Researcher Theory
01.01.07 – 31.12.08
My abstract, theoretical project has an essential point of intersection with practices: the object of my research is in fact the sensible as the genetic framework of concepts.
To be more precise, I will focus on the sensible as the impossible, yet necessary object of theoretical enquiry. My project concerns modes of relation between theoretical abstraction and sensible procedures (with a special regard for artistic ones). Its goal is not to provide a renewal of the classical – and arrogant – idea of philosophy as the theoretical framework of art practice, but rather to think the sensible, the sensible material of art procedures, as the ‘outside’ of philosophy, from which philosophy starts to shape its own interiority, its own identity. I will try to analyze how the contemporary idea of identity as an effect, as the resultant of a multiplicity of heterogeneous sensible elements, is also applied to philosophy. To this end I will consider, for instance, the theory of conditions in Badiou or the theory of intersection in Deleuze. I will then try to see how philosophy can think more than this movement of abstraction, leading form sensible multiplicity to well-ordered identity, if philosophy can think the being of the sensible without reducing its inexhaustible complexity.
My research will also have an ‘aesthetic’ focus, but not in the sense of a philosophy of art: the project will consider art as one of the most important sources where philosophy captures its intimate, sensible outside into the interiority of its discourse; on the other hand, it will regard art as one of the most important sources of shock that opens the identity of philosophy on the multiplicity of its sensible outside.
In this perspective, I will have to deal with the ontological problem of the constitution of identity through thinkers and practices that have thought this in a constructive, rational way (possibly Alain Badiou for philosophy, Paul Klee for art theory, but also Diane Arbus with regard to her idea of photography as a monument of silent diversity). In addition, I will have to pass through thinkers and artist who have blurred this schema, integrating it with a contrasted sensible material (the work of Jacques Rancière for the idea of ‘contrarieté’, of an ‘inner contrast’ into cinema, or of the blurred identity between art, market and entertainment in contemporary architects like Rem Koolhaas).
By doing so I will try to activate ontology’s resources on its aphasic point, on the sensible point that being at the origin of its expressive resources is at the same time being on the edge of its expressive possibilities.
http://versuslaboratory.janvaneyck.nl
Versus Laboratory is a theoretical laboratory which seeks to examine, and experiment upon, some of the most pertinent moments of the polemical genesis of thought in contemporary philosophical practice. In the different projects of the laboratory we aim to explore how philosophy shapes its interiority – the production of concepts – by capturing non-philosophical objects, how the intrusion of the material from political, aesthetical, scientific and more widely extraphilosophical acts and discourses shapes, transforms and divides philosophy.
Our inquiry is twofold. On the one hand, we want to understand how philosophy forms, disturbs, interrupts, modifies its actual conceptual configuration via the interference of political, aesthetical, and more widely extraphilosophical acts and discourses. On the other hand, we want to understand how this seizure of the extraphilosophical within philosophy is also a point of irreducible disagreement, in which philosophy is transformed and divided. In this, however, we want to show how dissent is not simply a reactive, but also a productive procedure that generates thought.
The project involves a monthly seminar in which we explore this perspective by analyzing four abstract concepts – singularity, duality, multiplicity, universality – in the exact points in which contemporary philosophy has reshaped their definitions via a struggle with the senses that these ideas have in the fields of political, artistic, psychoanalytic and scientific practices.
The project also involves two international conferences, and several other events, organized in collaboration with the Institute of Philosophy of Ljubljana.
Milano, IT.
PhD in Philosophy. Defense in September. Université de Paris VIII-Vincennes, Paris, FR.
D.E.A. in Philosophy. Université de Paris VIII-Vincennes, Paris, FR.
Maîtrise in Philosophy. Université de Paris VIII-Vincennes, Paris, FR.
Teacher, in charge of the atelier for post-graduate students The concept of event in contemporary French thought and several classes on philosophical subjects . Université de Paris VIII-Vincennes, Paris, FR.
Member of the editorial team of S - Line of beauty, journal of the Circle for Lacanian Ideology Critique (CLiC). Jan van Eyck Academie, Maastricht, NL.
Consultant for the creation of a contemporary philosophy collection. Edizioni Ghibli, Milan, IT.
Editor of the Paris VIII Philosophy department book Déplacement: corps, représentation, idéologie; Gilles Deleuze et la philosophie grecque. Université de Paris VIII-Vincennes, Paris, FR.
Analysis of the university human sciences French publishing . Editions du seuil, Paris, FR.
