Podcast appearances and mentions of Catherine Malabou

Two of our discourse besties from UAL's Fashion Media Practice & Criticism -- experiential designers Daniel Felstead and Jenn Leung -- join us to talk Janky Capitalism (the obvious falling-apart weirdness of the world while capital spins off farther and farther away from it, leaving us behind), Roblox, and neural media. You probably know their work from the iconic 'The Metaverse in Janky Capitalism' on Dis and its associated 'Literally No Place' and 'Always on My Mind' -- or from associated speaking / discourse production all over the internet (++ more on Jenn (link) and Daniel (link)).References from the pod include:Ruba Al-Sweel's awesome piece for SQD: 'Sandbox Semiotics' referenced in the intro.Jenn references artworld queen Anna Uddenberg (e.g. 'Continental Breakfast'), Harvard's GSD's Guide to Shopping, and Ian Bogost (whose critique of anthropomorphism in video games we really relate to).Daniel references Sam Cummins from Nymphet Alumni, a favorite podcast that everyone should already know and spend all their time listening to.Daniel references Catherine Malabou's concept of plasticity (throughout her work, typically referencing neuroscientific plasticisty, here used in its more generalized form).The second half of the episode spends some time with the theory of K. Allado-McDowell, specifically the concept of neural media. We could not recommend this episode of our other favorite podcast (New Models) more strongly.Roberto mentions Zachary Horton's 'Cosmic Zoom', which is our obsession atm.Ok enjoyyyy byee!

In this episode, Clayton Crockett joins Matt and Justin to discuss Catherine Malabou's recent book, "Stop Thief! Anarchism and Philosophy". Clayton Crockett is a Professor in the Department of Philosophy and Religion and the Director of the interdisciplinary Religious Studies program at University of Central Arkansas. He regularly teaches courses on Exploring Religion; Philosophy of Religion; Religion, Science and Technology; and Religion and Psychology. He has authored or edited a number of books, including Religion, Politics and the Earth; The Future of Continental Philosophy of Religion, Derrida After the End of Writing, and Energy and Change: A New Materialist Cosmo-theology. He is a member of a national organization that promotes religious literacy, the Westar Institute, and their “Seminar on God and the Human Future.” He is also a Distinguished Research Fellow for the Global Centre for Advanced Studies, an online graduate school (www.gcas.ie). Finally, he is a co-editor of an academic book series called “Insurrections: Critical Studies in Religion, Politics, and Culture” for Columbia University Press. Get the book: https://www.amazon.com/Stop-Thief-Philosophy-Catherine-Malabou/dp/1509555234/ref=sr_1_1?crid=2MQOAK76CXRV8&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.Y-B1tad_2xDcPgoLNWGrC_wQRtwCQ80-bc5wMe9LnPk.ykUS4H8Lmhiv7i7PKAj4PTgAm1RGGIDioDxJEfpBJNQ&dib_tag=se&keywords=stop+thief+malabou&qid=1719253683&sprefix=stop+thief+malabou%2Caps%2C97&sr=8-1 Music for this episode: Primitivo, Axons

Youtube for the full experience + Q&A. In the pod, I say to just listen to the audio, but honestly the video is really really fire.Lecture given to our friends at Foreign Objekt, now ON POD.Programmer and Organizer: Sepideh Majidi Moderator: Maure Coise Video Edit: Shaum MehraTons of references here from all over the place, but definitely strongly in debt to the work of many many people. See the YT video for a more complete accounting, but a first pass definitely should call out Suhail Malik (on finance), Benjamin Bratton (on the entanglement between computation and geopolitics), Bogna Konior (on the aesthetic category of the human), Catherine Malabou (especially the later work on anarchism), Brad Troemel + Joshua Citarella + New Models + Interdependence (especially on internet culture), Nick Srnicek (on the platform), Luciana Parisi and Beatrice Fazi (on computational autonomy), Anil Bawa-Cavia (on the computability of the social), Keith Tilford and Andreas Reckwitz (on creativity), and of course

Ce lundisoir, nous essayons de déterminer ce que l'on nous vole. À partir du texte ultra-connu de Proudhon Qu'est-ce que la propriété ? Catherine Malabou nous découvre en quoi nos héritages ne sont précédés d'aucun testaments. En quoi la propriété, c'est le vol. Mais le vol d'abord de la mémoire du fait que nous sommes restés, pour la plupart, des serfs, des aubains, des esclaves.Pour cela, il faut partir ou repartir de Proudhon :« La propriété est le droit d'aubaine : cet axiome sera pour nous comme le nom de la bête de l'Apocalypse, nom dans lequel est enfermé tout le mystère de cette bête. On sait que celui qui pénétrerait le mystère de ce nom obtiendrait l'intelligence de toute la prophétie, et vaincrait la bête. Eh bien ! Ce sera par l'interprétation approfondie de notre axiome que nous tuerons le sphinx de la propriété. Partant de ce fait si éminemment caractéristique, le droit d'aubaine, nous allons suivre dans ses replis le vieux serpent, nous compterons les entortillements homicides de cet épouvantable ténia, dont la tête, avec les mille suçoirs s'est toujours dérobée au glaive de ses plus ardents ennemis, leur abandonnant d'immenses tronçons de son cadavre. » (Proudhon)La Révolution a-t-elle vraiment eu lieu ? La féodalité a-t-elle été, d'un seul coup d'un seul, abolie ? N'y a-t-il pas eu, pendant des siècles, des rémanences, des permanences, des persistances d'Ancien Régime dans un monde moderne, dans un monde nouveau, qui dissimulait, par le déni et l'oubli, tout ce qu'il avait, en réalité, par cette ruse, par ce stratagème, conservé des servitudes des temps passés. Doit-on dire que : « La Révolution a réinstauré à nouveaux frais tout ce qu'elle avait combattu. » (106) ? Alors que, généralement, l'oubli, l'amnésie historique porte sur les grands changements, les grandes ruptures, le fait que l'histoire varie, n'est pas éternelle, est faite de mutations, le fait que ce qui est n'a pas toujours déjà été ; il nous semble que tu nous dis, Catherine Malabou, l'inverse : ce que nous avons oublié, aujourd'hui, c'est que les choses n'ont pas changé. C'est là le stratagème de l'amnésie des persistances. On va voir avec Catherine Malabou quelles sont ces persistances.

durée : 00:58:43 - Entendez-vous l'éco ? - par : Tiphaine de Rocquigny, Aliette Hovine - Après une discussion avec Catherine Malabou sur la notion de propriété privée, nous reviendrons sur les raisons du succès de l'industrie française de l'armement, devenue deuxième exportatrice mondiale d'armes. - invités : Catherine Malabou Philosophe, professeure de philosophie au « Centre for Research in Modern European Philosophy » à l'Université de Kingston au Royaume-Uni; Julien Malizard Titulaire adjoint de la chaire Économie de la défense de l'IHEDN (Institut des Hautes Études de Défense Nationale)

