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Technological Earth Visions: Remote Views and Disembodied Landscapes

February 25, 2021/in Call for Papers, Events, News /by Pepita

Technological Earth Visions: Remote Views and Disembodied Landscapes
Online Workshop SDU 2021, organized by Lila Lee Morrison
Friday, 12 March 2021, 11:00-13:00
Registration, the lecture will be on Zoom.
More information can be found here.

This workshop focuses on the ways in which the earth is visualized through technologically lead perspectives and how this has led to new understandings in our relationship to the environment. Referencing images produced from both historical and emerging forms of advanced visual technologies such as spacecraft photography, popular images of amateur drone operators and remote algorithmic sensing, this panel of speakers will present on the creative and critical potential that is afforded through the aesthetics of such distributed perceptions of the earth. The discussion will explore the notion of ’vision’ not only as an act of sight and/or the representation of a site, but also as a speculative approach towards the role of imagination and the possibility of empathy on a planetary scale.


Talks:

“Earthly Empathy”
Max Liljefors, Professor of Art History and Visual Studies at Lund University,”

“A Recording Device”
Geocinema, Solveig Qu Suess & Asia Bazdyrieva, artist collective that explores the possibilities of a “planetary” notion of cinema

“#unamazingdroneviews: In defense of the poor image of the Earth”
Joanna Zylinska, Professor of New Media and Communications at Goldsmiths, University of London

Bios:

Joanna Zylinska is Professor of New Media and Communications at Goldsmiths, University of London. The author of a number of books – including AI Art: Machine Visions and Warped Dreams (Open Humanities Press, 2020), The End of Man: A Feminist Counterapocalypse (University of Minnesota Press, 2018) and Nonhuman Photography (MIT Press, 2017) – she is also involved in more experimental and collaborative publishing projects. Her own art practice involves working with various forms of image-based media.

Geocinema (Solveig Qu Suess & Asia Bazdyrieva) is a collective that explores the possibilities of a “planetary” notion of cinema. Based in Berlin and Kyiv, they are conducting episodic research vis-a-vis experiments in moving image, narration and collective thinking. Each probe into ways of understanding and sensing the earth while being on the ground, enmeshed within vastly distributed processes of image and meaning making. Their work has circulated internationally, including most recently their first solo show Making of Earths at Kunsthall Trondheim (2020),and, in group shows including Critical Zones at ZKM Karlsruhe (2020-21) and Rethinking Collectivity at Guangzhou Image Triennale (2021). Bazdyrieva & Suess were Digital Earth Fellows (2018-19), and have been nominated for the Schering Stiftung Award for Artistic Research (2020).https://geocinema.network/

Max Liljefors is Professor of Art History and Visual Studies at Lund University. His research interests include visual historiography, the visual cultures of the biosciences, boundary object theory, and aesthetic metanoía. 

Schedule:

11:00 Introduction
11:05 Max Liljefors, “Earthly Empathy”
11:25 Geocinema, “A Recording Device”
11:45 Joanna Zylinska, “#unamazingdroneviews: In defense of the poor image of the Earth”
12:05 15 min. Breakout rooms for discussion (This time may also be used for a break for audience / panel members)
12:20 Return for open discussion, Q&A from audience and organisers.
13:00 End

Organized by Lila Lee-Morrison (post doc, University of Southern Denmark).
The event is funded by the Independent Research Fund Denmark, Drone Imaginaries: www.sdu.dk/diac), the Surroundings Lab (www.surroundingslab.org) and Center for Culture and Technology at SDU www.sdu.dk/en/cult-tech
Contact person: Lila Lee-Morrison: lile@sdu.dk

Asad Haider: Emancipation and Exhaustion

February 25, 2021/in Events, News, PS /by Pepita

Workshop Asad Haider: Emancipation and Exhaustion
March 3, 14.00-16.00  | 1-2 ECTS
Centre for Continental Thought
Register by mailing to to centreforcontinentalthought@gmail.com

On Wednesday, March 3, Asad Haider will join us for an online talk and discussion on his current work on emancipation and exhaustion. In this workshop, we will discuss one of his recent articles, titled “Emancipation, Political and Real,” alongside a text by French sociologist and political theorist Sylvain Lazarus. The event is scheduled from 16.00-18.00 and will take place on Zoom; in order to register and receive the workshop readings, please send an email to centreforcontinentalthought@gmail.com.

Research Master students may obtain credits through NICA (maximum of 2 EC for this event). Please contact Joost de Bloois (j.g.c.debloois@uva.nl) for more information. 

