Missed Encounters: Critique de la séparation between the Riot and the “Young Girl”

Jason E. Smith is Assistant Professor in the Graduate Art Department at Art Center College of Design (Pasadena). Recent publications include an essay on Alighiero Boetti and the “Italian 70s” in Alighiero Boetti: Game Plan (Museum of Modern Art, 2011), and, with Jean-Luc Nancy and Philip Armstrong, Politique et au-delà (Galilée, 2010). His translation of and introduction to Alain Badiou and Élisabeth Roudinesco's Jacques Lacan, Past Present is forthcoming from Columbia University Press. He will be a Fellow at the Cornell Society for the Humanities in 2013–14.