Frank Ruda and Agon Hamza sit down with the French philosopher Catherine Malabou to discuss her latest books on anarchism and clitoris, Artificial Intelligence, domination, films and culture, the role of philosophy, and a lot of other topics.   You can listen to our podcast here: https://anchor.fm/crisisandcritique   If you like this and other episodes, please consider subscribing and supporting us at our Patreon page: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=71723553    

As the Radical Thoughts Podcast is no longer active, I am making these old bonus episodes from Patreon publicly available so that listeners don't have to pay for an inactive podcast. - Patrick n this Patron-only bonus episode, Patrick interviews philosopher and psychoanalyst Adrian Johnston on the work of Slavoj Žižek, Lacanian psychoanalysis, theories of materialism, and more. This episode follows our discussion of the work The Metastases of Enjoyment, so you may want to listen to that episode first. NOTES: -Johnston's article on Lacan in the Stanford Encylopedia of Philosophy  -Less Than Nothing by Žižek -Self and Emotional Life: Philosophy, Psychoanalysis, and Neuroscience by Adrian Johnston and Catherine Malabou

LISTEN TO THE FULL EPISODE HERE! This is a PREVIEW of PART TWO of our conversation with Adrian Johnston, you can hear the whole thing and support us on our Patreon getting access to all of our Patreon episodes, the Discord and our courses. The gang is back for the final part of our conversation with Adrian Johnston. It's a big one! We're talking Žižek's relationship with Kant, Schelling and Hegel, the Roberts (Pippin and Brandom), Quantum Physics, the genesis of subjectivity, materialism, Catherine Malabou and Plasticity, nature, biology and neuroscience, cognitive science, Badiou, Althusser and Spinoza. Big thanks to our Patreons for all of your support! Got some cool things coming up over the next few months, so stay tuned! ⁠zizekandsoon⁠

This week on Below The Radar, Am Johal is joined by author and associate professor at the Allard Law School at the University of British Columbia, Dr. Brenna Bhandar. She and Am discuss her research into property, property law, and their relationships to histories of colonialism and racial formations. Brenna offers insight into her book Colonial Lives of Property: Law, Land, and Racial Regimes of Ownership. Brenna also talks about gaining an interest concerning the issues of Indigenous dispossession in Canada through her PhD research which was a critique of legal and political forms of recognition, as well as her future projects on property and the doctrine of preemption. Full episode details: https://www.sfu.ca/vancity-office-community-engagement/below-the-radar-podcast/episodes/211-brenna-bhandar.html Read the transcript: https://www.sfu.ca/vancity-office-community-engagement/below-the-radar-podcast/transcripts/211-brenna-bhandar.html Resources: Brenna Bhandar: https://allard.ubc.ca/about-us/our-people/brenna-bhandar Allard School of Law: https://allard.ubc.ca/ Colonial Lives of Property: https://www.dukeupress.edu/colonial-lives-of-property Revolutionary Feminisms: https://www.versobooks.com/en-ca/products/2532-revolutionary-feminisms Plastic Materialities: Politics, Legality, and Metamorphosis in the Work of Catherine Malabou: https://www.dukeupress.edu/plastic-materialities Acts and omissions: Framing settler colonialism in Palestine Studies: https://www.jadaliyya.com/Details/32857 Bio: Dr. Brenna Bhandar is an Associate Professor at Allard Law Faculty, UBC. Dr. Bhandar holds a PhD from the Birkbeck School of Law, University of London. Prior to joining Allard Law, Brenna was a Reader in Law and Critical Theory at SOAS, University of London, and previously held faculty positions at the Queen Mary School of Law, Kent Law School and the University of Reading Law School. She is the author of Colonial Lives of Property: Law, Land and Racial Regimes of Ownership which examines how modern property law contributes to the formation of racial subjects in settler colonies and to the development of racial capitalism. She is a co-editor on the books; Plastic Materialities: Politics, Legality and Metamorphosis in the work of Catherine Malabou, and Revolutionary Feminisms: Conversations on Collective Action and Radical Thought. Dr. Brenna Bhandar is a well-known property scholar and legal theorist—as well as an Allard Law graduate. Dr. Bhandar's transdisciplinary approach to scholarship spans the disciplines of property law, critical theory, colonial legal history and critical race feminism. Cite this episode: Chicago Style Johal, Am. “Colonial Lives of Property — with Brenna Bhandar.” Below the Radar, SFU's Vancity Office of Community Engagement. Podcast audio, April 25, 2023. https://www.sfu.ca/vancity-office-community-engagement/below-the-radar-podcast/episodes/211-brenna-bhandar.html.

Ce soir lundimatin accueille Edouard Jourdain pour son livre Le Sauvage et le Politique. Courte synthèse extrêmement serrée des derniers acquis de l'anthropologie anarchiste (Clastres, Salhins, Graeber, Scott), son livre tombe à pic pour notre exploration des rapports entre « philosophie, anthropologie et anarchisme » - depuis que Catherine Malabou est venue nous en démontrer les difficiles articulations. Nous essaierons de comprendre ce qu'est le « sauvage », pourquoi le roi est « un excrément », « un tas d'ordure », comment le sacré est la première forme de constitution, comment la magie se distingue du miracle, et pourquoi Proudhon, mine de rien, c'est quand même pas mal. https://lundi.am/Nouvelles-conjurations-sauvages

durée : 00:39:26 - Le Temps du débat - par : Emmanuel Laurentin - L'ONU élabore un traité sur le plastique, dont les usages génèrent 300 millions de tonnes de déchets par an. Devenu indispensable aux sociétés humaines, le plastique est un enjeu environnemental et sanitaire global. Interdictions, taxes, recyclage : sommes-nous prêts à nous passer du plastique ? - invités : Valentin Fournel directeur R&D et services écoconception de Citeo; Nathalie Gontard directrice de recherche en sciences de l'aliment et de l'emballage à l'INRAE; Catherine Malabou philosophe, professeure de philosophie au « Centre for Research in Modern European Philosophy » à l'Université de Kingston au Royaume-Uni

Catherine Malabou returns to the podcast on the eve of her most recent work being translated into English, a book entitled "Stop Thief! Anarchism and Philosophy". We revisit the arguments for ontological anarchism and attempt to elucidate a bridge between anarchy in philosophy and politics. Catherine also shares her views on cryptocurrency, AI, and other technological trends as they relate to the prospect of a "dawning anarchy".  Moreover, we explore the distinction between liberatory and libertarian anarchisms as they both emerge on the cybernetic plane of the control society.Support the podcast:Linktree: https://linktr.ee/acidhorizonAcid Horizon on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/acidhorizonpodcastZer0 Books and Repeater Media Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/zer0repeaterMerch: http://www.crit-drip.comOrder 'The Philosopher's Tarot': https://repeaterbooks.com/product/the-philosophers-tarot/Subscribe to us on Apple Podcasts: https://tinyurl.com/169wvvhiHappy Hour at Hippel's (Adam's blog): https://happyhourathippels.wordpress.com​Revolting Bodies (Will's Blog): https://revoltingbodies.com​Split Infinities (Craig's Substack): https://splitinfinities.substack.com/​Music: https://sereptie.bandcamp.com/ and https://thecominginsurrection.bandcamp.com/Support the show

