Didier Debaise: "The Earth of the Moderns. How to Inherit Latour's Inquiry into Modes of Existences" - Lecture and Discussion
Didier Debaise: "The Earth of the Moderns. How to Inherit Latour's Inquiry into Modes of Existences" - Lecture and Discussion
Date
January 27th 2023, 6-8pm (CET), Zoom
The Reading Circle of the Research Group “Poststructuralism, Gender Theory, Psychoanalysis” at the University of Vienna cordially invites you to the next public event:
Didier Debaise (Université Libre de Bruxelles)
"The Earth of the Moderns. How to Inherit Latour's Inquiry into Modes of Existences"
January 27th 2023, 6-8pm (CET)
Lecture and Discussion (online)
Debaise is currently working on a series of texts around Bruno Latour's thought. Thus, in his lecture, he will present his research: bringing together his interpretation of Whitehead (“Cosmology of the Moderns”), laid out in the book Nature as Event. The Lure of the Possible, with Latour’s Inquiry into Modes of Existence.
Register here to get the Zoom-Link and reference texts: ralf.gisinger@univie.ac.at
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Didier Debaise is Professor for Contemporary Philosophy at the Free University of Brussels (ULB) and permanent researcher at the Fonds National de la Recherche Scientifique. His main areas of research are contemporary forms of speculative philosophy, philosophy of nature, and links between American pragmatism and the French contemporary philosophy. He wrote several books on Whitehead’s philosophy (Un empirisme spéculatif, Le vocabulaire de Whitehead and L’appât des possibles), edited volumes on pragmatism (Vie et experimentation), on the history of contemporary metaphysics (Philosophie des possessions), and he wrote numerous papers on Bergson, Tarde, Souriau, Simondon, and Deleuze. Two of his books appeared in English: Nature as Event (Duke University Press) and A Speculative Empiricism (Edinburgh University Press).
Since 2021 the Reading and Research Circle PS-GT-PA (initiated by Arno Böhler) includes public events additionally to the monthly readings. This lecture follows a workshop in December with Erin Manning and Brian Massumi on “The Three Ecologies”.
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Avital Ronell: "The Many Closures of Deconstruction" - Lecture and Discussion
Date
June 15th 2022, 6-8pm (CET), Zoom
The Reading Circle of the Research Group “Poststructuralism, Gender Theory, Psychoanalysis” at the University of Vienna cordially invites you to the next public event:
Avital Ronell (New York)
"The Many Closures of Deconstruction"
Lecture and Discussion (online)
Register to get the Zoom-Link: ralf.gisinger@univie.ac.at
Information
Avital Ronell is Professor for German and Comparative Literature at New York University and one of the most radical thinkers of our time. In her work, she has written extensively about deconstruction, poststructuralism, feminist philosophy, technical philosophy, political theory and psychoanalysis.
Since 2021 the Reading and Research Circle PS-GT-PA (initiated by Arno Böhler) includes public events additionally to the monthly readings. This lecture follows a workshop in December with Erin Manning and Brian Massumi on “The Three Ecologies”.
Workshop-Reihe: Was wird der Poststrukturalismus gewesen sein? (2022)
Termine
20.05.22, 10:00–13:00 (CET), HS 2i NIG: Kas Saghafi (Memphis), mit Beiträgen von Flora Löffelmann und Angelika Seppi (Achtung, Raum geändert!)
Organisation und Moderation: Eva-Maria Aigner, Arno Böhler, Jonas Oßwald
Infos und Anmeldung: eva-maria.aigner@univie.ac.at
Abstract
Die Workshop-Reihe geht von dem Befund aus, dass die theoretische Strömung des Poststrukturalismus zwar mit einer konstanten Reihe an Vertreter*innen assoziiert wird, es aber dennoch keinen Konsens über einen inhaltlichen Standpunkt gibt, der von all diesen Vertreter*innen geteilt wird. Das Label »Poststrukturalismus« funktioniert in pragmatischer Hinsicht, obwohl es inhaltlich unterbestimmt ist. Dies spiegelt sich aktuell auch in Debatten zu Post-Truth, in denen Kritiker*innen immer wieder die vermeintliche Verstrickung des Poststrukturalismus behaupten, ohne dabei dessen spezifische Kohärenz benennen zu können.
Ausgehend von dieser Situation unternimmt die Reihe den Versuch einer historischen und systematischen Situierung des Poststrukturalismus, die sich gleichzeitig als eine Art Resümee dieser theoretischen Strömung und als Befragung ihrer Aktualisierungspotenziale versteht.
Wenn die Workshop-Reihe also die, durchaus polemisierende, Frage stellt, was es denn nun gewesen sein wird, was man als Poststrukturalismus bezeichnete, soll das Futur II, das Jacques Derrida als Zeitform eines Sprechens über das Ereignis geprägt hat, sowohl zu einer Historisierung als auch Öffnung auf einen zukünftigen »Poststrukturalismus« einladen. Die Veranstaltung schließt an die Workshop-Reihe 2020/21 an.
Workshop: Three Ecologies with Erin Manning & Brian Massumi
Date
17.12.21, 6-8pm (CET), Zoom
We invite you cordially to this public session of the Reading Circle "Poststructuralism-Gender Theory-Psychoanalysis" on Guattari's The Three Ecologies with Erin Manning & Brian Massumi.
Register to get the text and Zoom-Link: ralf.gisinger@univie.ac.at
Information
In The Three Ecologies (1989) Félix Guattari outlined his unique concept of ecosophy, a connection of three ecological realms: environmental, social, mental ecology. He pleads for a transversal understanding of ecology and therefore develops an ethico-aesthetic program in times of Integrated World Capitalism (IWC).
In this public workshop of the Reading Circle (Research Group “PS-GT-PA”) we will discuss the text with Erin Manning and Brian Massumi.
Erin Manning (Concordia University) & Brian Massumi (University of Montreal) founded the 3ecologies Project, an autonomous organization for research-creation (following the SenseLab) that explores the active relations between art, philosophy and politics.
The Reading Circle was formed by members of the Research Group "Poststructuralism-Gender Theory-Psychoanalysis" early 2021 under the guidance of Arno Böhler and meets monthly to discuss texts that are in the fields of interest of the researchers. Readings until now were Barad, Simondon, Deleuze/Guattari, Malabou, Althusser, Chakrabarty, Soka. Since October 2021 the new format of the Reading Circle includes public workshops with leading experts on the discussed topics.
Organisation: Arno Böhler, Manu Sharma, Mathias Schönher, Ralf Gisinger
Workshop-Reihe: Was wird der Poststrukturalismus gewesen sein? (2020/21)
Termine
Organisation und Moderation: Eva-Maria Aigner, Arno Böhler, Jonas Oßwald
Infos und Anmeldung: eva-maria.aigner@univie.ac.at
(English version)
Diskussionsrunde: Resilienzen?
Termin:
05.03.21, 18:00 (online, Vienna Time)
Organisation: Stefanie Graefe und Kilian Jörg
Zoom-Link: zoom.us/j/92301681120
Meeting-ID: 923 0168 1120
Kenncode: 843994
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Jour Fixe
Der nächste Jour Fixe des Fachbereichs wird sich am 04.12. (18:30 Uhr, HS 3D, NIG) mit Spivaks Kritik an Deleuze und Foucault beschäftigen. Geleitet und moderiert wird dieser Lektüre-Workshop von Murat Ates und Christoph Hubatschke. Bei Interesse, bitte eine kurze Mail an murat.ates@univie.ac.at für die Zusendung der Texte.