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Introduction to Algorithmic Literacy | The division of cognitive labor, which starts with the two-way ideological isolation of STEM at schools, is an attack on our collective capacity to read. What is getting lost is the medieval multiplicity of readings of a recipe: as an alchemical instruction, an ethical injunction, or an allegory, with different castes ... |
Analytics & Continentals: Historical Fragments of a War | This seminar explores the bifurcation between the analytic and continental philosophical traditions since its inception, focusing on some of the central debates, methodological approaches, and canonical figures that animate its historical unfolding. Above all, we shall clarify how different conceptions of what constitu... |
A Paradigm Shift: Curating & Exhibition Making in the Age of Continuous Mediation | Is it possible to define curatorial practice today without extending its horizons through rethinking the educational, institutional and also the paracuratorial? How will the brief history of curating evolve into future? Do current forms of mediation and negotiation in the art world really function for diverse audiences... |
The Problem of Narrative: Visual Arts | while in the past storytelling dominated visual arts, the field has been more interested in "deconstructing," “critiquing” or “questioning” narratives than constructing new ones. As James Elkins explains, “narrative isn’t dead, but it’s a dead issue. The avoidance of narrative is one of the great dogmas or working assu... |
Guarding the Border: On the technological threshold of human and unhuman | Today’s war on terror, refugees, migrant labor, minorities and the immunocompromised mediate what counts and does not count as human. This process is activated through images of humanity’s alters and antagonists; all those bodies which lack humanity and consequently define the human through excommunication. The monstro... |
Ghost in the War Machine: Martial Life in the Informational Episteme | The historical emergence and contemporary ubiquity of computation and telecommunication technologies and their associated informational episteme are deeply entangled with the experience and conduct of war. Catalysed by the intense technoscientific mobilisation of the Second World War, the information sciences have tran... |
On the Practical Necessity of Having Demons | From myth to philosophy, from ancient scripts to modern literary works, the problem of evil have preceded by demons as limited cases of vices and by the same token virtues. For precisely, the demonic does not signify the essence of evil but elaborates evil by way of its contextual unfoldings and consequences both in th... |
Essay Events | Expanding from concepts like “essay film” and “visual essay,” this Seminar examines time-based artistic practices and processes that build arguments through images, sound, duration, liveness, and spatial relations. With presentations by artists and scholars working in film and video, performance, sound, and multi-disci... |
Machines Before the Machines: A Prehistory of Cybernetics | This Seminar will address the reconstruction of modern philosophical theories, with a special focus on those which envisage and prepare the rise of cybernetics and systems theory. The Seminar will pay special attention to the ideas of force vive, feedback loop, material, automatic, and living manifestations, goal-seeki... |
Objects in the Realm of Shadows | Philosophy, amongst other things, is a process of decluttering the theoretical space, by framing the objects or the concepts that populate it not as things, but as reflective abstractions. The universe of theory is a “realm of shadows”, as Hegel puts it, a space of contours, forms and reflections, where the object of t... |
Artistic Methodology: from Research to Praxis | This seminar will explore different methodologies employed by contemporary artists that expand the possibilities of research-based practice. Most contemporary artistic production is based on some kind of research, but when foregrounded, research can often endow the semblance of depth and rigor to projects which might o... |
Modern Monetary Theory: The Sixteenth Century Challenge | The aim of this Seminar is to present a sixteenth century challenge to Modern Monetary Theory or MMT. The central idea of MMT is that a United States Treasury Bond (public debt) and a Federal Reserve Note (paper money) are both the accounting liabilities of the state, and that therefore what happens when the state pays... |
