thinking the event

 

 

context

 

This seminar focuses upon contemporary philosophies of the ‘Event’. Concepts of the event broadly address the possibility of chance occurence and significant change in the ordering of the multiple situations that face us. Through group discussion, close reading of key texts and analysis of cultural artefacts, we seek to bring these concepts to bear critically upon contemporary cultural discourse and practice. Convened by Tim Stott, gradcam research scholar. Contact timothystott(at)hotmail.com

Since Spring 2008, the group has located different and contested concepts of the event in the work of Badiou, Agamben, Rancière, Deleuze, and others. See below for a comprehensive list of these along with a number of supplementary texts that participants have identified as pertinent to the issues raised in the seminars. For an overview of previous sessions go here.

 

schedule

 

These seminars takeplace every second Wednesday @ 9.30 - 11.30 in Johns Street starting on the 9th of September.

 

format

 

All participants are required to read the text for each seminar. All participants are also encouraged to read around these and where possible supplement this reading with parallel texts and materials and to offer them to the seminar. These can be emailed/ shared (full bibliographic details) at least three days prior to the seminar itself to allow others to consult and read them.

Each seminar will have one researcher who has been nominated from the previous session to lead the seminar. This should be a formal presentation of around thirty minutes where the text is summarised and where significant points, issues for discussion, etc. are highlighted and analysed. This will then lead to a discussion amongst all participants.

On the completion of a text, all participants are required to undertake to write a short paper (1000 words) on a topic or theme emerging in the text as a way to consolidate understanding and identify continuities and differences across the texts. The School is keen to support this seminar to generate events and publications as determined appropriate by the group.

 

some key volumes

 

Agamben, Giorgio (2005) The Time That Remains: A Commentary on the Letter to the Romans, Stanford
Badiou, Alain (2003) Saint Paul: The Foundation of Universalism, Stanford
Deleuze, Gilles (2006) Nietzsche and Philosophy, London: Continuum
Rancière, Jacques (1998) Disagreement: Politics And Philosophy, Minnesota UP
Zupančič, Alenka (2003) The Shortest Shadow: Nietzsche's Philosophy of the Two, Cambridge: MIT

see also; http://www.iep.utm.edu/a/agamben.htm

 

spring semester 2010

 

This semester continues the close-reading of Badiou's Being and Event.

 

  • wednesday 20/1/10 9:30-11:30

    Badiou, BE, Part VIII Forcing: Truth and the Subject. Beyond Lacan

     

  • wednesday 03/02/10 9:30-11:30

     

  • wednesday 24/02/10 9:30-11:30

     

  • wednesday 10/03/10 9:30-11:30

     

  • wednesday 31/03/10 9:30-11:30

     

  • wednesday 14/04/10 9:30-11:30

     

  • wednesday 28/04/10 9:30-11:30

     

  • wednesday 12/05/10 9:30-11:30

     

  • wednesday 26/05/10 9:30-11:30

     

 

 

 

For additional information on the collaborating institutions consult www.dit.ie, www.ncad.ie, www.iadt.ie and www.ulster.ac.uk.