Samuel Weber in European Graduate School | June 2014 | Franz Kafka’s “Hunter Gracchus”

Schirmacher (R)evolution in Saas-Fee: The Badiouan EVENT Takes For(u)m

“A radical change is required for the human species to survive, and if we want to prevent our destruction, we must learn a “bodily” langauge which precedes the division into subject and object, and admit the individual into a successful enterprise that needs no planning.” —Dr. Wolfgang Schirmacher “The End of Metaphysics” 1983

Alain Badiou: AN EVENT IS A SURPRISE; IF IT IS NOT A SURPRISE, IT IS NOT AN EVENT

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Badiou’s EVENT

 

Judith Butler | Avital Ronell | Freud and Non-Violence | European Graduate School

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Avital Ronell and Judith Butler, talking about non-violence, psychoanalysis, aggression, and prohibitions. In the lecture Avital Ronell and Judith Butler discuss Freud, coexistence, suffering, primitive man, in relationship to Dostoyevsky, Bataille, Heidegger, narcissism, promiscuity, pleasure principle, love, peace.

Public open lecture for the students and faculty of the European Graduate School EGS Media and Communication Studies department program Saas-Fee Switzerland

Slavoj Zizek | Ontological Incompleteness in Film | European Graduate School

Alain Badiou | Being and Change | European Graduate School

Public open lecture for the students and faculty of the European Graduate School | EGS – Media and Communication Studies Department | Saas-Fee, Switzerland

Variantology | Zielinski on experiment in unstable times

Siegfried Zielinski, media theorist, discusses the notion of an-archaeology and variantology by focusing on knowledge and power, universalization and anthropocentric thinking by the help of genealogy, arts and science. During the seminar he refers to Foucault, Edouard Glissant, Derrida, Freeman Dyson, Habermas, Manuel De Landa and James Hutton. (European Graduate School |