28 February 2012
Lars Iyer and Simon Critchley at Book Culture
Tuesday, February 28, 7:00pm
Book Culture
536 West 112th Street
Between Broadway and Amsterdam
New York, NY 10025-1601
Lars Iyer (Spurious, Dogma) will be in conversation with Simon Critchley (The Book of Dead Philosophers, Impossible Objects) at Book Culture. Topics to be discussed will be the nature of comedy, philosophical novels, the death of the academy, existential despair, insults, and the apocalypse.
LARS IYER is a lecturer in philosophy at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne. He is the author of two books on Blanchot (Blanchot’s Communism: Art, Philosophy, Politics and Blanchot’s Vigilance: Phenomenology, Literature, Ethics) and the novel Spurious, which was 3:AM Magazine’s Book of the Year in 2011. He writes at his blog Spurious, and is also a contributor to Britain’s leading literary blog, Ready, Steady, Book. His literary manifesto, “Nude in Your Hot Tub, Facing the Abyss” appeared in Post Road and The White Review.
SIMON CRITCHLEY is Professor and Chair of Philosophy at the New School for Social Research in New York. He lives in Brooklyn.
