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[Faculty]
[Affiliated Faculty]
[Staff & Advisors] [Emeriti]
 Spieker specializes in European modernism, with an emphasis on the Eastern
European avant-gardes, postwar and contemporary literature and art
(especially in Eastern and Central Europe), and critical theory. Spieker's
recent graduate seminars have included: "European Dada" (2005-2006);
"Foucault and the Future of Critical Theory" (2006-2007); "Surrealism and
Psychoanalysis" (2005-2006); "LA/Moscow: Repetitions" (2004-2005). In 2005,
Spieker organized a two-day conference devoted to the digital image at the
intersection of science and art. Spieker's most recent book-length
publication is "The Big Archive. The Birth of Modernist Art from the Spirit
of the Bureaucracy" (forthcoming from MIT Press, 2008). He is the publisher
of ARTMargins (www.artmargins.com). For more information, visit his web
page: http://www.gss.ucsb.edu/faculty/spieker/
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