John Protevi
6.30-8pm | Monday 26 November 2007
Room D502, Clement House
Speaker
John Protevi, Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies, Department of French Studies, Louisiana State University
In these talks, John Protevi, from the Department of French Studies at Louisiana State University, discusses the natural and social aspects of Hurricane Katrina, using concepts derived from the French philosophers Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari.
In the first talk, he shows how in their ontology a hurricane is a paradigm example of the way complex systems organize themselves. I