Arne De Boever

Arne De Boever teaches American Studies in the School of Critical Studies at the California Institute of the Arts, where he also directs the MA Aesthetics and Politics program. He is the author of States of Exception in the Contemporary Novel (2012) and Narrative Care (2013) and editor of Gilbert Simondon: Being and Technology (2012) and The Psychopathologies of Cognitive Capitalism: Vol. 1 (2013). He edits Parrhesia: A Journal of Critical Philosophy and the critical theory/philosophy section of the Los Angeles Review of Books. He is also a member of the boundary 2 collective and an Advisory Editor for the Oxford Literary Review.

Articles

Here Comes Everything!
Dinah Lenney and Arne De Boever Interview Christopher Schaberg and Ian Bogost...
Dinah Lenney, Arne De BoeverNov 5, 2015
- Nonfiction
- Philosophy
Demonstrating Precarity: Vulnerability, Embodiment, and Resistance
LARB's Philosophy & Critical Theory editor Arne De Boever interviews Judith Butler about her 2015 CalArts lecture series, Demonstrating Precarity....
Judith Butler, Arne De BoeverMar 23, 2015
Interview with Michael Marder
Michael Marder talks about this recent books The Philosopher's Plant and Pyropolitics with LARB's philosophy editor Arne De Boever....
Arne De BoeverMar 4, 2015
Disconnecting Acts: An Interview with Zygmunt Bauman Part II
Part II of a two-part interview with one of Europe’s foremost thinkers, Zygmunt Bauman....
Efrain Kristal, Arne De BoeverNov 12, 2014
- Philosophy
Disconnecting Acts: An Interview with Zygmunt Bauman Part I
Part I of a two-part interview with one of Europe’s foremost thinkers, Zygmunt Bauman....
Efrain Kristal, Arne De BoeverNov 11, 2014
- Philosophy
Derrida on the Death Penalty
Today, a review of the latest volume of Jacques Derrida's seminars to be published, The Death Penalty, Volume I, and an interview with the translator of the book, and co-editor of the series, Peggy Kamuf.   Jan Mieszkowski on The Death ...
Jan Mieszkowski, Arne De BoeverMar 5, 2014
Peggy Kamuf on Jacques Derrida’s Death Penalty Seminar
Derrida’s lectures on the death penalty just translated....
Arne De BoeverMar 5, 2014
Gianni Vattimo and Santiago Zabala’s Hermeneutic Communism
ACCORDING TO SLAVOJ ŽIŽEK, Gianni Vattimo and Santiago Zabala’s Hermeneutic Communism “is a book that everyone who thinks about radical politics needs like the air he or she breathes!” Since its publication in 2011, Vattimo and Zabala’s text ...
Imanol Galfarsoro, Eduardo Mendieta, Arne De BoeverJan 19, 2014
PODCAST #49: Stathis Gourgouris, "Lessons in Secular Criticism"
ARNE De BOEVER talks to STATHIS GOURGOURIS about his latest book, Lessons in Secular Criticism. ¤...
Arne De BoeverDec 3, 2013
- Philosophy
It’s Not All Rotten Apples on Wall Street: Cristina Alger's "The Darlings"
Christina Algers’s "The Darlings" examines the financial crisis from an insider's perspective....
Arne De BoeverNov 13, 2013
Fiction: New & Noteworthy
Second Acts: Daniel Alarcón's At Night We Walk in Circles by Michael LaPointe   Such Great Heights: Erica Jong’s Fear of Flying Turns 40 by Dina Gachman It’s Not All Rotten Apples on Wall Street: Cristina Alger's The ...
Michael LaPointe, Dina Gachman, Arne De BoeverNov 13, 2013
Allegories in an Emergency: Yann Martel's "Life of Pi"
PERHAPS THE BIGGEST SURPRISE at the 2013 Oscar ceremony was that Ang Lee beat out Steven Spielberg for Best Director with his adaptation of Yann Martel’s novel Life of Pi. Martel’s novel was itself a surprising ...
Arne De BoeverApr 24, 2013