Guide to the Critical Theory Institute Audio and Video Recordings, University of California, Irvine
MS.C.010
Finding aid prepared by Ernesto Bassi and Cyndi Shein, 2008; Audra Eagle Yun, 2012; machine-readable finding aid created by
Cyndi Shein.
Special Collections and Archives, University of California, Irvine Libraries
The UCI Libraries
P.O. Box 19557
University of California, Irvine
Irvine, California, 92623-9557
949-824-3947
spcoll@uci.edu
© 2012
Title: Critical Theory Institute audio and video recordings, University of California, Irvine
Identifier/Call Number: MS.C.010
Contributing Institution:
Special Collections and Archives, University of California, Irvine Libraries
Language of Material:
English
Physical Description:
2.6 Linear feet
(10 boxes)
Date (inclusive): 1987-2008
Abstract: This collection primarily comprises audio and video recordings of selected events held at the Critical Theory Institute (CTI)
at the University of California, Irvine (UCI). Events include the Irvine Lectures in Critical Theory and the Wellek Library
Lectures, as well as other lectures, conferences, and discussion sessions organized by CTI. The collection also contains several
lectures given off campus by UCI faculty associated with CTI.
Creator:
University of California, Irvine. Critical Theory Institute.
Access
The collection is open for research. Access to duplicating masters of video recordings is restricted; viewing copies must
be used instead. If a viewing copy is not available, one must be created before use.
Publication Rights
Property rights reside with the University of California. Copyrights are retained by the creators of the records and their
heirs. For permissions to reproduce or to publish, please contact the Head of Special Collections and Archives.
Preferred Citation
Critical Theory Institute Audio and Video Recordings, University of California, Irvine. MS-C010. Special Collections and Archives,
The UC Irvine Libraries, Irvine, California.
Acquisition Information
Transferred periodically by the Critical Theory Institute.
Accruals
Accruals are expected.
Processing History
Processed by Ernesto Bassi and Cyndi Shein in 2008. Additions made by Joanna Lamb in 2009 and 2010; additions made by Audra
Eagle Yun in 2012.
Historical Background
The Critical Theory Institute (CTI) is an interdisciplinary, collaborative research group at the University of California,
Irvine (UCI), comprising 15 to 20 active members from various UCI departments in the humanities and social sciences. CTI began
in the early 1980s as an informal reading group and since 1987 has operated as an organized research unit. CTI is closely
allied with UCI's curricular program in critical theory.
Every three to four years, CTI organizes research projects focusing on a particular theme. Around this theme, CTI organizes
several presentations and discussions of work of both CTI members and invited guests in its Irvine Lectures in Critical Theory
series. Past themes have included "Politics, Theory, and Contemporary Culture" and "Forces of Globalization." Books are compiled
after the research projects are complete and have included many of the Irvine Lectures in Critical Theory.
Since 1981 CTI has sponsored the Wellek Library Lectures, an annual lecture series named in honor of Professor Emeritus René
Wellek (Yale University), whose papers and library of works in critical theory are housed at UCI's Special Collections and
Archives. Each year CTI invites internationally distinguished critical theorist to deliver a series of three lectures at UCI
in which he or she develops a critical position and relates it to the contemporary theoretical scene.
