Workshop & Lecture Series 'Speculative Thinking in Literature and Philosophy' (Organisation: Armen Avanessian and Melanie Sehgal)
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Organisation: | Armen Avanessian (FU-Berlin), Melanie Sehgal (EUV Frankfurt/Oder) | Workshop Series The starting point of the workshop series is the current interest in speculative thought. The workshops aim at putting the concept of speculation in perspective by determining its relation to literature. What does speculative thought mean, what does speculation as such mean? We suspect that speculation is to be defined less by specific objects or contents of thought but to be determined as a procedure. What do speculative procedures in philosophy and literary writing look like? The experimental setup of the workshops seeks to... Mehr
21.5.2013
Howard Caygill
The Folly of Speculation
19:00Haus der Kulturen der WeltJohn-Foster-Dulles-Allee 1010557 Berlin
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The Critique of Pure Reason begins by evoking the folly of speculation - the 'peculiar fate' of reason is to drive itself to and beyond the point of madness. My talk will reflect on the implications of this proximity of critique, speculation and psychopathology for speculative philosophy and for the thinking of madness. Mehr
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22.5.2013
Howard Caygill
Immanent Critique in Walter Benjamin
14:00Haus der Kulturen der WeltJohn-Foster-Dulles-Allee 1010557 Berlin
26.5.2013
Steven Shaviro
Dark Origins
19:00Haus der Kulturen der WeltJohn-Foster-Dulles-Allee 1010557 Berlin
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Chris Beckett's science fiction novel Dark Eden can be described as an exercise in speculative anthropology. On a dark planet, warmed only by geothermal energy, the descendants of a pair of stranded human astronauts must reinvent civilization from scratch, guided only by garbled memories of Earth passed down for generations from the original pair of settlers. The novel recounts a "fall" from a seeming state of nature into a more historical sort of social arrangement, through a series of... Mehr
BiografieSteven Shaviro is the DeRoy Professor of English at Wayne State University. He is the author of The Cinematic Body (1993), Doom Patrols: A Theoretical Fiction About Postmodernism (1997), Connected, Or, What It Means To Live in the Network Society (2003), Without Criteria: Kant, Whitehead, Deleuze, and Aesthetics (2009), and Post-Cinematic Affect (2010). His work in progress involves studies of speculative realism, of post-continuity styles in contemporary cinema, of music videos, and of...Mehr
27.5.2013
Steven Shaviro
Science Fiction and Speculative Philosophy
14:00 - 18:00Haus der Kulturen der WeltJohn-Foster-Dulles-Allee 1010557 Berlin
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BiografieSteven Shaviro is the DeRoy Professor of English at Wayne State University. He is the author of The Cinematic Body (1993), Doom Patrols: A Theoretical Fiction About Postmodernism (1997), Connected, Or, What It Means To Live in the Network Society (2003), Without Criteria: Kant, Whitehead, Deleuze, and Aesthetics (2009), and Post-Cinematic Affect (2010). His work in progress involves studies of speculative realism, of post-continuity styles in contemporary cinema, of music videos, and of...Mehr
16.11.2013
Anne Sauvagnargues
Literature as Experimentation: Gilles Deleuze and Literature
11:00-16:00Europa Universität ViadrinaGroße Scharnnstraße 5915230 Frankfurt/Oder
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Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari describe art as a capturing of forces. From their early works on, Deleuze's book on Proust (1964) or Guattari's texts on writing as a form of therapy for example, literature plays an eminent role in their philosophy. For Deleuze, the artistic effect of literature is not reducible to a purely linguistic dimension, but rather calls for a new semiotic that goes beyond the discursive: a capturing of forces, a new semiotics of the affects, a logic of sensation. Mehr
30.5.2014
Isabelle Stengers
Narrative Speculations
11:00-16:00Europa Universität ViadrinaGroße Scharnnstraße 5915230 Frankfurt/Oder
14.4.2013
Peter Osborne
The Postconceptual Condition
A Report on Art
19:00Haus der Kulturen der WeltJohn-Foster-Dulles-Allee 1010557 Berlin
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Historically, one of the functions of art history has been to provide models of periodization. Classical, romantic, modern, postmodern andcontemporary all have their origins as art-historical concepts, which became generalized to theorize wider cultural processes and thus being transformed, and reflected back upon its art-historical meaning, changing it in turn. Wherein lies the contemporaneity of contemporary art? And what does it have to tell us about our cultural condition more broadly?... Mehr