Transformations of Dialectic: Idealism, Materialism, Recursivity | Since Plato, dialectic has been considered a sound philosophical method for seeking truth. Dialectic was meant to provide reasons for accepting and refusing claims within a dialogue in order to highlight the distinctions between opinions about the real versus real knowledge. However, as a philosophical method, dialecti... |
Deception Theory: Movements of the Liar | This seminar explores Deception as a philosophical art-form of the highest order, one requiring intricate mastery of the varying states of unreality: the dream, the nightmare, the mirage, the fantasy, the hallucination, the simulation, the vision, the memory, the enigma, the story, the wish, and the apparition (ghost, ... |
The Man Who Knew Nothing: Between Neurodiversity & Practical Schizophrenia | DESCRIPTION This 8-session Seminar presents an overview of the theoretical and practical problems of selfhood and the care for the self. Given today's assimilation of individual experiences by brutal economic forces, the rise of cyberzombies on social media, emotional passivity and exhibitionism as well as the ensuing ... |
From Leibniz to Google: Five Paradigms of Artificial Intelligence | DESCRIPTION What does it take to create intelligence--and to recognize it? These are the two concerns that have animated the field of artificial intelligence over the last 80 years. This Seminar situates the AI field in the larger traditions of philosophy in order to make explicit the frequently unrecognized foundation... |
Images of Reason: Scientific Method in Contemporary Culture | DESCRIPTION In critical theory, post-structural thought and critical cultural practices, technology, reason and science have been labeled as the tools of both socio-political dominance and emancipation. This Seminar asks how we might purchase scientific reason in the context of culture today, that is, without a compreh... |
Introduction to Narratology: Narratives & the Question of Subjectivities | DESCRIPTION This seminar will investigate the role of stories in shaping personal and collective identities. Stories contribute to the perceived value of things and can even make or break elections and trials. How exactly stories function is, however, subject to dispute and so are the values and risks of storytelling. ... |
Queerness & Labor | DESCRIPTION This seminar will think queerness outside and beyond the framework of identity, looking at its historical and contemporary relationship with labor. Is queerness a form of socially productive labor? How does it intersect with work, and the power relations between workers and capital? We will approach queer s... |
Postcolonial Theory as Cinematic Fantasy | DESCRIPTION The archive and its geography stand out the most in Hugo-Olsson’s film Concerning Violence: Nine Scenes from the Anti-Imperialistic Self-Defense, a film following Franz Fanon’s philosophical exegesis The Wretched of the Earth. The amount of attention paid to geography in the film has an ontological relation... |
Formalizing the Subject: Dialectics & Cybernetics in Cahiers Pour L'Analyse & CCRU | DESCRIPTION This Seminar examines two unique think-tanks to emerge in philosophy in the last 50 years: The Cahiers Pour L'Analyse and the Cybernetic Research Culture Unit. These two research groups paved the way to an unprecedented experimental and interdisciplinary practice which reconfigured the classical philosophic... |
Computation & The Real | DESCRIPTION What is Computation? This naive question appears – eighty years on from the pioneering work of Alonzo Church – as an insistence that the computable domain lacks theoretical closure. A figure which presents itself as mere procedure, simply a recursive mode of calculation, has cast its shadow over a fundament... |
The Return to the Abyss & The Revenge of Reason | DESCRIPTION Ever since the critical assault against dogmatic metaphysics initiated by Kant’s transcendental epistemology, philosophy has understood that any discourse attempting to answer the question “what is Real?” must first interrogate how subjective experience mediates the knowledge, disclosure, or constitution of... |
Architecture After the Internet | DESCRIPTION This seminar will focus on how the introduction of computation and algorithms to architecture practice has impacted the field and how the increasing automation of the traditional responsibilities of architects liberate them from the past to think more broadly about the role of architecture in approaching th... |