Biographical/Historical note
Chronology of Themes for the Research Projects and Irvine Lectures in Critical Theory
| 1982-1985 |
The Aims of Representation |
| 1985-1988 |
The States of "Theory" |
| 1988-1991 |
Politics, Theory, and Contemporary Culture |
| 1991-1995 |
"Culture" and the Problem of the Disciplines |
| 1995-1999 |
Forces of Globalization |
| 1999-2003 |
Futures of Property and Personhood |
| 2003-2008 |
In Security |
| 2008-2012 |
Poor Theory |
Biographical/Historical note
Chronology of Wellek Library Lectures
| 1981 |
Bloom, Harold. "The Breaking of the Vessels: In Defense of Antithetical Criticism" |
| 1982 |
Anderson, Perry. "In the Tracks of Historical Materialism" |
| 1983 |
Kermode, Frank. "Forms of Attention" |
| 1984 |
Derrida, Jacques. "Mémoires: Three Lectures for Paul de Man" |
| 1985 |
Miller, J. Hillis. "The Ethics of Reading" |
| 1986 |
Lyotard, Jean-François. "The Law, the Form, the Event" |
| 1987 |
Marin, Louis. "Pascalian Propositions for Today" |
| 1988 |
Krieger, Murray. "A Reopening of Closure: Organicism Against Itself" |
| 1989 |
Said, Edward. "Musical Elaborations" |
| 1990 |
Cixous, Hélène. "Three Steps on the Ladder of Writing" |
| 1991 |
Jameson, Fredric. "The Constraints of the Postmodern" |
| 1992 |
Hartman, Geoffrey. "Three on 'Culture'" |
| 1993 |
Keller, Evelyn Fox. "Metaphors of Twentieth-Century Biology" |
| 1994 |
Iser, Wolfgang. "Variables of Interpretation: Iterations of Translatability" |
| 1995 |
Krauss, Rosalind. "Formless: A Feat" |
| 1996 |
Balibar, Etienne. "On Politics and History: Presence, Cruelty and the Universals" |
| 1997 |
Harootunian, Harry. "History's Disquiet: Modernity and Everyday Life" |
| 1998 |
Butler, Judith. "Antigone's Claim: Kinship, Aberration and Psychoanalysis" |
| 1999 |
Baudrillard, Jean. "The Vital Illusion" |
| 2000 |
Spivak, Gayatri. "The New Comparative Literature" |
| 2001 |
Bhabha, Homi. "Scrambled Eggs and a Dish of Rice" |
| 2002 |
Gilroy, Paul. "Elements of Post-colonial Melancholia" |
| 2003 |
Davis, Angela. "Lectures on Abolition" |
| 2004 |
Mbembe, Achille. "The Political Life of Sovereignty" |
| 2005 |
Harveym, David. "Geographical Knowledges / Political Powers" |
| 2006 |
Asad, Talal. "Thinking about Suicide Bombing" |
| 2007 |
Grosz, Elizabeth. "Chaos, Territory, Art" |
| 2008 |
Scoot, Joan W. "Politics and Academic Freedom" |
| 2009 |
Deutsche, Rosalyn. "Hiroshima after Iraq: Three Studies in Art and War" |
| 2010 |
Thiongʾo, Ngũgĩ wa. "The Hegelian Lord and Colonial Bondsman: Literature and the Politics of Knowing" |
Bibliography
Critical Theory Institute, University of California, Irvine. "CTI Home Page." UC Regents: 2002-2007. http://www.humanities.uci.edu/critical/index.html
(accessed June 16, 2008).
Collection Scope and Content Summary
This collection primarily comprises audio and video recordings of selected events held at the Critical Theory Institute (CTI)
at the University of California, Irvine (UCI). Events include lectures presented by the Irvine Lectures in Critical Theory
and the Wellek Library Lectures, as well as other lectures, conferences, and discussion sessions organized by CTI. The collection
also contains several lectures given off campus by UCI faculty associated with CTI.
Collection Arrangement
This collection is arranged in three series:
- Series 1. Irvine Lectures in Critical Theory, 2002-2008
- Series 2. Wellek Library Lectures, 1987-2007
- Series 3. Other Conferences and Lectures, 1988-2004
Subjects and Indexing Terms
University of California, Irvine. Critical Theory Institute -- Archives..
Audiocassettes -- 20th century.
Critical theory -- Archives.
Critical theory -- Audio-visual aids.
DVDs -- 21st century.
Lectures -- 20th century.
Lectures -- 21st century.
Video recordings -- 20th century.
Video recordings -- 21st century
Wellek Library lecture series at the University of California, Irvine -- Archives.
Irvine Lectures in Critical Theory Series 1.
2002-2008
Series Scope and Content Summary
This series contains audio and video recordings of selected lectures given at UCI as part of the series Irvine Lectures in
Critical Theory.
Arrangement
Printed material about the lectures is arranged first, followed by audio and video recordings in chronological order.
Restrictions
Access to duplicating masters is restricted; where they do not already exist, viewing copies must be made before use.
