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• 15 jan 2020

  Rennes

  Call for papers - Europe

  Make our own Walter Benjamin's “Experience and Poverty” ?

  We are not in 1933, nor are we threatened, here in Europe, as Walter Benjamin was when, between two apocalypses and already in exile, in an indifference due to historical circumstances, he published his short and incisive text « Experience and Poverty » in a Prague’s newspaper with short-lived existence. However, isn’t the assessment he made of an alliance, by the great creators, between « a total disenchantment about the age » and, nevertheless, « an unlimited commitment to it » also ours ? Not still ours (the Shoah and other catastrophes have shaken up, since then, the order of the thinkable), but again ours, as if we were at the point where, undertaking our poverty today or, disarming voluntarily, would be the lifeline, the way out to escape the inertia promised by a dark future.

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• 31 jan 2019

  Huddersfield

  Call for papers - Thought

  Music and Democracy: beyond Metaphors and Idealization

  This study day aims to interrogate the experimental and novel socialities, imagined communities and social and institutional conditions summoned into being by 'democratic' forms of music-making: What is the nature of a 'democratic ideal' in music (or art-making more widely)? What is achieved, politically, by rethinking the way in which music is made? When does such rethinking affect the wider domain of social relations, and when does it not? If democratic music-making can help with the wider democratisation of social life, how does it do so? When and how is ‘democratic' music more than just a metaphor?

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• 15 oct 2009	14 oct 2009	16 oct 2009
  17 oct 2009

  Saint-Denis

  Conference, symposium - Thought

  Passages de Jean-François Lyotard

  On sait le rôle que la pensée et l’activité de Lyotard ont joué dans le groupe Socialisme ou barbarie dès les années 50, puis dans le mouvement 22 mars en 1968, avant d’intégrer ensuite le département de philosophie de l’Université de Paris VIII à Vincennes et se faire connaître internationalement (non sans confusion) sous les désignations de « philosophie du désir » ou, plus tard, de « philosophie postmoderne ».

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