Plasticity Revealed: On The Philosophy of Catherine Malabou

Plasticity revealed. 
On the Philosophy of Catherine Malabou 

5./6. Juli 2013, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt a. M., Campus Westend



Freitag, 5. Juli 

HZ 5 (Hörsaalzentrum) 

18.00 Uhr 

Vortrag 
From Sorrow to Indifference. Political Subjectivity and the emotional Brain 
Catherine Malabou (Kingston, UK) 

Responses 
Axel Honneth (Frankfurt a. M.) und Christoph Menke (Frankfurt a. M.) 

Samstag, 6. Juli 

Cas. 1.811 (Casino-Gebäude) 


10:00-12:00 Uhr 

Introduction 
Julia Christ (Frankfurt a. M./Paris) 

Panel I: Philosophy and Ontology 

The Real is the Plastic, the Plastic is the Real (isn't it?) 
Frank Ruda (Berlin) 

After Critique: The Explosiveness of Form 
Magnus Krümpelbeck (Frankfurt a. M.) 


12:00 Uhr 

Lunch Break 


13:30-15:30 Uhr 

Panel II: Life 

Life, Matter, Negation 
Jan Völker (Berlin) 

The Potentiality of Habit: Notes on Self-Formation 
Thomas Khurana (Frankfurt a. M.) 


15:30 Uhr 

Coffee Break 


16:00-18:00 Uhr 

Panel III: Subject 

Destructive Plasticity and Anankē. Frictions, Fractions and Traces of Trauma 
in the Subject 
Julia König (Frankfurt a. M.) 

The Plasticity of the Political: Subject, Form and Joint Action 
Thomas Telios (Frankfurt a. M.)