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| <nettime-ann> Lecture series 'Inventions' | Zurich, starting 25 March 2010 |
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Inventions With Franco
Berardi Bifo, Katja Diefenbach, Antke Engel, Maurizio Lazzarato,
Isabell Lorey,
Erin Manning, Brian Massumi, Sandro Mezzadra, Angela Mitropoulos,
Antonio
Negri, Roberto Nigro, Stefan Nowotny, Jasbir Puar, Gerald Raunig,
Judith Revel. «L’essentiel
d’une invention est de faire s’utiliser
réciproquement des moyens d’action qui auparavant paraissaient
étrangers ou
opposés; elle est une association de forces substituée à une opposition
ou à
une stérile juxtaposition de forces». The most
influential theoretical current of the late 20th century is no
longer as young as it once was. Emerging within the social and
political
context of the 1960s and the 1970s, «post-structuralism» was not a
school of
thought as such, and its protagonists did not necessarily harbour the
same
theoretical concerns. It was a period of intellectual intensity that
brought
about deep-reaching transformations in life styles and forms of
knowledge,
leading to new discursive orders and new social practices. Today, many of
its main protagonists – among them the
theory-stars Foucault, Deleuze and Derrida – are no longer alive. Now
it seems
increasingly easy for the cooptation, decontextualisation and
depoliticisation
of such theoretical endeavours to occur. On different levels and in a
variety
of social contexts, «post-structuralism» reappears watered down,
isolated and reduced
to mere slogans within an academic mainstream. In a series of
double lectures, the aim of Inventions is
to present contemporary positions of ‘post-structuralism’ and
recompose,
transversalise and queer its currents. A reinvention of the political
and theories
thereof may emerge from those very same marginal fields that have for
decades
been the source of nourishment: (Queer-) feminist praxis, critical
production
of art and knowledge, critical migration studies, social movements and
extra-academic philosophy. Maybe the term
«post-structuralism» – never much more
than an auxiliary construction to sum up very different theoretical
currents –
will finally become obsolete. Maybe it will be replaced by a new
conceptual
arrangement. Inventions aims to provide the necessary impulses
that can
make
possible this new arrangement of concepts and its association with
social
machines. 25 March 2010, 18:00 6 April 2010, 18:00 6 May 2010, 18:00 August October November December Venue: More info at http://vth.zhdk.ch/?inventionen Creating
Worlds Discursive Lines:
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