Curriculum Vita January 2014 Bill Martin Contact information: Philosophy Department primarily email, please: DePaul University Woodbug1@aol.com 2352 N. Clifton Ave., Suite 150 secondarily, home phone: Chicago, IL 60614-3504 785.452.9467 Current position: Professor of Philosophy, DePaul University (hired August 1990; tenured and promoted to Associate May 1996; promoted to full professor May 2001) Visiting appointments: University of Sheffield, U.K., Department of English Literature, Spring 1998 and Spring 2002; Fudan University, Shanghai, School of Philosophy, March 2012 and October 2013; Ibero Panamericana University, Mexico City, October 2014. Areas of specialization: Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Continental Philosophy, Social and Political Philosophy; Twentieth-Century Marxism; Marx and the interconnections between Kant and Marx; Sartre, Althusser, Derrida, Davidson, Badiou Areas of competence: Analytic Philosophy, principally metaphysics and epistemology from Wittgenstein and the Vienna Circle to Quine and Davidson; Philosophy of Culture, principally literature and music; Education: University of Kansas, Ph.D. Philosophy, May 1991 University of Kansas, M.Phil. Philosophy, June 1988 University of South Carolina: M.A. Philosophy, October 1985 Furman University, B.A. Philosophy, May 1978 Dissertation: "Matrix and line: Derrida and the possibilities of postmodern social theory." Committee: Gary Shapiro (director), Richard T. DeGeorge, Rex Martin, Svetozar Stojanovic, Anthony Genova, Robert Antonio (Sociology, Kansas) Publications ("r" = refereed; "i" = invited) 1. Books Matrix and line: Derrida and the possibilities of postmodern social theory (Albany: State University of New York Press, August 1992). (r) Humanism and its aftermath: The shared fate of deconstruction and politics (Atlantic Highlands, NJ: Humanities Press, August 1995). (r) Politics in the impasse: Explorations in postsecular social theory (Albany: State University of New York Press, March 1996). (r) Music of Yes: Structure and vision in progressive rock (Chicago: Open Court, October 1996). (r)

Listening to the future: The time of progressive rock, 1968-1978 (Chicago: Open Court, October 1997). (r) The radical project: Sartrean Investigations (Lanham, Maryland: Rowman and Littlefield, January 2001). (r) Avant rock: Experimental music from the Beatles to Bjork (Chicago: Open Court, March 2002). (r) Marxism and the call of the future: conversations on ethics, history, and politics. Co-authored with Bob Avakian. (Chicago: Open Court, April 2005). (r) Ethical Marxism: the categorical imperative of liberation (Chicago: Open Court, March 2008). (r) 1.1 Work in progress: Most immediately, a longer book taking account of Alain Badiou’s ideas in a Marxist and post-Marxist context. Next I hope to complete a book on the legacies of French Marxism. At present I am also completing a short book on philosophy and comedy. 2. Book chapters “Foucault and Marxism.” Forthcoming in Leonard Lawlor and John Nale, eds., The Foucault Lexicon (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014). (i) "Sartre and the Legacy of French Marxism, After Althusser and Badiou." in Benedict O'Donohoe, ed., Severally Seeking Sartre (Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Press, 2013). “Marxist Ethics.” in Byron Kaldis, ed., Encyclopedia of Philosophy and the Social Sciences (London: Sage Publications, 2013). “Postmodern fascism and academic repression: After the Finkelstein case.” In Anthony J. Nocella, Steve Best, and Peter McLaren, eds., Academic Repression: Reflections from the Academic Industrial Complex (Edinburgh: AK Press, 2010). (i) “To the Stalingrad Station: Marxism in Continental Philosophy.” In John Mullarkey and Beth Lord, eds., The Continuum Companion to Continental Philosophy (London: Continuum Press, 2009). (i) “A Marxist in the business ethics classroom.” In Mollie Painter-Morland and Patricia Werhane, eds., Continental Approaches to Business Ethics (New York: Springer, 2009). (i) “The difficult ways of God and Caissa: Chess, theodicy, and determinism in James and Gadamer.” In Benjamin Hale, ed., Philosophy Looks at Chess (Chicago: Open Court, 2008). (i)

"Redemption in the impasse: an other communism." In Jeffrey Paris and William Wilkerson, eds., New Critical Theory (Lanham, Maryland: Rowman and Littlefield, 2001). (i) "Eurocentrically distorted communication." In Lewis E. Hahn, ed., Perspectives on the Philosophy of Jurgen Habermas (Chicago: Open Court, 2000). (i) "Interpretation and responsibility: excavating Davidson's ethical theory." In Lewis E. Hahn, ed., The Philosophy of Donald Davidson, a volume in The Library of Living Philosophers (Chicago: Open Court, 1999). (i) "Multiculturalism: consumerist or transformational?" In Cynthia Willett, ed., Theorizing Multiculturalism: A Guide to the Current Debate (Oxford: Blackwell, 1998). (i) "Analytic philosophy's narrative turn: Quine, Rorty, Davidson." In Reed Way Dasenbrock, ed., Literary Theory After Davidson (University Park: Penn State Press, 1993). (i) "Elements of a Derridean social theory." In Arleen Dallery and Charles Scott, eds., Ethics and Dangers: Essays on Heidegger and Continental Philosophy (Albany: SUNY Press, 1992). (r) Also in Steven Jay Gold, ed., Paradigms in Political Theory: Liberalism, Marxism, Postmodernism (Ames: Iowa State University Press, 1993). (i) 3. Journal articles “Gary Shapiro and the Nietzschean current after 1968.” Forthcoming in New Nietzsche Studies. (i) "Badiou's 'second modernity' and the idea of a Buddhist Marxism." (in Chinese) forthcoming in World Philosophy. "Maoism beyond China: South America, North America, and Western Europe." (in Chinese.) forthcoming in World Philosophy. "Capitalism as the divine kingdom of calculation, and Marxist conceptions of the alternative: A Response to Dr. Zhang Shuangli." (in Chinese.) World Philosophy, 2012 n.6. “A new chapter in the politics of irony: Cynthia Willett’s Irony in the Age of Empire.” Journal of Speculative Philosophy, v.24, n.1 (2010), 78-84. ® “What is the opposite of bullshit? Engaged intellectual work, after Sartre.” Reconstruction, 8.1, March 2008. (i) [This is a very long interview with Joseph Ramsey in an online journal.] “Are there rogue philosophers? Derrida, at last.” Radical Philosophy Review, Winter 2006. (i) “Ayn Rand and the music of Rush.” The Journal of Ayn Rand Studies, forthcoming 2003. (i) "Community, modernity, legitimation." Journal of Human Studies (1998). (i)

