ίσως είναι πολύ νωρίς, αλλά φαίνεται πολύ ενδιαφέρον συνέδριο για τον απρίλιο…
από το blog the guattari complex
An International Conference
17 and 18 April 2008
Middlesex University
Trent Park
Bramley Road
London N14 4YZ
£45 waged, £20 unwaged
“This 2-day international conference, organized by the Centre for Research in Modern European Philosophy at Middlesex University, will be the first devoted to the work of the French psychoanalyst, philosopher, and political activist Felix Guattari. Its primary aim will be to gauge the contemporary significance of a theorist whose status as an ‘extraordinary philosopher’ was proclaimed by his collaborator Gilles Deleuze. To that end, it will bring together 3 internationally renowned …..”experts” on Guattari (Gary Genosko, Brian Massumi, Peter Pal Pelbart) along with 7 other philosophers, psychoanalysts, historians, sociologists, anthropologists and artists, all of whom have been profoundly influenced by Guattari.
The goal will be to explore the full spectrum of Guattari’s work, from his early political engagement as an activist in the French mental health system, through to his critique of Freudian-Lacanian psychoanalysis and his conception of a ‘micro-politics of desire’ (which challenged the then dominant theoretical paradigm of ‘structure’ with the concept of ‘machine’), finally considering his later elaboration of a ‘new ethico-aesthetic paradigm’, where ‘subjectivity’ was to be considered ‘from the point of view of its production’.
While acknowledging the importance of Guattari’s influential collaborations with Gilles Deleuze (Anti-Oedipus, Kafka, A Thousand Plateaus, What is Philosophy?), one of the primary purposes of the conference will be to give due weight to Guattari’s own independent and highly innovative contributions to a variety of fields, including linguistics, pragmatics, aesthetics, ecology, architecture and media theory.
Among the questions the conference seeks to explore are: Why did Guattari turn his attention to these fields, and what did he produce in them? What forms did his activism take in the 1970s and 80s, and of what relevance are they today? Rare archival film and audio footage from these periods will be screened to accompany discussions of Guattari’s adventures in media activism.”
The conference will be chaired by Professor Eric Alliez
Alliez was a doctoral student of Gilles Deleuze _
and Dr. Christian Kerslake, both of the Centre for Research in Modern European Philosophy, Middlesex University.
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