On the notion of the political in postmarxist theory.
05.03.2010
Nietzsche with Deleuze II
The thought of becoming
03.12.2009
International conference
Becoming-major, becoming-minor
02.12.2009
Global capitalism, necropolitics and contemporary art
01.12.2009
Roberto Esposito
The dispositif of the person
09.10.2009
International Conference
Encountering Althusser
09.10.2009
Conference material: schedule, abstracts, articles
Encountering Althusser
03.09.2009
Antke Engel
Queer/ing Images of Sexuality and Economy
The Surplus of Paradoxes
02.09.2009
Matteo Mandarini
Negri's encounter with Guattari: the elision of Lenin
Communists like us
01.09.2009
Ruth Sonderegger
A cinematic diagnosis of biopolitics
The cinema of Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne
16.06.2009
Christian Kerslake
The specter of an unsolved problematic
The Meanings of Immanence in Deleuze's Philosophy
19.05.2009
Luca Basso, Vittorio Morfino
A French Marx
The singular, the trans-individual and the common
07.04.2009
Pier Vittorio Aureli, Andrea Cavaletti, Katja Diefenbach, Mark Purcell, Miguel Robles-Duran, Lukasz Stanek, Roemer van Toorn, Peter Trummer, Sven-Olov Wallenstein
State-space symposium no. 1
Biopolitics of scale
09.03.2009
Paul Hegarty, Vanessa Theodoropoulos, Jean Louis Violeau
Against the economic: Reading Baudrillard with Bataille, Lacan, Marx, and Debord
A Workshop on Baudrillard
03.02.2009
Lecture of Tom Rockmore at the International Institute for Research and Education, Amsterdam
Is Marx a Fichtean?
04.12.2008
Martin Saar
Negri on Power.
Political Spinozism
03.11.2008
Steve Wright
The Refusal of Labor
Tronti's Legacy
05.06.2008
Massimo De Angelis, Pier Vittorio Aureli, Anne Querrien
The production of commons, subjectivity and space
Communists like us
05.12.2007
A. Auerbach, K. Diefenbach, S. Dillemuth, M. Vishmidt
The politics of bohemia
08.11.2007
Maria Muhle
Politics, police and power from Foucault to Rancière
07.11.2007
Manfred Hermes
Narrative strategies of subjectivisation in Fassbinder’s "Berlin Alexanderplatz"
In the figurative sense
05.10.2007
Serhat Karakayali
On political hegemony and militant becoming: Gramsci and Deleuze
The poetics of knowledge
29.06.2007
Ruben Martinez, Jaron Rowan, Marina Vishmidt, Katja Diefenbach
The cultural producer as model of the post-fordist worker
In the mood for work
05.04.2007
Grahame Lock
The actuality of Althusser's thinking
Dictatorship of the proletariat as political science
04.04.2007
Judith Hopf
The imposition of creative work
Hey production!
08.03.2007
Raul Zelik
Notes on asymmetric warfare and governance
Sovereign police
The aim of this workshop is to rethink the contribution of Jean Baudrillard towards a criticism of capitalism and its ambiguous relation to Marxism and to (Lacanian) Psychoanalysis. This will be attempted by a close reading of Baudrillard's earlier texts and through the investigation of his relation to other critical thinkers of his time. The workshop will take place in the Jan Van Eyck Academy on the 9th and the 10th of March 2009.
Participation is free, but the places are limited. For more information please contact Giorgos via email. In order to enjoy and contribute more to the workshop the participants should be familiar with the work of Jean Baudrillard and ideally should have read his first six books from "The System of Objects" to "Simulacra and Simulation", as well as "The Accursed Share", by Georges Bataille. A selection from these texts will be discussed during the seminar (see the references after the program)
Program:
Monday 9th of March
Opening: Jean Louis Violeau "Jean Baudrillard, 68 et la fonction utopique" – (10:00 - 11:00)
Sessions:
1. The Ideological Genesis of Needs: Baudrillard with Lefebvre (11:15 – 12:30)
Lunch (12:30 - 13:30)
2. The System of Objects: Seriality, functionality, historicity, naturalness (13:30 - 14:45)
3. Paul Hegarty: "Death and Consumption, Death and System: Bataille in Baudrillard's Exchange symbolique" (15:00 - 16:15)
4. The End of Production/ Labor and Death (16:30 – 18:00)
21:00 Screening: "The Third Generation" by Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Tuesday 10th of March
Opening: Precession of Simulacra; Discussing the work of Kristin Poshen with Vanessa Theodoropoulos and the artist herself (10:00 - 11:30)
Sessions:
1. Towards a Critique of the Political Economy of the Sign (11:45 - 13:00)
Lunch (13:00 - 14:00)
2. Giorgos Papadopoulos “Baudrillard, the forgotten member of the Lacanian Left?” (14:00 - 15:00)
3. Baudrillard with and against Marx (debate with the "After 1968" research group (15:15 - 16:45)
4. The Consumer Society or On the Impossibility of Wasting One's Time (17:00 - 18:00)
Readings:
Jean Baudrillard :
The System of Objects, Verso, 2005 (1968), pp. 77 - 114 & 217 - 224.
The Consumer Society, Sage, 2008 (1970), pp. 151 - 158.
For A Critique of the Political Economy of the Sign, Telos 1972 (1980), pp. 63 - 87, 143 - 163, 204 - 212.
The Mirror of Production, Telos 1975 (1973), pp. 93 - 109, 50 - 51 & 111 -167.
Symbolic Exchange and Death, Sage 2007 (1976), pp. 1 - 49, 107 - 111 & 125 - 158.
Simulacra and Simulation, Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press, pp. 1 - 7.
Georges Bataille :
The Accursed Share, Zone Books, 1989 (1967), pp. 9-61.
By clicking the titles of the books you can download the pages selected. The books as well as a reader are also available in the library of the Jan Van Eyck Academy. Participants can request a reader via email.