Box-folder 8 : 1
Printed fliers promoting ILCT events
2002-2009
Poovey, Mary. "Commodifying the Future: Futures Trading on the Stock Market"
2002 November 25
Box-folder 1 : V001-M
Duplicating master
General Physical Description note: 1 VHS cassette
Balibar, Etienne. "My
Self and My O
wn: One and the Same?"
2003 February 12
Box-folder 1 : V002-M
Duplicating master
General Physical Description note: 1 VHS cassette
Rabinow, Paul. "Untimely Meditations: Belated and Adjacent Work-in-Progress"
2003 February 25
Box-folder 1 : V003-M
Duplicating master
General Physical Description note: 1 VHS cassette
Lippit, Akira. "One, Two, Three: The Psychic Economy of Multiplicity"
2003 April 3
Box-folder 1 : V004-M
Duplicating master
General Physical Description note: 1 VHS cassette
Schwab, Gabriele. "Ethnographies of the Future: Personhood, Agency, and Power in Octavia Butler's
Xenogenesis"
2003 April 30
Box-folder 1 : V005-M
Duplicating master
General Physical Description note: 1 VHS cassette
Dillon, Michael. "Security, Life, Terror"
2004 March 10
Box-folder 1 : V006-M
Duplicating master
General Physical Description note: 1 VHS cassette
Masco, Joseph. "Threat Assessments: The Nuclear State of Emergency."
2004 May 12
Box-folder 1 : V007-M
Duplicating master
General Physical Description note: 1 VHS cassette
Smith, John H. "Critique of Secure Reason"
2004 May 26
Box-folder 1 : V008-M
Duplicating master
General Physical Description note: 1 VHS cassette
Poster, Mark. "The Digital Self: Identity Theft and Security"
2005 January 26
Box-folder 1 : V009-M
Duplicating master
General Physical Description note: 1 VHS cassette
Goldberg, David Theo. "Targets of Opportunity"
2005 February 23
Box-folder 1 : V010-M
Duplicating master
General Physical Description note: 1 VHS cassette
Hajjar, Lisa. "What's the Matter With You? - The Crime of Torture and the Role of Lawyers"
2005 April 13
Box-folder 1 : V011-M
Duplicating master
General Physical Description note: 1 VHS cassette
Brown, Wendy. "Secularism, Idealism, Materialism: Charles Taylor and Karl Marx"
2008 January 9
Box-folder 1 : D015-M
Duplicating master
General Physical Description note: 1 DVD
Freccero, Carla. "Carnivorous Virility, or Becoming-Dog
2009/11/16
Box-folder 001: D022-M
Duplicating master
General Physical Description note: 1 DVD
Wellek Library Lectures Series 2.
1987-2007
Series Scope and Content Summary
This series contains audio and video recordings of the Wellek Library Lectures from 1987 to 2007. The 1988 and 2002 lectures
are not included.
Arrangement
Printed material about the lectures is arranged first, followed by audio and video recordings in chronological order.
Restrictions
Access to duplicating masters is restricted; where they do not already exist, viewing copies must be made before use.
Box-folder 8 : 2
Printed flyers promoting WLL events
1991, 2001-2007
Marin, Louis. "Pascalian Propositions for Today"
1987 March 31, April 2-3
Scope and Contents note
Comprises 3 lectures.
Box-folder 2 : A001-M to A003-M
Duplicating masters
General Physical Description note: 3 audiocassettes
Said, Edward. "Musical Elaborations"
1989 May
Scope and Contents note
Comprises 3 lectures.
Box-folder 2 : A004-A to A009-A
Archival originals
General Physical Description note: 6 audiocassettes
Box-folder 2 : A004-M to A012-M
Duplicating masters
General Physical Description note: 9 audiocassettes
Box-folder 9 : A004-U to A009-U
Listening copies
General Physical Description note: 6 audiocassettes
Cixous, Hélène. "Three Steps on the Ladder of Writing"
1990
Box-folder 2 : A013-M to A018-M
Duplicating masters
General Physical Description note: 6 audiocassettes
Jameson, Fredric. "The Constraints of Postmodernism"
1991 April, 24, 25, 26
Scope and Contents note
Comprises 3 lectures.