Tonight we discuss Catherine Malabou's recent French-only work on the notion of anarchy in (post)modern continental philosophy.Catherine Malabou wikipedia entry: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catherine_MalabouCarl's Notes on Au voleur! Anarchisme et philosophie:https://cyberdandy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/Notes-on-Catherine-Malabou-Stop-Theif-Anarchism-and-Philosophy.pdfCarl Eugene Stroud's YouTube Channel:https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCNem_98e3g55FbIIhFG5UJwDON'T FORGET TO LIKE, SUBSCRIBE, AND SHARE!Become a Patreon Patron:https://www.patreon.com/cyberdandySupport the show

Nous continuons cette semaine nos pérégrinations autour de l'anthropologie, de la philosophie et de l'anarchisme. Après avoir discuté avec Catherine Malabou, Barbara Glowczewski, Nastassja Martin et Jean Vioulac il allait de soit qu'il nous fallait rencontrer Philippe Descola et Alessandro Pignocchi. Nous avons parlé de leur livre d'entretien et de bandes dessinées qui vient de paraître Ethnographie des mondes à venir mais aussi de l'appel des Soulèvements de la terre à rejoindre Sainte-Soline (79) le 29 et 30 octobre afin de lutter contre les mega-bassines.

Philosophy scholar and author Willow Verkerk sits down with Am Johal to discuss Nietzsche and his ideas of friendship, as well as her current work on the Gendered Mimesis project at KU Leuven. Willow compares Nietzsche's more agonistic notion of friendship with other philosophers like Aristotle, Kant, Derrida – and draws from Luce Irigaray to consider friendship from a more gendered lens. Willow also speaks about her creative writing in the past as a form of expression, and discusses her current work on Gendered Mimesis Project, from which she is looking to trace the genealogies of gendered-being by drawing from Adriana Cavarero, Judith Butler, and Catherine Malabou. Full episode details: https://www.sfu.ca/vancity-office-community-engagement/below-the-radar-podcast/episodes/189-willow-verkerk.html Read the transcript: https://www.sfu.ca/vancity-office-community-engagement/below-the-radar-podcast/transcripts/189-willow-verkerk.html Resources: Willow Verkerk: https://philosophy.ubc.ca/profile/willow-verkerk/ Nietzsche and Friendship: https://www.bloomsbury.com/ca/nietzsche-and-friendship-9781350047341/ Gendered Mimesis project: http://www.homomimeticus.eu/gendered-mimesis-c1/ Willow Verkerk at KU Leuven: https://hiw.kuleuven.be/hua/about/staff-hua/00060614 Nietzsche's Thus Spoke Zarathustra: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.ca/books/555192/thus-spoke-zarathustra-by-friedrich-nietzsche-translated-with-a-preface-by-walter-kaufmann/9780140047486 Bio: Willow Verkerk is a Vancouver based scholar and author who has taught philosophy both within and outside of the academy in Europe, the UK, and Canada. She has published numerous academic essays on friendship, feminist activism, and gender identity and is the author of Nietzsche and Friendship. Willow is also an author of short fiction published in literary magazines in Canada and Europe. Her current research is concerned with providing a new account of the human subject through the philosophical concept of mimesis. Dr. Verkerk is frequently invited to speak about her research at universities and art institutions. She is passionate about communicating to diverse audiences the thinking of the three masters of suspicion- Nietzsche, Marx, and Freud- alongside a feminist politics that illuminates the importance of philosophical honesty. Willow brings philosophical frames of meaning from the foundations and legacies of critical theory to contemporary issues in both private and public life. In doing so, she connects thinkers in the history of philosophy to political and ethical studies that reflect upon the axes of oppression that are relevant today. Cite this episode: Chicago Style Johal, Am. “Nietzsche and Friendship — with Willow Verkerk.” Below the Radar, SFU's Vancity Office of Community Engagement. Podcast audio, October 11, 2022. https://www.sfu.ca/vancity-office-community-engagement/below-the-radar-podcast/episodes/189-willow-verkerk.html.

durée : 00:58:12 - Avec philosophie - par : Géraldine Muhlmann - Pourquoi la pensée philosophique du pouvoir s'est-elle majoritairement construite accolée à la notion de domination ? Peut-on envisager une autre organisation sociale, qui se passerait d'un fonctionnement hiérarchique ? - invités : Catherine Malabou philosophe, professeure de philosophie au « Centre for Research in Modern European Philosophy » à l'Université de Kingston au Royaume-Uni; Jean-Christophe Angaut maître de conférences de philosophie à l'Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon, spécialiste de Michel Bakounine et de la philosophie allemande du XIXe siècle et de l'anarchisme, membre du comité de rédaction de la revue Réfractions

In this episode of the Chasing Leviathan podcast, PJ and Dr. Catherine Malabou discuss her work on Kant's transcendental philosophy and its potential synthesis with contemporary research in neurobiology.Dr. Catherine Malabou is professor of philosophy at Kingston University and the European Graduate School. She also serves as professor of comparative literature at the University of California, Irvine, the same position held by her mentor, Jacques Derrida.For a deep dive into Dr. Catherine Malabou's work, check out her books:Before Tomorrow: Epigenesis and Rationality

