Sunday, August 31, 2014

New book on Malabou and Deleuze & Guattari

Gabriel Schenker has a new book out called Organic Texture (Atropos Press) staging a dialogue between Malabou's plasticity and Deleuze and Guattari's organic strata.

Here is the description:



What would happen to Deleuze and Guattari's organic strata and body without organs if they were to have been constructed not in relation to the geneticism of the sixties but to the epigenetic field that boomed in the 2000's? This work starts from a reconfiguration of the organic basis of their theory which, in dialogue with epigenetics, neuroscience, and the work of Catherine Malabou, leads to a new understanding of the organism. The organism is no longer a fixed and hierarchical prison keeping us from exploring our potentials but a texture weaved between cells and emotions, bodies and discourses, individuals and groups, organic and inorganic. No longer a stratic reality to be repressed but the very basis of our life potentials.

http://www.amazon.com/Organic-Texture-Gabriel-Schenker/dp/1940813190

Kant, c’est plastique

http://www.lemonde.fr/livres/article/2014/08/28/kant-c-est-plastique_4478274_3260.htmlLa philosophe Catherine Malabou (photo) propose une relecture de l'auteur classique allemand qui le réconcilie avec l'histoire, le vivant et les neurosciences.

Sunday, June 22, 2014

London Graduate School Summer Academy on Derrida's Glas

The final programme for the London Graduate School Summer Academy to be held at Central Saint MartinsFor m has now been announced and is as follows:

Derrida’s Glas

Final Programme

Monday 23rd June
9-9.30 Registration
9.30-10 Welcome and introduction
10-12 Mairéad Hanrahan (University College London), ‘Mourning Taxonomies’
2-4 Reading groups, led by Mairéad Hanrahan and Simon Morgan Wortham
4.30pm Social event

Tuesday 24th June
10-12 Catherine Malabou (Kingston University), ‘Philosophy in Erection’
2-4 Reading groups, led by Catherine Malabou and Andrew Benjamin
4-6 Etienne Balibar (Columbia University/Kingston University), ‘Community, Universality, and the différance of the Absolute in Glas’

Wednesday 25th June
10-12 Tina Chanter (Kingston University), ‘Antigone as White Fetish of Hegel and Seductress of Derrida’
2-4 Reading groups, led by Tina Chanter and Chiara Alfano

Thursday 26th June
10-12 Geoffrey Bennington (Emory University), ‘Method and Metaphor in Glas’
2-4 Reading groups, led by Geoffrey Bennington and Chiara Alfano
4-6 Andrew Benjamin (Kingston University/Monash University), ‘Où conduit le désir d’Antigone? Derrida, Antigone’
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