Box-folder 2 : A019-M to A021-M
Duplicating masters
General Physical Description note: 3 audiocassettes
Box-folder 3 : A019-U to A021-U, Box-folder 3 : A019-U to A021-U
Listening copies
General Physical Description note: 3 audiocassettes
Hartman, Geoffrey. "Three on 'Culture'"
1992 June
Scope and Contents note
Includes only the third of the three lectures given by Geoffrey Hartmann. Also includes an introduction by Alex Gelley.
Box-folder 2 : A022-M
Duplicating masters
General Physical Description note: 1 audiocassette
Keller, Evelyn Fox. "Metaphors of Twentieth-Century Biology"
1993 June
Scope and Contents note
Comprises 2 lectures: "Molecules, Messages, and Memory" and "Valences of Organicism."
Box-folder 2 : A023-M to A024-M
Duplicating masters
General Physical Description note: 2 audiocassettes
Iser, Wolfgang. "Variables of Interpretation: Iterations of Translatability"
1994 May 23, 24, 26
Scope and Contents note
Comprises 3 lectures.
Box-folder 2 : A025-M to A027-M
Duplicating masters
General Physical Description note: 3 audiocassettes
Box-folder 3 : A025-U to A027-U
Listening copies
General Physical Description note: 3 audiocassettes
Krauss, Rosalind. "Formless: A Feat"
1995 May
Scope and Contents note
Comprises 3 lectures.
Box-folder 2 : A028-M to 033-M
Duplicating masters
General Physical Description note: 6 audiocassettes
Balibar, Etienne. "On Politics and History: Presence, Cruelty, and the Universals"
1996 May 6, 7, 9
Scope and Contents note
Comprises 3 lectures: "Presence," "Cruelty," and "Universals."
Box 10, Folder 6
Listening copies
General Physical Description note: Three compact discs (CDs).
Scope and Content Summary
Includes audio for "Cruelty" and "Universals" lectures only.
Harootunian, Harry. "History's Disquiet: Modernity and Everyday Life"
1997 May 12, 13, 15
Scope and Contents note
Comprises 3 lectures.
Box-folder 2 : A039-M to A041-M
Duplicating masters
General Physical Description note: 3 audiocassettes.
Butler, Judith. "Antigone's Claim: Kinship, Aberration, and Psychoanalysis"
1998 May 8, 11, 12
Scope and Contents note
Comprises 3 lectures.
Box-folder 3 : A042-M to A045-M
Duplicating masters
General Physical Description note: 4 audiocassettes
Baudrillard, Jean. "The Vital Illusion"
1999 May
Box-folder 3 : A046-M to A051-M
Duplicating masters
General Physical Description note: 6 audiocassettes
Spivak, Gayatry. "The New Comparative Literature"
2000 May 22, 23, 25
Scope and Contents note
Comprises 3 lectures.
Box-folder 3 : A052-M to A054-M
Duplicating masters
General Physical Description note: 3 audiocassettes
Bhabha, Homi. "Scrambled Eggs and a Dish of Rice"
2001 November 5, 6, 8
Scope and Contents note
Comprises 3 lectures: "The Quasi-Colonial: Scrambled eggs and a Dish of Rice," "Shadows and Citizens," and "A Global Measure."
Box-folder 4 : V012-M to V014-M
Duplicating masters
General Physical Description note: 3 VHS cassettes
Box-folder 6 : V012-U to V014-U
Viewing copies
General Physical Description note: 3 VHS cassettes
Gilroy, Paul. "Elements of Post-Colonial Melancholia"
2002 May 13, 14, 16
Scope and Content Summary
Comprises three lectures: "Living with Difference," "Human Rights and the Racial Nomos," and "Race is Ordinary."
Viewing copies
General Physical Description note: 3 DVDs.
Harvey, David. "Geographical Knowledges / Political Powers"
2005 May 16, 17, 18
Scope and Contents note
Comprises 3 lectures.
Box-folder 4 : D016-M to D018-M
Duplicating masters
General Physical Description note: 3 DVDs
Box-folder 6 : V016-U to V018-U
Viewing copies
General Physical Description note: 3 VHS cassettes
Asad, Talal. "Thinking About Suicide Bombing"
2006 May 15-17
Scope and Content Summary
Comprises three lectures: "Terrorism,"Suicide Terrorism," and "Horror and Suicide Terrorism."
