2027 Session

Material Aesthetics - Denise Ferreira da Silva

Samuel Rudin Professor in the Humanities, Department of Spanish & Portuguese, New York University

Co-Director, Critical Racial & Anti-Colonial Study (CRACS) Co-Lab, New York University

Co-Director, Climate Change, Decolonization, and Global Blackness Lab, Franklin Humanities Institute, Duke University

Author of Toward a Global Idea of Race (2007) and Unpayable Debt (2022), and maker of multiple collaborative films.

Existence and Subsistence - Fred Moten

Professor, Departments of Performance Studies and Comparative Literature, New York University Tish School of the Arts

Author of In the Break: The Aesthetics of the Black Radical Tradition (2003), Black and Blur (2017) Stolen Life (2018), and The Universal Machine (2018), and co-author of The Undercommons: Fugitive Planning and Black Study (2013). A Macarthur winner, Moten has also published several prize-winning volumes of poetry.

The Passenger: critical theory and creative practice for the twenty-first century. - McKenzie Wark

Professor of Culture & Media, The New School

Author of over 20 books that take up critical and media theory, the Situationists, and rave and trans culture, including A Hacker Manifesto (2004), Gamer Theory (2007), Capital Is Dead: Is This Something Worse? (2019), Reverse Cowgirl (2020), Philosophy for Spiders (2021), Raving (2023), and Love and Money, Sex and Death (2023).

Caroline Levine

Director, School of Criticism and Theory, Cornell University

David and Kathleen Ryan Professor of the Humanities, Department of Literatures in English, Cornell University

Author of The Serious Pleasures of Suspense (2003), Provoking Democracy: Why We Need the Arts (2007), Forms: Whole, Rhythm, Hierarchy, Network (2015), and The Activist Humanist: Form and Method in the Climate Crisis (2023).