This workshop is the first instalment of the public lecture series for the newly founded Centre for Continental Thought, an Amsterdam-based platform for discussion and exchange among scholars in the Netherlands whose work engages with the continental philosophical tradition. If you would like to keep posted about our future activities, free to send us an email so we can put you on the mailing list.

Asad Haider: Emancipation and Exhaustion
The contemporary moment presents a crisis for political thought. It is not difficult to see that the resurgence of authoritarianism, the breakdown of political systems, and the approach of ecological apocalypse require a concerted and creative theoretical effort. Just as significant as the catastrophe of the present is the parallel emergence  of unexpected social movements – but they have not succeeded in arresting the relentless drive to disaster. This talk proposes that we are unable to theorize our reality because we lack a vantage point of emancipation. This vantage point is not one which we could step out of history to assume, but rather is one which appears in particular moments, and ultimately recedes – it becomes exhausted. If we are unable to conceive of emancipation beyond the failure of previous attempts, we can only think the necessity of the existing situation. Exhaustion is the fate of emancipatory sequences whose forms and practices cease to be oriented towards an emancipatory politics. 

Asad Haider is author of Mistaken Identity (Verso, 2018) and a co-editor for The Black Radical Tradition (Verso, forthcoming). He is also a founding editor of Viewpoint magazine, an investigative journal of contemporary politics. 

“An upheaval that this form of strike not so much causes as consummates” – forms of social transformation

February 25, 2021/in Events, News /by Pepita

“An upheaval that this form of strike not so much causes as consummates” – forms of social transformation (Eva von Redecker, Verona)
Part of Critique(s) of Violence-seminar, organized by Daniel Loick
Friday, 4 March 2021, 18:00, for registration, send an email to d.loick@uva.nl.

Eva von Redecker is a critical theorist and public philosopher writing about social change, moral judgement, modern property, and sometimes even life and death. Eva holds a Marie-Skłodowska-Curie-fellowship at the University of Verona, where she pursues a research project on authoritarianism (PhantomAiD). Previously, she has worked as research associate at Humboldt-University, Berlin (2009 to 2019) and acted as deputy director of the Berlin Center for Humanities and Social Change. Eva’s latest book, Praxis and Revolution (Campus 2018/Columbia UP 2021) proposes an interstitial model of radical change; its general-audience sequel Revolution für das Leben (S.Fischer 2020) applies this model to a critique of capitalist devastation in light of contemporary social movements.

Summer School: The Posthuman and New Materialism

February 22, 2021/in Call for Papers, Events, News, PS /by Pepita

Call for Applications: The Posthuman & New Materialism
Utrecht Summer School Online Course by Prof. Rosi Braidotti
August 16-27, 2021 (on select days)

Registration through this link

Theme and structure
The 2021 intensive Summer School course will continue the tradition of neo-materialist, critical feminist posthuman theory that Braidotti is known for. It focusses on the intersections and divergences between two movements of thought that are close, but distinct. The posthuman turn is defined as the
convergence, within the context of advanced or cognitive capitalism, of post-humanism on the one hand and post-anthropocentrism on the other. Neo-materialism is a theoretical framework that straddles several research fields and emphasizes the embodied, embedded, relational and affective
interconnections across human and non-human entities. The intersections between these two lines of critical enquiry generated some of the most exciting contemporary debates. The course offers a selected overview of this scholarship across a trans-disciplinary range of fields that includes philosophy, literature,
law, media, pedagogy and the arts. Mindful of the patterns of exclusion of the sexualized, racialized and naturalized “others” that were not recognized as belonging to humanity, special attention is devoted to perspectives emerging from Black and indigenous epistemologies and to the efforts to think beyond
anthropocentrism. Priority will be devoted to art practices as forms of advanced research and methodological issues in general.

The course is offered entirely online and is sub-divided in 5 groups of 25 students maximum. Each group is led by a lecturer/tutor and Braidotti visits all of them in turn.
Each day is structured by a mixture of pre-recorded and live lectures by the course director and invited lecturers; live Q&A sessions with all the lecturers; tutorial groups, seminar sessions and artists labs.
Informal meetings will also be encouraged at lunchtime and at leisure.

PLEASE NOTE: The groups are organized by different regional time-zones: one for Australia and the Pacific; one for North and South America; and three groups for Europe.
• The European time-zone programme runs from 9:00-15:00 CET daily.
• The Americas time-zone programme runs from 8:00-14:00 PST/11:00-17:00 EST.
• The Australia-South Pacific programme runs from 14:00-20:30 AEST daily

Applicants are free to select which time zone they prefer to attend, (e.g. Europeans may want to select the North American time zone if they work full time) but the content is the same for every region. Please state in your letter of motivation for which time zone you would like to apply. Competition for registration is strong so you are advised to apply early, as places are allocated on the basis of first come, first served.

