ONLINE – Anarchē. Philosophy, Politics, and the Question of Ground

July 07 | 09:00

To register for this event, please go to the ICI-Website. 

Organized by Damiano Sacco and Facundo Vega

Confronted with an arguably incomplete critique of the notion and history of sovereignty, contemporary lines of thinking have forcefully returned to the inquiry into political foundations. These theoretical approaches in philosophy and the humanities at large have attempted to find possibilities of dialogue concerning the critique of sovereign structures of power, the undoing of systemic violence, as well as the development of ideas of community and mutual aid. The conference ‘Anarchē’ aims to investigate the contemporary philosophical attempts at questioning traditional concepts of political foundations in order to rethink the central notion of ground or archē.

With

Emily Apter

Bruno Bosteels

Susan Buck-Morss

Donatella Di Cesare

Rebecca Comay

Simona Forti

Stathis Gourgouris

Claudia Hilb

Peter Szendy

Miguel Vatter

Keynote Lecture by Catherine Malabou

ICI Berlin Institute for Cultural Inquiry
Christinenstr. 18/19, Haus 8
D-10119 Berlin
Tel: +49 30 473 72 91 10
www.ici-berlin.org
U-Bhf Senefelder Platz (U2)

Organizer

ICI Berlin

Partners

In cooperation with the Istituto Italiano di Cultura di Berlino and the Centre Marc Bloch

Program

Wednesday, 7 July 2021

14:30-16:30 Panel I

Miguel Vatter

Simona Forti

Claudia Hilb

17:00-19:00 Panel II

Peter Szendy

Donatella Di Cesare

Rebecca Comay

19:30 Susan Buck-Morss
 

Thursday, 8 July 2021

17:00-19:00 Panel III

Emily Apter

Bruno Bosteels

Stathis Gourgouris

19:30 Catherine Malabou

Why the Need for a Philosophical Exploration of Anarchism Today?

In this talk, Catherine Malabou will elaborate on the current crisis of horizontality, which can be attributed to the flexible architecture of the Internet and the factual anarchism it makes possible. Is it possible to genuinely differentiate political anarchism from anarcho-capitalism? Malabou will show that a new philosophical elaboration of anarchy is needed to sustain such a differentiation, and the extent to which the concepts of anarchy provided by some of the most prominent thinkers of the twentieth century (Schürmann, Foucault, or Rancière) can help with yet are ultimately insufficient for this task.

Catherine Malabou is a professor of philosophy at the Centre for Research in Modern European Philosophy at Kingston University (UK) and in the departments of Comparative Literature and European Languages and Studies at UC Irvine. Her last books include Before Tomorrow: Epigenesis and Rationality (2016, trans. Carolyn Shread), Morphing Intelligence: From IQ Measurement to Artifial Brains (2019, trans. Carolyn Shread), and Le Plaisir effacé. Clitoris et pensée (2020). 

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