Kaufmann Auditorium, Goldwin Smith Hall
BRUNO BOSTEELS (Professor, Romance Studies, Cornell University)
In this presentation Bosteels takes a fresh look at Tomás Gutiérrez Alea's 1968 movie Memories of Underdevelopment from the combined points of view of film theory and the politics of subjectivity.
Bruno Bosteels is Professor of Romance Studies at Cornell University. He is the author of several books, including Alain Badiou, une trajectoire polémique (2007), The Actuality of Communism (2011), Badiou and Politics (2011) and Marx and Freud in Latin America: Politics, Religion, and Psychoanalysis in Times of Terror (2012). He is the translator of Theory of theSubject (2009) and Wittgenstein’s Antiphilosophy (2011), both by Alain Badiou. From 2005 until 2011 he serv
