Events
May
More than a lot — Displacements in ontology
Saturday 10 May 2008 - Sunday 11 May 2008
Auditorium, Jan van Eyck Academie, Maastricht
September
Politics and Thought
Saturday 27 September 2008 - Sunday 28 September 2008
Jan van Eyck Academie, Auditorium
March
Materialism of Excess: Versus Laboratory ICI-Berlin/JVE-Maastricht common session in Berlin
Friday 27 March 2009
10am - 1pm ICI-Berlin Christinenstrasse 18-19, 10119 Berlin
November
Form and Formalism
Saturday 07 November 2009 - Sunday 08 November 2009
Auditorium
December
Screening: Facs of Life
Tuesday 01 December 2009
21h projection room
February
Screening: Koji Wakamatsu's "United Red Army"
Tuesday 02 February 2010
21h Rm. 201
June
On Jia Zhang-Ke's "24 City"
Tuesday 08 June 2010
11h-12 JVE Academie
More than a lot — Displacements in ontology
Saturday 10 May 2008 - Sunday 11 May 2008
Auditorium, Jan van Eyck Academie, Maastricht
Ontology has traditionally been defined in terms of the unity of an essence, to which a multiplicity of qualities and accidents can be related. One of the major contributions of contemporary philosophy is the opposite idea, the fact that being can be defined as the gathering of an infinite multiplicity of heterogeneous elements that appears as one. Against the separation of what is essential from what is accidental, ontology today places emphasis on accidents, multiplicities and heterogeneities.
But how to test the limits of this configuration of thought – limits which are located at the points of intrusion of non-philosophical elements, taken from psychoanalysis, aesthetics and politics? With our speakers we will examine three perspectives that seem to displace the relation between being and multiplicity into new configurations: nothingness, undecidability and excess.
This conference is organized and chaired by Bruno Besana and Ozren Pupovac as part of the Versus Laboratory research project.
Session 1, Saturday morning, from 10h00
From Multiplicity to Nothingness (genetic relation: philosophy vs. anti-philosophy)
AUDIO FILE Brassier, Feltham, De Kesel on Zupancic, CLICK HERE
Ray Brassier (Middlesex University): “Being Nothing, Knowing Nothing: From Correlation to Representation”
Respondent: Oliver Feltham (American University in Paris)
Alenka Zupancic (Institute of Philosophy of Ljubljana): “Psychoanalysis and Ontology: ‘Being-Towards-Sex’”
Respondent: Marc De Kesel (Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen)
Session 2, Saturday afternoon, from 14h30
Multiple and Excess (genetic relation: philosophy vs. art and politics)
AUDIO FILE Sumic-Riha and Hoens, CLICK HERE
AUDIO FILE Besana and Ruda, CLICK HERE
Jelica Sumic-Riha (Institute of Philosophy of Ljubljana): “The One of the Same”
Respondent: Dominiek Hoens (Jan van Eyck Academie)
Bruno Besana (Jan van Eyck Academie, Université Paris 8): “What is a Sensible Excess?”
Respondent: Frank Ruda (University of Potsdam)
Session 3, Sunday morning, from 10h30
The One and the Multiple (genetic relation: philosophy vs. psychoanalysis)
AUDIO FILE Bonazzi, Bianchi, Chiesa and Schuster CLICK HERE
Matteo Bonazzi (University of Milan): “There is One. The Ontography of Jacques Lacan”
Respondent: Pietro Bianchi (University of Bologna; Palea, Milan)
Lorenzo Chiesa (University of Kent): “How to Make One out of a Multiple?”
Respondent: Aaron Schuster (PARTS Bruxelles)
Each paper and respondent’s session will be followed by a 30-minute open discussion
Clic here to download the papers' abstracts
For further practical informations please contact anne.vangronsveld@janvaneyck.nl
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