Samuel Weber. Text, Image and Visuality. 2009 1/9

http://www.egs.edu/ Samuel Weber, critic, writer and thinker, lecturing about language, literature, text, images and the image, visuality, attention, interaction and relation, critical theory, media, radio and the time before tv, radio nights, perception, the concept of the serial, narrative and repetition, heroes, superman, batman, robin, shadow, lone ranger, and the masked rider. Free open video lecture for the students and faculty of European Graduate School, EGS Media and Communications Program Studies Department, Saas-Fee, Switzerland, Europe, 2009 Samuel Weber.

Samuel Weber is Avalon Foundation Professor of Humanities at Northwestern and co-director of its Paris Program in Critical Theory. Professor Weber studied with Paul de Man and Theodor W. Adorno, whose book, Prisms, he co-translated into English. The translation of, and introduction to Theodor Adorno's most important book of cultural criticism helped define the way in which the work of the Frankfurt School would be read and understood in the English-speaking world.

Samuel Weber is an important and influential critic, writer and thinker who has authored many books over several decades, including Unwrapping Balzac, The Legend of Freud, Institution and Interpretation, Return to Freud and Mass Mediauras. Professor Weber has also published books on Lacan and Freud, as well as on the relation of institutions and media to interpretation. In the 1980s he worked in Germany as a dramaturg in theater and opera productions. Out of the confrontation of that experience with his work in critical theory came the book, Theatricality as Medium, published in 2004 by Fordham University Press.

In 2005 Samuel Weber published Targets of Opportunity: On the Militarization of Thinking, also at Fordham and Benjamin's -abilities, published by Harvard UP. That book, as well as several others, are currently being translated into Chinese and will be published by Beijing University Press. His current research projects include "Toward a Politics of Singularity" and "The Uncanny". Professor Samuel Weber began teaching at the Free University of Berlin and subsequently taught at the Johns Hopkins University and UCLA before coming to Northwestern in 2001.

Accessible and challenging, Weber's writing offers a rewarding investigation into the connections between literary and cultural studies, media and technology, and philosophy and aesthetics, in the context of significant intellectual debates and developments linking Europe and North America. A noted reader of Freud, Heidegger and Derrida, among many others, the critical practice of Weber's various texts is explored in detail, along with his studies in philosophy, aesthetics, deconstruction, media, technology, psychoanalysis and theatre.

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