"Why I write such flawed books." Social Epistemology, v.9, n.4 (1995). (i) "Political theory at the far edge of modernity." Review essay. Radical Philosophy Review of Books, Autumn 1995. (i) "The idea of enablement." Man and World, v.26 (1993). (r) "Liberalism: modern and postmodern." Social Epistemology, v.7, n.1 (January 1993). (i) "The ambiguous gift of community." Review essay. Praxis International, v.12, n.4 (January 1993). (r) "Radical hermeneutics and liberation theology." In Eugene Bales, ed., Proceedings of the Symposium on Hermeneutics and Catholic Philosophy (Conception, MO: Conception Seminary College Press, 1992). (r) "From alterity to architecture." (letters) From Exile, n.1, Fall 1991. (i) "The moral atmosphere: language and value in Davidson." The Southwestern Journal of Philosophy, v.6, n.1 (January 1990). (r) "How Marxism became analytic." The Journal of Philosophy, v.LXXXVI, n.11 (November 1989). (r) "Politics of irony in Paul de Man," and "Postscript: Blindness and Hindsight." Canadian Journal of Political and Social Theory, v.13, n.3 (Fall 1989). (r) "The feminist path to postmodernity: Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse." Philosophy and Literature, v.13, n.2 (Summer 1989). (r) "Apocalypse Derrida." Auslegung, v.14, n.2 (Summer 1988). (r) "The Enlightenment's talking cure: Habermas." The Southwestern Journal of Philosophy, v.4, n.1 (January 1988). (r) "Return to the land of weird theologies." Social Epistemology, v.1, n.2 (April 1987). (i) "Nomad and empire: Nietzsche, guerilla theater, guerilla war." Arena n.77 (Winter 1986). (r) "Foucault: Power/Counter-power." Arena n.73 (Winter 1985). (r) 4. Bibliographies "About 'postmodern': a bibliography." In Gary Shapiro, ed., After the Future: Postmodern Times and Places (Albany: SUNY Press, 1989). (i)

5. Book reviews (all invited) St. Paul Among the Philosophers, edited by John D. Caputo and Linda Martin Alcoff. (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2009). In Notre Dame Philosophical Review, Feb. 3, 2010. The Latter Day Saints [sic]: A Study of the Mormons in the Light of Economic Conditions, by Ruth Kauffman and Reginald Wright Kauffman (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1994 [orig. 1912]). In Journal of Mormon History, v.22, n.2 (Fall 1996). Specters of Marx: The State of the Debt, the Work of Mourning, and the New International, by Jacques Derrida. International Philosophical Quarterly, Spring 1996. Images of Postmodern Society: Social Theory and Contemporary Cinema, by Norman K. Denzin. International Studies in Philosophy, Spring 1995. Social Action and Human Nature, by Axel Honneth and Hans Joas. Book note. Ethics, v.102, n.2 (January 1992). Rereading Levinas, ed. by Robert Bernasconi and Simon Critchley. Book note. Ethics, v.102, n.3 (March 1992). The New Constellation: The Ethical-Political Horizons of Modernity/Postmodernity, by Richard J. Bernstein, and Lifeworld, Modernity, and Critique: Paths between Heidegger and the Frankfurt School, by Fred R. Dallmayr. The Times Higher Education Supplement, February 7, 1992. Politics and Culture: Working Hypotheses for a Post-Revolutionary Society, by Michael Ryan. Radical Philosophy Review of Books, Summer 1990. Discourse and Reference in the Nuclear Age, by J. Fisher Solomon. Auslegung, v.16, n.2 (Summer 1990). Altarity, by Mark C. Taylor. Philosophy and Literature, v.13, n.1 (April 1989). A Weber-Marx Dialogue, ed. by Robert J Antonio and Ronald M. Glassman. Mid-America Review of Sociology, v.XIV, n.2 (Fall 1989). The Philosophy of Alain Locke: Harlem Renaissance and Beyond, ed. by Leonard Harris. Radical Philosophy Review of Books, Winter 1989. 6. Articles in non- or quasi-academic publications “Sound Chaser: Atlanta Omni, 1974.” Liner notes for the Yes live 3-disc set, The Word is Live, Rhino Records, 2005. “A brighter shade of green: Fragile.” Liner notes for the Rhino Records reissue of Yes, Fragile,

2002. “Intimations of the edge: The Yes Album.” Liner notes for the Rhino Records reissue of The Yes Album, 2002. “Another green language: Still Yes after all these years.” Essay for the extensive booklet that accompanies the definitive Yes box-set, In a Word: Yes. Rhino Records, 2002. "Approaches to Zion: Why liberalism is not the answer." Sunstone: Mormon Experience, Scholarship, Issues, and Art (bi-monthly magazine), February 1995. (i) "Creating a new dimension: Chris Squire." Bass Player (magazine), v.5, n.7 (Nov. 1994). Cover article. (i) "Connecting the Black Dots." Review of Houston A. Baker, Jr., Black Studies, Rap, and the Academy. The Source: The Magazine of Hip-Hop Music, Culture, and Politics, September 1993. (i) Papers presented at conferences and meetings. Please see appendix. I have presented over 175 papers at conferences large and small, from the American Philosophical Association Eastern Central, and Pacific Divisions, to the Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy, to invitations to colleges and universities, to invitations to civic groups. While the range of these papers is quite broad, the majority of them are in either social and political philosophy or contemporary European philosophy. However, I have also presented a significant number of papers on fields listed in my areas of competence. Courses taught (100/200/300 = undergraduate; 500+ = graduate seminar) 1. DePaul University Introduction to Philosophy (100) Philosophical Inquiry, Honors (100) The Whole World's Watching: 1968 (100) Progressive Rock Music, 1968-1978 (100) 1968/2001: The Sixties and Now (100) Music at the end of the twentieth century (100) The bicycle: technology, culture, ecology (100) Chess/culture (100) "I shop, therefore I am": The ethics of consumerism (100) Ethical Theories (200) Values and the Person (200) Philosophy of God (200) Business, Ethics, and Society (200) Philosophy and the City (200) Philosophy and the Environment (200) Black Thought: W.E.B. DuBois to bell hooks (200)

