*Deceased philosopher as twenty-first-century digital theory-object.
*This conference is not just about Richard Rorty the philosopher, but specifically about the electronic traces he left behind. "Memory, Ethics, and Literary Custodianship in the Era of Computational Media...." Maybe that's really about "pig in the era of sausage machine," but who knows – maybe the pig will outlast whole generations of sausage machine with comparative ease.
http://virtualpolitik.org/rorty/schedule.html
“Time Will Tell, But Epistemology Won't: In Memory of Richard Rorty”
A Celebration of Richard Rorty's Archive
May 14, 2010
Humanities Gateway 1030, UC Irvine
Rorty’s Legacy 9:00 - 9:30 AM
Elizabeth Losh, UC Irvine: Welcome
David Theo Goldberg, UC Irvine: Opening Remarks
Mary Rorty, Stanford: Memory, Ethics, and Literary Custodianship in the Era of Computational Media
Michelle Light, UC Irvine: “Designing the Born Digital Archive” 9:30-10:00 AM
Cultural Politics and the Born Digital, Michelle Light, Chair 10:00-11:00 AM
Dawn Schmitz, UC Irvine: “The Born-Digital Manuscript as Cultural Form and Intellectual Record”
Mark Poster, UC Irvine: “Digital and Analogue Archives”
Erin Obodiac, UC Irvine: “Digital Immunity”
Tom Hyry, UCLA, Respondent
Break: 11:00 - 11:15 AM
Christine Borgman, UCLA: “The Digital Archive: The Data Deluge Arrives in the Humanities” 11:15-11:45 AM
Rorty, Philosophy, and The Question Concerning Technology, David W. Smith, Chair 11:45 AM - 1:15 PM
Mark Wrathall, UC Riverside: “Responding to Rorty: Heidegger's ‘Academic Parochialism’ and the Technological Age”
Iain Thomson, University of New Mexico: “Rorty, Heidegger, and the Danger and Promise of the Technological Archive.”
LUNCH
Margaret Gilbert, UC Irvine: "Rorty and Human Rights" 2:15-2:40 PM
Rorty as a Public Intellectual, Jonathan Alexander, Chair 2:40 - 4:45
Ian Bogost, Georgia Tech: “We Think in Public”
Steven Mailloux, Loyola Marymount University: “Rhetorical Pragmatism and Histories of New Media: Rorty on Dreyfus on Kierkegaard”
21st Century Scholarship from Ali M. Meghdadi, Brian Garcia, Tae-Kyung Timothy Elijah Sung, UC Irvine: "Content Confronts Context"
Break: 4:45-5:00
Closing Speaker: Michael Bérubé, Pennsylvania State University: “Reading Rorty Rhetorically” 5:00-6:30
