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    Figures and Perspectives on the Mass and the Individual in Capitalist Modernity (19th-21st century)

    How is it possible to use the notion of mass without making it collapse into a complete condemnation of collective action or into an acritical celebration of the crowd? From there on, the relationship between mass and individual can be addressed in many fashions: Are there any specific ways for the mass to organize itself as a political subject? What are means whereby artworks represent and transform the linkage between  mass and individual? What are the mutations undergone by the mass qua object of the social sciences? How does capitalist modernity affect the moral and psychic autonomy of individuals?

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  • Aix-en-Provence

    Conference, symposium - Thought

    Negative Knowledge

    L’avènement de la modernité s’est accompagné d’une critique radicale de la métaphysique traditionnelle. Depuis les Lumières (notamment françaises) et plus encore avec Nietzsche et sa déconstruction des « Hinterweltler », la quête de justifications ultimes (Letztbegründungen) ou de connaissances transcendant l’immanence est devenue une entreprise largement suspecte. Si le rétablissement de systèmes métaphysiques aspirant à « expliquer tout », comme le formulait Kierkegaard avec ironie, ne semble aujourd’hui ni possible ni souhaitable, se pose toutefois la question de savoir s’il reste légitime de poser des questions métaphysiques dans l’ère post-métaphysique, et sous quelle forme.

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