Law and Love

(Analytic Seminar) At first glance, law and love seem to tend in opposing directions: where law is constituted in rules and regularity, love emerges in contingent, surprising, and ungovernable ways; where law speaks in the language of reason, love’s language is of sentiment and affect; where law regulates society through threats of violence, love binds with a magical magnetism.

S-Realsm/Objctvty:Ethics&Math

The notion of objectivity, like many of its cousins, is notoriously slippery. What is the relationship between objectivity and realism? What is the relationship between objectivity and mind-(in)dependence? What kinds of constraints does the assumption that a particular discourse deals with objective 'facts' impose on the relevant theories of thought and talk? We will pay particular attention to questions about realism and objectivity in ethics and mathematics, but we may also talk about colors, meaning, and conditionals.

East/West & Decolonial Proj.

There is a long tradition of Orientalist discourse that has functioned to represent certain spaces (the Middle East/Mediterranean) and peoples as appropriate targets of violent intervention and rule. In this course, we will discuss how the Orientalist imaginary was realized, thus affording the east/west divide of the present. One key factor in the colonization and exploitation of the aforementioned spaces was the internalization of externally determined narratives of identity. As Mahmood Mamdani suggests, persons were defined and then ruled.
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