Interdisciplinary Approaches to Thinking and

Acting "Timely"

With a keynote address by Dr. Imre Szeman

(Canadian Research Chair, Cultural Studies, University of Alberta)

entitled "The Cultural Politics of Oil"

Visit http://www.ualberta.ca/~imre/cv.htm for more

information on Dr. Imre Szeman

TransCanada Institute, 9 University Avenue East

Friday, February 26, 2010

 "The affirmation of the future to come: this is not a positive thesis. It is nothing other

than the affirmation itself, the "yes," insofar as it is the condition of all promises or

of all hope, of all awaiting, or all performativity, of all opening toward the future,

whatever it may be..."

Jacques Derrida, Archive Fever

"When resistance ceases to appear on the central stage of historical development ...

and is relegated on the contrary to a marginal, synchronic, and transversal dimension,

we can no longer perceive an idea of potency (puissance), a position of antagonism

or an instance of liberation. Apparently, the only solution remains the star of

redemption or that of messianic time. As for us, we refuse to return to the fleeting

shadows of that desperate generation."

Antonio Negri, The Porcelain Workshop