_________________Note that this photo ought to be Seen
on the Reader's LEft
Voila, the eminent and white-haired(his hair is pushed,
combed back _)
philosopher among his crowd
of the young and inquiring ~
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Thursday April 23th – 6pm
Book launch and round-table discussion about the publication of Alain Badiou’s Of an Obscure Disaster/Mračni raspad (Jan van Eyck Academie/Bastard Editions)
Participants: Bruno Besana, Ivana Momčilović, Frank Ruda, Ozren Pupovac, Jelica Sumic Riha.
With ‘really existing socialisms’ in ruins philosophy falters facing politics. The year 1989 laid bare not simply the weaknesses of the attempt to construct an alternative to capitalism via the state ownership of the means of production and centralised economic planning, but also the frailty of the very link between philosophy and politics embodied in the doctrine of Marxism-Leninism. For Alain Badiou, however, this should not be a sign of despair and retreat, but rather something to rejoice at. Distinguishing between two modes of a disastrous relationship between philosophy and politics – embodied in the figures of the tyrant (an authoritarian submission of philosophy to the statist dogma, characteristic of Stalinism) and of the sophist (a relativistic identification of politics with formal juridical mechanisms, characteristic of today’s liberal democracy) – Badiou seeks an alternative path. For him, the re-establishing of an explosive link between philosophy and politics, at the heart of the question of emancipation, entails a programme of a de-statisation of politics and of thought. The political struggle of equality cannot be embodied in regulative institutional frameworks; it is a maxim of subjective action.
The challenge of the roundtable organised on the occasion of the publication of the Serbo-Croatian/English translation of Badiou’s essay is to probe its explosive arguments. More precisely, to probe the arguments with respect to the question of the return to the ‘obscure disaster’ of Marx, whose injunction to put philosophy under the norm of changing the world politically remains an inescapable horizon for the project of emancipation.
Programme :
6pm : opening by Ivana Momcilovic and Ozren Pupovac
6.20pm : Jelica Sumic Riha : Communism between death and resurrection
6.40pm : Frank Ruda : We can, so we must: be communists
7pm : Bruno Besana : Obscure subject / subject to obscurity
7.20pm : round table discussion
In english.
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Book launch and round-table discussion about the publication of Alain Badiou’s Of an Obscure Disaster/Mračni raspad (Jan van Eyck Academie/Bastard Editions)
Participants: Bruno Besana, Ivana Momčilović, Frank Ruda, Ozren Pupovac, Jelica Sumic Riha.
With ‘really existing socialisms’ in ruins philosophy falters facing politics. The year 1989 laid bare not simply the weaknesses of the attempt to construct an alternative to capitalism via the state ownership of the means of production and centralised economic planning, but also the frailty of the very link between philosophy and politics embodied in the doctrine of Marxism-Leninism. For Alain Badiou, however, this should not be a sign of despair and retreat, but rather something to rejoice at. Distinguishing between two modes of a disastrous relationship between philosophy and politics – embodied in the figures of the tyrant (an authoritarian submission of philosophy to the statist dogma, characteristic of Stalinism) and of the sophist (a relativistic identification of politics with formal juridical mechanisms, characteristic of today’s liberal democracy) – Badiou seeks an alternative path. For him, the re-establishing of an explosive link between philosophy and politics, at the heart of the question of emancipation, entails a programme of a de-statisation of politics and of thought. The political struggle of equality cannot be embodied in regulative institutional frameworks; it is a maxim of subjective action.
The challenge of the roundtable organised on the occasion of the publication of the Serbo-Croatian/English translation of Badiou’s essay is to probe its explosive arguments. More precisely, to probe the arguments with respect to the question of the return to the ‘obscure disaster’ of Marx, whose injunction to put philosophy under the norm of changing the world politically remains an inescapable horizon for the project of emancipation.
Programme :
6pm : opening by Ivana Momcilovic and Ozren Pupovac
6.20pm : Jelica Sumic Riha : Communism between death and resurrection
6.40pm : Frank Ruda : We can, so we must: be communists
7pm : Bruno Besana : Obscure subject / subject to obscurity
7.20pm : round table discussion
In english.
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This event dates from April of this year ___ As in
Maison Descartes, Institut Français des Pays-Bas (French Institute of the Netherlands). Address : Maison Descartes Vijzelgracht 2A 1017 HR Amsterdam ...
When that April with his showers fragrant
The dryness of March has pierced to the root,
And bathed every vein in such liquid
By which power engendered is the flower,
When Zephyrus also with his sweet breath
Inspired has in every woodland and heath
The tender crops, and the young sun
Hath in the Ram has his half course run
And small fowls make melody,
That sleep all the night with open eye
(So rises the nature in their hearts),
Then long [yearn] folk to go on pilgrimages,
And palmers [pilgrims who carried palm fronds] for to seek strange strands,
To far-off shrines, known in sundry lands;
And specially from every shire’s end
Of England to Canterbury they wend...
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AS those who
AS those who
seeking learning
wend their
way
through the sweet showers
hearing "the melody"
of
passionate
erudition
&
inquiry
the pilgrims
wandering far and wide
hither and thither
'spiting drought & disdain ~
learning learning learning
O my scholars~!
Maison Descartes, Institut Français des Pays-Bas (French Institute of the Netherlands). Address : Maison Descartes Vijzelgracht 2A 1017 HR Amsterdam ...
