Kiarina Kordela is a professor in the Department of German Studies and Russian at Macalester College where she is also working closely with the Department of Media and Cultural Studies. Both her research and teaching focus on the relation between economic structures and metaphysics in secular capitalist modernity.
Her recent publications include "$urplus (Spinoza, Lacan)," a volume in the SUNY series Insinuations: Philosophy, Psychoanalysis, Literature (ed. Charles Shepherdson, SUNY Press, 2007) see "Capital: At Least It Kills Time (Spinoza, Marx, Lacan, and Temporality)," Rethinking Marxism 18:4 (October 2006): 539-563, and "Marx, Condensed and Displaced" in The Dreams of Interpretation: A Century Down the Royal Road, ed. Catherine Liu, John Mowitt, Thomas Pepper, and Jackie Spice, (The University of Minnesota Press, 2007).
Official Website: http://www.ias.umn.edu/collabs08-09/TransnationalFilm.php
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