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Das Dynamit einer Zehntelsekunde:Walter Benjamin und die Wissenschaftsgeschichte
Get PDFDie Wissenschaftshistorikerin Jimena Canales setzt Benjamins Kunstwerk-Aufsatz und die Kleine Geschichte der Photographie in ihren wissenschaftshistorischen Kontext. Seine Reflexionen zur Fotografie stehen, so Canales, paradigmatisch für eine veränderte Wahrnehmung der Fotografie, die von den Zeitgenossen nicht länger als originalgetreue, sondern künstliche Abbildung der Wirklichkeit angesehen wird. Benjamins Analogie von Fotografie und Psychoanalyse nimmt Canales zum Anlass, die Trennung von Natur- und Geisteswissenschaft und die damit verbundene strikte Abgrenzung von hermeneutischen und experimentellen Methoden in Frage zu stellen
Nachträglichkeit:Freuds brisante Erinnerungstheorie
No full textIlka Quindeau greift das Konzept der Deckerinnerung auf und entfaltet anhand der Metaphern von Spur und Umschrift eine psychoanalytische Gedächtniskonzeption, bei der dem Konzept der Nachträglichkeit zentrale Bedeutung zukommt.
Ilka Quindeau hat Psychologie und Soziologie studiert, arbeitet als Psychoanalytikerin und Lehranalytikerin (DPV/IPV) in eigener Praxis und als Präsidentin an der International Psychoanalytic University in Berlin. Ihre Arbeitsschwerpunkte sind Geschlechter-, Biographie- und Traumaforschung; Genealogie der Sexualität und Folgen des Nationalsozialismus. Monographien: Spur und Umschrift – Die konstitutive Bedeutung von Erinnerung für die Psychoanalyse (2004); Verführung und Begehren – die psychoanalytische Sexualtheorie nach Freud (2008) und Sexualität (2014)
Nature and its Others:The Invention of a Political Force
No full textThe moderns have invented a ‘nature’ and made it one of their most important political institutions. The talk will revisit this very singular adventure through which a number of local inventions, gestures, and operations, namely within experimental systems, have given birth to a new political force. Disconnecting this nature from the very conditions of its emergence and existence, the moderns have instantiated it as an essential actor within processes of normalization of practices and as a crucial instrument justifying the extension of their impact on all other territories. Today the question has become the following: How to resist the hegemonic tendencies of this modern version of nature in order to restore space and give back legitimacy to other ways of inhabiting the earth. Didier Debaise is a permanent researcher at the Fonds National de la Recherche Scientifique (FNRS) and the director of the Center of Philosophy at Free University of Brussels (ULB) where he teaches contemporary philosophy. He is one of the co-founders, with Isabelle Stengers, of the Groupe d’études constructivistes (Geco). His main areas of research are contemporary forms of speculative philosophy, theories of events, and links between American pragmatism and French contemporary philosophy. He wrote three books on Whitehead’s philosophy (Un empirisme spéculatif, Le vocabulaire de Whitehead and L’appât des possibles), edited volumes on pragmatism (Vie et experimentation), on the history of contemporary metaphysics (Philosophie des possessions), and wrote numerous papers on Bergson, Tarde, Souriau, Simondon, and Deleuze. In 2017, two of his books appeared in English: Nature as Event: The Lure of the Possible and Speculative Empiricism: Revisiting Whitehead. He is currently working on a new book, Pragmatique de la terre
Weathering : Ecologies of Exposure
No full textWeathering is atmospheric, geological, temporal, transformative. It implies exposure to the elements and processes of wearing down, disintegration, or accrued patina. Weathering can also denote the ways in which subjects and objects resist and pass through storms and adversity. This volume contemplates weathering across many fields and disciplines; its contributions examine various surfaces, environments, scales, temporalities, and vulnerabilities. What does it mean to weather or withstand? Who or what is able to pass through safely? What is lost or gained in the process
The Ambivalent Translator: On Psychoanalysis, Philology, and Translation
No full textIn The Interpretation of Dreams, Freud famously compared the act of interpreting a dream to the translation of a text. This metaphorical use of translation has not only had an impact on the way psychoanalysts understand their own practice, but also on translation studies or traductologie, a burgeoning interdisciplinary field since the 1970s. The metaphorical connection between the act of dream interpretation and the activity of translation has been extended in the past years, heavily relying on a psychoanalytic vocabulary in order to address the translators’ ‘unconscious’ and affective processes of ‘transference’ occurring in their work. In this vein, the translator has been characterized as a ‘rewriter’ whose stance towards the original work and its author is deeply ambivalent. This talk will problematize such theoretical transpositions by introducing a historical perspective on the figure of the ‘ambivalent translator’ in early psychoanalysis. The first model translations of Freud’s works also yield theoretical and practical insights that challenge current philological standards in translation. Andreas Mayer is a historian and sociologist of science working as a senior researcher at the CNRS and teaching at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris. In 2019/2020 he is a fellow at the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin. He has published extensively on the history of the human sciences and of psychoanalysis, most notably, Dreaming by the Book: Freud’s The Interpretation of Dreams and the History of the Psychoanalytic Movement (with Lydia Marinelli, 2003), Sites of the Unconscious: Hypnosis and the Emergence of the Psychoanalytic Setting (2013), Sigmund Freud (2016), Introduction à Sigmund Freud (2020), and The Science of Walking. Investigations Into Locomotion in the Long Nineteenth Century (forthcoming)
On Bad Weather:Heidegger, Arendt, and Political Beginnings
Get PDFThis essay restages Arendt’s Auseinandersetzung with Heidegger regarding ‘political beginnings’. Sketching Heidegger’s exceptionalist account of ‘new beginnings’ and Arendt’s dispute with him in relation to the tension between the spheres of ‘philosophy’ and ‘politics’, I trace her position about ‘political founding’. I claim that Arendt invites us to recognize the ‘principle of an-archy’ innate to ‘political beginnings’, which cannot be absorbed by exceptionalist invocations of the ‘history of Being’
Einleitung:Technik, Natur- und Geisteswissenschaften bei Walter Benjamin
Get PDFWalter Benjamin fordert, die »undialektische Trennung zu überprüfen, die man zwischen Natur- und Geisteswissenschaft zu etablieren suchte«. Damit der beabsichtigt er, die Geisteswissenschaften zu modernisieren, deren wahre Bestimmung er in der Auseinandersetzung mit den aktuellen Phänomenen der Gegenwart sieht. Im Aufsatz wird gezeigt, dass Benjamin die Trennung von Natur- und Geisteswissenschaft mithilfe der dialektischen Methode, die er dem historischen Materialismus entlehnt, zu überwinden beabsichtigt. Anstatt eines unversöhnlichen Gegensatzes geht er von einer Dialektik von Natur- und Geisteswissenschaften aus
