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Naming Touch
Get PDFWhat is the relationship between naming and touching? This symposium explores the haptic effects of names as well as the attempt to name haptic experience through the lens of anthropology, performance studies, philosophy, and psychoanalysis. The experience of language, specifically of names, shapes subjectivity by impacting one’s relationship to one’s body and the bodies of others. Designators indexing race, class, gender, religion, and status configure haptic relations. How do given names affect the ways one is touched from infancy onwards? How are other names received throughout one’s life — such as nicknames, slurs, or praises — inscribed upon the skin? How do these names open up or constrain the kinds of haptic experiences one can have with other subjects or collectives? Naming touch can bring visibility to different kinds of haptic experiences, presumably allowing for greater protection, knowledge, communication, and heightened sensations and emotions. Yet naming touch can also stigmatize, normalize, and suppress haptic desires and experiences. What is the effect of naming touch? Are there kinds of touch that evade being named, such as those related to violence, trauma, or intense pleasure? What does the attempt to translate these haptic experiences do to language itself
What Is to Be Done?:Climate Crisis and Political Activism
No full textFrom a theoretical perspective, there seems to be widespread agreement about the extent, the causes, and the dire consequences of the climate crisis. Such consensus is absent, however, with regard to the practical-political question: what is to be done? Even if it seems obvious that a fundamental and global change of the economic and political system — a revolution of the whole mode of living — is necessary, it is unclear how exactly this can be achieved. What are the necessary and legitimate forms and means of such a transformation? To what extent are new forms of protest needed to respond to the urgency of the situation? What forms of disobedience and disruption or adaptation and moderation are necessary?
Andreas Malm is an associate professor of human ecology at Lund University. He is the author of Fossil Capital: The Rise of Steam Power and the Roots of Global Warming (2016) and How to Blow Up a Pipeline: Learning to Fight in a World on Fire (2021).
Rupert Read is an associate professor of philosophy at the University of East Anglia in Norwich, a Green party campaigner and a former spokesperson of Extinction Rebellion. He is the author of This Civilisation is Finished (2019) and Parents for the Future: How Loving Our Children Can Prevent Climate Collapse (2021).
Eva von Redecker is Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow at the University of Verona. She is the author of Praxis and Revolution. A Social Theory of Radical Change (2018) and Revolution für das Leben. Philosophie der neuen Protestformen (2020).
Robin Celikates is professor of philosophy at the Freie Universität Berlin and co-director. He is the co-author of Sozialphilosophie. Eine Einführung (2017) with Rahel Jaeggi and co-editor of Analyzing Ideology (2019) with Sally Haslanger and Jason Stanle
Aktivismus und Wissenschaft heute
No full textDas Verhältnis von Aktivismus und Wissenschaft ist eines der großen Reizthemen unserer Gegenwart. Während Aktivist*innen aller Richtungen die Wissenschaft als selbstverständliche Arena ihres Engagements betrachten oder wissenschaftliche Erkenntnisse zur Durchsetzung ihrer Anliegen in Dienst nehmen wollen, wähnen andere die Wissenschaftsfreiheit oder gar das freie Wort überhaupt in Gefahr. Die Fronten verhärten sich, die Logik politischer Lagerbildung hat längst gegriffen. Mit Armin Nassehi und Eva von Redecker kommen zwei Wissenschaftler*innen ins Gespräch, die auch außerhalb ihrer Disziplinen (der Soziologie und der Philosophie) als politisch engagierte, öffentliche Intellektuelle auftreten. Wie verorten sie ihre eigene Praxis im Spannungsfeld von Aktivismus und Wissenschaft? Sehen sie sich selbst als Aktivist*innen, und wenn ja, wie verhält sich ihr Aktivismus zur wissenschaftlichen Arbeit? Das von Patrick Eiden-Offe (ZfL) moderierte Gespräch wird aus der Selbstbeobachtung zu einer differenzierteren Betrachtung unserer Gegenwart führen, bei der gängige Frontstellungen aufgelockert und hinterfragt werden sollen. Armin Nassehi ist Professor für Allgemeine Soziologie und Gesellschaftstheorie an der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München. In seinen letzten Büchern hat er sich mit den Möglichkeiten und Grenzen sozialen und politischen Protests in der Gesellschaft der Gegenwart beschäftigt, die er als »digital« und »überfordert« charakterisiert. Er ist Herausgeber des Kursbuch und schreibt regelmäßig für verschiedene Tages- und Wochenzeitungen. Eva von Redecker ist Philosophin. Sie schreibt über Kritische Theorie, Feminismus und die Revolution. Nach Stationen an der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, der University of Cambridge und der New School for Social Research in New York forschte sie 2020/2021 als Marie-Skłodowska-Curie-Fellow an der Università di Verona zur Theorie und Gegenwart des autoritären Charakters. Patrick Eiden-Offe arbeitet am ZfL auf einer Heisenberg-Stelle an einer intellektuellen Biographie von Georg Lukács. Er hatte Gast- und Vertretungsprofessuren an den Universitäten Chicago, Bochum und Hamburg sowie an der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin inne. Sein Buch Die Poesie der Klasse. Romantischer Antikapitalismus und die Erfindung des Proletariats (2017) erscheint 2023 in englischer Übersetzung. Die Diskussion ist Teil der ZfL-Tagung Aktivismus und Wissenschaft I: Zur Theorie, Geschichte und Aktualität einer Provokation
