Jason Smith
Professor
Grad Art
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Biographys
Jason E. Smith is the former Chair of the Graduate Art MFA program at ArtCenter College of Design. His writing and research are largely concerned with contemporary art and aesthetics, modern continental philosophy (Spinoza, Hegel, 20th century), and post-1968 political thought (primarily French and Italian). He has published in Artforum, Critical Inquiry, Parrhesia, Radical Philosophy, South Atlantic Quarterly and Theory&Event, among other places. With Jean-Luc Nancy and Philip Armstrong, he has published Politique et au-delà (Galilée, 2010). He recently edited and contributed to a special issue of Grey Room devoted to the films of Guy Debord, and is currently working on a monograph on the same subject. He was a Cornell Society for the Humanities Fellow in 2013-14.
Classes
- ART-622A-01: Master's Project D
- ART-522A-01: Master's Project B
- ART-501-01: Graduate Seminar
- ART-520-03: TS: Politics of Pictures
- ART-421-01: Graduate Seminar
- ART-570-01: Summer Workshop