2 07, 2008

thinking nothing

By |2016-01-12T21:11:05+02:00July 2nd, 2008|philosophy, research|0 Comments

PARRHESIA and COLLAPSE present a one day symposium (31st July 2008) with title: THINKING NOTHING - the void and its resurgence in contemporary thought From the emergence of empty set as a basis for ontology, to materialist negative theology, to Metzinger's 'nemocentric' destitution of the subject, contemporary thought seems to be obsessed with nothing. But the politics of this nothing seems drastically different from its earlier existentialist and postmodern nihilistic incarnations. This symposium seeks to explore the problem of nothing in contemporary thought, asking precisely how the postulation of an inherent negativity as a productive realm of philosophical discourse has come to characterise our intellectual landscape, and how the contemporary void relates to those of Ancient and Modern philosophical traditions. Speakers: Justin Clemens (University of Melbourne; Author of The Mundiad, Avoiding the Subject [with Dom Pettman], and coeditor/translator of Alain Badiou's Infinite Thought) Ray Brassier (Middlesex University; Author of Nihil [...]

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1 07, 2008

Contemporary Aesthetics (2008)

By |2016-01-12T21:11:05+02:00July 1st, 2008|art, philosophy, research|0 Comments

Contemporary Aesthetics encourages inclusive and innovative aesthetic inquiry. Current volume includes: Frederic Will Can We Get Inside the Aesthetic Sensibility of the Archaic Past? Maryvonne Saison "The People Are Missing" Thomas Leddy The Aesthetics of Junkyards and Roadside Clutter Emmanouil Aretoulakis Aesthetic Appreciation, Ethics, and 9/11 Dan Disney Toward a Poeticognosis: Re-reading Plato's The Republic via Wallace Stevens' "An Ordinary Evening in New Haven" Jonathan Davis Questioning "The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction": A Stroll around the Louvre after Reading Benjamin Grant Tavinor Definition of Videogames SYMPOSIUM: Danto's The Transfiguration of the Commonplace Twenty-Five Years Later Ivan Gaskell The Riddle of a Riddle Thomas E. Wartenberg Not Just Mere Things Cynthia Freeland Danto and Art Criticism Arthur C. Danto Ontology, Criticism, and the Riddle of Art Versus Non-Art in The Transfiguration of the Commonplace

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22 06, 2008

And the Wheels Stopped Turning

By |2016-01-12T21:11:05+02:00June 22nd, 2008|politics|0 Comments

A SEARCH FOR EUROPE'S FUTURE By Jürgen Habermas European governments are at their wits' end. It is time for them to admit it -- and let the public decide about the future of the European Union. and everything comes to a grinding halt. The farmers are upset about falling global prices and the new regulations constantly coming from Brussels. Those at the bottom of the social ladder are upset about the growing gap between rich and poor, especially evident in a country where both groups live in close proximity. The citizens despise their own politicians, who promise the world but who lack perspective and do not (cannot) deliver. And then along comes a referendum over a treaty that is too complicated to be understood. EU membership has been more or less advantageous. Why should anything be changed? Doesn't the strengthening of European institutions necessarily lead to a weakening of democratic [...]

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12 06, 2008

Pilot

By |2016-01-12T21:11:17+02:00June 12th, 2008|music|0 Comments

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hccn6KSDeIc The Notwist is a German indie rock band. They have been very strongly influenced by the electronica scene, along with the other groups of Morr Music.

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