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Red Sea - Red Square - Red Thread: A Philosophical Detective Story
Featuring Lydia Goehr and David Carrier
Thursday, May 12, 2022 1 p.m. Eastern / 10 a.m. Pacific
These free events are produced by The Brooklyn Rail.
Philosopher Lydia Goehr joins Rail Editor-at-Large David Carrier for a conversation. We conclude with a poetry reading by Laynie Browne.
Lydia Goehr
Professor and author Lydia Goehr teaches at Columbia University, and is a recipient of Mellon, Getty, and Guggenheim Fellowships. Her research specialties include the philosophy of music, aesthetics, critical theory, the philosophy of history, and 19th- and 20th-century philosophy. Goehr is the author of The Imaginary Museum of Musical Works: An Essay in the Philosophy of Music ; The Quest for Voice: Music, Politics, and the Limits of Philosophy [essays on Richard Wagner] ; Elective Affinities: Musical Essays on the History of Aesthetic Theory [essays on Adorno and Danto] , and co-editor with Daniel Herwitz of The Don Giovanni Moment . Her 2021 book from Oxford University Press is Red Sea-Red Square-Red Thread, A Philosophical Detective Story.
David Carrier
David Carrier taught philosophy in Pittsburgh and art history in Cleveland. He writes art criticism. His In Caravaggio’s Shadow: Naples as a Work of Art (London, 2025) is forthcoming.
The Rail has a tradition of ending our conversations with a poetry reading, and we're fortunate to have Dao Strom reading.
Dao Strom
Artist Dao Strom works with three “voices”—written, sung, visual—to explore hybridity and the intersection of personal and collective histories. She is the author of Instrument (Fonograf Editions, 2020) and its musical companion Traveler’s Ode (Antiquated Future Records, 2020); a bilingual poetry-art book, You Will Always Be Someone From Somewhere Else (AJAR Press); a memoir, We Were Meant To Be a Gentle People, and song cycle, East/West; and two books of fiction, The Gentle Order of Girls and Boys and Grass Roof, Tin Roof. Born in Vietnam, Strom grew up in the Sierra Nevada foothills of California and lives in Portland, Oregon. She is co-founder of two collective art projects, She Who Has No Master(s), and De-Canon.
We’d like to thank The Marion Boulton Kippy Stroud Foundation and Teiger Foundation for making these conversations possible, and for their support of our growing archive 🌈✨