More than a lot. Displacements in ontology. In: Versus laboratory. (10 – 11 May). With Ozren Pupovac. Organized by Institute of Philosophy of Ljubljana & Jan van Eyck Academie. Maastricht, NL: Jan van Eyck Academie.
Alain Badiou, de l’ontologie à la politique. (March & May). Paris, FR: Université de Paris VIII-Vincennes.
Bruno Besana & Oliver John Feltham (Eds). Écrits autour de la pensée d’Alain Badiou. La philosophie en commun. Paris, FR: L'Harmattan.
L’ignorance du sensible. In: La philosophie déplacée: Autour de Jacques Rancière. Horlieu Editions.
Ein einziges oder mehrere Ereignisse? Die Verknüpfung zwischen Ereignis und Subjekt in den Arbeiten von Alain Badiou und Gilles Deleuze. In: Marc Rölli (Ed.). Ereignis auf Französisch, pp. 313-334. München, DE: Wilhelm Fink Verlag.
From philosophy of art to philosophy with art. On some strategies of capture. In: F.R. David : the “As yet...” issue (on speculation), pp. 127-139.
One or several events? The knot between event and subject in the work of Alain Badiou. In: Polygraph, 17.
Gilles Deleuze lecteur d’Aristote. In: Déplacements, 1.
Système, articulations, défaillance, puissance: une stratégie de lecture à travers Alain Badiou. In: Les cahiers de l’ATP. Nice, FR.
Art et philosophie (Badiou, Deleuze, Rancière). Le problème du sensible à l’age de l’ontologie de l’evenement. In: Les cahiers de l’ATP. Nice, FR. Published on: http://alemore.club.fr/BBBadiouDeleuzeRanciere.pdf.
Jacques Rancière. La fable cinématographique. Milan, IT: Edizioni Cineforum; Paris, FR: Editions du seuil.
Shmuel Trigano. L’idéal démocratique à l’épreuve de la Shoa. Bologna, IT: Pardes Edizioni; Paris, FR: Editions Odille Jacob.
Alessandro Guetta. Philosophie et cabbale, essai sur la pensée d’Elie Benamozegh. Italian translation. Bologna, IT: Pardes Edizioni; Paris, FR: L'Harmattan.
Excess, singularity, universal. With Frank Ruda (respondent). In: More than a lot. Displacement in ontology. (10 – 11 May). Organized by Institute of Philosophy of Ljubljana & Jan van Eyck Academie. Maastricht, NL: Jan van Eyck Academie.
Dissensual relations are points of thought. With Ozren Pupovac. In: Opening week 2008. (7 – 11 January). Maastricht, NL: Jan van Eyck Academie.
Lorenzo Chiesa’s Subjectivity and otherness. (14 December). Paris, FR: École Normale Supérieure.
Aesthetics and politics. An evening with Jacques Rancière. (31 October). Introduction and moderation. Amsterdam, NL: Maison Descartes.
Du multiple à l’exces. (23 May). In: Centre international d’Étude de la Philosophie Française Contemporaine (CIEPFC) seminar. Paris, FR: École Normale Supérieure.
Response to Lorenzo Chiesa. (12 May). In: The phantom of liberty. Psychoanalysis as a philosophy of freedom? Maastricht, NL: Jan van Eyck Academie.
Shaping the interiority of philosophy with non-philosophical materials. In: Opening week 2007. (8 – 12 January). Maastricht, NL: Jan van Eyck Academie.
On some strategies of capture. Shaping the inferiority of philosophy with non-philosophical material. (16 December). Goteborg, SE: Göteborgs Konstmuseum .
Le midi de la verité. (24 November). In: Autour de Logiques des mondes d’Alain Badiou. Paris, FR: École Normale Supérieure.
The sensible future of abstract ontology. In: The future of philosophy conference.(3 – 4 March). New York, US: Fordham University.
L’esthétique de Jacques Rancière. Une ligne d’intercession des oeuvres d’art vers l’ontologie. In: Jacques Rancière et la philosophie au présent. (20 – 24 May). Cerisy-la-Salle, FR: Château de Cerisy-la-Salle.
Condition, intercession, brouillage. Le rapport art-philosophie dans la philosophie contemporaine française. In: Art comme esthétique, ethique et politique. (12 – 13 November). Paris, FR: Maison de l'UNESCO.
Sources stoiciennes de l’ontologie contemporaine de l’événement. (6 March). Paris, FR: Université de Paris VIII-Vincennes.
The blind spot of contemporary ontology: the indeterminate universal. With Fabio Agostini & Tzuchien Tho. In: FEP-SEP Joint Conference. (8 – 10 September). Dundee, GB: University of Dundee.