The just and sustainable city (200) Philosophical perspectives on multiculturalism (200) Introduction to Asian Philosophy (200) Analytic Philosophy: Frege to Davidson (300) Contemporary Continental Philosophy: Hegel to Derrida (300) Modern Thought: Ideas in Revolution (300) Rethinking the Enlightenment (300, Honors) The Existence of God: Philosophical Arguments (300) Marxism (300) The Mormons: History, Philosophy, Community (300) Symbolic Logic (300) Aesthetics (Philosophy of Music) (300) Social and Political Philosophy: Locke to Rawls (300) Senior Seminar: Jihad vs. McWorld (300) English Progressive Rock Music (at University of Sheffield, England) (300) Marxism and revolution in the twentieth century (two quarters, Honors, 300) Jean-Paul Sartre and the Twentieth Century (300, honors) Philosophy of English Romantic Poetry (University of Sheffield) (300) Meaning in Literature: Paul de Man and literary theory (Comparative Literature Program) (300) Deconstruction and philosophy (300) The New Christianity: Milbank, Cupitt, Badiou, Zizek (300) Maoist revolution in China and beyond (Chinese Studies Program) (300) French Marxism, Sartre to Badiou (advanced undergraduate course at Fudan University, Shanghai) The Republics of Plato and Badiou (Capstone course for philosophy seniors) (300) The Idea of Community in Postmodern Philosophy (500) Kant and Political Philosophy (500) Derrida and Social Theory (500) Marx (500) Frankfurt School (500) Feminist Theory by Women of Color (500) Democracy, communism, a venir: Derrida and Marx (500) Sartre (500) Fredric Jameson and the Cultural Critique of Contemporary Capitalism (500) Theory of community (500) Derrida, Specters of Marx (500) Derrida, Politics of Friendship (500) Derrida, primarily of Grammatology (500) Sartrean Encounters (500) Althusser/“The New Spinoza” (500) Badiou (500) Zizek (500) Althusser and the Humanism Controversy (500) Humanism and anti-humanism: Sartre, Althusser, Badiou (graduate seminar at Fudan University, Shanghai) Sartre, Critique of Dialectical Reason (500)

2. University of Kansas Introduction to Logic (100) Ethics and Moral Problems (200) Western Civilization, 2: Descartes to de Beauvoir (200) Grants, fellowships, awards DePaul University Faculty Research Council Summer Grant, Summer 1993. University of Kansas Graduate School Dissertation Fellowship, 1989-1990. Osborne Fellowship, University of Kansas, 1985, 1989 Templin Fellowship, University of Kansas, 1987, 1989 University of Kansas Graduate School Summer Research Fellowship, 1988 Dartmouth College, School of Criticism and Theory Tuition Fellowship, 1987 Philosophy Department, Graduate School, and Endowment Association Travel Grants, University of Kansas, Spring 1985, Spring 1986, Summer 1987, Fall 1988, Fall 1989 Service Fall 2010 to present: Undergraduate Committee. Fall 2013 to present: I am currently directing the dissertation of Heather Ross, and serving on the dissertation committees of Neal Miller and Kieran Aarons. 2008 – 2010: Advocacy Committee of the Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy (as of fall 2009 I chaired the committee). 2008-’09 school year: Philosophy representative on the LA&S College Committee on Teaching, Learning, and Assessment. Field Director for the DePaul Study Abroad Program at the University of Sheffield, England, Spring 1998 and Spring 2003. Fall 2002 - Fall 2005: chair of the Focal Point Program Committee, a division of the First Year Program. Fall 2002 - Fall 2005: member of the University First Year Program committee. Fall 2002 - Fall 2005: member of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Learning Domains committee. Spring 1997 to spring 1999, elected to University Faculty Council as representative for College of Liberal Arts and Sciences; member of the Committee on Committees. Spring 1996 to spring 1999: Chair of Visiting Speaker's Committee.

December 1995 to December 1998: University Title III Grant Working Group on Curriculum and Assessment. Fall 1990 to fall 1991, fall 1995 to fall 1996, fall 1998 to fall 1999: Director of Undergraduate Studies, Philosophy Department. Fall 1994 to Spring 1995: College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Working Group on Evening and Adult Education. Fall 1991 to Fall 2009: Graduate Affairs Committee, Philosophy Department. Spring 1991 to Spring 1993: Graduate Placement Director, Philosophy Department; I continue to play a role in placement efforts. Fall 1986 to Spring 1987: Special Assistant to Gary Shapiro for organization of 1987 International Association for Philosophy and Literature Conference, "Postmodernism: Texts, Politics, Instruction," University of Kansas, April 30 - May 2, 1987. Summer 1986 to Summer 1988, Book Review Editor for Auslegung: A Journal of Philosophy. Summer 1988 to Summer 1989: Editor of Auslegung: A Journal of Philosophy. I review or have reviewed manuscripts for Auslegung, Canadian Journal of Political and Social Theory, Social Epistemology, Philosophy Today, Social Theory and Practice, Continental Philosophy Review, SUNY Press, Humanities Press, Indiana University Press, Northwestern University Press, Penn State Press, Cambridge University Press, and M.I.T. Press, Palgrave Press, University of Chicago Press, and others. Other professional activities June 8 to July 22, 1990: Participant in the Heidegger/Davidson NEH Institute at the University of California, Santa Cruz (David Hoy and Hubert Dreyfuss, Directors). June 21 to July 31, 1987: Participant in the School of Criticism and Theory at Dartmouth College (Geoffrey Hartman, Director). Participated in seminars led by Prof. Houston Baker, "Twentieth Century Afro-American Literature, Criticism, and Theory," and Barbara Johnson, "The Politics of Poetry." Professional associations American Philosophical Association Radical Philosophy Association Sartre Society of North America Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy South Carolina Philosophical Society UK Society for Sartrean Studies

References Andrew Cutrofello, Professor of Philosophy, Loyola University of Chicago (acutrof@luc.edu) Michael Naas, Professor and Chair of Philosophy, DePaul University (mnaas@depaul.edu) Cynthia Willett, Professor of Philosophy, Emory University (cwillet@emory.edu)