Box 10, Folder 4, Disk 006-U to 008-U
Viewing copies
General Physical Description note: 3 DVDs.
Grosz, Elizabeth. "Chaos, Territory, Art"
2007 May 7, 8, 10
Scope and Contents note
Comprises 3 lectures.
Box-folder 4 : D019-M to D021-M
Duplicating masters
General Physical Description note: 3 DVDs
Box-folder 6 : V019-U to V021-U
Viewing copies
General Physical Description note: 3 VHS cassettes
Box 10, Folder 3
Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o. "The Hegelian Lord and Colonial Bondsman: Literature and the Politics of Knowing"
2010 May 17, 19, 21
Scope and Content Summary
Comprises three lectures.
Box 10, Folder 3, Disk 003-U to 005-U
Viewing copies
General Physical Description note: 3 DVDs.
Other conferences and lectures Series 3.
1988-2004
Series Scope and Content Summary
This series contains audio and video recordings of other conferences and lectures organized by CTI and held at UCI. It also
contains recordings of reading groups' discussions, lectures given by UCI critical theorists at other universities, and conferences
organized by CTI in cooperation with other UCI departments.
Arrangement
This series is arranged alphabetically by type of event, then chronologically within each type.
Restrictions
Access to duplicating masters is restricted; where they do not already exist, viewing copies must be made before use.
Conferences organized by CTI at UCI
Derrida / Deleuze: Psychoanalysis, Territoriality, Politics
Biographical/Historical note
Conference organized by Gabriele Schwab and coordinated by Erin Ferriss, Lisa Ness, and Jay Haile.
Box-folder 8 : 3
Printed flier, event program, and other materials
Derrida / Translating / Derrida exhibit, opening remarks by curator, Dragan Kujundzic
2002 April 12
Box-folder 4 : V022-M
Duplicating master
General Physical Description note: 1 VHS cassette
Box-folder 6 : V022-U
Viewing copy
General Physical Description note: 1 VHS cassette
Malabou, Catherine. "Polymorphism Never Will Pervert Childhood"
2002 April 12
Box-folder 4 : V023-M
Duplicating master
General Physical Description note: 1 VHS cassette
Box-folder 6 : V023-U
Viewing copy
General Physical Description note: 1 VHS cassette
"Minoritarian Politics / Literature and Film" presentations
2002 April 13
Box-folder 4 : V024-M
Duplicating master
General Physical Description note: 1 VHS cassette
Box-folder 6 : V024-U
Viewing copy
General Physical Description note: 1 VHS cassette
Derrida, Jacques. "The Transcendental 'Stupidity' ('Bêtise') of Man and the becoming-animal according to Deleuze"
2002 April 13
Box-folder 4 : V025-M
Duplicating master
General Physical Description note: 1 VHS cassette
Box-folder 7 : V025-U
Viewing copy
General Physical Description note: 1 VHS cassette
Eisenmann, Peter. "Architecture and the Problem of the Weak Image"
1989 April 12
Box-folder 9 : A055-A to A056-A
Box-folder 3 : A055-M to A056-M
Duplicating originals
General Physical Description note: 2 audiocassettes.
Box-folder 9 : A055-U to A056-U
Benjamin, Jessica. "Sympathy for the Devil: Notes on Sexuality and Aggression"
1989 May 3
Box-folder 3 : A057-A to A058-U
Archival originals
General Physical Description note: 2 audiocassettes
Box-folder 3 : A057-M to A058-M
Duplicating masters
General Physical Description note: 2 audiocassettes
Box-folder 3 : A057-U to A058-U
Listening copies
General Physical Description note: 2 audiocassettes
Haraway, Donna. "A Companion Species Manifesto"
2003 January 15
Box-folder 4 : V026-M
Duplicating master
General Physical Description note: 1 VHS cassette.
Deuber-Mankowsky, Astrid. "Cutting Off Mediation: Agamben as Master Thinker"
2004 March 2
Box-folder 4 : V027-M
Duplicating master
General Physical Description note: 1 VHS cassette
Other recordings
Scope and Contents note
Includes various discussion groups, conferences, and paper presentations held at UCI. Also includes events held at other venues.
