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ALL EVENTS OF ‘THINKING TOGETHER’ ARE OPEN TO PUBLIC AND WILL BE CONDUCTED IN ENGLISH.

Thursday, August 7, 2014
Osthang campus
seminar
registration required

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1 p.m. – 7 p.m.
seminar ‘life of the imagination’
hosted by Julian Reid (UK/FI) with Michael Dillon (UK)
» Osthang: workshop house

8 p.m.
lecture presentation Sarah Vanhee: Lecture for Every One
» Osthang: hall

9 p.m.
film program
» Osthang: workshop house

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We are exhausted by the political failures of the liberal imaginary. Most especially the reductive nature of its will to think the life of the human in purely biological terms. Human sensibility, the faculty of the imagination, and our capacities for the poetic, have each been victims of these failures. Sensibility is not just useless but dangerous within the dense integrated connective systems which form the infrastructures of neoliberal regimes. Hence neoliberal societies are characterized by psychic suffering, the growth of panic and depression, and mass anxiety. Sensibility, as this session will explore, is the principle faculty of human beings which suffers pain at the duress of neoliberalism, as well as that faculty which will find new expression after neoliberalism, enabling the imagination to come to life again, and for a new politics to be created. Such expression will be fundamentally poetic. Poetry is the semiotic concatenation that exceeds the codified correspondence of the signifier and the signified, creating new paths of signification and opening the way to a reactivation of the relation between sensibility and time. This session explores the potential for this political passage through an engagement with the works of Giorgio Agamben, Franco Berardi, and other contemporary thinkers of the poetic and the life of the imagination. (Julian Reid)

Since its inception in May 2013 Sarah Vanhee, her collaborating team and performers have realized more than 200 of those Lecture for Every One that will also take place in Darmstadt between 28 and 30 July. Between Gothenburg and Lisbon, Helsinki, Vienna and Paris these interventions into existing gatherings took place. In her Lecture-Presentation Sarah Vanhee will reflect on the diverse and rich experiences and impressions the artistic as well as political process of this project has generated and will contextualize it within the questions raised during thinking together.

for seminars and open dinners, please register by July, 25 
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