Length: 1:21:16.
Philosopher Simon Critchley speaking about the The Faith of the Faithless, Experiments in Political Theology at the Dance, Politics & Co-Immunity Workshop in Giessen, Germany, November 12th 2010
Length: 1:26:32.
Erin Manning and Brian Massumi lecturing about Coming Alive in a World of Texture: For Neurodiversity at the Thinking - Resisting - Reading the Political conference in Giessen, Germany, November 12th 2010 Brian Massumi and Erin Manning speaking about Autism, multiplicity, mind-blindness, and textures. In this lecture Brian Massumi and Erin Manning explore the Neurodiversity Movement reading from collected writings by Autists. They talk about multiplicities of existences, emergent relations in the environment, re-conceptualizing what it means to be "human" and what it means to be "autistic". Specifically they focus on neuro typical experience of experiential fielding, inter-modal modes of existence, intricacies of perception, environmental awareness, entrainment, and actively relational thinking.
Length: 0:40:24.
Pierre Alferi, French poet, novelist and filmmaker, discusses the difference between fabricated and recorded images, and the question of realism in cinema, focusing on the work of Len Lye, especially his films 'Color Cry' and 'Free Radicals', the end of cinema, in virtue of fabricated images and the problems inherent to realism. European Graduate School EGS
Length: 1:06:25.
Pierre Alferi, French poet, novelist and filmmaker, lectures on poetry, religion and prophecy, discussing the differences between modes of expression, poetry, religion and experimental film, the logic of prophesy and its relationship to art. European Graduate School EGS
Length: 0:30:16.
Pierre Alferi, French poet, novelist and filmmaker, lecturing on the duality between the literal and the symbolic in film, discussing the tense, undermining and at times even contradictory relationship between literal and symbolic, both in narrative and in images, religious undertones, the unconscious, and affective art. European Graduate School EGS
08/15/2010
Length: 1:21:07.
Pierre Alferi, French poet, novelist and filmmaker, discussing movement in cinema, the relationships between movement and color, movement and shape, movement and meaning, movement and narrative, and movement and time. European Graduate School EGS
Length: 1:07:53.
Pierre Alferi discussing the purposes and intentions behind experimental cinema, the films of Oskar Fischinger, Stan Brakhage, and 1920's and 1930's experimental cinema, in order to explore both the intentions behind them as well as their affects, in terms of elements as simple as color and speed, all the way through the levels of representation, and into explicit ideological content. European Graduate School EGS
08/11/2010
Length: 0:58:55.
Laura Marks talking about Deleuze's power of the false, as well as the history of optics and its influence on perception, judgement, truth, ethics and the possibility of infinite worlds. Also discussed the abstract line and haptic space in Islamic art. Part of course called Gilles Deleuze: Aesthetics and a Brush with Islamic Thought. European Graduate School EGS
Length: 1:29:55.
Laura Marks talking about the virtual, the actual, and the real; the plane of immanence as the infinite set of all images; the immediate and the perceptible; the different manners of unfolding; and the ways in which Islamic thought has been enfolded in Western thought. Part of course called Gilles Deleuze Aesthetics and a Brush with Islamic Thought. European Graduate School EGS
Length: 1:27:01.
Laura Marks talking about the commodification of senses and sensory experiences; aesthetics and how aesthetic analysis begins with perception; the history of perception; actualising the virtual; and strategies for perceiving the new. Part of a series of lectures for her course called Gilles Deleuze Aesthetics and a Brush with Islamic Thought. European Graduate School EGS
Length: 1:08:20.
Laura Marks talking about the unfolding and enfolding of events from and into the infinite, the virtual and the actual, the circulation of images and signs, communications theory, information as capital, and the machinic phylum as the flow of matter in continuous variation. Part of course called Gilles Deleuze Aesthetics and a Brush with Islamic Thought. European Graduate School EGS
08/03/2010
Alain Badiou, French philosopher and author, answers students' questions. The questions concern: immanent exception, event, the ethical implications of an event, fidelity, Jacques Lacan, analytic discourse and truth procedure, generic set, place, force, dialectics, the 'we', the avant garde, and the possibility and requirements of a different future. European Graduate School EGS 2010
Length: 1:24:59.
Alain Badiou, French philosopher and author, lecturing on the conditions necessary for the inception of philosophy, discussing the five conditions for the inception of philosophy: democracy, common logic, equality, impurity and presence. Badiou argues how the intertwining of these conditions, present in Ancient Greece, formed a situation, which could give birth to philosophy. European Graduate School EGS
08/02/2010
Length: 0:53:12.
Alain Badiou, French philosopher and author, lecturing on the existence of truth. Badiou argues that truths, and universality, do in fact exist in our world, and do so without external divine guarantee. Badiou here argues for a completely new resolution to the universality-particularity problem, namely, through the concept of immanent exception, and a new conceptualization of truth and subject. European Graduate School EGS
08/02/2010
Length: 1:26:40.
Alain Badiou, French philosopher and author, lectures on the process of philosophy. In this lecture, Alain Badiou, describes the beginning of the philosophical process as the purely subjective choice between being qua being and existence. Badiou discusses this problem in relation to two of his 'great' works: 'Being and Event' and 'Logics of Worlds'; and in relation to the works of Plato, GWF Hegel, and Martin Heidegger. European Graduate School EGS 2010
08/02/2010
Length: 1:13:55.