Towards a Panoptic View of Art History | DESCRIPTION Through exclusion and compression, art history contributes to the creation of mythically charged objects of art. Art history has often been regarded as a given, a discipline that defines how we interpret art in the present. This seminar will attempt to find a new purpose for Art History in our contemporary ... |
Curatorial Expediency & Algorithmic Organization of Exhibitions | This Seminar will focus on the influence of algorithms on the practice of curating as much as on the programmatic essence of curatorial practice in the historical perspective. The automation of curatorial practice might accelerate the reformation of the art world or go even further and realize the emancipatory dream of... |
Pattern Recollection: Modalities of Contemporary Thought Processes | DESCRIPTION This seminar will focus on contemporary philosophy and theory as an exercise of thinking about the future in the past tense. Moderated by Davor Löffler & Patrick Schabus, this seminar will feature seven philosophers, thinkers and theorists who have made a major contribution to their field in the last five y... |
Methodologies of Artistic Practice Now | DESCRIPTION This seminar will focus on the intersections between artistic practice and new technologies and how these can reshape contemporary artistic production. While the seminar will concentrate on each artist’s specific methodologies and career track, its overarching topic is how contemporary artistic practice can... |
On the Riddles of Ontology: The intersections of art & experience | DESCRIPTION The problem of the ontology of artworks has been very much at the front of analytic aesthetics in the last decades. Ever since the publication of Nelson Goodman´s Languages of Art, a whole plethora of positions have emerged in this regard. From Goodman´s nominalism and Gregory Currie´s 'eventural' Platonism... |
Responsibility & Existential Risk | DESCRIPTION Anti-anthropocentrism, broadly construed, is in vogue across contemporary theory and continental philosophy: the topic of ‘human extinction’ its natural bedfellow. And yet, despite popularity (alongside parallel proliferation of ‘geological’ epochs, subtype pessimisms, and various schools of tenebrosity), t... |
Generative Structures: Reasons of Being & Reasons of Knowing | DESCRIPTION This Seminar takes the question of philosophical systems and the conditions which allow for their autonomous construction. How can different philosophical architectures conserve their inner validity while addressing a variety of conceptual structures? Are we rationally allowed to believe in the productive p... |
Future of Intelligence in the Age of Intellectual Scarcity | DESCRIPTION This Seminar consists of polemical arguments against three apparently dominant scenarios concerning the rise of future intelligence, whether in the domain of artificial realization or in the realm of political thought. Each session of this seminar presents an elaborate criticism of a series of ideas put for... |
One Thousand & One Nights and A Handful of Plateaus | This seminar is not offered as part of any Certificate Program. If you have any concerns or questions about this please contact student services at studentservices@thenewcentre.org
DESCRIPTION A series of topological analyses of philosophical issues in relation to science, politics and art and their permutations in te... |
Theories of Knowledge in the Age of Planetary Computation | DESCRIPTION Organized exclusively for the Digital Earth Residency Program, this theoretical seminar will be hosted by Mohammad Salemy and Patrick Schabus. It will feature seven philosophers, thinkers and theorists who have made a major contribution to their field in the last five years(Reza Negarestani, Inigo Wilkins, ... |
Methodologies of Artistic Practice Today | DESCRIPTION Organized exclusively for the Digital Earth Residency Program, this artistic practice seminar will be hosted by Mohammad Salemy and Moses Serubiri. It will feature seven artists and art professionals (Marwa Arsanios, Stephanie Bailey, Kimberly Bradly, Hugo Canoilas, Marina Fokidis, Navine G. Khan-Dossos, Ah... |
Of the Tautological Universe of Value Production | DESCRIPTION What is exchanged in patriarchy is not merely women as a form of use value for reproduction, but also femininity itself, or fetishised femaleness as surplus value. The pure value “femininity,” as abstracted and dematerialised femaleness, is exchanged in the same way as the commodity: adding value to the tau... |
Thinking, Sensing, Being: Epistemology & Ontology in the 21st Century | DESCRIPTION Ever since the critical assault against dogmatic metaphysics initiated by Kant’s transcendental epistemology, philosophy has understood that any discourse attempting to answer the question “what is Real?” must first interrogate how subjective experience mediates the knowledge, disclosure, or constitution of... |
