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Openingsweek online
Opening Week 2012 by Jan van Eyck Academie
Lezingen van de Openingsweek 2012 zijn vanaf vandaag, 13 februari 2012, online te beluisteren. In totaal zijn nu meer dan honderd lezingen en presentaties in onze online database te vinden. Meer opnames zijn beschikbaar via ons documentatiecentrum, onderdeel van de bibliotheek.
Opening Week online
As of today, 13 February 2012, all lectures of the Opening Week 2012 can be listened to online. More than a hundred lectures and presentations can now be found in our online database. Other recordings are available through our documentation centre, part of the library.
5 November 2011 - The Empowerment of the Right / The Dissolution of the Left
The Jan van Eyck is delighted to welcome again Slovenian sociologist and culture critic Slavoj Žižek. Žižek is one of the speakers at the The empowerment of the Right/ the dissolution of the Left event. Other participants are Merijn Oudenampsen and Oxana Timofeeva.
The public sector is facing severe economy measures. The budgets for culture, education and health care are being cut. The measures are implemented by the political right. The political left, in this period of turmoil, does not seem to be able or willing to meet force with force and turn the tide. Has the left become unsettled? Does the binary division between left and right still apply to read the current political developments and state of flux? Can the left reinvent itself and find an answer to the spreading attitude of rigidity and xenophobia?
Versus Laboratory: Sheaf Logic and Philosophical Synthesis
For this first seminar of the year Versus laboratory invites Fernando Zalamea, philosopher and mathematician at the National University of Columbia, to illustrate how today’s sheaf logic carries a potential to revolutionize contemporary philosophical practice in a manner no less radical than the force with which the early twentieth century formalization of classical logic conditioned the practice of analytic philosophy. In particular, the seminar will study a series of Grothendieck transformations of mathematical concepts, and come to understand how analogous procedures may be employed to the end of overturning a number of traditional philosophical polarities (realism/idealism, statics/dynamics, form/content, etc.).
Althusser’s Lesson
French philosopher Jacques Rancière talks about the event that was the turning and starting point for his much appraised work in political and cultural philosophy: his break with Althusser.
With interventions by Emiliano Battista, Katja Diefenbach, Oxana Timofeeva and Luke Zachary Fraser.
In the June session of the After Hegel seminar a close reading of the Introduction to the Phenomenology of Spirit, paragraphs 79-84, will be continued. The basic theme will be the scrutiny of the nature of ‘natural consciousness’, being, for Hegel, the protagonist of the way to truth and hence the main hero of the book.
Lucia Pradella will present an intervention on Hegel’s philosophy of law.
May 2011 session of the reading group on Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit.
The March session of the Hegel seminar will continue with the close reading of the Introduction to the Phenomenology of Spirit. The text deals with the dramatic question of how to begin in philosophy at all – what is an appropriate beginning?
Sara Farris, former Theory researcher, will make an intervention around Gillian Rose’s very important book Hegel contra sociology.
The Supplementary Class. Disrupting the Logic of Division
In 2011, the seminar group debates how the notion of the declassifiying class in the young Marx is critically reconsidered in post-Marxism in divergent ways – serving as points of departure for philosophical re-readings of Marx, which bypass the economico-theoretical lines of his thought and lead to a certain Marx without Marxism. For this seminar, introduced by Theory researcher Karl Lydén, there will be a discussion of two texts by Jacques Rancière (see below).
In his 1995 book Disagreement, Rancière reconsiders his criticism of Marxism, stating that the idea of a pure proletarian act, of a declassifying class that dissolutes the bourgeois society and simultaneously unfolds its productive forces, catalysed the most radical figure of the archi-police. Rancière defends his hypothesis by examining the relation of politics and philosophy. In Marx, too, he argues, political philosophy attempts to finish with politics by substituting itself for politics, acting as if it could complete itself as politics and, hence, abolishing the scandal of thinking that is proper to politics, i.e. the activity of disagreement.