Curriculum Vita, Appendix January 2014 Bill Martin Email:Woodbug1@aol.com Philosophy Department Phone: (785) 577-9425 (h) DePaul University 2352 N. Clifton Ave., Suite 150 Chicago, IL 60614 Papers presented at conferences, meetings, and other forums 1. Papers presented at the American Philosophical Association, Main Program 3. "Toward a non-Eurocentric critical theory." Central Division, Kansas City, April 1994. 2. "Interpretation and responsibility: Excavating Davidson's ethical theory." Central Division, Chicago, April 1993. 1. "How Marxism became analytic." Symposium paper, Eastern Division, Atlanta, December 1989. 2. Papers presented at the American Philosophical Association, Group Sessions (listed by division and organization) 27. “The humanism debate revisited: Sartre and Althusser.” Pacific Division, Sartre Circle, San Francisco, March 2010. 26. “Author meets Critics: Ethical Marxism by Bill Martin.” Pacific Division, Society for the Philosophic Study of Marxism, San Francisco, March 2010. 25. “Chess in Dennett.” Eastern Division, Society for Realist/Anti-Realist Discussion, Washington, D.C., December 2003. 24. “Maoism and the idea of ethical Marxism.” Pacific Division, Radical Philosophy Association, San Francisco, March 2003. 23. “Chess in Wittgenstein.” Eastern Division, Society for Realist/Anti-Realist Discussion, Philadelphia, December 2002. 22. "Carnivorism is a system." Central Division, Society for the Study of Ethics and Animals, Chicago, April 2002. 21. "Is Sartre's anti-colonialism a system?" Central Division, Sartre Circle, Chicago, April 2001. 20. "Chess in philosophy, three examples: James, Wittgenstein, Deleuze and Guattari." Eastern Division, Society for Realist/Anti-Realist Discussion, Atlanta, December 2001. 19. "Eclipse of the watershed and the outrage." Central Division, Society for the Philosophy of History, Minneapolis, April 2001. 18."Adorno's critique of Sartre's model of engagement, a response." Central Division, Sartre Circle, Minneapolis, April 2001. 17. "Vegetarianism and the limits of philosophy." Central Division, Society for the Study of Ethics and Animals, Minneapolis, April 2001. 16. "Sartre and the critique of social institutions." Eastern Division, Sartre Circle, session

on my book, The radical project: Sartrean Investigations, New York, December 2000. 15. "Derrida and the question of the "enemy" in Marxism." Eastern Division, Society for the Philosophic Study of Marxism, New York, December 2000. 14. "Anti-Semite and Sartre: the question of humanism revisited." Central Division, Sartre Circle, Chicago, April 2000. 13. "White out/write-off: globalization and Black Africa." Eastern Division, Society for Philosophy and Geography, Boston, December 1999. 12. "Specters of deconstruction: The social theory of Martin Matustik." Eastern Division, Radical Philosophy Association, Washington, D.C., December 1998. 11. Session on my book, Politics in the impasse. Eastern Division, Society for the Philosophy of Liberation, Washington, D.C., December 1998. 10. "A critique of secular reason: James Marsh's Process, Praxis, and Transcendence." Eastern Division, Society for the Philosophy of Liberation, Philadelphia, December 1997. 9. "Beyond the varieties of Sartrophobia, toward Sartre's legacy to radical intellectuals." Eastern Division, Sartre Circle, Philadelphia, December 1997. 8. "Eurocentrically distorted communication." Eastern Division, Society for Philosophy of Liberation, New York, December 1995. 7. "Kant vs. Hobbes, Derrida vs. Foucault and Deleuze, the issues are the same: a critique of Todd May's poststructuralist anarchism." Eastern Division, Radical Philosophy Association, New York, December 1995). 6. Session on my book, Matrix and line. Eastern Division, Radical Philosophy Association, December 1993. 5. "Dictatorship for the proletariat: Sartre's theory of the Stalin period." Central Division, Sartre Circle, Chicago, April 1993. 4. "Critical social theory and global political economy." Eastern Division, Radical Philosophy Association, Washington, D.C., December 1992. 3. "Against the strategy of cynicism: radical politics in the margins of the postmodern condition." Eastern Division, Radical Philosophy Association, New York, December 1991. 2. "Teaching atrocity: possibilities and dimensions of pedagogy, 'after Auschwitz'." Central Division, Society for the Philosophic Study of Genocide and the Holocaust, New Orleans, April 1990. 1. "Truth, transcendence, triangulation: Davidson's communicative realism." Eastern Division, Society for Systematic Philosophy, New York, December 1987. 3. Papers presented at the Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy Annual Meeting 15. "From Ethical Marxism to Zen Maoism: Response to Peter Gratton and Eleanor Kaufman." Scholar’s Session on my work at the 2012 SPEP meeting in Rochester, New York. 14. “Badiou and the historians: The case of Paul, the original Bolshevik.” Montreal, November 2010. 13. “Intertextuality and mathematics: Opening variations on Derrida and Badiou.” Alexandria, Virginia, October 2009. 12. “The politics of irony, a new chapter: Cynthia Willett’s Irony in an Age of Empire.” Pittsburgh, October 2008. 11. “Futures of Critical Theory.” Philadelphia, October 2006.

