Events & Calendars Professor David Bates from UC Berkeley: "Catastrophe & Human Order: From Political Theology to Political Physiology"

On Monday, Dec. 9, at 4:30 p.m. in Room 100 of Clark House, David Bates, professor of rhetoric at the University of California, Berkeley, will present a paper entitled “Catastrophe & Human Order: From Political Theology to Political Physiology.” This is the third presentation in a series of seminars that will take place this year as part of the Copeland Colloquium Seminar Series “Permanent Catastrophe?”

Professor Bates is past director of the Berkeley Center for New Media. His research focuses on the history of legal and political ideas, and on the relationship between technology, science and the history of human cognition. Bates’s most recent work includes "States of War: Enlightenment Origins of the Political" (Columbia University Press, 2012). His current research project, "Human Insight: An Artificial History of Natural Intelligence," explores technological and physiological conditions of human cognition from the early scientific revolution to artificial intelligence.

To view a draft of the paper that will be presented at this seminar, please see the Copeland Colloquium website: https://www.amherst.edu/academiclife/colloquia/copeland_colloquium/desc…-