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Displaying results 1 to 11 of 11.

  1. Category: Conferences, Congresses
    Beginning: 28.09.2023
    Coding Utopias
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    There is no shortage of critiques of utopian imaginaries for being coded in colonial, Western, masculine, Christian, and extractive ideologies. Utopia has been, and continues to be, an often violent gesture that chooses the future of select groups...

    Fields of research Postcolonial studies,  Ecocriticism,  Interdisciplinarity and 4 more
    Created on: 28.08.2023
  2. Category: Conferences, Congresses
    Beginning: 20.10.2022
    Slavoj Žižek: ‘Unbehagen in der Natur’ / On Thinking the End of Nature (Lecture)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    It is as if the Earth is gradually turning into Trisolaris, a strange planet from The Three-Body Problem , Liu Cixin’s sci-fi masterpiece. Trisolaris has three suns which rise and set at strange and unpredictable intervals: sometimes too far away...

    Fields of research Literature and cultural studies,  Literature and philosophy
    Created on: 16.08.2022
  3. Category: Lecture series
    Beginning: 24.03.2021
    Jean-Luc Nancy: Touche-touche
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Ort: ICI Berlin, Christinenstr. 18–19, Haus 8, 10119 Berlin Organisiert von Hanna Hamel (ZfL), Apostolos Lampropoulos (Université Bordeaux Montaigne), Peter Rehberg (Schwules Museum) Kontakt: Hanna Hamel ZfL-Projekt(e):...

    Fields of research French literature,  Literature and philosophy,  Literature of the 20th century and 1 more
    Created on: 15.02.2021
  4. Category: Lecture series
    Beginning: 07.12.2020
    Lecture: Reduction as Expansion. The Queer Capacities of Abstract Art (David J. Getsy)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Abstract art is sometimes considered merely formal, and its reductive visual qualities are seen as a refusal of representation or a flight from subject matter. By contrast, this talk will examine how artists and critics have imbued abstraction with...

    Fields of research Gender Studies/Queer Studies,  Literature and other forms of art
    Created on: 02.11.2020
  5. Category: Lecture series
    Beginning: 25.05.2020
    Jennifer Fay, Thinking on Film with Arendt and Cavell: Lecture (online event)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    This talk connects the writings of Hannah Arendt and Stanley Cavell to questions of thinking: what it is and how it appears in the world and on film. For both philosophers, thinking may be understood as a form of leave-taking, roaming, even of...

    Fields of research Literature and philosophy
    Created on: 13.12.2019
  6. Category: Lecture series
    Beginning: 10.03.2020
    Lecture: Hashtag Confessions: What Can Psychoanalysis Say About #MeToo? (Nadine Hartmann)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Public feminism today travels by way of a technological update of collective speech acts of avowal and confession understood as already constituting political action — a practice familiar from 1970s feminism. And correspondingly, critiques of ...

    Fields of research Feminist studies,  Literature and psychoanalysis/psychology,  Literature and cultural studies and 1 more
    Created on: 09.12.2019
  7. Category: Various (summer schools etc.)
    Beginning: 24.03.2019
    Lecture: Haunted Futures: 
The Utopian Margins (Avery Gordon)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    The philosopher Ernst Bloch declared that ‘all given existence and being itself has utopian margins which surround actuality with real and objective possibility’. This talk takes up the idea of the utopian margins, along with its distinctive...

    Fields of research Literature and cultural studies,  Literature and philosophy
    Created on: 02.12.2019
  8. Category: Conferences, Congresses
    Beginning: 25.09.2019
    Thinking the Political after the ‘Ontological Turn’
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Over the recent years, a so-called ‘ontological turn’ has gained prominence, not only in connection with new materialisms, posthumanism, or within the discipline of anthropology, but also in political theory. But what does such an ‘ontological turn’...

    Fields of research Literature and philosophy,  Aesthetics
    Created on: 09.09.2019
  9. Category: Conferences, Congresses
    Beginning: 11.10.2019
    Eskalation! Skandal in der Literatur und in den Künsten
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    ‘Was darf Literatur, was nicht?‘ Mit dieser Frage beschäftigten sich anlässlich des kürzlich erschienenen Romans „Stella“ von Takis Würger wieder einmal die deutschsprachigen Feuilletons, die dem Autor einen unangemessenen Umgang mit der...

    Fields of research Literature and other forms of art,  Literature and cultural studies,  Poetics and 1 more
    Created on: 29.04.2019
  10. Category: Workshops, seminars
    Beginning: 03.06.2019
    A Revision without Reserve. Agamben’s Homo Sacer
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Over the course of two decades, from 1995 to 2015, Giorgio Agamben published a series of nine books, not in sequence but conceived from the beginning as parts of a project sharing the title of its first volume, Homo sacer . These nine books have...

    Fields of research Literature and philosophy
    Created on: 29.04.2019
  11. Category: Conferences, Congresses
    Beginning: 23.05.2019
    Milieus of Minutiae. Contextualizing the Small in Science, Philosophy, and Literature
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    The eighteenth and nineteenth centuries were replete with large-scale projects and interests: the rise of the most colossal modern literary form, the novel; the craze for panorama; the pursuit of imperial ambitions by both European and American...

    Fields of research Literature and philosophy,  Literature and natural science,  Short forms (anecdote, fable, fragment)
    Created on: 29.04.2019