Ce lundi on a voulu savoir si l'anarchisme était pensable. Nous on ne s'était pas posé la question. On ne savait pas que, peut-être, il ne l'était pas. Grâce à Catherine Malabou et son livre Au voleur ! Anarchisme et Philosophie on a eu une réponse.  En fait, on a appris que l'anarchisme n'était pas tout à fait pensable dans les conditions posées par les six principaux philosophes « mâles et blancs » en charge de le faire : Schürmann, Lévinas, Derrida, Foucault, Agamben, Rancière. Pourquoi ? Parce que nos six philosophes, en réfléchissant sur l'anarchie, ont dérobé quelque chose à l'anarchisme. En voulant conceptualiser l'Anarchie et penser théoriquement la possibilité de l'anarchisme, ils n'ont réussi qu'à jeter le bébé et garder l'eau du bain, c'est-à-dire à dénier l'éventualité réelle des formes de vie que ce mot recouvre tout en gardant faisant triompher le concept. Malabou nous a appris combien la pensée philosophique était imprégnée d'un préjugé : le « préjugé gouvernementaliste » - la croyance qu'au fond sans gouvernement, c'est le chaos. Elle nous a expliqué alors comment ce préjugé se rattache au « paradigme archique » ; paradigme selon lequel on ne peut penser rationnellement ni vivre en commun sans Archè – c'est-à-dire sans principe qui à la fois commence et commande, et façonne l'ordre à partir du chaos. Une fois élucidé ce paradigme et ce préjugé, on a ensuite découvert que le concept d'ingouvernable n'était jamais que l'envers du gouvernement et même son objet propre. Gouverner étant, justement, gérer de l'ingouvernable. Malabou nous a fait comprendre que l'anarchisme, aujourd'hui, n'est pas une position depuis laquelle critiquer ou attaquer la domination, mais le champ de bataille lui-même. En effet, ce qui marquerait l'époque, ce ne serait pas la crise de la verticalité de l'État, mais la « crise de l'horizontalité ». Non pas une crise de l'horizontalité confrontée à la verticalité autoritaire de l'État, mais bien une crise interne à l'horizontalité elle-même : le capitalisme serait lui-même en train de s'aplatir – de se prétendre et revendiquer « anarchiste ». À partir de là, Malabou nous a offert des distinctions pour nous repérer dans cette crise. D'abord en distinguant anarchisme de fait (qui rassemble tout ce qui prétend à un fonctionnement horizontal – les ZAD comme les Libertariens) et anarchisme d'éveil (un anarchisme vraiment émancipateur). Ensuite, en fondant l'anarchisme d'éveil sur un concept plus adéquat que celui d'ingouvernable : le concept du « non-gouvernable », qu'elle définit comme ce qui ne peut qu'être écrasé ou dressé mais jamais gouverné. Sa proposition consistant à éveiller l'anarchisme, à la dimension du « non-gouvernable ». Ce que Barbara Glowczewski  appelle aussi de ses vœux, à sa manière, lorsqu'elle invite à « éveiller les esprits de la terre ». Pour finir on peut résumer brièvement ce que Malabou définit comme les trois figures qui servent de conditions sine qua non à une théorie de l'anarchisme sans déni et attentive au « non-gouvernable » ; les figures du Témoin, du Colonisé, de l'Esclave :  L'anarchisme est toujours de témoignage : c'est-à-dire, il n'est pas justifié ou fondé a priori par une pensée qui en décrète les conditions de possibilité mais, pour reprendre Wittgenstein, « il est là – comme la vie ». « Tous les anarchistes sont des témoins » écrit Malabou. De même que l'on prouve le mouvement en marchant, on atteste de l'anarchisme en anarchisant : par l'exemple et le témoignage. En criant : « On est là ! » - comme disent les Gilets Jaunes. S'il faut partir plutôt des témoignages de l'anarchisme que des principes abstraits, si l'anarchisme se pense ex dati (à partir des faits) et non pas ex principii (à partir des

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durée : 00:59:34 - Les Chemins de la philosophie - par : Géraldine Mosna-Savoye, Adèle Van Reeth - L'anarchie ne dépend d'aucune autorité centrale et doit donc sans cesse s'inventer. De nombreux philosophes contemporains l'ont inscrite dans le fondement même de leur pensée, pourtant, ces nouveaux philosophes se positionnent dans un rejet à se dire anarchistes. Est-ce un déni ? Un vol assumé ? - invités : Catherine Malabou philosophe, professeure de philosophie au « Centre for Research in Modern European Philosophy » à l'Université de Kingston au Royaume-Uni

In quale senso “siamo le nostre sinapsi”? Quali sono le capacità creative e auto-scultoree del cervello umano, tra determinismo biologico e libertà di rinnovamento neuronale? Catherine Malabou Plasticità cerebrale. Creatività e neuroni Domenica 19 settembre 2021 Modena

18 May marks a watershed event in South Korea's ultimately successful pro-democracy movement - the 1980 Gwangju Uprising. As we come up on its 41st anniversary, I speak to Natasha Ginwala, co-Artistic Director, alongside Defne Ayas, of the 13th Gwangju Biennale (1 April 2021 - 9 May 2021). Against the backdrop of Gwangju's position as a cultural event with a revolutionary ethos, we unpack the philosophy driving this pandemic edition of the Biennale - notably through the work of Catherine Malabou, Yuk Hui, Maya Indira Ganesh, Djamila Ribeiro and others - and how it is incarnated in the works exhibited and practices platformed. We talk about how a biennale is mounted during a global quarantine, what the significance of organic and artificial or machinic intelligence is during an age of unreason as well as how the ghosts of history cause new political ruptures through the phenomenon of recursivity. We also touch upon the role of a biennale as a recorder of change and its paradoxical implication in the very orders it aims to challenge. Click here to access the Image+ Guide and view the images and material being discussed in the podcast: https://sites.google.com/view/artalaap-podcast-resources/episode-7. You can explore and experience the 13th Gwangju Biennale through: - Its official website: https://13thgwangjubiennale.org/ - A downloadable guidebook [https://13thgwangjubiennale.org/pdf/13thGB-Guidebook-ENG-DEF.pdf] - Instagram page [https://www.instagram.com/mindsrisingspiritstuning/] Credits: Producer: Tunak Teas Design & artwork: Mohini Mukherjee Marketing: Dipalie Mehta Intern: Aastha Anupriya Images: The 13th Gwangju Biennale Audio courtesy: Vernouillet by Blue Dot Sessions [CC BY-NC 4.0] Additional support: Kanishka Sharma, Amy Goldstone-Sharma, Raghav Sagar, Shalmoli Halder, Arunima Nair, Jayant Parashar. References: Okwui Enwezor, 'The Politics of Spectacle: The Gwangju Biennale and the Asian Century', Spectacle East Asia (Issue 15), Fall 2010. Gi-Wook Shin, 'Introduction', Contentious Kwangju: The May 18th Uprising in Korea's Past and Present, eds. Gi-Wook Shin and Kyung Moon Hwang, Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, 2003. 'Stronger Than Bone', 13th Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju Biennale Foundation and Archive Books, Berlin, 2021. Catherine Malabou, What Should We Do With Our Brain?, trans. Sebastian Rand, Fordham University Press, 2008. Yuk Hui, 'Cosmotechnics as Cosmopolitics', e-flux Journal #86, 2017. Vladan Joler & Kate Crawford, 'Anatomy of an AI System: The Amazon Echo as an anatomical map of human labor, data and planetary resources', anatomyof.ai, 2018. Mark Fisher, 'Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?', Zero Books, 2009. Djamila Ribeiro, 'Black Feminism for a New Civilizational Framework', Sur: International Journal on Human Rights, trans. Murphy MacMahon, December 2016. Maya Indira Ganesh, 'Between Flesh: Tech Degrees of Separation', Minds Rising, 13th Gwangju Biennale, August 2020.

Pour leurs cent ans d'édition, les PUF vous proposent de partir à la rencontre de quinze auteurs de la maison  et cinq libraires,  avec une proposition simple : choisir un ouvrage parmi les 6000 titres du catalogue, et nous donner envie de le lire. Dans cet épisode, Catherine Malabou présente "La voix et le phénomène" de Jacques Derrida. Un entretien mené par Hugo Lindenberg.

