichaelMonahan,UniversityofMemphis

EduardoMendieta,PennStateUniversity

BrandonAbsher,D'YouvilleCollege

LilaWakeman,UniversityofKentucky,“PowerRevisited:AnalyzingFeministRelationsofEmpowermentwithinaFoucauldianFrameworkofPowerandResistance”

Respondent:KrisSealey,FairfieldUniversity

6:15–7:45 Banquet,GrandBallroom8:00–9:30

KeynoteAddress,GrandBallroomToddMay(Classof1941MemorialProfessorofPhilosophy,ClemsonUniversity)“HowWouldJacquesRancièreOrganize?”

Saturday,November10 Session1(Concord1) Session2(Merrimack1) Session3(Merrimack2&3) Session4(Concord2&3)9-10:30

RadicalUndergraduatesSessionIV

MoishePostoneontheCurrentCrisisandtheAnachronismofValue

BookSession:Men'sRights,Gender,andSocialMedia

Chair:AsaNeedle,IndependentScholar

Chair:ElviraBasevich,UniversityofMassachusettsLowell

Chair:FredMoseley,MountHolyokeCollege

Chair:CoryWimberly,UniversityofTexasRioGrandeValley

LynRadke,VanderbiltUniversity,“Anger,Power,andResistance”

DanielIvanMieses,SUNYCortland,“ACompassionistCritiqueofPhilanthropyinCapitalistSocieties”

JeanneSchuler,CreightonCollege Author:ChristaHodapp,University

ofMassachusettsLowell BarrettEmerick,St.Mary’sCollege

ofMaryland,“LoveisNotAllYouNeed:TheLimitationsandPromiseofLoveinAchievingSocialJustice”

DanielKlinestiver,BallStateUniversity,“The‘RationalIndividual’:HowtheLogicoftheMarketplaceSuffocatesRadicalCritique”

AnnePomeroy,StocktonUniversity

Respondent:ElenaCuffari,WorcesterStateUniversity

ElysePurcell,SUNYOneonta,“ResistanceandCitiesofDifference”

HenryCalway,FloridaAtlanticUniversity,“FaithReconsidered-ProducingMythasRevolutionaryStrategy”

ThomasJeannot,GonzagaUniversity

Respondent:CorwinAragon,CaliforniaStatePolytechnicUniversity,Pomona

Session1(Concord1) Session2(Merrimack1) Session3(Merrimack2&3) Session4(Concord2&3)10:45–12:15

DecolonialLiberation BlackSelf-DefenseandResistance StrategyandPoliticalOntology InvitedGroup:MarcuseSociety--

RadicalAesthetics,Radical

Resistance:ThreePaperswith

VisualImagery

Chair:GertrudePostl,SuffolkCountyCommunityCollege

Chair:RuthanneCrapo,MinneapolisCommunityCollege

Chair:DanKrier,IowaStateUniversity

Chair:RichardPeterson,MichiganStateUniversity

SebastianPurcell,SUNYCortland,“DecolonialismasaStrategyforLiberation”

DalitsoRuwe,TexasA&MUniversity,“VictimsofALimitedDemocracy:HueyPNewton’sPhilosophyofSelfDefense”

J.ReeseFaust,UniversityofMemphis,“WhencetheCrisis?Deleuze,Dussel,andWynterontheMetaphysicsofResistance”

CraigLeonard,NovaScotiaCollegeofArtandDesignHalifax,“InstinctualCritique”

MoniqueRoelofs,HampshireCollege,“PlayingtheMarketplaceOutAgainstItself:DiamelaEltit’sCritical,DecolonialAesthetic”

TryonWoods,UniversityofMassachusettsDartmouth,“TheThirdRailofPolitics:BlackRadical(Self)Defense”

JohnO’Connor,CentralConnecticutStateUniversity,“DanielBensaïdandResistancetoNeoliberalism”

ImaculadaKangussu,UniversidadeFederaldeOuroPretoOuroPreto,“WhoisSpartacus?ReflectionsonAesthetics,Resistance,andPhantasies"

GabrielaArguedasRamírez,Universidad de Costa Rica, "Violence,hunger,climatechangeandfeministphilosophy:SituatingjusticefromaCentralAmericanperspective"

