Styles of Writing and Styles of Thinking

The ways we write influence the ways we think, and the thinking influences the writing. Join us for a roundtable with influential experimental thinkers as they explore the craft of writing. The event is for a general humanities audience interested in improving their writing — be it an academic press book, a New York Times opinion piece, a graduate dissertation, an art exhibition essay or an experimental prose for a small press. 

Light refreshments and drinks will be provided. Click here to stream the event on ASU Live.

Simon Critchley is the Hans Jonas Professor of Philosophy at The New School for Social Research and a Director of the Onassis Foundation. His work engages in many areas: continental philosophy, philosophy and literature, psychoanalysis, ethics, and political theory, among others. He has written over twenty books, including studies of Greek tragedy, David Bowie, football, suicide, Shakespeare, how philosophers die and a novella. As co-editor of The Stone at the New York Times, Critchley showed that philosophy plays a vital role in the public realm. Additional information about Professor Critchley is available at his personal website. 

Adam Nocek is the Founding Director of the Center for Philosophical Technologies at Arizona State University. He has published widely on the philosophy of media and science; speculative philosophy (especially Whitehead); design philosophy, history, and practice; and critical and speculative theories of computational media. He recently published Molecular Capture: The Animation of Biology (Minnesota 2021), and is completing two other monographs on computing, design, and political ecology. Nocek is Visiting Faculty in Artes Liberales at the University of Warsaw and is Assistant Clinical Professor of Medical Humanities in the School of Medicine at Creighton University.

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