Confirmed Lecturers (and more to come…):
Prof. Rosi Braidotti (Utrecht University), Dr. Simone Bignall (University of Technology Sydney), Dr. Natalie Harkin (Flinders University), Assoc. Prof. Mai Al Nakib (University of Kuwait), Dr. Ruth Clemens (Utrecht University), Dr. Emily Jones (University of Essex), Kay Sidebottom (Leeds Beckett University), Fiona Hillary (RMIT University), Goda Klumbyte (University of Kassel).

Assigned reading
– Posthuman Knowledge (Polity Press, 2019), by Rosi Braidotti
– Posthuman Ecologies (Rowman & Littlefield, 2019), edited by Rosi Braidotti and Simone Bignall

Background reading
– The Posthuman (Polity Press, 2013), by Rosi Braidotti
– Selected entries from the Posthuman Glossary (Bloomsbury Academic 2018), edited by Rosi Braidotti and Maria Hlavajova

Application procedure
Course fees Course fee for students: €350
Course fee for non-students: €550

Application deadline: May 1, 2021.
For more information, contact R. Braidotti’s assistant at gw.braidottiass@uu.nl.

SUMMARY OF KEY ACTION POINTS:
• Due to high demand applications GO on a first-come, first-served basis
• When maximum participation is reached, the applications will be closed
• Pick and indicate your favourite time-zone in motivation letter
• Your registration is finalized only after the fees have been paid
• You are expected to do the background reading before the start of the course
• You are expected to buy the assigned books by Braidotti
• Apply via this link

Thinking with Derrida Now – Workshop and Masterclass

February 22, 2021/in Events, News, PS /by Pepita

Organized by Marie-Aude Baronian (ASCA)
May 31st and June 1st, 2021 | Please note that this event will take place on-site in Amsterdam | 1 ECTS for the masterclass

On Monday May 31, 2021 we will have a workshop with various invited speakers who will share their close engagement with Derrida’s work. On Tuesday June 1 we will have a Master Class with Joseph Cohen (School of Philosophy, University College Dublin, Ireland) and Raphael Zagury-Orly (Institut Catholique de Paris / CRAL –EHESS and Collège International de Philosophie) that will be open to PhD-students and RMA students.

The program will take place on site, with all the safety measures being observed very strictly. There is a limited amount of places available for both the masterclass and the workshop. Registration for the workshop is through ASCA. To enroll for the Masterclass, please message NICA at nica@hum.leidenuniv.nl, stating your name and affiliated university or institute.

Workshop

Monday, May 31 (9:30 am – 6:30 pm)
University of Amsterdam (on site, location TBA)
Registration at ASCA
This workshop aims at bringing together scholars from various orientations in the Humanities in order to discuss the place and the role of the work of Jacques Derrida in today’s context. Each invited speaker will hence present how the writings of Jacques Derrida affect their current research, concerns and reflections. Rather than exclusively proposing close exegesis of Derrida’s texts or chronological genealogies within his oeuvre, the workshop seeks to stress the relevance of Derrida’s thinking for addressing pressing issues and concepts that define and unpack our contemporaneity. The workshop will purposely not concentrate on a specific theme but it will give the speakers the opportunity to reflect upon why and how certain Derridean ideas are deeply challenging and (re)orienting the ways we think and we do research in the troubled epoch we are now facing. This could include questions on the status of the historical event and the question of testimony, hospitality/hostility, immigration and frontiers, otherness, forgiveness and justice, messianicity, animality, gender, colonialism and de-colonialism, non-Western thought, technology and trans-or post-humanism, or again the various effects of the gestures of deconstruction, to name here but a few. With a.o. Joseph Cohen, Nicolas de Warren, Joost de Bloois, Jakko Kemper, Esther Peeren, Monique Roelofs, Raphael Zagury-Orly.

Masterclass


Tuesday June 1st (2:00 – 6:00 pm)
University of Amsterdam
(on site, location TBA)
Registration at NICA

“This law would signify the following to us: in the same place, on the same limit, where history is finished, there where a certain determined concept of history comes to an end, precisely there the historicity of history begins, there finally it has the chance of heralding itself –of promising itself. There where man, a certain determined concept of man, is finished, there the pure humanity of man, of the other man and of man as other begins or has finally the chance of heralding itself –of promising itself. In an apparently inhuman or else a-human fashion…”

This quote from Spectres of Marx (1994: 93) frames some of the issues that will be addressed in this Master Class. In line with the breakthroughs engaged by Derrida, philosophers Joseph Cohen and Raphael Zagury-Orly will propose a reflection on how we, today, think and relate to humanism. What remains of humanism? What may or can we still retain from the ideal of humanism for our contemporaneity? How have the catastrophes of our human history affected our humanistic ideals and can these still bring forth the possibilities of reaffirming themselves? Are we, today, facing a form of exhaustion or fatigue, of wears and tears which undermine the very sustainability of humanism?