Carroll, David. "Community after Devastation"
1988 November 16
Box-folder 3 : A057-A to A058-A
Archival originals
General Physical Description note: 2 audiocassettes
Box-folder 3 : A060-M to A062-M
Duplicating masters
General Physical Description note: 3 audiocassettes
Box-folder 3 : A057-U to A058-U
Listening copies
General Physical Description note: 2 audiocassettes
Discussion session on Karl Marx's
German Ideology
1988 November 11
Box-folder 9 : A059-A, A067-A
Archival originals
General Physical Description note: 2 audiocassettes
Box-folder 3 : A059-M
Duplicating master
General Physical Description note: 1 audiocassette
Box-folder 9 : A059-U, A067-U
Listening copies
General Physical Description note: 2 audiocassetes
Discussion session 1 on Max Horkheimer's
Dialectic of Enlightenment
1988 December 7
Box-folder 9 : A063-A, A068-A
Box-folder 3 : A063-M
Duplicating master
General Physical Description note: 1 audiocassette
Box-folder 9 : A063-U, A068-U
Discussion session 2 on Max Horkheimer's
Dialectic of Enlightenment
1989 January 11
Box-folder 9 : A064-A, A069-A
Box-folder 3 : A064-M
Duplicating master
General Physical Description note: 1 audiocassette
Box-folder 9 : A064-U, A069-U
Duttman, Benjamin
1990 April 30
Box-folder 3 : A065-M
Duplicating master
General Physical Description note: 1 audiocassette
Unidentified recording
undated
Box-folder 3 : A066-M
Duplicating master
General Physical Description note: 1 audiocassette
Larkin, Brian. "The Secular Machine: Radio and the Materiality of Qur'anic Recitation"
2011 February 9
Box 10, Folder 1, Disk 001-U
Viewing copy
General Physical Description note: 1 DVD.
Interview with Jean-François Lyotard
1996 April 9
Box-folder 4 : V028-M to V029-M
Duplicating masters
General Physical Description note: 2 VHS cassettes
Box-folder 7 : V028-U
Viewing copy
General Physical Description note: 1 VHS cassette
Edward Said and his Legacy
2003 November 14
Biographical/Historical note
Event held at UCI in memory of Edward Said.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Said, Edward W.
Box-folder 5 : V036-M to V040-M
Duplicating masters
General Physical Description note: 5 VHS cassettes
The School of Criticism and Theory, Annual Senior Fellows Conference
Scope and Contents note
The conference was held at Cornell University.
Remembrances of Murray Krieger and lecture by Geoffrey Hartman
2001 April 20
Scope and Contents note
Includes dedication of conference to the memory of Krieger and remembrances of Krieger by colleagues, including Jacques Derrida.
Box-folder 5: V030-M
Duplicating master
General Physical Description note: 1 VHS cassette
Carroll, David. "Memory, Fiction"
2001 April 20
Box-folder 5: V031-M
Duplicating master
General Physical Description note: 1 VHS cassette
Fish, Stanley. "Holocaust Denial and Academic Freedom"
2001 April 20-21
Box-folder 5: V032-M
Duplicating master
General Physical Description note: 1 VHS cassette
J: Around the Work of J. Hillis Miller
Biographical/Historical note
This conference was organized by several academic departments at UCI and directed by Barbara Cohen and Dragan Kujundzic.
Keynote address by Jacques Derrida, "Justices."
2003 April 18
Box-folder 5 : V034-M
Duplicating master
General Physical Description note: 1 VHS cassette
Box-folder 7 : V034-U
Viewing copy
General Physical Description note: 1 VHS cassette
Keynote address by J. Hillis Miller, "J/O[0]"
2003 April 19
Box-folder 5 : V035-M
Duplicating master
General Physical Description note: 1 VHS cassette
Box-folder 7 : V035-U
Viewing copy
General Physical Description note: 1 VHS cassette
LaCapra, Dominick. "History, Memory, Trauma"
2001 April 20-21
Box-folder 5: V033-M
Duplicating master
General Physical Description note: 1 VHS cassette
Patel, Geeta. "Impossible Objects? Reading Ismat Chughtai's Fiction"
2011 March 9
Box 10, Folder 2, Disk 002-U
Viewing copy
General Physical Description note: 1 DVD.
