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
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
The notion of excess cuts through the very core of Alain Badiou's ontological project. Here it is articulated on at least three levels: a) as the excess of Being-qua-being over itself, b) as the excess of the way in which the law of a given situation represents the parts of the situation, c) as the excess of a singular event over the structured situation in which this event emerges. These three levels, synthesized and punctuated as they are around different modalities of excess, provide us with a powerful and problematic schematism for thinking change and novelty. The folding and unfolding of different layers and modalities of excess is precisely what enables us, so Badiou claims, to think the new in its radicality.
In exploring the centrality of the notion of excess in Badiou at this session, we will pass through his works such as 'Being and Event' and 'Saint Paul: Foundation of Universalism'. And here our aim will be to see how the very concept of excess is itself formulated on excessive points of encounter between philosophy and something extra-philosophical: a) the set theoretical axioms formulated by contemporary mathematics, b) the rethinking of the logic of the State in the revolutionary tradition, c) the reference to Saint Paul and the biblical tradition.
In addition, our guest Tzuchien Tho from Versus Laboratory in Maastricht will help us to problematise how the philosophical focus on excess gives shape to a new form of materialism.
For more information please see the Versus Laboratory Berlin website.