BiografiePeter Osborne is Professor of Modern European Philosophy and Director of the Centre for Research in Modern European Philosophy (CRMEP), Kingston University London, and a long-standing member of the editorial collective of the British journal Radical Philosophy. His books include The Politics of Time: Modernity and Avant-Garde (1995; 2011), Philosophy in Cultural Theory (2000), Conceptual Art (2002), Marx (2005) and El arte más allá de la estética: Ensayos filosóficos sobre el arte...Mehr
7.3.2013
Arne De Boever
Finance Fictions
11:00 - 14:00Haus der Kulturen der WeltJohn-Foster-Dulles-Allee 1010557 Berlin
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This workshop will aim to assess the contemporary novel's relation to three buzzwords in late twentieth- and early twenty-first century theory: the state of exception, biopolitics, and speculation. Moving through his books States of Exception in the Contemporary Novel and Narrative Care, literary critic and critical theorist Arne De Boever will return to the contemporary novel once again to investigate the effects of finance capitalism on the human psyche.- registration prior to the workshop... Mehr
BiografieArne De Boever teaches American Studies in the School of Critical Studies at the California Institute of the Arts, where he also directs the School's MA Program in Aesthetics and Politics. He has published numerous articles on literature, film, and critical theory and is editor of Parrhesia: A Journal of Critical Philosophy. He also edits the critical theory/philosophy section of the Los Angeles Review of Books. He has written two books--States of Exception in the Contemporary Novel...Mehr
6.3.2013
Amanda Beech
Final Machine
19:00Haus der Kulturen der WeltJohn-Foster-Dulles-Allee 1010557 Berlin
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Amanda will speak to her recent video work, Final Machine, 2013; a three channel video installation (45mins). The work continues Beech's examination into the nexus of art, politics and morality and interrogates the realist status of the image and the contract this holds with systems of power. Beech uses Louis Althusser's lecture series 'The Spontaneous Philosophy of the Scientists' (1968), to predicate a politics that is recalcitrant to ideological systems. The work questions how it is... Mehr
BiografieAmanda Beech makes artworks, writes and collaborates on curatorial projects. Her research looks to the possibilities of a realist critique in the context of neo-liberal democracy by examining the tenability of a politics in the context of contingency. Her work is a research of art's material and forceful claims both in the architecture of exhibition making and in discrete works, constructing narratives that take in particular biographies, social mythologies, philosophical inquiry and...Mehr
6.3.2013
Beyond the Contemporary Condition
Roundtable with Armen Avanessian, Amanda Beech (CalArts), Suhail Malik (Bard College) and Robin MacKay (Goldsmith College)
14-17:00Torstrasse 7010119 BerlinWorkshop Series 'Contemporary Realism and Materialism' 2012
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The series of workshops examines the nature of thought as well as the relationship between nature and thought. Based on developments in "analytic" and "continental" philosophy that are addressing anew Kant's transcendental philosophy and the history of post-Kantian thought in general, this research seminar engages with the question of how the relationship between mind and world is conceptualized in contemporary thought: in metaphysics and in relation to recent developments in cognitive- and neurosciences. In interrogating key issues of contemporary philosophical research, such as the relationshipbetween concepts and objects or... Mehr
11.5.2012
Iain Hamilton Grant
Origins of Dynamics
19:00Haus der Kulturen der WeltJohn-Foster-Dulles-Allee 1010557 BerlinBiografieIain Hamilton Grant (University of the West of England) is author Philosophies of Nature After Schelling. He is professor of philosophy at the University of the West of England.Mehr
10.5.2012
Iain Hamilton Grant
The Universe in the Universe:
System, Motion and Dimension in the Concept
11:00SFB SitzungsraumAltensteinstraße 2-414195 Berlin
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About this Workshop:
How does thinking arrive in the world? This paper will draw out aspects of the Selbstsetzung hypothesis attaching to the theory of the concept as initially outlined in German Idealist philosophy, and particularly in Schelling, as part of the career of the Middle Platonist theory of phusike ennoia, or the physical understanding. As such, its primary aim is to resituate the concept in the world while preserving the asymmetry between the latter and the former.
