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Dr. Hoon Song (University of Minnesota Professor of Anthropology, American Studies, and Asian American Studies): “‘Peter’ and ‘Paul’, According to Bergson and Marx: Toward A Multirealist Methodology for an Anti-Global Society.”

April 24, 2014 – 4 pm

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PETER AND PAUL PART I

PETER AND PAUL PART 2

PETER AND PAUL PART 3

Practically every major Western theorist of note has a passage or two about “Peter” and “Paul.” Both Henri Bergson and Karl Marx enlist the services of Peter and Paul to exemplify the irreducibility of the virtual, non-liveable dimension of the “All.” Specifically, for Bergson, it is to demonstrate the shared “single time” of simultaneity. For Marx, it is to show the multiplicity of contemporary times shared by “humanity” — read antagonism or historicity. This talk introduces the so-called “multirealist” or “multinaturalist” turn in the contemporary anthropology by way of Bergson’s and Marx’s Peter and Paul. The talk concludes with a preparatory methodological note on the usefulness of the multirealist conceit of the non-liveable All for approaching North Korea, a society which conceives itself against the global multiculturalist consensus.