Anthropological & aleatoric materialism
dal 17/7/2012 al 17/7/2012
Segnalato da
Lea Barbisan
Marc Berdet
Brian Bixby
Rafael Castellanos
Antje Gera
Sami Khatib
Stefano Marchesoni
Soonpyo Moon
Jan Sieber
Felix Trautmann
17/7/2012
Anthropological & aleatoric materialism
KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin
Lectures and workshops on 'phantasmagorias' and the 'magic regime' of capitalism
Lectures and workshops by Lea Barbisan, Marc Berdet/Brian Bixby, Rafael Castellanos, Antje Gera, Sami Khatib, Stefano Marchesoni, Soonpyo Moon, Jan Sieber, and Felix Trautmann. What can materialist thought offer in a 21st-century context? How can it protect itself against dogmatisms and the totalizing tendencies that haunted the legacy of 'materialism' in modernity? This German-French summer school, Anthropological Materialism and Materialism of Encounter: Re-evaluating our Presence in the Wake of Walter Benjamin and Louis Althusser, intends to foster an innovative dialogue between these two key figures of 20th-century thought. Although coming from very different traditions, they were both influenced by Marxism and have inscribed themselves deeply into 20th-century philosophy. On Wednesday, July 18 the Summer School Potsdam will take place at the KW Institute for Contemporary Art in Berlin. The day's topic will be 'phantasmagorias' and the 'magic regime' of capitalism. Lectures will address the aesthetic representation of the urban and architectonic embodiment of modern capitalism, looking for possibilities of its utopian overpowering. Events in German and French. Free admission.