10. “Sartre, Derrida, at last.” Salt Lake City, October 2005. 9. “The question of ‘place’ in Marxism: Learning from Heidegger, Berry, and others.” Auspices of International Association for Environmental Philosophy, Chicago, October 2002. 8. "Community, modernity, legitimation: David Ingram's Reason, History, and Politics." Lexington, KY, October 1997. 7. "Marxism's ghost of a chance: Derrida's Specters." Chicago, October 1995. 6. "Moses and methodology" (response in session on my book, Matrix and line; commentators: Jim Faulconer, Brigham Young University; Patricia Huntington, Loyola University of Chicago). Seattle, September 1994. 5. "After the avant-garde: Adorno and autonomous art in the time of postmodern capitalism." Boston, October 1992. 4. "Baudrillard, Neuromancer, . . . it's dizzying: response to Tony Smith on Baudrillard and Marx." Philadelphia, October 1990. 3. "Elements of a Derridean social theory." Pittsburgh, October 1989. 2. "Self-assertion: feminism and the critique of subjectivity." Evanston, IL, October 1988. 1. "Politics of irony in Paul de Man." Notre Dame, IN, October 1987. 4. Invited Papers at Universities and Colleges 55. "Being (is) Funny: Philosophy and Comedy." Purdue University-Calumet, "Philosophy Matters" series, February 2014. 54. "John Cage, Zen Music, and Zen Ideas." Faculty seminar, Arizona State University-New College, Phoenix, Janury 2014. 53. "Is there a politics in Buddhism? Human flourishing after the twentieth-century experiences of Marxism and capitalism." Center for Critical Inquiry and Cultural Studies, Arizona State University-New College, Phoenix, January 2014. 52. “What can ‘nothing’ do for politics? Mao, Mu, Badiou, Buddhism.” Lyceum Presentation, Philosophy Department, Middle Tennessee State University, April 2012. 51. “Maoism and the future.” Young China Group of Fudan University, Shanghai, March 2012. 50. “Badiou’s concept of a ‘second modernity’.” Institute for the Study of Marxism and Other Ideologies in Foreign Countries, Fudan University, Shanghai, March 2012. 49. “Buddhist Marxism: Badiou and Mao.” Conference on China and Modernity, Philosophy Department, Fudan University, Shanghai, March 2012. 48. “Gary Shapiro and the Nietzschean current after 1968.” Symposium on the work of Gary Shapiro at the University of Richmond, Virginia, April 2011. 47. “The Stellar Matheme in Politics: political organization after Badiou.” Keynote address at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte Student Philosophy Conference, April 2011. 46. “Karl Marx, Karl Marx, what do you see?” Keynote address at the Lewis University Annual Philosophy Conference (theme: Marx/Marxism), Romeoville, IL, February 2011. 45. “Another justice, another communism: Derrida, Badiou, and the project of ethical Marxism.” Center for Philosophy, University of Tokyo, December 2010. 44. “Reasoning with animals.” Philosophy Department, University of San Francisco, April 2010.

43. “Paul, revolutionary for our time? Or, Badiou among the historians.” Philosophy Department, Creighton University, Omaha, February 2010. 42. “Death to the philosophers: Response to Gerd-Jan Vanderheiden, ‘Death and Dialogue in Plato, Gadamer, and Derrida’.” Philosophy Department, DePaul University, Chicago, February 2009. 41. “Animals and truth: at the limits of humanism, Marxism, and deconstruction.” Philosophy Department, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, May 2008. 40. “The avant-garde in rock music.” Philosophy Department, Western Carolina State University, Cullowee, N.C., March 2007. 39. “Sartre then and now.” Philosophy Department, Utah Valley State University, Orem, October 2005. 38. “Meaning, mortality, and the possibility of Ethical Marxism.” Philosophy Department, University of San Francisco, September 2005. 37. “Mormon radical communitarianism: The LDS trajectory seen through Sartre’s categories.” Keynote address for the Conference on Mormonism and Social Justice, Utah Valley State University, Orem, March 2005. 36. “Ice-Age Marxism: Carnivorism, conjuncture, and the long turnaround.” Philosophy Department, Emory University, February 2004. 35. “Distances of the ethical in four science fiction novels.” Philosophy Department, Emory University, Atlanta, September 2002. 34. "History in the making? The events of September 11, 2001, and their aftermath." Humanities Division, Bethany College (Lindsborg, Kansas), October 2001. 33. "Music and chess, perspectives from the avant-garde." Philosophy Department and Music Department, Hastings College (Nebraska), September 2001. 32. "Cultural barometers in these postmodern times, or, Rock music is fifty years old, but so what?" Philosophy Department, Emporia State University (Kansas), September 2001. 31. "Music and meaning in light of the avant-garde." Ethnomusicology Program, University of Chicago, May 2001. 30. "Sartre and post-colonial theory." Philosophy Department, Lewis University (Romeoville, Illinois), February 2001. 29. "How would a (radical?) Christian critique of capitalism differ from a Marxist one?" Humanities Division, Bethany College (Lindsborg, Kansas), December 1999. 28. "Sartre: A philosopher of his century after his century." Philosophy Department, University of Kansas, December 1999. 27. "Reckoning with Christianity: Millennial reflections." Convocation talk at Kansas Wesleyan University, Salina, November 1999. 26. "Redemption in the impasse: Against the dictatorship of the secular." Departments of Philosophy and Cultural Studies, University of Wales at Cardiff, October 1999. 25. "Sartre: A philosopher of his century after his century." Philosophy Department, University of South Carolina, Columbia, October 1999. 24. "The dictatorship of the secular." Departments of Philosophy and Theology, Center for the Study of Religion and Society, Creighton University, Omaha, April 1999. 23. "Against the dictatorship of the secular." Philosophy Department, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah, April 1999. 22. "Sartre, Rorty, and the politics of contingency." Philosophy and Languages Department, Utah State University, Logan, April 1999.

21. "The avant-garde in rock music: Ono, Eno, beyond." Tanner Lecture, Utah State University, Logan, April 1999. 20. "The aesthetics of rock music." Philosophy and Languages Department, Utah State University, Logan, April 1999. 19. "Redemption in the impasse: an other communism." Keynote address to the Graduate Students Philosophy Conference. Philosophy Department, Villanova University, Philadelphia, March 1999. 18. "Some worries about 'Buddhism': Kant, Schopenhauer, Bryan Magee, and the morals of metaphysics." Philosophy Department, St. Mary's College, Notre Dame, January 1999. 17. “To flourish: The question of community." Philosophy Department, Loyola University, Chicago, November 1998. 16. "To flourish: The question of community." Philosophy Department, Furman University, Greenville, SC, October 1998. [Several papers under this title are taken from a work-in-progress with the same title.] 15. "Between Mao and Moses: Revisiting Sartre's dialogues with Benny Levy." Philosophy Department, University of Warwick, Coventry, England, June 1998. 14. "Music for postmodern times: Yes to Eno." Departments of English and Music, University of Sheffield, England, May 1998. 13. "Community and the question of truth." Departments of Philosophy and English, University of Liverpool, May 1998. 12. "The communitarian dilemma." University of Georgia Philosophy Graduate Student Conference, Athens, May 1997. 11. "Multiculturalism: consumerist or transformational? Or, Why class matters in discussions of race, gender, and sexuality." Loyola University of Chicago Undergraduate Philosophy Club, April 1996. 10. "Truth and flourishing: elements of a communitarian theory of knowledge." Lyceum Lecture Series, Philosophy Department, Middle Tennessee State University, Murphreesboro, TN, February 1996. 9. "False communitarianism and liberal illusions." Philosophy Department, Clemson University, Clemson, SC, February 1995. 8. "Generalization X." University Lecture Series, St. Edward's University, Austin, TX, September 1994. 7. "Beyond positivism and hermeneutics in the philosophy of history." Philosophy Department, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, August 1994. 6. "Going Neuromancer: Postmodern capitalism and the failure of the imagination." Graduate Program in Philosophy and English, Cultural Studies Collective, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, April 1994. 5. "Justice, prudential Marxism, and deconstruction." Philosophy Department, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT, March 1993. 4. "Habermas, Derrida, and the critique of pure reason." Philosophy Department, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT, March 1993. 3. "Participation." Philosophy Department, Loyola University of Chicago, April 1992. 2. "Ethics and the force of history: three possibilities in Kantian political philosophy." Philosophy Department, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, March 1992. 1. "Toward community: the matrix of liberalism, Marxism, and communitiarianism." Philosophy Department, Indiana University, December 1991.

