Prof. John Protevi

Date: Tuesday, 12th December 2006
Time: 7 p.m.
Venue: A019, Atrium Building, IADT, Kill Avenue, Dun Laoghaire, Co. Dublin.

Lecture title: Hurricane Katrina As A Natural And Social Event

Hurricane Katrina was an elemental and a social event. To understand it, you first have to understand the land, the air, the sun, the river and the sea; you have to understand geo-morphology, meteorology, biology, economics, politics, history. You have to understand how they have come together in the past to form, with the peoples of America, Europe and Africa, the historical patterns of life of Louisiana and New Orleans, the bodies politic of the region, bodies you need to study with political physiology. You have to understand what those bodies could do and what they could withstand, and how they intersected the event of the storm.

Prof. John Protevi, Department of French Studies Louisiana State University, USA

"Geophilosophy & complexity theory" publications :Editor, A Dictionary of Continental Philosophy (Yale UP, 2006) (US and Canada)
Co-author, with Mark Bonta, Deleuze and Geophilosophy (Edinburgh UP, 2004)
Co-editor, with Paul Patton, Between Deleuze and Derrida (Continuum, 2003)
Political Physics: Deleuze, Derrida and the Body Politic (Continuum / Athlone, 2001)