Programm

September 15: 9:30 – 12:30  The Idea of Form of Life. Chair : Marie Gaille   9:30 – 10:20: Perig Pitrou (CNRS, LAS), “Life form, form of life and agentive configurations. How a pragmatical approach of vital processes can help to compare forms of life”             Discussant: Eric Vilain   10:20 – 11:10: Clotilde Nouët (Université de Paris 1-Panthéon Sorbonne), “Capitalism as a Form of Life? The use of the concept „Lebensform“ within Critical Theory.”             Discussant: Daniele Lorenzini   11:10 – 11:30: Coffee Break   11:30 – 12:20: Timothée Haug (Université de Strasbourg), « The Capitalist Metabolism as a Antagonism between Production of Value and Reproduction of Natural Life. » Discussant: Perig Pitrou   12:30 – 14:00 : Lunch   14:00 – 17:45 Gendered forms of life. Chair : Estelle Ferrarese   14:00 – 14:50: Alyson Cole (CUNY), « The Subject of Objects:
 Marx, New Materialism, & Queer Forms of Life  » Discussant: Salima Naït Ahmed   14:50 – 15:40: Salima Naït Ahmed (Université de Picardie Jules-Verne), « Capitalist and gendered forms of lives in Adorno’s Minima Moralia » Discussant: Clotilde Nouët   15:40 – 16 :00 : Coffee Break   16:00 – 16:50: Marie Gaille (CNRS, Sphere), « In search of a frame of thought to describe commodified reproductive capacities in a globalised world » Discussant: Timothée Haug     September 16: 9:45 – 12:45 Biopolitics of forms of life. Chair : Alyson Cole   9:45 – 10:35: Eric Vilain (CNRS, EPIDAPO), « Is genetics a determinism ? » Discussant: Anne Gonon   10:35 – 11:25: Anne Gonon (Doshisha University), « The erosion of the ‚right to life’ and the policy of total care after Fukushima nuclear plant accident » Discussant: Alyson Cole   11:25 – 11:45 : Coffee Break   11:45 – 12:35: Maria Muhle (Akademie der Bildenden Künste München), « Biopolitical life and its milieu – between self-preservation and self-transgression » Discussant: Katia Genel (Centre Marc Bloch)   12:45 – 14h00: Lunch, Centre Marc Bloch   14:00 – 17:00 Capitalism as a form of life ? Chair : Eric Vilain   14:00 – 14:50: Rahel Jaeggi (Humboldt-Universität), « Economy as a social practice » Discussant: Marie Gaille   14:50 – 15:40: Daniele Lorenzini (Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne), « Governmentality, Subjectivity, and the Neoliberal Form of Life » Discussant: Bastian Ronge (Humboldt Universität)   15:40 – 16:00: Coffee Break   16:00 – 16:50: Estelle Ferrarese (Université de Picardie-Jules-Verne), « The use of bodies. Agamben’s idea of a non-capitalist form of life » Discussant: Maria Muhle