In this episode of Acid Horizon, we had the privilege to discuss the metaphysics of anarchy with Professor Catherine Malabou of the European Graduate School and the Centre for Research in Modern European Philosophy. In the interview, we use the introduction to Reiner Schürmann's work "Heidegger on Being and Acting: From Principles to Anarchy" as a jumping-off point to discuss the question of an activity without principles, a unity of theory and practice which supersedes all structures of obedience and commandment. We talk with Professor Malabou about the historic failure of Western Philosophy to realize the riskiness of its metaphysical anarchisms in political terms, and the pleasurable plasticity of the anarchic formation of new modes of living. We are left with the pertinent question; has anarchism ever been truly philosophized? Thinkers in the discussion include Schürmann, Ranciere, Foucault, Deleuze, Aristotle, Reich, Stirner, Heidegger, Hegel, Derrida, Agamben, Proudhon, Marx, and many, many more!Contribute to Acid Horizon: https://www.patreon.com/acidhorizonpodcastSubscribe to us on Apple Podcasts: https://tinyurl.com/169wvvhi Happy Hour at Hippel's (Adam’s blog): https://happyhourathippels.wordpress.comNew Revolts (Matt’s Blog): https://newrevolts.com/​Revolting Bodies (Will's Blog): https://revoltingbodies.com​Split Infinities (Craig’s Substack): https://splitinfinities.substack.com/​Music: https://sereptie.bandcamp.com/​Merch Store: http://www.crit-drip.com

Abécéd'Air et de Feu - V de Vulve Une chronique sonore d'Anne Mulpas - poème 9. Une lettre > un mot et le voyage commence, l'imaginaire se déplie, combine intime, social et politique, récit vrai et fictif, le quotidien et l'utopie au creux du poétique. Merci à la comédienne et sororale Bénédicte Lesenne qui, prêtant sa voix, porte celles de l'autrice Monique Wittig, des l'historienne Eliane Viennot et de la philosophe Sarah Kofmann en même temps qu'elle endosse les propos de l'abbé de Cluny, Baudelaire et de Furetière. Merci à celles qui ont nourri la réflexion et peuplent les chairs de ce texte : ...Alice Coffin, Catherine Malabou, Chloé Deleaume, Luce Irigaray, Claudine Sagaert, Eliane Viennot, Judith Bernard, Carla Lonzi, Gina Pane, Catherine Breillat, Agnès Varda, Lise Wajeman, Liv Strömquist, les lesbiens de Vaucvulve... — et surtout Karin Bernfeld qui a fait naître cette neuvième lettre. • L'enfant-moi qu'elle est toujours raboule dans le texte telle la Fantine de Hugo avec son précieux petit bout de miroir. En vrai, c'est un vieux poudrier de la grande sœur dont elle a royalement hérité. Le sujet la taraude, la titille. Elle ne sait pas comment ça se nomme cet « endroit-là » — la Mère n'en parle jamais, elle demande simplement, au sortir de la salle de bain, si elle s'est bien lavée « partout ». Dans la voix de la Mère, l'enfant-moi sent que même lavé, frotté, rincé, réside toujours quelque chose de sale. Partout = nulle part. Alors que sait-elle, l'enfant-moi ? 1­ — qu'elle n'a pas de zizi 2 — qu'elle a « à la place de » des lèvres, c'est ce que lui a dit sa copine Christelle, fière d'expliquer au fond de la cour de récré que « nous les filles, on a une « bouchedubas » (en un mot) et donc des lèvres qui cachent un trou comme un gosier. Est-ce que ça parle ? On n'en sait rien.

0:00-5:30 framework of the podcast NBA references commentary on academic culture 5:30–18:10 politics of grading grading and teaching styles 18:10-24:30 institutional ethics various institutional contexts and their effects on pedagogy 24:30-29:00 paragraph 19 God, divine cognition Hegel’s seriousness; his emphasis on suffering, labor, the tragic dimension of life 29:00-36:00 (lost Nathaniel for a short chunk here) Hegel’s ostensible essentialism Zizek’s reading style; his reading of Hegel; Catherine Malabou’s reading of Hegel John’s suspicions of Zizek’s reading 36:00-45:40 different valences of negation fascism as a component of the dialectic Hegel’s anti-humanism 45:40-end Hegel’s formalism Hegel’s philosophy of immanence engine of the dialectic

Catherine Malabou est spécialiste de philosophie contemporaine française et allemande. Elle travaille sur l'importance du concept de plasticité dans les neurosciences. Aujourd'hui, l'intelligence autorise sa propre simulation par les puces synaptiques. Les programmes Human Brain et Blue Brain entendent cartographier le cerveau humain dans son intégralité jusqu'à produire un jour une conscience artificielle capable de s'auto-transformer en accédant à son code source.Laissant de côté toute déploration technophobe, l'essai Métamorphoses de l'intelligence engage le dialogue entre autonomie et automatisme, ouvrant ainsi à l'intelligence la voie prometteuse de la démocratie expérimentale. Catherine Malabou est professeure de philosophie au Centre de recherche de philosophie moderne européenne à l'université de Kingston (GB) et à l'université de Californie d'Irvine. Parmi ses ouvrages récents : Before Tomorrow: Epigenesis and Rationality (Cambridge: Polity Press, 2016, trad. Carolyn Shread) et Morphing Intelligence, From IQ to IA, (New York, Columbia University Press, 2018, trad. Carolyn Shread). Elle travaille actuellement sur un nouvel ouvrage autour de l'anarchisme et de la philosophie.

Tuesday, 9 March 2021, 4 – 5pm A talk by Dr Anne M. Mulhall (SLLCS TCD) as part of the School of Languages, Literatures and Cultural Studies Research Seminar Series in association with Trinity Long Room Hub. All webinars take place at 4pm. Presenters speak for a maximum of 45 minutes, followed by a Q&A. Recent workplace fiction and film has tended to focus on two important themes- time and death. Novels like Delphine de Vigan's (France, 2009) Les Heures souterainnes, Katrin Röggla's wir schlafen nicht (Austria, 2004), and films like Corporate (dir. Nicholas Silhol, 2017), all display conjunctions between the two that amount to what she suggests is a new “necrotemporality” of the workplace. Suturing theoretical interventions from Achille Mbembe, Giorgio Agamben, Hannah Arendt, Timothy Morton and Sarah Waters, all of whom have noted a distinctly sado-thanatological impulse within contemporary politics, life and work, to prevailing philosophical and sociological theories of temporality, such as those of Quentin Meillassoux and Catherine Malabou and Robert Hassan. Her talk will define and explore a new concept of workplace necrotemporality. Dr Anne M. Mulhall studied and worked at universities in Ireland, UK, the US and Russia before she joined Trinity in 2020 as Government of Ireland Postdoc Research Fellow. She has authored several articles and a monograph on a French journal of philosophy, entitled Tiqqun and the Event: Literature, Philosophy, Politics.

