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In the past decade the relationship between art and philosophy has undergone significant changes. In particular, the nebulous strand of philosophy known as speculative realism started to appear more and more on the radar of working artists, curators, and theorists. However, as with all new developments we have started to witness recent attempts to critically examine this emergence.
In this event we invite Pete Wolfendale and Rob Jackson, two philosophers associated with these speculative philosophies, to take stock and reflect on the nature of this relationship, but also to provide insights into where they believe it is now going. Responses will be given by artist Teresa Gillespie and Rebecca O’Dwyer (writer and PhD student, Visual Culture, NCAD). To finish we will have an open debate allowing the local community to provide their own input into the nature of this dynamic.
Time: December 6th (2013) 4pm-6pm
Harry Clarke Theatre, NCAD, Dublin 8
Image: Caoimhe Doyle
For her final year exhibition in Visual Communication at the National College of Art and Design, Caoimhe Doyle took the documentation of DUST as her project. As part of this she designed business cards, a website, and a book of proceedings (with a dust jacket) from our Weaponising Speculation conference and exhibition which were held in March of this year. As well as all of this Caoimhe has been DUST’s resident photographer for our events this year. We are immensely grateful for all her hard work, vision and support. Below is a design rationale for her project and some images–DUST
Image: Albert Hooi and Zoe McGovern
This project is the culmination of 3 months of documentation, research and design. It is two part. One, branding, business cards and a website for DUST. Two, a book of proceedings from DUST’s signature event Weaponising Speculation.
Image: Albert Hooi and Zoe McGovern
Overall, the design, by incorporating a sense of movement and transformation, aims to reflect the ever changing and developing nature of speculation – and by extension DUST.
Image: Albert Hooi and Zoe McGovern
The logo is a stream of dust particles – or thought, consciousness, slime, bacteria, etc. forming the word DUST.
Image: Caoimhe Doyle
The 112 page Weaponising Speculation book aims to be more than just a collection of essays, but also a documentation of the event as a whole and an attempt to create something that both those present at the event and those who missed it would want to own – and hopefully bring something new to both sets of readers.
Image: Caoimhe Doyle
Image: Caoimhe Doyle
The cover is intentionally difficult to look at – indicative of the challenging, unorthodox nature of the content–Caoimhe Doyle
Image: Albert Hooi and Zoe McGovern
The voices stolen or referenced include Eugene Thacker, Daniel Barber, Alexander Galloway, Samuel Beckett, Antonin Artaud and Kurt Switters.
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Katerina Kolozova, “Slavoj Zizek on the Center and on the Margins of Europe”:
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Monday 24 June @ 1pm
https://dublindust.wordpress.com/
***Both talks are free and do not require prior registration***
Schedule:
1-2pm: “Solidarity in Suffering with the Non-Human”
2-2:30 Q&A
2:30-4pm break
4-5pm “Slavoj Zizek on the Center and on the Margins of Europe”
5-5:30pm Q&A
1pm: “Solidarity in Suffering with the Non-Human”
Building Butler’s politics of grief and Haraway’s post-humanist discourse of universality, I will argue that “identification with suffering itself” could constitute a form of political solidarity which is established independently from and at an instance beyond or anterior to language. If we identify with the “suffering itself” we are identifying with the purely “evental,” i.e., with the sheer experience (of subjection to pain) which is a pre-linguistic category. The “suffering itself” is but a taking-place of pain and/or of trauma. Put in Laruellian parlance, it is the “lived” par-excellence. Thus pain is the real in the Laruellian as well as in the Lacanian sense of the word. The figures of Christ in Donna Haraway and Oedipus in Sophocles’ tragedies will be discussed as non-humanist models of political universalism.
4pm: “Slavoj Zizek on the Center and on the Margins of Europe”
Slavoj Zizek’s universalism and realism provide an epistemological
possibility for creating a revolutionary political stance and a radically new horizon
of thought. Paradoxically, Zizek’s own political vision of Europe is anything but
revolutionary. The political rendition of his formal universalism represents reification
of an internationalism of a postcolonial subject – that of ‘Leftist Eurocentrism’, a
project he advocates. It seems that the leftism attached to the hegemonic ‘Eurocentric’ Subject is intended to redeem it from hegemony and absolve it from the
exclusive stance any centrism entails.
