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 Multiple, Part I
Tuesday 09 September 2008
17h30 room 204
The multiple part I – The many names of the « many ’: multiplicity, multitude, multiple
In our session on the concept of duality we have first analyzed the singularity as a unity that is animated by an inner force of division, and then as a place of encounter of two elements, that animate a further division. In both this senses, a unity is something that either splits or collects, but is never an original indivisible element. The unity is a collection of many. This consideration opens our meetings around the concept of « Many ».
We will see in our first encounter how this idea has been a real battlefield for philosophy. A battlefield in which, in order to define what « many » means, have been dragged into the scene suggestions coming from (and in polemics with) politics, art and psychoanalysis.
We would like thus to explore three different names of the idea of « many ».
In this first encounter we will analyze back to back the idea of intensive multiplicity – via a chapter of Deleuze’ and Guattari’ Thousand Plateaus, in which multiplicity of is seized via a polemical confrontation with psychoanalysis and linguistics – and the idea of mathematical multiple, - via an article of Badiou on Deleuze, in which he claims that, in order to seize the many as the fundament of unities, one has to think in mathematical terms.
In our october session we will then meet Eric Alliez, with whom we will analyze some text by him, by Rancière and several other authors, in which the confrontation with politics leads to the idea of multitude.
Bibliography (click to download)
Gilles Deleuze - One or several Wolves, Chapter II of A thousand Plateaus
Alain Badiou - One, Multiple, Multiplicities - from Theoretical writing