durée : 00:58:51 - Les Chemins de la philosophie - par : Adèle Van Reeth, Géraldine Mosna-Savoye - La femme est un être singulier, la seule à posséder deux organes sexuels séparés, dont le clitoris, dédié au plaisir. Le secret de ce plaisir fut longtemps un impensé en philosophie. Qu’est-ce que le plaisir ? Comment parler du clitoris sans tomber dans un essentialisme du corps féminin ? - réalisation : Laurence Malonda - invités : Catherine Malabou philosophe, professeure de philosophie au « Centre for Research in Modern European Philosophy » à l’Université de Kingston au Royaume-Uni

Elle souhaite que le clitoris devienne un organe de pensée. La philosophe Catherine Malabou est notre invitée. Le clitoris a été, au fil de l’histoire, invisibilisé, effacé. Y compris par des philosophes. Catherine Malabou dénonce d’ailleurs une « phallocratie philosophique ». Pourquoi le clitoris a-t-il tant dérangé ? Pourquoi est-il anarchiste ? Comment peut-il participer à construire un monde à l’écart des rapports de domination ? Quel rapport existe-t-il entre savoir penser et savoir jouir ? Eléments de réponse, ce dimanche, avec notre invitée. Catherine Malabou est l’autrice de l’essai « Le plaisir effacé. Clitoris et pensée » (Bibliothèque Rivages). Dans notre Grand dictionnaire, Gaëlle Jeanmart, philosophe et membre de PhiloCité, nous parle de la méditation antique.

Thierry Spencer  est une des figures emblématiques de l'expérience client et la relation client, milieu dans lequel il évolue depuis 30 ans. Il est le Directeur Associé de l'Académie du Service, un cabinet de conseil et formation en culture, relation et expérience client, et auteur depuis 15 ans du blog le Sensduclient.com. Mais Thierry est aussi le propriétaire de la notion de la symétrie des attentions - un concept qui met en avant le rapport de symétrie entre la qualité de la relation qu'entretient l'entreprise avec ses clients et la qualité de la relation qu'elle entretient avec ses collaborateurs. Cette notion montre qu'il existe un lien étroit entre la satisfaction client et la satisfaction salarié. Du coup, quoi de mieux que Le Client pour venir nous parler de tout ça ? 

durée : 00:58:09 - Les Chemins de la philosophie - par : Adèle Van Reeth, Géraldine Mosna-Savoye - La femme est un être singulier, la seule à posséder deux organes sexuels séparés, dont le clitoris, dédié au plaisir. Le secret de ce plaisir fut longtemps un impensé en philosophie. Qu’est-ce que le plaisir ? Comment parler du clitoris sans tomber dans un essentialisme du corps féminin ? - réalisation : Laurence Malonda - invités : Catherine Malabou philosophe, professeure de philosophie au « Centre for Research in Modern European Philosophy » à l’Université de Kingston au Royaume-Uni

Mike Watson and Adam Ray Adkins talk to Conrad Hamilton about Tankies, the online left, Marx, Speculative Realism, and consent. Hamilton is co author of the books Myth and Mayhem: A Leftist Critique of Jordan Petserson and What is PostModern Conservatism. He recently finished writing his PhD thesis entitled Marx Contra Subjectivity under the supervision of Catherine Malabou at Paris VIII. You can find the Kapital Komrades facebook page here: https://www.facebook.com/groups/613646239225280 Support the Acid Left on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/acidleft facebook: https://www.facebook.com/theacidleft/ insta: @theacidleft

| Season 1 | Episode 11 |  "Now we have to build new alliances between philosophy and the sciences, philosophy and cybernetics, philosophy and psychology—I think this is the future of philosophy. "

durée : 00:28:50 - Avoir raison avec... - par : Raphaël Bourgois - Pour ce premier épisode de la série consacrée à Judith Butler, Raphaël Bourgois revient sur les fondements qui ont permis à la philosophe américaine de bâtir ses concepts, notamment ceux articulés autour de la question du genre et qui ont marqué de leur empreinte indélébile les débats contemporains. - réalisation : Vanessa Nadjar - invités : Catherine Malabou philosophe, professeure de philosophie au « Centre for Research in Modern European Philosophy » à l’Université de Kingston au Royaume-Uni; Michel Feher Philosophe, co-fondateur de la maison d’édition new-yorkaise "Zone Books".

durée : 00:58:58 - Les Chemins de la philosophie - par : Adèle Van Reeth, Géraldine Mosna-Savoye - Portrait de la philosophe Catherine Malabou marquée très jeune par la lecture de "La Nausée" de Sartre qui a fait naître un désir de philosopher et qui, dans cette discipline, tend à décaper la tradition, et rafraîchir, toujours. - réalisation : Nicolas Berger, Thomas Beau - invités : Catherine Malabou philosophe, professeure de philosophie au « Centre for Research in Modern European Philosophy » à l’Université de Kingston au Royaume-Uni

The value of Art and times of social upheaval In this episode Professor John Paul Ricco from UofT Mississauga’s Department of Visual Studies talks about his art and art history research, and also about how past health crises have shaped art movements. We also talk about some of the ways in which this current pandemic may influence artists now and in creations to come, and what kinds of things John Paul is doing in this time of solitude. John Paul is an art historian and queer theorist whose interdisciplinary research, teaching and writing draws connections between late-twentieth-century and contemporary art and architecture; continental philosophy; and issues of gender and sexuality, bodies and pleasures, pornography and eroticism. He graduated from New York University where he majored in art history and minored in Medieval and Renaissance Studies. After a couple of years lecturing for the Metropolitan Museum of Art, John Paul went on to complete a PhD in the Theory, Historiography and Criticism of Art History at the University of Chicago. During his doctoral studies at Chicago, Ricco was a Graduate Exchange Scholar in the School of Architecture at Princeton University. As a young scholar in the early-1990s, John Paul contributed to the formation of three newly emerging fields of study: Gay and Lesbian Art History, Visual Culture, and Queer Theory, and he was one of the first scholars to bring questions of space, geography and architecture to bear upon the discourses of queer theory and the politics of AIDS. John Paul joined the Visual Studies department at UTM in 2006. A full transcript of the interview is available at https://uoft.me/5kj. Resources - John Paul's webpage is at https://www.utm.utoronto.ca/dvs/john-paul-ricco. - Read a profile based on this interview at https://www.utm.utoronto.ca/vp-research/news/art-time-covid-19. - Read Professor Ricco’s article “Impotentiality and Resistance,”https://www.blackwoodgallery.ca/sduk/tilting/impotentiality-and-resistance, his contribution that appears in Tilting, a publication the Blackwood Gallery recently issued as part of their Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge (SDUK) broadsheet series, launched expressly in response to the pandemic and to support artists. - To read Ricco's contribution to the UofT Press journal Topia, "On Ways of Living in the Midst of the COVID-19 Global Pandemic (Three Brief Meditations)," https://www.utpjournals.press/journals/topia/covid-19-essays/on-ways-of-living-in-the-midst-of-the-covie-19-global-pandemic. - You can view an excerpt of the film Blue by Derek Jarman that John Paul mentions at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3jEer2d3nMg. - The recent article John Paul mentions from the New Yorker magazine "A New Doctor Faces the Coronavirus in Queens" is at https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/04/27/a-new-doctor-faces-the-coronavirus-in-queens. - The article by Catherine Malabou "To Quarantine from Quarantine" can be read at https://critinq.wordpress.com/2020/03/23/to-quarantine-from-quarantine-rousseau-robinson-crusoe-and-i/. - The book John Paul is reading by Anne Dufourmantelle is called In Praise of Risk https://www.amazon.com/Praise-Risk-Anne-Dufourmantelle/dp/0823285448.