Simulating the World & Remodeling Philosophy: Models, Diagrams and Toys | DESCRIPTION Long ignored by philosophers of science and epistemologists, only recently the concept of models has come to the forefront of philosophical scrutiny. Nevertheless, since the dawn of discovery and invention, engineers, designers and craftsmen have in one way or another treated models as the most treasured to... |
Artificial Neurosis: AI & Psychopathology | DESCRIPTION If we succeed in creating intelligent machines, machines that can learn and are self-aware, machines that possess freedom and desire, will we also not necessarily create neurotic, psychotic, and perverse machines? In other words, won’t intelligent machines also suffer from mental illnesses? Though there is ... |
Compression: A philosophical and technical Introduction | DESCRIPTION In this introductory seminar, participants will be familiarized with the political stakes of a media theory of compression. The seminar will rigorously consider the implications of compression—both as a concept and a technical process with a specific history. The participants are asked to think about the ep... |
For and Against the Avant-Garde: The Genealogy of an Argument | DESCRIPTION What does the term “avant-garde” really mean? When we come across a painting, book, or film that strikes us as particularly innovative, demanding, or productive, we call it, among other things, “avant-garde.” We tend to use the term loosely to indicate that that work is powerful, dynamic, or charged in some... |
Philosophical Invention & the Silence of the Future | DESCRIPTION This seminar is concerned with redefining the relationship between the future and philosophy. We will study how the future is not only a time, supposed to occur after the past and the present, but above all a modality capable of intervening in the present. If we do not know the future in its forthcoming dev... |
Worldmakings & Worldendings: An Alternative Geology of The World | DESCRIPTION Numerous universes might have been botched and bungled throughout an eternity, ere this system was struck out; much labor lost, many fruitless trials made, and a slow but continual improvement carried out during infinite ages in the art of world-making” - David Hume, Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion
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Disassembling the Trust Machine: An introduction to a political economy of blockchain | DESCRIPTION This seminar carefully disassembles the components of the Bitcoin proof-of-work algorithm in order for the students to get a first glimpse of the technical, economic and political concepts, techniques, assumptions and ethics that are mobilized in order to make the protocol work. The seminar introduces the c... |
Phenomenological Intersections in Aesthetics | DESCRIPTION
In this seminar, which is structured topically as a series of probing into some fundamental concepts, methods and tasks of phenomenological research in relation to aesthetics and art, we will hone on how Husserlian and post Husserlian phenomenology intersect with contemporary aesthetic discourse. Aesthetic... |
Improbable Noise: A Multilevel Account of Randomness and Unpredictability | DESCRIPTION
This seminar develops a multi-level account of noise, exploring the associated notions of randomness and unpredictability across different disciplinary contexts. This will include its scientific conception in information theory and cybernetics, and its relation to thermodynamics, dynamic systems theory, ev... |
Introduction to African Political & Aesthetic Philosophies | The seminar considers debates on both aesthetic and political practices as they appear within the field of African philosophy, a highly interdisciplinary field which in addition to art and political theory also includes literature, history, and anthropology. The seminar engages the students from a range of disciplines ... |
Theory & Object: Philosophy of Science in the twentieth century, from Carnap to Grünbaum | This course provides a survey of motivations, trends and directions in the philosophy of science in the twentieth century. During twelve sessions, we shall engage with both introductory materials and in-depth issues when necessary. In addition to underlining the pertinence of philosophy of science today, we shall focus... |
Promethean Democracy: Speculative Governance on a Planetary Scale | Left critics of “democracy” often argue that, while they might constitute noble political experiments, the more direct forms of it seen in the antiglobalization and occupation movements are ultimately impossible to scale any level higher than relatively small, local groups, and that even representative democratic forms... |
Introduction to Forensic Audio | DESCRIPTION
The seminar focuses on my research & practice as an artist: the architectural aesthetics of sound and voice and its application to politics and law. The seminar will focus on new methodologies and novel forms that can potentially be developed to respond to the prevalence of surveillance technologies. Throu... |
Simondon & Technology | DESCRIPTION
Simondon’s discourse on technical objects lays down the foundation for a philosophy of technology which aims to give a new ontological status to technical objects in order to establish a technological culture or a technological humanism. This consists of the effort to save technical objects from misunderst... |
Marx & Philosophy I & II | DESCRIPTION
Marx’s analysis of capital continues to haunt contemporary theoretical discourse. As capitalist globalization enters its world-dissolving phase, Marx’s account of the logic of capital provides cognitive traction on this process. Understanding the theoretical and political stakes of his analysis remains an ... |
Social Networks: From Metaphor to Diagram to Machine | What difference does the 'social' make to the network and the network to the 'social'? Social Network Analysis is usually considered by critical media studies as a regressive ontology of the social, which it reduces to quantifiable relations between individuals and which can be then dismissed to a material enactment of... |
Ontologies of the Fold: Leibniz, Simondon & Deleuze | DESCRIPTION
This seminar explores Simondon's concept of individuation and Deleuze's account of the fold as models of how being is to be thought. Responding to Graham Harman's object-oriented philosophy and his thesis that beings are withdrawn and never relate, it is argued that the concept of the fold avoids the twin ... |
Structuralism, Poststructuralism & the Pure Form of the Subject | The course will revisit some of the themes present in my publication from 2014, The Cut of the Real: Subjectivity in Poststructuralist Philosophy (New York: Columbia University Press). We will focus mostly on the question of subjectivation. It will be based on a close reading of Judith Butler and Michel Foucault, and i... |
Uncurated: Theory & method for a non-curatorial exhibition practice | DESCRIPTION
The goal of the seminar is to prepare an uncurated, collaboratively organized art exhibition, to be held in 2018. The discussions about my text "Against Curating" led to the decision to set up a platform infrastructure for a new type of art exhibition. It includes social media, public participation in the ... |
Layers of Generativity: Axial Age, Modernity, Technological Civilization, (Reconstructing Futures II) | DESCRIPTION
When, where, and why did the mode of abstraction “philosophy”, esp. “the universal” as a relational point of collective commensurabilization appear? Why are there distinct epochs of mathematical renderings of the world? What causes time regimes such as the cyclical, oscillatory, absolute or linear to emerg... |
Art & Meaning I: Mood, Vibe, System, and Data Geometry | DESCRIPTION
This seminar constructs a mathematically informed interpretation of a classically romantic literary-theoretic thesis: that a work of art can aesthetically communicate an ineffably complex holistic understanding of the real world, which we might call the work’s ‘aesthetic meaning.’ Drawing on a generalizati... |
The Reality of the Derivatives Market | DESCRIPTION
1. We present the Black-Scholes-Merton model of derivative pricing, the problem it has solved and the problem it has created (known as ‘the volatility smile problem’). This problem is very challenging, not only computationally but also theoretically and philosophically. It is the reason why critical thinke... |
Collapse & Reconfiguration I & II: Introduction to Alt-Woke Praxis | DESCRIPTION
Social relations are determined by economic forces. Agrarian surplus sustained nation states, necessitated labor, and bore the development of innovative tools, which contributed to migration and collective learning across the planetary social sphere. Acceleration describes economic forces as a levelling pr... |
Kant's Circle of Revenge: A close encounter with Critique of Pure Reason | DESCRIPTION
Throughout this course, Jay Rosenberg's succinct yet fairly accurate observation that "Kant is hard to access" shall be our presupposition in engaging with the work of Immanuel Kant.
This seminar promises a close reading and engagement with one of the most significant works in the history of philosophy.... |
Virtual Virilio: Speed, Politics, Potentiality | DESCRIPTION
Along with acceleration, the concept of “speed” has become an increasingly central thematic in 21st century technological, cultural, and political theory. First invoking and deploying the term as far back as the 1970s, Paul Virilio, the French “critic of the art of technology,” is perhaps the most-invoked ... |
Difference & Repetition for the 21st Century | Published nearly fifty years ago in the tumultuous year of 1968, Difference and Repetition is increasingly recognized as Deleuze's primary magnum opus. This seminar will be devoted to a close and careful reading of this work, paying particular attention to his critique of representation, as well as the prevailing ontol... |
Mathematics of Inhuman Existentialism | [videogallery id="mathematics"]
DESCRIPTION:Is it possible for philosophy to occur in and through the tension between two apparently incompatible demands: for thinking to be answerable to a mathematical ontology no longer conflated with logicist regimentation, and for it to participate in an intimacy with existence ... |
The Concept of Acceleration: The 21st Century Critique of Political Economy | DESCRIPTION
The objective of this two-module seminar is philosophical rigorization of the concept of “acceleration” as it is encountered in various species of contemporary thought. It is anticipated that such cultural tendencies will proliferate and intensify, although that is itself a self-reflexive characteristic of... |
Post-Philosophy II: Marx, Laruelle, Irigaray and Braidotti | DESCRIPTION
Humanity is a theologico-philosophical creation and it is – as a consequence – always naturalized. Thanks to philosophy and theology, nature is always humanized. As long as the technological component of the radical dyad called the cyborg can be humanized or transformed into pure transcendence constituting... |
Plato, a Reality Game in Four Levels | DESCRIPTION
In a time when proclaiming oneself as a philosopher or worse as a Platonist is an open invitation to the public charge of elitism, idealism, logocentrism, patriarchy and even fascism, reengaging the work of Plato seems to be more of a tasteless attempt to undo all the great achievements of the late twentie... |
Beyond Price & Profit: Art, Finance & the Question of Value | DESCRIPTION
How can the art sphere function as an experimental ground for producing and circulating financial logics that deviate from those of financial capitalism? This seminar explores different theories of financialisation and how these may be applied in understanding the relationship between contemporary art and ... |
Archeology of Abstraction (Reconstructing Futures I) | Module I: Archeology of Abstraction
DESCRIPTION: This seminar is based on the materials from the upcoming publication, “Generative Realities: On the Temporality and Metaphysics of Technological Civilization”
Starting around 1880, with the fusion of industry, capital and science, the sphere of human domestication... |
Integrative Objects II: Art Practice & Philo-Fiction under Collective Intimacy | In this course we will continue the development of the concept of the integrative object. Implementing it in art and in philosophy under the condition of collective Intimacy, as began in the first New Centre seminar. This condition brings the gestures and styles of invention present within these two fields into relatio... |
Project for a Post-Monetary Economy | The purpose of an economy is to distribute goods and to allocate tasks. Matching-algorithms and artificial intelligence could devise better procedures for distributing goods and tasks, leading to a post-monetary economy. For now, money will still govern all economic transactions, but the monetary regime may only be a t... |
Infrastructural Intelligence: Cryptology & the History of Technology | This course explores the infrastructuralization of artificial intelligence techniques including deep learning and convolutional neural networks along with the autonomization of capitalist processes in tools and entities like blockchain, DAO and Ethereum. By approaching them in the context of their cultural, philosophic... |
The Future Is Unmanned: Technologies for Corrupt Feminisms | “...it was a hundred years before anything akin to Ada’s software would find the hardware on which to run...but technical developments are rarely simple matters of cause and effect” -Sadie Plant
DESCRIPTION: Instead of beginning, this seminar will submerge itself into the middle of a swamp of feminisms parthenogenet... |
Emergency Government: The Political Theory of Decisionism | “My officers have the right to go home at night”: with this statement in August 2014, St. Louis Police Chief Sam Dotson both justified the summary execution of 25-year old Kajieme Powell and captured the essence of a political theory tradition of which he was most likely unaware: that of “decisionism”. Historically, de... |
Qwernomics: Path Dependency & Semiotic Fatality | DESCRIPTION
The format of the Qwerty keyboard illustrates the production of a destiny. Even in the epoch succeeding the mechanical type-writer, and its specific design imperatives, the legacy layout of alphanumeric keys settled during the 1890s has remained frozen into place without significant revision. In the langua... |
Maths & Ideas: From Antiquity to Renaissance | DESCRIPTION
This course provides a basic introduction to mathematical thinking and elementary mathematical concepts. We will survey the history of mathematical discoveries from the antiquity to the end of Renaissance by analyzing case studies and situating them in the context of advances in philosophy, logic, physics ... |
The Stack to Come: Synthetic Sensing/ Intelligence (and The New Normal) | DESCRIPTION
This 8 session seminar will explore the design philosophy of systems at diverse scales: from planetary-scale computation (through Bratton’s recent book, The Stack: On Software and Sovereignty) to molecular-scale sensing/intelligence (though his recent work and research with D:GP at University of California... |
Contemporary Readings of Hegel | DESCRIPTION
Hegel famously characterized philosophy as its own time comprehended in thought. Today, 185 years after Hegel’s death, several contemporary philosophers have enlisted Hegel in their attempts to comprehend our time in thought. What is striking however is that these philosophers invoke Hegel as the inspirati... |
Integrative Objects: The invention of Philo-Fiction | DESCRIPTION
“This way of working leads us to consider the new objects of science no longer as complex, but as ‘integrative’. The complex object corresponds more or less to the stage of the open work, where the creation of a discipline of itself no longer allows us to apprehend the objects which it works with, but requ... |
Post-Philosophy: Marx, Laruelle & the Possibility of New Metaphysics | DESCRIPTION
This seminar departs from the conventional readings of Karl Marx, by way of François Laruelle’s non-philosophical methods of operating with “transcendental material,”. It will aim to identify a theoretical kernel in Marx whose critical and interpretative force can be employed without reference to its subse... |
Remediating Political Theory / Repoliticizing Media Theory | DESCRIPTION
Within the academic context, political theory has generally been housed only in political science departments - or, in the form of political philosophy, within philosophy departments (traditional political science departments also sometimes retain the latter nomenclature). Media theory, on the other hand, ... |
Curatorial Practice III: Curating the Future Now! | This seminar was held in person in Prague in the Spring of 2016 as a series of workshops with no video recordings.
DESCRIPTION
The 20th century, particularly after the Second World War, witnessed the emergence of a new class of cultural producers named curators who worked with with artists, museum officials, and priv... |
Outer Edges: 21st Century Spatial Metapolitics | DESCRIPTION
This Seminar is concerned primarily with the tradition and prospects of geopolitical anarchy snd its related literature, as exemplified by the principle of Dynamic Geography theorized by Patri Friedman. The other significant theorists of this tendency whose work will be reviewed and discussed are Robert No... |
Mediating Freedom: From Human Rights to Contemporary Art | DESCRIPTION
Both human rights and contemporary art may be approached as regimes of mediation inscribed into larger projects of global ordering. From producing archetypes of universal subjecthood to organising how agency, ethics and reality are conceived, these two regimes have historically functioned as image-makers f... |
The Limits of 21st Century Capitalism | DESCRIPTION
At the end of the 20th century, capitalism appeared stronger than ever before. The alternative economic systems had disappeared, inflation had become manageable, and the threat of major crises receded from the core capitalist countries. Proponents declared that we had reached 'the end of history', while ec... |
Temperature Check: The Making of a Biennial Where Art is Centre-Stage | DESCRIPTION
Eight sessions divided into four “duo-sessions” with one artist and one text connected to this artist’s practice as the focus points for each. Maria Lind and one of the other members of the curatorial team is responsible for each duo-session.
This course is drawing from the concerns of the upcoming Gw... |
Thinking Fictions I: Topias & Invention | DESCRIPTION
Can a proper boundary between fiction and speculation be made? Whereas Kant attempted to construct a critical net to limit the excesses of idealism, recent forays into speculation and ontology have raised questions regarding the reality of fictions, the status of speculations, and the actuality of models a... |
Anti-Oedipus: Deleuze & Guattari Beyond the State | DESCRIPTION
The hypothesis for this seminar is that the State is essentially a theological structure. In conceptualizing theology as a State structure we should take care to distinguish this structure from religion and the supernatural. Although many forms of religiosity are, in a sense, theological, the distinguishin... |
Grothendieck & A Theory of Contemporary Transgression | Professor Zalamea‘s lectures will introduce the groundbreaking work of twentieth century French mathematician Alexander Grothendieck in relation to the work of C.S. Peirce, Novalis, P. Valéry, theories of topoi and sheaves, networks, art, and music, towards a generalized theory of transgression for mathematics, philoso... |
Entangled Legacies: Institutional Collections and Curatorial-Editorial Agency | DESCRIPTION
According to Michel Foucault, the project of the nineteenth century bourgeois museum organized more than collections. It also attempted, through the combination of display, contemplation, and education, to determine museum visitorsʼ sense of place in society. From this angle, institutional collections—espe... |
Complexity and Computation: An Introduction to Measures, Paradigms and Programs | DESCRIPTION
This seminar is an introduction to two widely popular yet often culturally misconstrued topics, complexity and computation. Why are social sciences no longer tenable without an extensive restructuring around theoretical and applied dimensions of these two subjects? Why is in the absence of a systematic eng... |
Philosophy as System: An Introduction to German Idealism | DESCRIPTION
German Idealism has been slandered as that school of thought which 'ran through the door that Kant only wished to peak through' thereby appearing as a crude return to dogmatic or pre-critical metaphysics. However, the speculative ambition of the German Idealists was far from opposed to Kant’s critical rest... |
Anthropol: The Future of Human Insecurity | DESCRIPTION
The topic of this course is the prospect of Artificial Intelligence, considered as the object of a threat analysis. Its method is dramatization, through systematic scenario construction. Our question: How would a global bureau, tasked with – and seriously committed to – the protection of human interests ag... |
The Horror of Security: Contemporary Geopolitics in a Permanent Beta Phase | DESCRIPTION
Contemporary geopolitics as curated by the United States is in a permanent beta phase. Neuro-torture, algorithmic warfare, drones strikes, cybernetic nation-building are not means or ends but tests. Can a polis be engineered? Can the human operating system be reformatted? Can violence be modulated until le... |
Plateau Infini: Capitalism & Schizophrenia in the 21st Century | DESCRIPTION
Deleuze and Guattari were exceptional among the French thinkers of 1968: they did not embrace the linguistic turn, correlationism or anti-realism, nor did they champion social constructivism. Rather, they developed a robust realist and materialist naturalism that spoke profoundly to science, ethics, art, a... |
Artifice & Alienation: SF Cinema as Critical Political Thought | DESCRIPTION
In this seminar, we will explore the relationship between science fiction (SF) cinema and critical political thought via the thematics of utopianism, dystopianism, and materialism, as they might be actualized through multiple conceptual personae, including the alien / hybrid, the robot / humanoid, and auto... |
#Accelerate II: The Accelerationist Reader | “The Most important division in today’s left is between those that hold to a folk politics of localism, direct action, and relentless horizontalism, and those that outline what must be called an accelerationist politics at ease with the modernity of abstraction, complexity, globality, and technology.” -Alex Williams an... |
Towards Xenofeminism: Gender, Technology, and Reason in the 21st Century | 'Leaving aside the traumatic, self-proclaimed POST of their alumni, what Deleuze and Foucault teach us is how to transit, how to enter and exit modernity in many ways and from many perspectives. What was awoken by the second half of the twentieth century – an age of the TRANS, if ever there was one – is better called t... |
Curatorial Practice I: Here & Now | Jens Hoffman: “How, in just a few short years, did we reach this point of self-referential saturation?” /// Elena Filipovic: “Implicit in the question is thus not so much what the meaning of the exhibition is as a category/genre/object, but what it does, which is to say, how exhibitions function and matter, and how the... |
#Accelerate I: The Accelerationist Reader | “The Most important division in today’s left is between those that hold to a folk politics of localism, direct action, and relentless horizontalism, and those that outline what must be called an accelerationist politics at ease with the modernity of abstraction, complexity, globality, and technology.” -Alex Williams an... |
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