Brian Massumi, senior scholar in residence at the Society for the Humanities and professor of communication at the University of Montreal, delivered the plenary lecture for the Society for the Humanities'' public workshop, "Critical Mobilities: Thought, Culture, and Performance," on April 29, 2010.
Massumi specializes in the philosophy of embodied experience, media theory, and political philosophy.
The workshop is the culmination of a year-long research seminar and focuses on questions of performance, race/empire, and representation.