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BiografieIain Hamilton Grant (University of the West of England) is author Philosophies of Nature After Schelling. He is professor of philosophy at the University of the West of England.Mehr
4.5.2012
Ray Brassier
That Which is Not
19:00Haus der Kulturen der WeltJohn-Foster-Dulles-Allee 1010557 BerlinBiografieRay Brassier (American University Beirut) is author of Nihil Unbound. Enlightenment and Extinction. He is professor of philosophy at the American University in Beirut.Mehr
4.5.2012
Ray Brassier
Representation and Picturing
11:00SFB SitzungsraumAltensteinstraße 2-414195 Berlin
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About this Workshop:
Sellars' scientific realism postulates a limitrophic convergence between the coherence of our representations and the adequacy of our picturings of reality. The distinction is controversial and some Sellarsians argue that Sellars' notion of "picturing" is best abandoned. This talk will argue the contrary.
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BiografieRay Brassier (American University Beirut) is author of Nihil Unbound. Enlightenment and Extinction. He is professor of philosophy at the American University in Beirut.Mehr
20.4.2012
Quentin Meillassoux
Iteration, Reiteration, Repetition
A Speculative Analysis of the Meaningless Sign
11:00SFB SitzungsraumAltensteinstraße 2-414195 Berlin
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Quentin Meillassoux is a professor of philosophy at École Normale Supérieure, Paris. He is author of After Finitude. An Essay on the Necessity of Contingency and Le nombre et la sirène'.
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This paper provides a critique of post-Kantian philosophy,which is organised around the idea that we only have access to the correlation between thinking and being. Against "correlationism" − that is, the doctrine that mind and world, or representation and reality, cannot be... Mehr
BiografieQuentin Meillassoux unterrichtet Philosophie an der École Normale Supérieure, Paris. Er ist Autor von Nach der Endlichkeit. Versuch über die Notwendigkeit der Kontigenz. Mehr
19.4.2012
Quentin Meillassoux
Iteration and Repetition. Ontology of the Meaningless Sign
19:00Haus der Kulturen der WeltJohn-Foster-Dulles-Allee 1010557 Berlin
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Vortragsreihe
Quentin Meillassoux is a professor of philosophy at École Normale Supérieure, Paris. He is author of After Finitude. An Essay on the Necessity of Contingency and Le nombre et la sirène'.
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BiografieQuentin Meillassoux unterrichtet Philosophie an der École Normale Supérieure, Paris. Er ist Autor von Nach der Endlichkeit. Versuch über die Notwendigkeit der Kontigenz. Mehr
12.4.2012
Graham Harman
I am also of the Opinion that Materialism must be destroyed
11:00SFB SitzungsraumAltensteinstraße 2-414195 Berlin
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About this Workshop:
The speculative realist movement centered on the critique of what Quentin Meillassoux calls "correlationism"-- the idea that we cannot think of world without human or world without human, but only of their primal interrelation. But as soon as we pass beyond that point of agreement, the various authors of speculative realism have little in common. This lecture argues against the various materialist versions of speculative realism, and in favor of a realism of individual... Mehr
BiografieGraham Harman (American University Cairo) is author of various books. He recently published The Quadruple Object. He is also Co-editor of The Speculative Turn. Continental Materialism and Realism. Harman is professor of philosophy at the American University in Cairo.Mehr
11.4.2012
Graham Harman
Strange Realism
19:00Haus der Kulturen der WeltJohn-Foster-Dulles-Allee 1010557 BerlinBiografieGraham Harman (American University Cairo) is author of various books. He recently published The Quadruple Object. He is also Co-editor of The Speculative Turn. Continental Materialism and Realism. Harman is professor of philosophy at the American University in Cairo.Mehr
12.3.2012
Martin Hägglund
The Trace of Time and Death of Life: Bergson, Heidegger, Derrida
11:00SFB SitzungsraumAltensteinstraße 2-414195 Berlin
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About this Workshop:
This essay develops Derrida's logic of the trace in relation to the philosophical problem of time and the revival of "life" as a central category in contemporary thinking. Through a critical interrogation of Bergson and Heidegger's conceptions of temporality, I show how the logic of the trace articulates an originary co-implication of the organic and the inorganic, the event and the machine. Refuting any vitalist conception of life—as well as any conception of an... Mehr
BiografieMartin Hägglund (Harvard University) is a Junior Fellow der Harvard Society of Fellows. He is author of Radical Atheism: Derrida and the Time of Life.Mehr