Form and (Dis)order
Reading Group organized by Stephan Besser and Michael Miller | This session will be devoted to Yuk Hui, "Machine and Sovereignty" (2025)
Event details of
Form and (Dis)order
- Date
- 16 September 2025
- Location
- P.C. Hoofthuis
- Room
- PCH room 6.31
In semester 1 of the academic year 2025-26, our conversations will center on the thematic cluster Machine – Politics – Data - Language. Readings will include selections from:
- 16 Sept, 15:00-17:00 (PCH 6.31): Yuk Hui, Machine and Sovereignty (2025)
- 21 Oct, 15:00-17:00 (PCH, 6.31): Catherine Malabou, Stop Thief!: Anarchism and Philosophy (2023)
- 18 Nov, 15:00-17:00 (PCH 3.08): Leif Weatherby, Language Machines: Cultural AI and the End of Remainder Humanism (2025)
- 16 Dec, 15:00-17:00 (PCH 3.08): Maja Bak Herrie, Thinking Through Data: How Outliers, Aggregates, and Patterns Shape Perception (2025)
In the second semester, our discussions will focus more explicitly on questions of literary and aesthetic form. Potential readings include:
- Timothy Bewes, Free Indirect: The Novel in a Postfictional Age (2022)
- Rizvana Bradley, Anteaesthetics: Black Aesthesis and the Critique of Form (2023)
- Jeremy Rosen, Genre Bending: The Plasticity of Form in Contemporary Literary Fiction (2025)
Please email Michael @ m.f.miller@uva.nl to receive the readings and meeting announcements.