5. Papers presented at other university meetings 94. "Simone de Beauvoir's China: The Long March." Diverse Lineages of Existentialism conference, St. Louis, June 2014. 93. "Sartre and political violence." Diverse Lineages of Existentialism conference, St. Louis, June 2014. 92. "From Moses to Mu: The contributions of John Cage to Zen music and Zen ideas." Comparative and Continental Philosophy Circle, Loyola Marymount University, Santa Barbara, Cali., March 2014. 91. "Communism, state, and utopia: Understanding Mao in the Context of Maurice Meisner and Alain Badiou." Conference on East Asia and Utopia, University of Shanghai, China, October 2013. 90. "Sartre in the context of comparative religion: Judaism, Christianity, and Buddhism." North American Sartre Society annual meeting, University of Windsor, Canada, October 2013. 89. "Toward Zen Maoism: ontology, compassion, politics." Comparative and Continental Philosophy Circle, Fudan University, Shanghai, March 2013. "Impasse, ensconsification, trauma: Much of what we know stands against us (Alain Badiou and the alternative to capitalism)." Rethinking Marxism, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, September 2013. "Zen Communism, Earth Sangha; From Christian Marxism to Buddhist Maoism, and beyond." Rethinking Marxism, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, September 2013. "The idea of communism in the Republics of Plato and Badiou." Rethinking Marxism, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, September 2013. 88. "'The nerve of practical unity is freedom': The question of Sartre's 'Cartesian Marxism' revisited." North American Sartre Society annual meeting, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, November 2012. 87. “Occupy at the Edge of the Void.” International Social Theory Consortium, Flagler College, St. Augustine, Florida, May 2012. 86. “Sgt. Pepper’s Legacy: The Beatles and (Rock Music) Aesthetics.” Philosophy Circle, DePaul University, Chicago, May 2012. 85. “In the last instance, Sartrean: After Althusser and Badiou.” North American Sartre Society semi-annual meeting, Montreal, April 2011. 84. “‘There is chaos everywhere, the situation is excellent’: Mao, Badiou, and the idea of Buddhist Marxism.” Comparative and Continental Philosophy Circle, Cork, Ireland, March 2011. 83. “Radical politics and the animal question: commodification, violence, redemption.” Radical Philosophy Association annual meeting, Eugene, Oregon, November 2010. "The persistence of deconstruction: results and prospects for social theory." International Social Theory Consortium, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, October 2010. 82. “Sartre and ‘integral humanity’: the Critique and anti-colonialism, fifty years on.” North American Sartre Society semi-annual meeting, Memphis, TN, November 2009. 81. Forum on my book, Ethical Marxism: The Categorical Imperative of Liberation. My response was titled, “Kant for communists.” Rethinking Marxism, Amherst, Mass., November

2009. 80. “Was Althusser from another planet? E.P. Thompson’s The Sykaos Papers and the humanism debate.” Rethinking Marxism, Amherst, Mass., November 2009. 79. “Badiou and actually-existing Maoism.” Rethinking Marxism, Amherst, Mass., November 2009. 78. “Sartre and Adorno.” North American Sartre Society, Mary Washington College, Maryland, April 2008. 77. Forums on Marxism and the Call of the Future at UC-Berkeley, UC-Los Angeles, and Columbia University, April/May 2007. 76. “Line without linearity, if that is possible: the chess/Go example in Mille Plateaux.” Comparative Literature Program annual conference, University of South Carolina, April 2007. 75. “Maoism and the call of the future: Bob Avakian and the “new synthesis.” Symposium on Mao and Maoism, Goldsmiths College, London, December 2006. 74. “Spirit in the material world: Spinoza, Kant, Marx.” Rethinking Marxism conference, Amherst, Mass., November 2006. 73. Forum on Marxism and the call of the future. Rethinking Marxism conference, Amherst, Mass., November 2006. 72. “The epistemology of hope and commitment: the intertwining of ethical and ‘religious’ perspectives from William James to Sartre and Derrida.” Comparative Literature Program annual conference, University of South Carolina, February 2006. 71. “Chess as cultural icon: the case of the great chess scene in ‘The Thomas Crown Affair.” Cultural Studies Program annual conference, Kansas State University, Manhattan, March 2005. 70. “Modalities, tonalities, politics, ferrets, squirrels: David Detmer and the politics of truth.” North American Sartre Society semi-annual conference, University of San Francisco, February 2005. 69. “Friendship under world-historical pressure: Sartre, Beauvoir, Camus.” North American Sartre Society semi-annual conference, University of San Francisco, February 2005. 68. “Biblical Marxism: Historical materialism and the Early Christian Movement.” Rethinking Marxism conference, Amherst, Mass., November 2003. 67. “Sartre and Arendt: Alive in the twentieth century.” North American Sartre Society semi-annual conference, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, September 2003. 66. “Stalin on the couch, Zizek to the Finland Station.” Conference on “The Desires of Psychoanalysis,” Comparative Literature Program, University of South Carolina, February 2002. 65. "Sartre and Deleuze: existential Marxism and postmodern anarchism." North American Sartre Society semi-annual conference, Loyola University, New Orleans, March 2002. 64. "Cultural barometers in these postmodern times, or, Rock music is fifty years old, but so what?" Conference on Cultural Memory, Comparative Literature Program, University of South Carolina, February 2001. 63. "Hegel or Kierkegaard? Dunayevskaya's critique of Sartre's Marxism, a response." U.K. Society for Sartrean Studies annual conference, French Institute, London, October 2001. 62. "Chess and philosophy." South Carolina Society for Philosophy, Coastal Carolina University (Myrtle Beach), February 2001. 61. "Rethinking crisis theory: will capitalism inevitably destroy the Earth?" Radical Philosophy Association annual conference, Loyola University, Chicago, October 2000. 60. "Derrida and the question of the "enemy" in Marxism." Rethinking Marxism