In 2016, Jordan Peterson, a relatively obscure professor of psychology, released several videos on YouTube making critical remarks on political correctness and related political legislation. This would kick off a meteoric rise in fame, with sold-out live shows, podcasts, television interviews and a worldwide bestselling book. Along with his newfound fame, however, came a ​lot of criticism, much of it from progressive commentators, most recently in the form of ​Myth and Mayhem: A Leftist Critique of Jordan Peterson​ (Zero Books, 2020) The book features several contributions from four authors, as well as an introduction by Slavoj Zizek, who debated Peterson in 2019. It engages with Peterson’s core ideas, while offering critical analysis from leftist perspectives. Ben Burgis has a Ph.D. in Philosophy from the University of Miami. He is a science fiction writer whose work has appeared in publications such as Tor.com and in Prime Books. Burgis now teaches at Rutgers University. He is also the author of ​Give Them an Argument: Logic for the Left.​ Conrad Hamilton is a doctoral student at Paris 8 University, currently developing a thesis on the relationship between social agency and the value form in the works of Marx under the supervision of Catherine Malabou. He is also a contributor to Zero Books' What Is Post-Modern Conservatism: Essays On Our Hugely Tremendous Times. Matthew McManus is Professor of Politics and International Relations at the University of Tec de Monterrey, Mexico, where he teaches political science and theory. Before assuming this position McManus worked for the Committee for International Justice and Accountability. He completed his PhD in 2017. He is the editor of What Is Post-Modern Conservatism: Essays On Our Hugely Tremendous Times, publishing by Zero Books in 2020, as well as being the author of ​The Rise of Postmodern Conservatism: Neoliberalism, Post-Modern Culture, and Reactionary Politics.​ Marion Trejo is Professor of Politics and International Relations at Tec de Monterrey, Mexico. She completed her Bachelors in International Relations at Tec de Monterrey and her Masters in Philosophy at the National Autonomous University of Mexico. Stephen Dozeman is a freelance writer. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In 2016, Jordan Peterson, a relatively obscure professor of psychology, released several videos on YouTube making critical remarks on political correctness and related political legislation. This would kick off a meteoric rise in fame, with sold-out live shows, podcasts, television interviews and a worldwide bestselling book. Along with his newfound fame, however, came a ​lot of criticism, much of it from progressive commentators, most recently in the form of ​Myth and Mayhem: A Leftist Critique of Jordan Peterson​ (Zero Books, 2020) The book features several contributions from four authors, as well as an introduction by Slavoj Zizek, who debated Peterson in 2019. It engages with Peterson’s core ideas, while offering critical analysis from leftist perspectives. Ben Burgis has a Ph.D. in Philosophy from the University of Miami. He is a science fiction writer whose work has appeared in publications such as Tor.com and in Prime Books. Burgis now teaches at Rutgers University. He is also the author of ​Give Them an Argument: Logic for the Left.​ Conrad Hamilton is a doctoral student at Paris 8 University, currently developing a thesis on the relationship between social agency and the value form in the works of Marx under the supervision of Catherine Malabou. He is also a contributor to Zero Books' What Is Post-Modern Conservatism: Essays On Our Hugely Tremendous Times. Matthew McManus is Professor of Politics and International Relations at the University of Tec de Monterrey, Mexico, where he teaches political science and theory. Before assuming this position McManus worked for the Committee for International Justice and Accountability. He completed his PhD in 2017. He is the editor of What Is Post-Modern Conservatism: Essays On Our Hugely Tremendous Times, publishing by Zero Books in 2020, as well as being the author of ​The Rise of Postmodern Conservatism: Neoliberalism, Post-Modern Culture, and Reactionary Politics.​ Marion Trejo is Professor of Politics and International Relations at Tec de Monterrey, Mexico. She completed her Bachelors in International Relations at Tec de Monterrey and her Masters in Philosophy at the National Autonomous University of Mexico. Stephen Dozeman is a freelance writer. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In 2016, Jordan Peterson, a relatively obscure professor of psychology, released several videos on YouTube making critical remarks on political correctness and related political legislation. This would kick off a meteoric rise in fame, with sold-out live shows, podcasts, television interviews and a worldwide bestselling book. Along with his newfound fame, however, came a ​lot of criticism, much of it from progressive commentators, most recently in the form of ​Myth and Mayhem: A Leftist Critique of Jordan Peterson​ (Zero Books, 2020) The book features several contributions from four authors, as well as an introduction by Slavoj Zizek, who debated Peterson in 2019. It engages with Peterson’s core ideas, while offering critical analysis from leftist perspectives. Ben Burgis has a Ph.D. in Philosophy from the University of Miami. He is a science fiction writer whose work has appeared in publications such as Tor.com and in Prime Books. Burgis now teaches at Rutgers University. He is also the author of ​Give Them an Argument: Logic for the Left.​ Conrad Hamilton is a doctoral student at Paris 8 University, currently developing a thesis on the relationship between social agency and the value form in the works of Marx under the supervision of Catherine Malabou. He is also a contributor to Zero Books' What Is Post-Modern Conservatism: Essays On Our Hugely Tremendous Times. Matthew McManus is Professor of Politics and International Relations at the University of Tec de Monterrey, Mexico, where he teaches political science and theory. Before assuming this position McManus worked for the Committee for International Justice and Accountability. He completed his PhD in 2017. He is the editor of What Is Post-Modern Conservatism: Essays On Our Hugely Tremendous Times, publishing by Zero Books in 2020, as well as being the author of ​The Rise of Postmodern Conservatism: Neoliberalism, Post-Modern Culture, and Reactionary Politics.​ Marion Trejo is Professor of Politics and International Relations at Tec de Monterrey, Mexico. She completed her Bachelors in International Relations at Tec de Monterrey and her Masters in Philosophy at the National Autonomous University of Mexico. Stephen Dozeman is a freelance writer. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In 2016, Jordan Peterson, a relatively obscure professor of psychology, released several videos on YouTube making critical remarks on political correctness and related political legislation. This would kick off a meteoric rise in fame, with sold-out live shows, podcasts, television interviews and a worldwide bestselling book. Along with his newfound fame, however, came a ​lot of criticism, much of it from progressive commentators, most recently in the form of ​Myth and Mayhem: A Leftist Critique of Jordan Peterson​ (Zero Books, 2020) The book features several contributions from four authors, as well as an introduction by Slavoj Zizek, who debated Peterson in 2019. It engages with Peterson’s core ideas, while offering critical analysis from leftist perspectives. Ben Burgis has a Ph.D. in Philosophy from the University of Miami. He is a science fiction writer whose work has appeared in publications such as Tor.com and in Prime Books. Burgis now teaches at Rutgers University. He is also the author of ​Give Them an Argument: Logic for the Left.​ Conrad Hamilton is a doctoral student at Paris 8 University, currently developing a thesis on the relationship between social agency and the value form in the works of Marx under the supervision of Catherine Malabou. He is also a contributor to Zero Books' What Is Post-Modern Conservatism: Essays On Our Hugely Tremendous Times. Matthew McManus is Professor of Politics and International Relations at the University of Tec de Monterrey, Mexico, where he teaches political science and theory. Before assuming this position McManus worked for the Committee for International Justice and Accountability. He completed his PhD in 2017. He is the editor of What Is Post-Modern Conservatism: Essays On Our Hugely Tremendous Times, publishing by Zero Books in 2020, as well as being the author of ​The Rise of Postmodern Conservatism: Neoliberalism, Post-Modern Culture, and Reactionary Politics.​ Marion Trejo is Professor of Politics and International Relations at Tec de Monterrey, Mexico. She completed her Bachelors in International Relations at Tec de Monterrey and her Masters in Philosophy at the National Autonomous University of Mexico. Stephen Dozeman is a freelance writer. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Catherine Malabou stopped by the office of Critical Inquiry for a short and informal audio interview during her visit to the University of Chicago two years ago. We talked about her two CI essays, her book Before Tomorrow: Epigenesis and Rationality … Continue reading →