AdebayoOgungbure,TexasA&MUniversity,“DeadMenDon’tTellTales:BlackMaleDeath,GenderPoliticsandImaginationsofResistance”

MichaelPrincipe,MiddleTennesseeStateUniversity,“ThePlaceofBadiou’s‘LatentRiot’inHisPoliticsandOurs”

AndrewT.Lamas,UniversityofPennsylvania,“ErosontheSlaughter-Bench”

12:15–1:15

Lunch

1:15–2:45

ResistingAbleism:NarratingtheLimitsoftheCulturalImaginary

InvitedGroups:PhilosophyBornof

StruggleandtheSocietyforMexicanAmericanPhilosophy

ExplorationsinLinguisticResistance

BookSession:TheMismeasureofWealth:EssaysonMarxandSocialForm

Chair:ElysePurcell,SUNYOneonta Chair:GeorgeFourlas,HampshireCollege

Chair:AlidaLiberman,SouthernMethodistUniversity

Chair:SarahVitale,BallStateUniversity

JenniferScuro,CollegeofNewRochelle

GregoryF.Pappas,TexasA&MUniversity,“LessonsfromZapatistaLuisVilloroonstrategiesforradical(Left)movementsforresistanceandsolidarity”

ElenaCuffari,WorcesterStateUniversity,“HowtoResistThingswithWords”

Author:PatrickMurray,CreightonUniversity

LydiaX.Z.Brown,JusticeCatalystFellow

GrantJ.Silva,MarquetteUniversity,“ATheoryofMigratorialDisobedience”

KristinWaters,WorcesterStateUniversity,“InsurrectionistEthicsandtheLanguageofResistance”

Respondent:ChristianLotz,MichiganStateUniversity

José-AntonioOrosco,“TheContinentalStruggleforDemocracy:AChicanxViewofHemisphericIndependence”

Respondent:TonySmith,IowaStateUniversity

3:00–4:00

BusinessMeeting,GrandBallroom

Session1(Concord1) Session2(Merrimack1) Session3(Merrimack2&3) Session4(Concord2&3)4:15–5:45

CriticalTheory,Crisis,andDebt

JusticeforMigrantsandRefugees

OpeningHorizons:TheNeedforCriticalUnderstanding,aStrategicPerspective,andHealingJustice

InvitedGroup:PIKSI-Making

PhilosophyInclusive:PIKSIPast

andFuture

Chair:YuanfangDai,MichiganStateUniversity

Chair:ToddMay,ClemsonUniversity

Chair:CorwinAragon,UniversityofTexasRioGrandeValley

Chair:CoryWimberly,UniversityofTexasRioGrandeValley

JamesManos,IndependentScholar,“TowardaPoliticalEconomyofPublicDebtandPunishment”

AlisonM.Jaggar,UniversityofColoradoatBoulder,“YouWillNotReplaceUs!”DecolonizingLiberalismandFeminisminSearchofImmigrationJustice

JamesCouch,KeeneStateCollege,“TheMirroredMovementofUnderstandingandResistance”

KrisSealey,FairfieldUniversity

RickElmore,AppalachianStateUniversity,“TheDominationofDebt:CrisisandDebtinCriticalTheory”

MladjoIvanovic,GrandValleyStateUniversity,“HumanitarianMelancholia:HumanitarianismandtheNeedforMoralityofThinking”

JasonAdams,IndependentScholar,“StrategyandtheCommunistHorizon:ReinventingtheLeftintheAgeofTrumpism”

LindaMartínAlcoff,HunterCollege

JoeWeiss,AppalachianStateUniversity,“FreightTrainBlues” GertrudePostl,SuffolkCounty

CommunityCollege,“TheFictionofCulturalIdentity:ResistanceinLightoftheCurrentRefugeeCrisis”

GordonCrean,UniversityofMassachusettsLowell,“NoLiberationfromAuthoritarianismandOppressionWithoutLiberationfromtheSelf” NathifaGreene,GettysburgCollege

5:45–7:15

DinnerBreak

7:30–9:00

KeynoteAddress,GrandBallroomLindaMartínAlcoff(ProfessorofPhilosophy,HunterCollege),“NormingSex”

Rpa 13th Bienennial MeetingThursday, Friday and Saturday,

November 8th, 9th and 10th

CAS 10.25.2018

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