Date: Sunday, June 21, 2026
Time: 3–4:30 p.m.
Location: Mitchell Art Museum
Join us for a group seminar on the work of Julia Kristeva and Karl Marx - two authors whose work underpinned the curatorial vision behind our current exhibition "Abjection and Alienation: Video Works of Martha Rosler and Pipilotti Rist", on view now in /m's Videodrome.
Jenny Cawood, the Curator of Videodrome Exhibitions, will begin this discussion with an opening question, in the tradition of the St. John's Seminar. Please come prepared to ask questions, listen to your peers, and analyze these texts in relation to the video works on view.
This event will be catered with coffee and pastries, which we will enjoy while we discuss theses texts together!
If we can expect you to attend, please RSVP to mitchellartmuseum@sjc.edu, so that we can have accurate numbers for our caterer.
The Readings:
Julia Kristeva, Powers of Horror (1981)
- Chapter One, "Approaching Abjection". Read up until the "Dostoyevsky" section (stop after "Outside of the Sacred, the Abject is Written"). This is about 18 pages of reading.
- Chapter Eight, " Those Females Who Can Wreck the Infinite". Entire chapter, 17 pages of reading.
Karl Marx, Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844
- the "Estranged Labor" section of the First Manuscript. About 8 pages of reading.
- the "The Power of Money in Bourgeois Society" section of the Third Manuscript. 4 pages.
These readings are both available as PDFs online:
https://www.thing.net/~rdom/ucsd/Zombies/Powers%20of%20Horror.pdf
https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/download/pdf/Economic-Philosophic-Manuscripts-1844.pdf
We look forward to welcoming you to this event!
Best,
The /m Team
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Mitchell Art Museum 60 College Ave, Annapolis, MD 21401
When
Sunday, June 21, 2026 · 12:00 PM – 1:30 PM