Etienne Balibar - Can We Say: After the Subject Comes the Stranger?

Can We Say: After the Subject Comes the Stranger? This talk is part of a conference on “Thinking with Balibar”, which explores the influence of Etienne Balibar’s work, not paying tribute to Etienne Balibar per se, but showing how certain concepts, arguments, and methods that he applies in his work can be and are being used by scholars in different fields working on crucial issues of our time. The conference is thus inspired by his work instead of being on his work. It celebrates three years of Etienne Balibar’s participation in the intellectual community of Columbia University as Visiting Professor in the Department of French and the Institute for Comparative Literature and Society. This conference follows and builds on a one-day workshop called “Pourquoi Balibar“ that was organized in Paris on January 17, 2014 by the Collège International de Philosophie (Etienne Balibar is a member of its Scientific Board) after he published several important books in recent years – Violence et civi