Cary Wolfe presents "The Event-Machine, or, Monstrosities of Meaning from Deconstruction to Systems Theory" at the international summer academy in Frankfurt on August 26, 2004. The lecture is in english.

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Cary Wolfe is Bruce and Elizabeth Dunlevie Professor of English at Rice University, in Houston, Texas. He has written extensively on critical theory and 20th century U.S. culture in such journals as Cultural Critique, diacritics, New Literary History, New German Critique, and boundary2. His book Critical Environments: Postmodern Theory and the Pragmatics of the "Outside" (Minnesota, 1998) explores the relations between systems theory, pragmatism, and post-structuralism in the theoretical and political contexts of postmodernity. His most recent books—Animal Rites: American Culture, the Discourse of Species, and Posthumanist Theory (Chicago, 2003), and the edited collection Zoontologies: The Question of the Animal (Minnesota, 2003)—explore the philosophical, ethical, and cultural dimensions of species difference and the discourse of animality in contemporary theory and culture. His current project, What Is Posthumanism?, maps the contours of posthumanism across the terrains of contemporary theory, art, film, and architecture. A chapter from this text—on voice, visuality, and the prosthetics of subjectivity in the film Dancer in the Dark—may be accessed online at the journal ebr: electronic book review.