conference, Amherst, Mass., September 2000. 59. "Sartre, Marcuse, and the origins of existential Marxism." North American Sartre Society semi-annual meeting, Wilfred Laurier University, Waterloo, Ontario, September 2000. 58. "Mathesis and secularism: Foucault and the meaning of history." Conference on Foucault, History, and Technology, University of South Carolina, March 2000. 57. "Sartre: A philosopher of his century after his century." U.K. Society for Sartrean Studies, London, October 1999. 56. "Some worries about 'Buddhism': Kant, Schopenhauer, Bryan Magee, and the morals of metaphysics." South Carolina Society for Philosophy, Clemson University, February 1999. 55. "The politics of contingency in Sartre and Rorty." North American Sartre Society Semi-Annual Meeting, Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, February 1999. 54. "The relevance of Sartre's model of the radical intellectual in the time of postmodern capitalism." Conference on "marxisms beyond Marxism," Liverpool John Moores University, Liverpool, May 1998. 53. "Radical philosophy at the fin-de-millennium." Midwest Radical Activists and Scholars Annual Conference, Roosevelt University, Chicago, October 1997. 52. "Sartre and the critique of postmodern capitalism." North American Sartre Society Semi-Annual Meeting, Emory University, Atlanta, October 1997. 51. "Music in postmodern times: Jameson, Eno, wallpaper, perfume, etc." South Carolina Society for Philosophy, University of South Carolina-Beaufort, February 1997. 50. "Music of Yes: Form and Utopia." DePaul University Faculty Research Seminar Series (Humanities), Chicago, February 1997. 49. "Marxism and the countryside." Radical Philosophy Association Annual Conference, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, November 1996. 48. "The complexity problem, in theories of radical democracy." Midwest Critical Theory Roundtable, University of Illinois-Urbana, October 1996. 47. "Questions for a possible Marxism, under the specter of deconstruction." "Mourning (and) the Political: A Colloquium with Jacques Derrida," DePaul University, Chicago, October 1996. 46. "Elections: Still a trap for fools? Revisiting Sartre's 1973 essay." Sartre Society of North America semi-annual Meeting, Denison University, Granville, OH, May 1996. 45. "Virtual bread and cyber-circuses: The emergence of post-legitimation society." Conference on "From Microchip to Mass Media: Culture and the Technological Age." DePaul University, Chicago, May 1996. 44. "Radical democracy and the question of community: a response to proposals from pragmatism and critical theory." Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy, University of Toronto, March 1996. 43. Presentation on John Brooke's The Refiner's Fire: The Making of Mormon Cosmology, 1644-1844. Boston Sunstone Symposium/Boston University American Studies Department conference on "Mormons in America," November 1995. 42. "The specter of deconstruction." Socialist Scholars Conference Annual Meeting, Manhattan Borough Community College, New York, April 1995. 41. "Todd May's poststructuralist anarchism: questions." South Carolina Society for Philosophy Annual Meeting, University of South Carolina-Columbia, February 1995. 40. "Between Maoism and Judaism: Sartre's final ten years." Sartre Society of North America Semi-Annual Meeting, DePaul University, Chicago, October 1994.

39. "The city in social theory: a critique of the 'urban ideology' in traditional Marxism." Colloquium on "Rethinking the 'Urban Ideology' of the American Left: Perspectives on Sustainable Agriculture and the City," presented by the Open University of the Left, DePaul University, Chicago, April 1994. 38. "Nomad and empire, 2: Nietzschean politics revisited." Midwest Radical Activists and Scholars Annual Conference, Loyola University of Chicago, October 1993. 37. "The contemporary relevance of Mao to social theory." Midwest Radical Activists and Scholars Annual Conference, Loyola University of Chicago, October 1993. 36. "Going Neuromancer: postmodern capitalism." Midwest Radical Activists and Scholars Annual Conference, Loyola University of Chicago, October 1993. 35. "Community before ontology: personalism in Mormon cosmology." Conference on Persons, St. Mary's College, Notre Dame, IN, September 1993. 34. "Toward a non-Eurocentric social theory." Midwest Critical Theory Roundtable First Annual Meeting, St. Louis University, September 1993. 33. "Postmodern capitalism and the failure of the imagination." International Association for Philosophy and Literature Annual Meeting, Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, May 1993. 32. "Marginal subjects." Organized panel for the International Association for Philosophy and Literature Annual Meeting, Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, May 1993. 31. "The urban ideology: outline of a critique." South Carolina Society for Philosophy Annual Meeting, Wofford College, Spartanburg, February 1993. 30. "The patience of a cinder (thoughts on Derrida and Judaism)." American Academy of Religion Annual Meeting, San Francisco, November 1992. 29. "Some things I learned in Berkeley, or, Radical critique of the law is in the streets." International Society for the Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy, American Section (AMINTAPHIL) Semi-Annual Meeting, Muhlenberg College, Allentown, PA, October 1992. 28. "The response of the ethical to prudential Marxism." Central States Philosophy Association, University of Kansas, Lawrence, October 1992. 27. "Interpretation and responsibility: Excavating Davidson's ethical theory." International Association for Philosophy and Literature Annual Meeting, University of California at Berkeley, May 1992. 26. Participant in panel, "Anthropology and the texts of Jacques Derrida." American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting, Chicago, November 1991. 25. "The hardest questions: reflections on socialism after Emil Fackenheim." Midwest Radical Activists and Scholars Conference," Loyola University of Chicago, November 1991. 24. Co-organizer of sixteen panels on the theme, "Possibilities of Community." Midwest Radical Activists and Scholars Conference, Loyola University of Chicago, November 1991. 23. "The political space of Sartre in the text of Derrida." Sartre Society of North America Semi-Annual Meeting, University of Dayton, September 1991. 22. "Conceiving postsecular socialism." International Association for Philosophy and Literature Annual Meeting, Universite de Montreal, May 1991. 21. "The hermeneutics of religious belief: a critique of Alvin Plantinga's philosophical theology." South Carolina Society for Philosophy Annual Meeting, University of South Carolina-Columbia, February 1991. 20. "Marxism in the matrix of liberalism and communitarianism." Midwest Radical Activists and Scholars Conference, Loyola University of Chicago, October 1990.