Katerina Kolozova is the director of the Institute in Social Sciences and Humanities-Skopje and a professor of philosophy, sociological theory and gender studies at the University American College-Skopje. She is also visiting professor at several universities in Former Yugoslavia and Bulgaria (the State University of Skopje, University of Sarajevo, University of Belgrade and University of Sofia as well as at the Faculty of Media and Communications of Belgrade). In 2009, Kolozova was a visiting scholar at the Department of Rhetoric (Program of Critical Theory) at the University of California-Berkeley. Kolozova is the author of The Lived Revolution: Solidarity with the Body in Pain As the New Political Universal (2010), The Real and “I”: On the Limit and the Self 2006), The Crisis of the Subject with Judith Butler and Zarko Trajanoski (2002), The Death and the Greeks: On Tragic Concepts of Death from Antiquity to Modernity (2000), and editor of a number of books from the fields of gender studies and feminist theory, among which the one together with Svetlana Slapshak and Jelisaveta Blagojevic: Gender and Identity: Theories from/on Southeastern Europe, Belgrade/Utrecht: The Athena Network Publishing (2006). She is also the editor in chief of the Journal in Politics, Gender and Culture “Identities,” member of the Editorial Board of Punctum Books, member of the Non-Philosophical Society (ONPHI) and AtGender (The European Network for Feminist and Gender Studies).
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and on itunes:
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https://archive.org/details/DiscognitionALectureByStevenShaviro
]]>Speculative Criteria: A Conversation Between Paul J. Ennis and Steven Shaviro
Thursday 23 May 2013, 6pm-8pm, Harry Clarke Lecture Theatre, National College of Art and Design, Dublin
This conversation between Paul J. Ennis (co-founder of the Dublin Unit for Speculative Thought) and Steven Shaviro (Wayne State University, USA) will range over such topics as Whitehead’s process philosophy, panpsychism, Quentin Meillassoux’s thought, the films of Lars Von Trier, neurophilosophy, Kant’s critical aesthetics, Graham Harman and relations, correlationism, among others. This dialogue will not only provide a snapshot of Shaviro’s recent and current work but will also open up a number of important questions relating to speculative realism and continental thought more generally.
Steven Shaviro is the DeRoy Professor of English at Wayne State University. He is the author of The Cinematic Body (1993), Doom Patrols: A Theoretical Fiction About Postmodernism (1997), Connected, Or, What It Means To Live in the Network Society (2003), Without Criteria: Kant, Whitehead, Deleuze, and Aesthetics (2009), and Post-Cinematic Affect (2010). His work in progress involves studies of speculative realism, of post-continuity styles in contemporary cinema, of music videos, and of recent science fiction and horror fiction. He blogs at The Pinocchio Theory: https://www.shaviro.com/Blog
UCD Humanities Institute in association with the Dublin Unit for Speculative Thought presents:
Discognition: A lecture by Steven Shaviro
Friday, 24 May 2013, 2 – 4 pm, Ardmore House, Belfield, UCD
Cognitivist and representationalist theories of mind continually find themselves confronted with elements that they can neither subsume nor exclude, but can only regard as supplemental. I argue that these supplemental elements are in fact the primordial forms of sentience, and that they are preconditions for — without being thereby reducible to — any sort of cognition or representation whatsoever. Organisms are affective before they are cognitive, because they are systems for accumulating and dissipating energy, before they are systems for processing information. Where cognitive science and philosophy of mind have tended to assume that affect serves cognition, we should rather see cognition as a belated and occasional consequence of a more basic affectivity. There are important philosophical precedents for this line of argument. For Kant, aesthetic judgments arise from singular intuitions for which there is no adequate concept. For Whitehead, primordial “feeling” takes the form of “a ‘valuation up’ or a ‘valuation down'” that precedes, and determines, any sort of cognition or conceptualization. For Wittgenstein, while inner sensation “is not a something,” it is also “not a nothing either.” All these approaches point to a primordial form of sentience that is nonintentional, noncorrelational, and anoetic; and that is best described, in a positive sense, as autistic, affective, and aesthetic.
Steven Shaviro is the DeRoy Professor of English at Wayne State University. He is the author of The Cinematic Body (1993), Doom Patrols: A Theoretical Fiction About Postmodernism (1997), Connected, Or, What It Means To Live in the Network Society (2003), Without Criteria: Kant, Whitehead, Deleuze, and Aesthetics (2009), and Post-Cinematic Affect (2010). His work in progress involves studies of speculative realism, of post-continuity styles in contemporary cinema, of music videos, and of recent science fiction and horror fiction. He blogs at The Pinocchio Theory: https://www.shaviro.com/Blog
To register for this event please email Michael O’Rourke at tranquilised_icon@yahoo.com
For more info about DUST: https://dublindust.wordpress.com/
Do philosophy and art need each other? In what sense might we say that they cling together? In this dialogue we hear from artist John Ryan on his personal relationship to the mixture of philosophy and art. Ryan will discuss in what ways it has helped or hindered his practice. We will also hear responses from philosopher Michael O’ Rourke and visual arts lecturer Sinead Hogan.
The debate will then be opened up to the floor.
Schedule:
3.00: Opening remarks from moderator Fintan Neylan
3.15: Remarks from John Ryan
3.30: First Response from Michael O’ Rourke
3.45: Second Response from Sinead Hogan
4.00-5.00: Questions from the floor
Location: Studio 6, Temple Bar Gallery+Studios
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