J.M. Bernstein is University Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the New School for Social Research. His writings include: The Fate of Art: Aesthetic Alienation from Kant to Derrida and Adorno (1992); Recovering Ethical Life: Jürgen Habermas and the Future of Critical Theory (1995); Adorno: Disenchantment and Ethics (2002); Against Voluptuous Bodies: Late Modernism and the Meaning of Painting (2006). His most recent book is Torture and Dignity: An Essay on Moral Injury (2015). He is working on a manuscript with the tentative title: Of Ecocide and Human Rights: Ethical Life in the Anthropocene.

RESPONSE ABILITY*: A MANIFESTO ON ECOCIDE
LECTURE / PERFORMANCE BY THE ARGENTINIAN COLLECTIVE ETCÉTERA, WITH JAY BERNSTEIN, DISTINGUISHED PROFESSOR OF PHILOSOPHY AT THE NEW SCHOOL, AND PERFORMANCE ARTIST L.M. BOGAD (presented at the ArtsLink Assembly 2021 in partnership with Vera List Center for Art and Politics)