Lecture Series: Bruce Clarke, The Problem with Intelligence: The Disunity of the Sciences in Stanislaw Lem’s Fiasko

Tuesday, March 29, 2016 - 5:30pm
Location: 
WLH 309

Lecture Series: Bruce Clarke, The Problem with Intelligence: The Disunity of the Sciences in Stanislaw Lem’s Fiasko

NOTE THE DATE/TIME CHANGE: TUESDAY March 29, 5:30pm, WLH 309

Bruce Clarke is Paul Whitfield Horn Professor of Literature and Science in the Department of English at Texas Tech University. His research focuses on systems theory, narrative theory, and ecology. In 2015 he was Senior Fellow at the Center for Literature and the Natural Sciences (ELINAS), Friedrich Alexander University Erlangen-Nürnberg. In 2010-11 he was Senior Fellow at the International Research Institute for Cultural Technologies and Media Philosophy, Bauhaus-University Weimar. Clarke co-edits the book series Meaning Systems, published by Fordham University Press. His self-authored books include Neocybernetics and Narrative (Minnesota UP, 2014), Posthuman Metamorphosis (Fordham UP, 2008), and Energy Forms: Allegory and Science in the Era of Classical Thermodynamics (U Michigan P, 2001). A growing bookshelf of edited volumes encompasses Earth, Life, and System: Evolution and Ecology on a Gaian Planet (Fordham UP, 2015); and with Mark B. N. Hansen, Emergence and Embodiment: New Essays in Second-Order Systems Theory (Duke UP, 2009).

Refreshments will be served.