Lunch with Aaron Schuster Author of How to Research Like a Dog

Don't miss this opportunity to meet with writer and philosopher Aaron Schuster and get to know more about his book "How to Research Like a Dog: Kafka's New Science" over lunch. You can chat with him about his multifaceted career as an academic, writer, editor, and about his curatorial work.

Lunch with Aaron Schuster will be on March 25 at 12 PM at UU-133A in the Fleishman Center right after his book talk on March 24 at 5pm at IASH Room (LN 1106).


Due to limited space registration is required for this event. Email Ozzy Girit Heck: ogirithe@binghamton.edu if you are interested in attending.


Franz Kafka's “Investigations of a Dog” is a modern fable of philosophical adventure. It
recounts the quest of a lone, maladjusted dog who challenges the dogmatism of dog science and pioneers an original research program in pursuit of the mysteries of his self
and his world. In How to Research Like a Dog, Aaron Schuster uses the canine as a
guide dog to rediscover Kafka's fictional universe, while taking up the cause of this ingenious, melancholy, comical, and revolutionary thinker.

What is philosophy? Why is Kafka's new science the truest? How can the dog's adventures in theory inspire us to rethink the role and place of philosophy today? What is the strange kind of freedom that the dog discovers? And, why a dog?

Aaron Schuster is a writer and philosopher, who lives in Amsterdam. He works at the intersection of European philosophy and psychoanalysis, and engages with modernist literature, film, theater, and contemporary art. He is the author of The Trouble with Pleasure: Deleuze and Psychoanalysis, co-author of Sovereignty, Inc.: Three Essays in Politics and Enjoyment, and, most recently, How to Research Like a Dog: Kafka's New Science. He is also the editor of e-flux Notes.

Co-hosted with the Director of Graduate Studies for Department of Comparative Literature

If you anticipate a need for disability-related accommodations or auxiliary aids to attend or participate, please contact The Fleishman Center for Career and Professional Development at careers@binghamton.edu. We ask that you provide us with at least 3-5 days of advance notice regarding your equal access needs.

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