19. Co-organizer of six panels on the theme, "Postmodernism and Radical Politics." Midwest Radical Activists and Scholars Conference, Loyola University of Chicago, October 1990. 18. "Community after liberalism (reflections before Rawls)." International Association for Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy, American Section (AMINTAPHIL) Annual Meeting, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, October 1990. 17. "Unenlightened socialism: Stalinism and the prospects for community." Socialist Scholars Conference, Manhattan Burrough Community College, New York, April 1990. 16. "Jesus Christ Deconstructor: radical hermeneutics and liberation theology in the recent work of John D. Caputo." Symposium on Hermeneutics and Catholic Philosophy, Conception Abbey Seminary College, Conception, MO, March 1990. 15. "The moral atmosphere: language and value in Davidson." Southwestern Philosophical Society, Memphis State University, November 1989. 14. "How Marxism became analytic." South Carolina Society for Philosophy Annual Meeting, Clemson University, Clemson, February 1989. 13. "Elements of a Derridean social theory." Society for Social and Political Philosophy, Iowa State University, Ames, March 1989. 12. "Blindness and Hindsight: a discussion of the Paul de Man controversy." Colloquium of the Graduate Association of Students in Philosophy, University of Kansas, Lawrence, November 1988. 11. “What's on? McLuhan and Lyotard," Society for Social and Political Philosophy Annual Meeting, Rockhurst College, Kansas City, April 1988. 10. "The Enlightenment's talking cure: Habermas." Southwestern Philosophical Society Annual Meeting, Wichita State University, November 1987. 9. "Differing velocities of postmodernism." American Society for Aesthetics Annual Meeting, University of Missouri-Kansas City, October 1987. 8. "The feminist path to postmodernity: Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse." Conference on Comparative Literature and Pedagogy, University of Kansas, Lawrence, September 1987. 7. "Apocalypse Derrida." Ninth Annual Graduate Student Philosophy Conference, University of Illinois-Urbana, April 1987. 6. "Politics of irony in Paul de Man." Missouri Philological Association Annual Meeting, Emporia State University, Emporia, KS, March 1987. 5. "Theory theory: Quine and ideology." South Carolina Society for Philosophy Annual Meeting, Coastal Carolina College, Myrtle Beach, January 1987. 4. "Power trip: Dune." Florida State University Comparative Literature and Film Circle Twelfth Annual Conference, "Crosscurrents: Art, History, Politics," Tallahassee, January 1987. 3. "Language and value in Stalin's Marxism and Problems of Linguistics." International Association for Philosophy and Literature Annual Meeting, University of Washington, Seattle, May 1986. 2. "Access/dissemination: You're already watching TV." Conference on Technology and Epistemology, Santa Clara University, February 1986. 1. "Foucault: Power/Counter-power." South Carolina Society for Philosophy, College of Charleston, February 1985. 6. Papers presented at community and other forums

28. Forum on Marxism and the call of the future. DePaul Center Barnes and Noble, May 2006. 27. Forum on Marxism and the call of the future. Revolution Books, Berkeley, September 2005. 26. “Fidelity to the event: Sartre, hope then, hope now.” Forum on Hope and Human Flourishing, Left of Center Bookstore, Chicago, November 2004. 25. "Mormonism and the reinvention of Christianity." Unitarian Universalist Church, Salina, Kansas, October 2001. 24. "History in the making? The events of September 11, 2001, and their aftermath." Unitarian Universalist Church, Salina, Kansas, October 2001. 23. "Capitalism and electoral politics." Open University of the Left, Chicago, October 2000. 22. "Orson Scott Card and the ontology of redemption." Sunstone Symposium, Salt Lake City, August 2000. 21. "Mormonism and Christianity, or, Are Christians Mormon?" Sunstone Symposium, Salt Lake City, August 2000. 20. "Judaism, Christianity, and the appeal of Buddhism for Western intellectuals." Unitarian Universalist Church, Salina, Kansas, July 2000. 19. "Music and meaning." Undergraduate Philosophy Club, DePaul University, Chicago, February 2000. 18. "To flourish: The question of community." Open University of the Left, Chicago, October 1998. 17. "What is radical philosophy?" College of Complexes, Chicago, August 1997. 16. "Community, meaning, and truth: response to Dennis Potter on the Mormon history debate." Chicago Sunstone Symposium, October 1995. 15. "Prophetic communitarianism: a synthesis of hermetic and sociological analyses of the origins of Mormonism." Sunstone Symposium, Salt Lake City, August 1995. 14. "Toward a queer sort of redemption: Sexual essentialism and Mormon theology." Sunstone Symposium, Salt Lake City, August 1995. 13. "Against Harold Bloom's interpretation of Mormonism." Chicago Sunstone Symposium, October 1994. 12. "Orson Pratt's organic chemistry." Chicago Sunstone Symposium, October 1994. 11. "Neither/Nor: Philosophical issues and confusions in the debate on Mormon historiography." Sunstone Symposium, Salt Lake City, August 1994. 10. "The ethical-ontological vision of Orson Scott Card." Sunstone Symposium, Salt Lake City, August 1994. 9. "The class structure of Nauvoo: Paris Commune on the Mississippi? (with some remarks on class structure of the Mormons in Utah, 1846-present)." Mormon History Association, Park City, UT, May 1994. 8. "Learning from the New Religious Movements: the Mormons and their contradictions." Open University of the Left, forum on "Religion and Social Movements in the United States, 7. "Why a Marxist might be interested in the Mormons." Chicago Sunstone Symposium, October 1993. 6. "Approaches to Zion: Why liberalism is not the answer." Sunstone Symposium, Salt Lake City, August 1993.

5. "Marxism and alterity." Open University of the Left, New World Resource Center, Chicago, December 1992. 4. "A letter on fascism." Open University of the Left, New World Resource Center, September 1991. 3. "Marxist possibilities in the age of postmodern capitalism: response to Alex Callinicos's Against Postmodernism: A Marxist Critique." Open University of the Left, New World Resource Center, May 1991. 2. "Against the strategy of cynicism: radical politics in the margins of the postmodern condition." Open University of the Left, New World Resource Center, April 1991. 1. "Conceiving postsecular socialism." Open University of the Left, New World Resource Center, April 1991.