here is the link for the lecture of Agamben that I mentioned, bringing into relation authors as Foucault and Deleuze brought from Descartes' Moderninity Subject, and their Subject/Subjectivity views, after yesterday's class.
http://www.egs.edu/faculty/giorgio-agamben/videos/the-problem-of-subject...
see you
This class has been taken over from "On Democracies" proposed at The Public School New York. According to their proposal it would be great to plan a weeklong intensive or weekly field-trip based, site-specific reading group for the summer of 2012 on the topic of democracy. Building upon past classes such as "...there is nothing less passive than the act of fleeing" in the summer of 2010, "On Democracies" will take place in public spaces, privately owned public spaces, inside amenable organizations, and (possibly) in commercial spaces. The new series will include screenings, presentations, and discussions that will explore issues pertaining to parliamentary systems, electoral processes, citizenship, and participation in and resistance to democracies.
With the May Day coming up we could start to plan the series.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypnerotomachia_Poliphili
Hypnerotomachia Poliphili, ubi
humana omnia non nisi so-
mnium esse ostendit, at-
que obiter plurima
scitu sanequam
digna com-
memo-
rat
in recent discussions we talk about the city and the public and the private as if there is no alternative. but becoming a city involved the question of being grated a market right or town priveleges, not quite a long time ago still.
instead of the right to the city, the topic involves an investigation of the right to be a city.
how has this questsion of self-governance developed from the polis to the civitas, the urbs, asian ancient cities, marjet town in medieval europe, processes of eingemeindungen, gemeindeneuordnung, the integration of informal settlements "into the city", to give birth to new forms of expression.
polis and politics
civitas and civilization
market towns (minderstadt): market right and tolls
city wall. town laws and vogelfreiheit
I would like to organise a reading group on political fiction. This genre has often used narrative to comment or challange events, system and theories.
I am interested in exploring other ways of representing social and political struggles. I like the idea of thinking resistance through a more imaginative approach, so It could be a good starting point to explore fiction as a possible space of critical discourse and as generator of other forms of political imagination.
since weather is getting better we can think of open air sessions!
Here it is a list of possible readings:
- F. Kafka, The Castel
- Virginia Woolf, The Waves
- A. Platanov, The Foundation Pit
- Ursual K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed
- Machiavelli, The Prince
- Mario Vargas Llosa, The Feast of the Goat
- Samuel R. Delany, Dark Reflections
Part 1
Discuss the current academic/theory print publishing landscape. What kind of resources do publishers allocate for this type of publishing (print costs, author costs, editorial costs, distribution costs, translation costs, etc.)? Who does and doesn’t make money off of this type of publishing? Look at case studies from small, medium and large publishers.
How relevant is the influence of the artistic process in the present methods of production space in the social context of instability, uncertainty, complexity and uncertainty? What is the potential to offer speculation regarding the identification of new space-related complex issues and to develop an aesthetic - sustainable use of it?
Speculations (from the Latin speculari = observe)1 are referred to colloquial assertions that lack a rational basis. In philosophy, it is regarded as a way of thinking, in which initial questions are asked, but which cannot be answered by logical means.
Alfred North Whitehead considers speculation as a way to achieve progress in thinking.
"It is essential to speculation that it goes beyond the immediate given facts. Its task is to lead creative thinking to the future, and it accomplishes this mission through the beholding of ideas that comprise the observable "2.
IDEA project is a project using school design to promote participatory design
http://www.ideaproject.org.hk/new/
Tomorrow 1930 (Wed, Apr 11) there will be IDEA discussion meeting with dinner, to discuss and draw together the IDEA school 2012!
In this pdf, you can find our site information and plan about the school we are going to design
http://issuu.com/gel.a.lee/docs/idea__2012_workshop_1
If you want to join, send us an email to ideaproject2012@googlemail.com, and you will have the directions.
Feel free to bring along your ideas, food, drink, tools and whatever your found useful and come!
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I'd like to schedule a weekly 3- or 4-session class reading and discussing Richard Sennetts latest publication TOGETHER, The Rituals, Pleasures and Politics of Cooperation, published this year (2012).
"Living with people who differ—racially, ethnically, religiously, or economically—is the most urgent challenge facing civil society today. We tend socially to avoid engaging with people unlike ourselves, and modern politics encourages the politics of the tribe rather than of the city. In this thought-provoking book, Richard Sennett discusses why this has happened and what might be done about it.