Guide to the Michel Oren collection on the Marxist Literary Group and the Schizo-Culture conference MS.C.027

Finding aid prepared by Alexandra Bisio, 2014; updated by Christine Kim, 2017; updated by Zoe MacLeod, 2021 and 2022.
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Contributing Institution: Special Collections and Archives, University of California, Irvine Libraries
Title: Michel Oren collection on the Marxist Literary Group and the Schizo-Culture conference
Creator: Oren, Michel
Identifier/Call Number: MS.C.027
Physical Description: 0.6 Linear Feet (1 audiovisual box; 1 half-width letter document box)
Date (inclusive): 1975-2008
Abstract: The Michel Oren collection on the Marxist Literary Group and the Schizo-Culture conference contains 21 lectures given by Fredric Jameson, Stanley Aronowitz, and Terry Eagleton at the 1977 Summer Institute of the Marxist Literary Group of the Modern Language Association held in St. Cloud, Minnesota. These lectures, on 25 cassettes, were recorded by Michel Oren who attended the Institute as a graduate student. Other material from the 1977 Summer Institute includes lecture outlines, prospectuses, lists of participants, and planning for furture Summer Institutes. The collection also consists of materials, such as programs, abstracts, workshop handouts, conference papers, and correspondence, from and about the Schizo-Culture conference at Columbia University in November 1975.
Language of Material: English .

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Preferred Citation

Michel Oren collection on the Marxist Literary Group and the Schizo-Culture conferences. MS-C027. Special Collections and Archives, The UC Irvine Libraries, Irvine, California. Date accessed.
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Acquisition Information

Gift of Michel Oren, 2014, 2015, and 2022.

Alternative Forms of Materials

Select items have been reformatted and have digital preservation copies available. Preservation master copies of the following audio files are in Merritt: MS-C027_003, MS-C027_004, MS-C027_005, MS-C027_008, MS-C027_011, MS-C027_013, MS-C027_014, MS-C027_016, MS-C027_017, and MS-C027_023.

Collection Scope and Content Summary

The Michel Oren collection on the Marxist Literary Group and the Schizo-Culture conference contains 21 lectures given by Fredric Jameson, Stanley Aronowitz, and Terry Eagleton at the 1977 Summer Institute of the Marxist Literary Group of the Modern Language Association held in St. Cloud, Minnesota. These lectures, on 25 cassettes, were recorded by Michel Oren who attended the Institute as a graduate student. Other material from the 1977 Summer Institute includes lecture outlines, prospectuses, lists of participants, and planning for furture Summer Institutes. The collection also consists of materials, such as programs, abstracts, workshop handouts, conference papers, and correspondence, from and about the Schizo-Culture conference at Columbia University in November 1975. The Schizo-Culture conference, at which Foucault, Lyotard, Deleuze, and Guattari read papers, marked the second incursion of French poststructuralist theory in the US. Oren attened the conference as a graduate student.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

Critical theory -- Audio-visual aids.
Critical theory -- Archives.
Poststructuralism
Jameson , Fredric

box accn2014-072 001

Unprocessed addition, 2014 Accession 2014-072 1977 July 20 - August 5

Series Scope and Content Summary

This box contains 21 lectures given by Fredric Jameson, Stanley Aronowitz, and Terry Eagleton at the 1977 Summer Institute of the Marxist Literary Group of the Modern Language Association held in St. Cloud, Minnesota. These lectures, on 25 cassettes, were recorded by Michel Oren who attended the Institute as a graduate student.
box accn2021-033 001, folder 1-3

Unprocessed addition, 2021 Accession 2021-033 1975-2008

Series Scope and Contents Summary

Folder 1 (1975-1978) programs, abstracts, workshop handouts, conference papers, and notes taken during the Schizo-Culture conference Folder 2 (1976) poststructuralism texts, two Lyotard typescripts, and correspondence Folder 3 (1996-2008) writings about the Schizo-Culture conference
box accn2021-033 001, folder 4

Unprocessed addition, 2022 Accession 2022-024 circa 1977

Physical Description: 0.1 Linear Feet(1 letter size folder)

Series Scope and Contents Summary

This addition to the collection contains material related to the Marxist Literary Group Summer Institute of 1977 which includes a photograph of participants; lists of participants; copies of Mediations; prospectus for the Summer Institute; prospectus with reading list; outline of first three lectures presented by Terry Eagleton; outline of five lectures presented by Frederic Jameson; listed of films screened during Summer Institute; list of topics presented on by student participants and handouts on those presentations; three MLG songs, including one written by Terry Eagleton; planning for MLG's future and the next Summer Institute; photocopied articles; and Oren's notes on the faculty lectures.