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
Politics and Thought
Saturday 27 September 2008 - Sunday 28 September 2008
Jan van Eyck Academie, Auditorium
Under which conditions can we say that political practice thinks? And under which conditions can we say that philosophy acts?
These questions imply a reversal of the traditional, normative grasp of philosophy on politics. If one of the recurring operations of political philosophy is the construction of the political – the imposition of a normative sphere of essences against the accidentality of concrete political phenomena – its effect is a strict delimitation of the sphere of thinking from the sphere of acting, under the dominion of philosophy. Against such a construction, which voids political practice of thought, and at the same time severs philosophy from any dimension of action, the problem is how to reconfigure the relationship between politics and philosophy from the point of view of their mutual excess. An excess which is engendered at the precise points of indiscernibility – but also incompossibility – between thinking and acting.
It is to this aim that we seek to revisit a number of concepts ¬– such as the Subject, the State and the Revolution – concepts active both in politics and in philosophy, but receiving their explosive meaning, at least in the 20th century, precisely from the conflictual fusion between the two.
Session 1 – Saturday, 27th Sep, 10h00
Philosophy and the revolution
Chair: Dominiek Hoens
Alberto Toscano (Goldsmiths College): The Dirty Hands of the Dialectic
Rado Riha (Institute of Philosophy, Ljubljana): The Semblant and the Act
Ozren Pupovac (Jan van Eyck Academy): The ‘Philosophical Party’ of the Revolution
Session 2 – Saturday, 27th Sep, 15h00
Philosophy and the state
Chair: Bruno Besana
Vittorio Morfino (University of Milan): The Syntax of Violence in Hegel and Marx
Fabio Agostini (Milan): Multiplicity vs. State: Between Representation and Insurrection
Peter Thomas (University of Amsterdam): From the State as ‘Metaphysical Event’ to Hegemony as ‘Philosophical Fact’
Session 3 - Sunday, 28th Sep, 10h00
Subject to state, subject of revolution
Chair: Ozren Pupovac
Nina Power (Roehampton University): Who (or What) is the Political Subject?
Peter Klepec (Institute of Philosophy, Ljubljana): Badiou on the Division of the Subject and the Body
Frank Ruda (University of Potsdam): Thinking dé-liaison Between Hegel and Marx. From the Rabble to the Proletariat (and Back)
Closing session, Sunday, 28th Sep, 14h30
Politics as thought
Peter Hallward (Middlesex University): Political Will: A Neo-Jacobin Manifesto
Sylvain Lazarus (Paris VIII): Politics, Off-screen from Philosophy
Each session will include a 40-minutes' space for an open discussion.
Click here to download the abstracts of the papers.
Click the links here below to download the audio files of the conference
pannel1-1-intro + alberto toscano
pannel1-4- ozren pupovac + general discussion
pannel 3-6-frank ruda and discussion
For practical queries please contact Anne Vangronsveld: anne.vangronsveld@janvaneyck.nl
