Seminars
February
The Singular, part I
Tuesday 05 February 2008
15:00 Auditorium, Jan van Eyck Academie
March
The Singular, part II
Tuesday 04 March 2008
15.00 h Auditorium, Jan van Eyck Academie
April
The Singular, part III
Tuesday 01 April 2008
14:00 h Auditorium, Jan van Eyck Academie
May
The Dual, part I
Tuesday 06 May 2008
14:00 h Auditorium, Jan van Eyck Academie
June
The Dual, Part II
Tuesday 03 June 2008
14:00h Auditorium, Jan van Eyck Academie
July
The Dual, Part III
Wednesday 02 July 2008
14:00 auditorium
September
The Multiple, Part I
Tuesday 09 September 2008
17h30 room 204
November
The Universal, Part I
Tuesday 04 November 2008
15:00 h Auditorium, Jan van Eyck Academie
December
Versus Laboratory 2008 final triple session: Alliez, Riha, multiple, universal
Monday 01 December 2008 - Sunday 02 November 2008
Auditorium
January
Versus Laboratory 2009 Presentation - Matter Matters
Thursday 15 January 2009
13h45 Jan van Eyck Academie
February
Negation/Consistency 1
Thursday 05 February 2009
1030h-1230h auditorium
March
Negation/Consistency 2
Wednesday 11 March 2009
1030h-1230h auditorium
April
Negation/Consistency 3
Thursday 09 April 2009
1030h-1230h auditorium
May
Matter/Knowledge 1
Thursday 21 May 2009
14h-16h RM 204
June
Imagination/Dialectic 1
Sunday 14 June 2009
14h-18h RM 204
September
Imagination/Dialectic 2
Thursday 03 September 2009
14h-15h Auditorium
October
Stasis/Rupture 1
Thursday 08 October 2009
14h Auditorium
November
Stasis/Rupure 2
Thursday 05 November 2009
14h
December
Stasis/Rupture 3
Tuesday 01 December 2009
14h
February
Historical contingency/Subjective necessity
Wednesday 03 February 2010
10h30-12h30 Auditorium
April
Index, Suject, Form of Life
Thursday 08 April 2010
14h Auditorium
May
Sociological reflexivity/Philosophical reflexivity
Thursday 27 May 2010
14h Auditorium
Matter/Knowledge 1
Thursday 21 May 2009
14h-16h RM 204
Outline of a critique of the economy of knowledge
During the fourth session of Versus Laboratory we will start from one of the aporetical points that Emmanuel Barot touched on during the February session. There, Barot tried to root the genesis of what Badiou considers as “the thought of being in itself”, or mathematics, in the dialectical historicity of scientific practice. Using Sartre’s late work, he underlined the conditions of possibility for the emergence of mathematics though the concept of praxis and the progressive-regressive method, the material moment present in what is considered to be the most abstract knowledge. One of the questions raised during the seminar concerned the nature of the regime of discourse in which this genetic account is possible. Is philosophical thinking submitted to the same conditions in which scientific thinking is? Is it possible to abstract it from the economic and sociological conditions from which all knowledge emerge? To put the question in a different way, is it possible to separate knowledge from the economic conditions that determines it?
After a short introduction by Giuseppe Bianco, Guillaume Sibertin-Blanc and Stéphane Legrand (CIEPFC – Univeristé de Toulouse), based on from their two years of research in the GRM (Groupe d’Etudes Matérialiste) and from their latest book (Esquisse d'une contribution à la critique de l'économie des savoirs), will try to give their answer to these questions.
Against the idea that knowledge and culture are beyond the domain of value insofar as their being held as “good in themselves” confers to them their ideality, our invited speakers Guillaume Silbertin-Blanc and Stéphane Legrand will propose the thesis that knowledge, culture, thinking, are materialities in their own right. They therefore have to be analyzed, defended and most of all, practiced as such. These materialities are produced, circulated and consumed (in different forms and in different modalities) in given social conditions. The name given to this very specific organic circuit of production-circulation-consumption is a “limited economy of knowledge”. This term is aimed at the idea that this economy concerning abstract knowledge is at once specific (and consequently governed by its own laws) and always articulated in a complex system of capitalism's economic structure. In turn, this organic circuit will also be overdetermined by the social relations and by the antagonisms of this complex system.
Following this materialist analysis, Sibertin-Blanc and Legrand will point toward some elements that will contribute to a critical assessment of the academic system in the terms of an apparatus of knowledge production and a sketch of a possible transformation.
Readings:
M. FOUCAULT, POUR EN FINIR AVEC LE MENSONGE. link.
G. DELEUZE, SUR LES NOUVEAUX PHILOSOPHES. french link. english link.
L. ALTHUSSER, IDEOLOGY AND STATE APPARATUS. link.