MIT conference on Evil.

Regarding Evil
April 3rd, 2005
MIT, Cambridge MA
Building 10, Room 10-250

The transnational summit, Regarding Evil, will be called to assembly
with the simultaneous sounding of the trumps in six sites around the
world projected simulcast.  In collaboration with the six individuals whom
were issued the instruments, each will announce their particular state of
emergency and will converge at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology with a
seventh blast.  Gordon Smith will assume the role of 7th piper.      

Artists and scholars of international reputation have been invited to
present visual and discursive material confronting the elusive and  
immeasurable subject of Evil, its transpolitical behaviors, charismatic
aesthetic, and viral dispersement in the vast enterprise of simulation,
symbolic power, and catastrophe. Panel discussion and audience talk back will
provide a public forum to expand this dialogue.

Engaging in the discourse of ethics as a codal system by which we can only hope
to define a subjective good, continues to undermine the intelligence of Evil
and fuels the perpetual orbit around exotic ‘otherness’ as an opaque foreigner
situated in an archaic Other World of saboteurs.  How then can we speak to/of
evil while choosing to sidestep the subject using rhetorical strategies at the
risk of sacrificing symbolic power?  Must we rely on the performative death act
to regain this symbolic power?  Including ourselves within the equation of Evil
is necessary for a richer appraisal of our condition which may in some cases,
require the invocation of such an unwanted guest directly into our universe.

April 3rd is daylight savings (so set your clocks before you go to sleep on the 2nd)!

11:00  EST The Sounding of the Trumps  

      
11:10  Introduction- Ross Cisneros

11:20  DAMNATIO РMEMORIAE, Julian LaVerdiere,

12:00¬†¬†Evil’s Political Habitats, Jodi Dean

12:40  BREAK

1:00¬†¬†Lets Go Ahead Let’s Misbehave, Ronald Jones

1:50  Ideologues of the Rejected, Boyd Rice

2:20  Ted and Me, Beau Friedlander

2:40  Panel Discussion, Questions from Audience, Closing Remarks

3:20  De Lama Lamina, Matthew Barney

4:10  FINAL REMARKS

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About Jay Babcock

I am an independent writer and editor based in Tucson, Arizona. I publish LANDLINE at jaybabcock.substack.com Previously: I co-founded and edited Arthur Magazine (2002-2008, 2012-13) and curated the three Arthur music festival events (Arthurfest, ArthurBall, and Arthur Nights) (2005-6). Prior to that I was a district office staffer for Congressman Henry A. Waxman, a DJ at Silver Lake pirate radio station KBLT, a copy editor at Larry Flynt Publications, an editor at Mean magazine, and a freelance journalist contributing work to LAWeekly, Mojo, Los Angeles Times, Washington Post, Vibe, Rap Pages, Grand Royal and many other print and online outlets. An extended piece I wrote on Fela Kuti was selected for the Da Capo Best Music Writing 2000 anthology. In 2006, I was somehow listed in the Music section of Los Angeles Magazine's annual "Power" issue. In 2007-8, I produced a blog called "Nature Trumps," about the L.A. River. From 2010 to 2021, I lived in rural wilderness in Joshua Tree, Ca.