Litteraturåret på Blå skydes i gang med fornemt besøg af franske filosof Catherine Malabou. Malabous filosofi tager udgangspunkt i biologien og opfattes af mange som en fornyelse af fransk filosofi. I høst udkom Hva skal vi gjøre med hjernen vår? på norsk ved forlaget H/O/F. Bogen fra 2004 er Malabous første værk om skæringspunkterne mellom biologi, filosofi og poli­tiske problematikker. Særligt gennem begrebet plasticitet stiller Malabou spørgmål til, hvordan vi kan bruge neurovidenskaben til at forklare os selv og vores samfund. I bogen dykker hun ned i nyere forskning, som viser en hjerne, der udvikler sig langt mindre forudsigeligt og ensartet end tidligere antaget. Den plastiske hjerne kan tilpasse sig omstændigheder, formes i møde med erfaring, men også gøre modstand. Den skabes og bliver skabt på samme tid, og vi er selv både forfattere og værk. Malabou udfordrer hermed en herskende overbevisning, den såkaldte neuroideologi, om at menneskers adfærd er indskrevet i hjernen. Malabou ønsker at hjerne­forskningen bliver taget alvorligt, uden at hengive sig til et deterministisk menneskesyn. Samtidigt forsøger hun i bogen at gøre op med en populær forståelse af hjernen som fleksibel, et ord, som i dag findes overalt, især i arbejdslivet. Et fleksibelt materiale kan bøjes i alle retninger. Det fleksible menneske er altså underforstået et menneske, man kan kræve af, hvad man vil. For et plastisk subjekt derimod, vil det ikke være muligt at tilpasse sig alt. Malabou drager på den måde foruroligende paralleller til den kapitalistiske samfundsstruktur, men belyser også, hvilke muligheder det vil kunne give, at vi bliver bevidste om plasticiteten. ”Hjernen er vårt verk og vi ved det ikke”, gentager Malabou i bogen. De filosofiske og politiske konsekvenser kan være en helt ny måde at tænke modstand i os selv og i samfundet, men plasticitetstanken benyttes allerede nu også til at skabe nye perspektiver inden for en lang række felter som blandt andet kunst og litteratur. I samtalen møder Malabou Kaja Jenssen Rathe, oversætter af bogen og Ph.D-candidate i filosofi ved Oregon University, som vil stille spørgsmål til de centrale begreber hos Malabou, og trække tråde til både kontinentalfilosofien og Malabous øvrige arbejde, samt Karin Kukkonen, førsteamanuensis i allmenn litteraturvitenskap ved Universitetet i Oslo, som vil belyse filosofien fra en litterær og kognitiv vinkel. Catherine Malabou (f. 1959) tog sin doktorgrad under vejledning af Jacques Derrida i 1994, og kan anses som en kritisk videreudvikler af Derridas dekonstruktion. Hun har igennem de sidste årtier markeret sig gennem sit arbejde med neurobiologi, men har også beskæftiget sig med politisk, feministisk og æstetisk orienteret filosofi. Hun er ansat som professor ved Philosophy Department at the Centre for Research in Modern European Philosophy (CRMEP) ved Kingston University.

Josef talks to Clayton Crockett about his new collaborative project An Insurrectionist Manifesto: Four New Gospels for a Radical Politics, which also features Ward Blanton, Jeff Robbins, and Noëlle Vahanian. Foreword by Peter Rollins, Preface by Creston Davis, and Afterword by Catherine Keller. An Insurrectionist Manifesto contains four insurrectionary gospels based on Martin Heidegger's philosophical model of the fourfold: earth and sky, gods and mortals. Challenging religious dogma and dominant philosophical theories, they offer a cooperative, world-affirming political theology that promotes new life through not resurrection but insurrection. The insurrection in these gospels unfolds as a series of miraculous yet worldly practices of vital affirmation. Since these routines do not rely on fantasies of escape, they engender intimate transformations of the self along the very coordinates from which they emerge. Enacting a comparative and contagious postsecular sensibility, these gospels draw on the work of Slavoj Žižek, Giorgio Agamben, Catherine Malabou, François Laruelle, Peter Sloterdijk, and Gilles Deleuze yet rejuvenate scholarship in continental philosophy, critical race theory, the new materialisms, speculative realism, and nonphilosophy. They think beyond the sovereign force of the one to initiate a radical politics "after" God.

In this episode Josef talks to Jeffrey Robbins about radical theology--its lineage and its coming of age. The conversation moves from Jeff's jazz like, deleuzian understanding of difference and repetition to his use of Catherine Malabou's signature concept "plasticity," which he employs when talking about radical onto-theology, with a difference. Jeff is a brilliant thinker and a great inspiration for our Freestyle project so we hope that you will enjoy listening to what he has to say.

Audio recording of the Spaces of Transformation: Continuity/Infinity symposium at Tate Modern with artist Olafur Eliasson in conversation with Bruno Latour and Peter Weibel. Chaired by Catherine Malabou

Philosopher Catherine Malabou talks with Los Angeles Review of Books editor Arne De Boever about her books on neuroscience and continental philosophy.