And if so, is this voiding out of humanism an irresolvable and unescapable menace or does there lie within this voiding of norms, values, traditional conceptual reflexes a chance, something of a promise to reinvent the forms and the contents of another idea of human and of historicity beyond or otherwise than humanism? The philosophy of Jacques Derrida enables to tackle these contemporary questions and proposes novel trajectories both in the critical analysis of our history and its philosophical signification spurred on by a traditional idea of humanism as well as in the possibilities such a deconstruction can create for another human, another history, another history of the human. In other words, the Master Class will discuss the close and inextricable relation between history, justice, deconstruction, and an otherwise than humanism, that is: what of the future of the human?

The Master Class will be organized in two parts. In the first session, Cohen and Zagury-Orly will explicate specific and selected fragments from Derrida’s texts (Spectres of Marx, Force of Law, Monolingualism of the Other, and Aporias), and will reflect upon their impacts and traces on their own thoughts and writings. In the second session, they will present their current work on the questions of justice, history and catastrophes. During the Master Class, they will also share their experiences as formal students of Derrida and how he still represents today an ongoing source of inspiration and contestation for them.

Readings

  • Selected fragments from Derrida’s Spectres of Marx (1994); Force of Law (1992); Monolingualism of the Other (1998); Aporias (1993).
  • Cohen & Zagury-Orly, “Neither Crisis nor Apocalypse” (2020), in Il Nucleare : Una Questione Scientifica e Filosofica dal 1945 a Oggi / Nuclear Power: A Scientific and Philosophical Issue from 1945 to Today, (Ed. O. Ombrosi), Milan-Udine, Mimesis Edizioni, 2020, pp. 247-263.
  • Cohen & Zagury-Orly, “History Supposes Justice”(2020), in Heidegger, Levinas, Derrida e o Niilismo, (Ed. H. Bensusan), Das Questões (v. 9 n. 1), Brasilia, Universidade de Brasilia, 2020, pp. 43-67.
  • Cohen & Zagury-Orly, “Wears and Tears of the European Humanities” (2021), in On Institutions (Ed. G. Croci and S. Gerlek), Metodo. International Studies in Phenomenology and Philosophy, Vol. 8 (1), 2021.

    Joseph COHEN is Professor of Philosophy, University College Dublin (Ireland). He published Le Spectre juif de Hegel (Galilée, 2005); Le Sacrifice de Hegel (Galilée, 2007); Alternances de la métaphysique. Essais sur E. Levinas (Galilée, 2009) ; and in collaboration with R. Zagury-Orly, Judéités. Questions pour Jacques Derrida (Galilée, 2003); Derrida. L’Evénement déconstruction (Gallimard, 2013); Heidegger et ‘les juifs’ (Grasset, 2015). He recently published, with R. Zagury-Orly, “La Vérité suppose l’art suppose la justice / Wahrheit setzt Kunst setzt Gerechtigkeit voraus”, in O. Auer, Passe-Partout, (Passagen Verlag, 2019) and, in February 2021, L’Adversaire privilégié. Heidegger, les Juifs et nous (Galilée).

    Raphael ZAGURY-ORLY is Invited Professor of Philosophy, Institut Catholique de Paris (France). He published Questionner encore (Galilée, 2011); and in collaboration with J. Cohen, Judéités. Questions pour Jacques Derrida (Galilée, 2003); Derrida. L’Evénement déconstruction (Gallimard, 2013); Heidegger et ‘les juifs’ (Grasset, 2015). He is co-editor, with O. Ombrosi, of Derrida-Levinas. An Alliance Awaiting the Political (Mimesis, 2018). And recently published with J. Cohen, “La Vérité suppose l’art suppose la justice / Wahrheit setzt Kunst setzt Gerechtigkeit voraus”, in O. Auer, Passe-Partout, (Passagen Verlag, 2019) and, in February 2021, L’Adversaire privilégié. Heidegger, les Juifs et nous (Galilée). He is also Editor for Resling Press (Tel Aviv) of major works in French contemporary philosophy (Derrida, Levinas, Bataille and Deleuze).

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