Archival Diffractions:A Response to Le Nemesiache’s Call
Get PDFIn the reactivation of the feminist collective of artists Le Nemesiache, this paper looks at the tension between rhetoric and translation in relation to the dislocation of archival materials from their situatedness in place (Naples) and time (1970 to the present). Translation emerges as the conveyor of the conditions from which the addresser started, as well as the ones of the addressees, as a potential that takes place in the moment of enunciation through a plurality of subjects. Considering the epistemological tension between history and fiction, as well as the mediation that happens through the body and the different subjectivities triggered by intra-action, this essay will engage with the following question: if the archive is the memory, can dramaturgy and reenactment from the archive become the message of a prophecy
Openness in Medieval Europe
No full textThis volume challenges the persistent association of the Middle Ages with closure and fixity. Bringing together a range of disciplines and perspectives, it identifies and uncovers forms of openness which are often obscured by modern assumptions, and demonstrates how they coexist with, or even depend upon, enclosure and containment in paradoxical and unexpected ways. Explored through notions such as porosity, vulnerability, exposure, unfinishedness, and inclusivity, openness turns out to permeate medieval culture, unsettling boundaries, binaries, and clear-cut distinctions.Introduction: Medieval Openness | MANUELE GRAGNOLATI and ALMUT SUERBAUM | 1–21I. TEXTSAn Interminable Work? The Openness of Augustine’s Confessions | FRANCESCO GIUSTI | 23–43What Was Open in/about Early Scholastic Thought? | PHILIPPA BYRNE | 45–64Speech-Wrangling: Shutting Up and Shutting Out the Oral Tradition in Some Icelandic Sagas | BRIAN MCMAHON | 65–84Interrupted and Unfinished: The Open-Ended Dante of the Commedia | NICOLÒ CRISAFI | 85–102Medieval Denmark and its Languages: The Case for a More Open Literary Historiography | ALASTAIR MATTHEWS | 103–23II. EXPERIENCE AND SUBJECTIVITYMerlin’s Open Mind: Madness, Prophecy, and Poetry in Geoffrey of Monmouth’s Vita Merlini | MONIKA OTTER | 127–43Enclosure and Exposure: Locating the ‘House without Walls’ | ANNIE SUTHERLAND | 145–67Unlikely Matter: The Open and the Nomad in The Book of Margery Kempe and the Middle English Christina Mirabilis | JOHANNES WOLF | 169–89Including the Excluded: Strategies of Opening Up in Late Medieval Religious Writing | ALMUT SUERBAUM | 191–208Openness and Intensity: Petrarch’s Becoming Laurel in Rerum vulgarium fragmenta 23 and 228 | MANUELE GRAGNOLATI and FRANCESCA SOUTHERDEN | 209–24III. COMMUNITYHighest Openness: On Agamben’s Promise | DAMIANO SACCO | 227–48The Monastic Enclosure | BENJAMIN THOMPSON | 249–69The Openness of the Enclosed Convent: Evidence from the Lüne Letter Collection | EDMUND WAREHAM | 271–88The Book Half Open: Humanist Friendship in Holbein’s Portrait of Hermann von Wedigh III | OREN MARGOLIS | 289–31
A Multiplicity of Holes:Marilía Librandi
Get PDFThis talk focuses on the material, artistic, narrative, and shamanic images of nets, ’redes‘, in Portuguese. Besides referring to fishing nets (’redes de pescar‘) and to the digital social networks, ‘redes‘, has received an interesting extension: it also refers to hammocks (called ’redes de dormir‘) since Pero Vaz de Caminha, in his 1500’s Letter of Discovery, translated the surprising technnology of the Tupinambá’s Indigenous hammocks (in Tupi, ’ini‘; in Aruak, ’hamaca‘) he saw in the coast of Brazil through an analogy with the fishing nets. From this tangle of nets, Marilia Librandi weaves this talk. Hammocks are an Amerindian artifact par excellence, found from the Antilles to South America. Fishing nets are an artifact of riverside communities that are being more and more attacked through the building of dams and mining activities empoisoning waters and people’s lives. From these two materials, fishing nets and hammocks, the idea is to explore a chain of free associations: from hammocks to shamanic dreams, from fishing nets to aquatic beings and ’acoustic baits‘ (Albert). Examples from literature, ethnographies, and the visual arts will help to think the net as a territory of activist, ecological and artistic interactions in relation to Amerindian and riverside cosmogonies. Marilía Librandi is a writer and literary theorist; her work intersects Indigenous knowledge and Western literary theory. Holding a PhD in Literary Theory and Comparative Literature from the Universidade de São Paulo, she is currently affiliated with the Brazil Lab at Princeton University and collaborates with the Graduate Research Center “Diversitas. Humanities, Rights and Other Legitimacies” at the University of São Paulo. After teaching at the Southwest State University of Bahia, she taught Brazilian Literature at Stanford University from 2008 to 2018. Her publications include Writing by Ear. Clarice Lispector and the Aural Novel (University of Toronto Press, 2018), Maranhão-Manhattan. Ensaios de literatura brasileira (2009) and Transpoetic Exchange. Haroldo de Campos, Octavio Paz and Other Multiversal Dialogues (2020)
