‘Emergency Aesthetics’ at WHAP!

The first 2014 event of the West Hollywood Aesthetics and Politics lecture series features a workshop by philosopher Santiago Zabala on critical theory and Eurocentrism from 3 to 6 p.m. followed by an 8 p.m. lecture by Zabala about “Emergency Aesthetics,” with Ashley Hunt as respondent. Both take place in the library’s Common Room. Admission is free. Zabala is ICREA Research Professor (with tenure) in the Department of History of Philosophy, Aesthetics and Cultural Philosophy at the University of Barcelona. He is the author of “The Remains of Being” (2009) and “The Hermeneutic Nature of Analytic Philosophy” (2008), and co-author with G. Vattimo of “Hermeneutic Communism” (2011). Ashley Hunt is an artist and activist who uses video, photography, mapping and writing to engage social movements, modes of learning and public discourse.