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
In my talk on the semi-documentary feature films by Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne, I attempt to address two questions: 1) To which extent are these films not so much about singular individuals and/ or events but, rather, a form of diagnosis of our time if not a way of (social) theorizing? 2) What is, content-wise, the diagnosis of these films in relation to central European societies, on which all Dardenne films focus?
In answering these questions, I will draw on Rancière’s aesthetic theory and critically discuss his dismissal of the Dardennes’ „Rosetta“ (1999) in Cahiers du Cinéma. In doing so, I will argue that it is Rancière’s aesthetics theory that keeps him from seeing the diagnostic and political dimension of this (and other) films by the Dardenne brothers; and, what is more, that „Rosetta“ comes close to what Rancière addresses and affirms as „subjectification“ in his political writings.
- Jacques Rancière: Le bruit du peuple, l'image de l'art. A propos de Rosetta et de L'Humanité, in Cahiers de Cinema, No. 540, 1999
Ruth Sonderegger is Professor of philosophy and aesthetic theory at the Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna.