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Short-form Criticism Workshop: The conditions for judgment | This Workshop engages participants in the discipline of criticism as a contemporary practice. The qualitative judgment of art has always been a fraught process. Following the decline of art historical canon, various critical and/or theoretical discourses, and the debilitating rise of social media, the prospect of criti... |
Self-writing, Autotheory and Autoethnography: Paulin Hountoundji and the Critique of Realism | In this Seminar, Students will be introduced to the challenges of developing an autotheory and autoethnography as problematized by philosopher Paulin Hountondji. Given that we live in an age that has popularized the novel as a contemporary form of self-writing and that much of contemporary literature deals in memoir an... |
From Inference to Intervention: on the operative logics of machine learning | In recent decades, machine learning methods have become deeply entangled with processes of worldmaking through their crucial role in making inferences about the world. When deployed in contexts such as criminal justice, social welfare, or public health, predictive systems take an even more active role in shaping the wo... |
Feminism in the canon of philosophy: A research lab | In this Seminar, we will talk about feminist philosophy and its development into a parallel entity, into a “Philosophy’s ‘Other’” as Judith Butler calls it, concerning the traditionally understood philosophy, not included in the canon of philosophy as obligatory readings, while many feminist philosophers teach in other... |
Cartesian Conflagrations | Often introduced in the vein of a boogeyman at the center of modern philosophical cautionary tales, Descartes remains one of the most influential and yet persistently controversial of all rationalists. His controversy stems mainly from two facts: one, that his legacy initiated a chain reaction at the dawn of the Enligh... |
The Flight of Ariel: Universalism in Latin American Thought | In his groundbreaking study "Ariel y Arisbe: evolución y evaluación del concepto de América Latina en el Siglo XX (2000)," Colombian philosopher Fernando Zalamea proposes a broad genealogy of what he named the 20th Century Latin American "universalist" tradition. Guided by the utopian aspiration to nurture productive m... |
Being There and Not There | Amid what Roberto Bolaño calls the melancholy folklore of exile, he evokes the phantom experience preceding an apocalypse that may never arrive: “I had practically no friends, and all I did was write and go for long walks, starting at seven in the evening, just after getting up, with a feeling like jet lag – an odd sen... |
Information: Individuation according to Simondon | What is it that distinguishes information from a random event? It is, according to Simondon, its catalyzing effect on a process of individuation. Information, thus conceived, is synonymous with the sense of individuation [le sens de l’individuation], affine with the potentialities specific to it, and conducive to ampli... |
GPT for Arts & Humanities | Designed for humanities students with little to no programming background, "GPT for Arts & Humanities" is an 8-session Workshop that focuses on the text-based research in humanities leveraging LLM technology (Large Language Models, most notably ChatGPT and GPT-4, colloquially accepted as the most widely useful contempo... |
On the Scissiparity of Geist: Reason & its Outside | In his 2020 article “Geist and Ge-Stell: Beyond the Cyber-Nihilist Convergence of Intelligence,” Hilan Bensusan conjectures the possibility of what he calls a scissiparity of Geist. Coming from the framework sketched in his “Cosmopolitical Parties in the Post-Human Age” (2020/1). Bensusan fleshes out in “Geist and Ge-S... |
Earthworks and Waterpower | This Seminar investigates the history of state power in relation to the organization and financing of earthworks for irrigation and flood control. Since Wittfogel, earthworks and the administration of hydraulic infrastructure have been enlisted to elaborate the Marxian category of Oriental Despotism, by means of which ... |
Sapient Cinema | From anthropogenic climate change to the recent global pandemic, the necessity to think through the pitfalls and possibilities of human action on the world stage has never been more pressing. This Seminar will explore how contemporary popular cinema has already been engaged in the task of world-making that rethinks the... |
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