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
The Dual, Part II
Tuesday 03 June 2008
14:00h Auditorium, Jan van Eyck Academie
On MATHEMATICS, THEATRE and LOVE as conditions of PHILOSOPHY:
“In order to have One, one needs Two (or maybe Four)”
Last month we started our enquiry on duality analyzing how politics has pushed philosophy to think that a duality is not the result of the division of a solid, unique reality, but is the act of division rendered possible by the contradictory nature of reality.
In our June meeting, we will reverse this perspective by analyzing how a unity is never a solid result or a fusion of a set of elements, but is the way in which one can name the tension between two elements. Each unity is thus 'a two'. Even more, we will see how each term of the duality not in itself an atomic element, but the condensation of a further relation. Which can be written as follows:
2 x 2 = 1
We will also see how the original dual tension inherent in each unity is discovered via a work of subtraction, of dismantling the appearance according to which reality is organized as a set of unities. Which can be written as follows:
1-1n = 2
Both the conception of the two and the subtractive model are presented, in the work of Alain Badiou, at the point where, inside philosophy, we see the convergence of influences taken from mathematics and the theatre.
Bibliography:
- Alain Badiou: excerpts from “The Writing of the Generic”, chapter 1, from Badiou (2003) On Beckett, Manchester: Clinamen. (click to download)
- Alain Badiou: “The Scene of the Two”, from: Badiou, Dragonetti, Grosrichard et. al. (1999) De l’amour, Paris: Flammarion (click to download)
- Alain Badiou: excerpts from “Being, existence, thought” from Badiou (2004) Handbook of Inaesthetics, Stanford UP. (click to download)
- Suggested complementary reading: Samuel Beckett, Worstward Ho (link to download)
In our July meeting we will host Jacob Rogozinski, who will present his theory of the “chiasm”, via which, using some psychoanalytic and some political elements, he tries to explain how a subject is at the same time a consistent unity and an irreducible movement of splitting.