Alain Badiou, French philosopher and author, lectures on mysticism and philosophy. Badiou argues that the difference between mysticism and philosophy is not in terms of their beginning and end, rather the difference is in the process: mysticism is an immediate resolution of nothingness and the infinite, while philosophy is a systematic movement between the same perimeters. European Graduate School EGS 2010
Length: 1:21:07.
Alain Badiou, French philosopher and author, discusses the dialectic nature of philosophy, as something beyond positivism and nihilism. In this lecture, Alain Badiou articulates the opposition between Analytic Philosophy and Dialectic Philosophy, and this opposition's correspondence to the relationship between existence and being qua being. Badiou argues that there is a distance between 'to be' and 'to exist' and that this distance is of a dialectical nature, and that philosophy is the dialectical movement from being to existence, a movement which is not between but beyond both nihilism and positivism. European Graduate School EGS 2010
08/01/2010
Length: 0:03:32.
Weber suggests that the political is only really active if it becomes super-political, even theological.
Length: 1:21:28.
Jean-Luc Nancy, French philosopher and author, talking about religion, reason and society. In this lecture, Jean-Luc Nancy discusses the concepts of reason, logos, religion, civil society, civilization, the good, melancholia, secularization and tragedy, in relationship to the Greeks, Plato, the Sophists, Christianity, Sigmund Freud, 'Moses and Monotheism', Rousseau, and Saint Augustine, focusing on separation of church and state, politics, Fascism and the 'City of God'. European Graduate School EGS
08/01/2010
Length: 1:16:54.
Jean-Luc Nancy, French philosopher and author, answering students' questions. In this lecture, Jean-Luc Nancy discusses the concepts of 'Touching', art, tragedy, poetry, reason and the sublime, in relationship to Immanuel Kant, Heidegger and modernization, focusing on technology, modernization, community and art. European Graduate School EGS
Length: 1:21:58.
Jean-Luc Nancy, French philosopher and author, talking about Mitsein, 'Touching' and sense. In this lecture, Jean-Luc Nancy discusses the concepts of minimal distance, movement, proximity, World, affect and intellectualization, and sexuality, in relationship to Sigmund Freud and Martin Heidegger, focusing on categories, sense, touching, Mitsein and existentials. European Graduate School EGS
08/01/2010
Length: 0:53:52.
Jean-Luc Nancy, French philosopher and author, talking about art, culture and the political. In this lecture, Jean-Luc Nancy discusses the concepts of faith, art, the political, retrieving the political, belief, Pascal's Wager, and otherness, in relationship to Umberto Eco, and Maurice Blanchot, focusing on Fascism, the political, and democracy. European Graduate School EGS
08/01/2010
Length: 1:08:13.
Jean-Luc Nancy, French philosopher and author, talking about the death of God and art. In this lecture, Jean-Luc Nancy discusses the concepts of on modernity, the death of God, contemporary art, form, metaphysics, death, momento mori, reason and spirit, in relationship to Kant, 'The Critique of Judgment', Cezanne, Joyce, Heidegger and Husserl, focusing on the novel, death, the end of philosophy, art and philosophy, and worldlessness. European Graduate School EGS
08/01/2010
Length: 0:51:46.
Jean-Luc Nancy, French philosopher and author, talking about the sacred, the profane and World. In this lecture Jean-Luc Nancy discusses the concepts self, World, the open, the sacred and the profane, in relationship to Heidegger, Pasolini, Beckett, focusing on art, modernity and holiness. European Graduate School EGS
08/01/2010
Length: 0:40:20.
Jean-Luc Nancy, French philosopher and author, talking about reason, sense, the infinite and World. In this lecture, Jean-Luc Nancy discusses the concepts of essence, reason, dialectics, bad infinity, self, and the other, in relationship to Hegel, Bataille, and the infinite return to the self, focusing on sense, the other and otherness, thinking, reflection and love. European Graduate School EGS
Length: 1:10:53.
Jean-Luc Nancy, French philosopher and author, talking about God, Man, Genesis and the World. In this lecture Jean-Luc Nancy discusses the concepts of World, existence, God, Man, nihilism, nothingness and the sacred, in relationship to Christ and Socrates, Christianity, philosophy and Nieztsche, focusing on love or glory, meaning, causality, creation and 'today'. European Graduate School EGS
Length: 1:18:38.
Jean-Luc Nancy, French philosopher and author, talking about the sacred and the temple in contemporary society. In this lecture Jean-Luc Nancy discusses the concepts of the infinite, bad infinity and actual infinity, the sacred, the temple, prohibition, limit and the conditions for possibility, in relationship to homo sacer, Sigmund Freud, Totem and Taboo, Judaism, Islam, Christianity, focusing on human rights, and the sacred today. European Graduate School EGS
08/01/2010
Length: 0:59:45.
Jean-Luc Nancy, French philosopher and author, talking about art and the sacred. In this lecture Jean-Luc Nancy discusses the concepts of form, infinity, art, the sacred, homo sacer, philosophy, religion, mysticism and poetry, in relationship to Kant, Adorno and political power, focusing on the opening to infinity. European Graduate School EGS
Length: 2:00:06.
Jean-Luc Nancy, French philosopher and author, talking about God, Man and mystery. In this lecture Jean-Luc Nancy discusses the concepts of the Cogito, truth, reason, God, phallus, desire and sexuality, religion, redemption and incarnation, in relationship to retroactive meaning, the mysteries of desire and sexuality, pain and pleasure, Hegel and Heidegger, focusing on presence and absence, nothing and nothingness, mystery of religion, secrets and revolution. European Graduate School EGS
08/01/2010
Length: 1:49:00.
Jean-Luc Nancy, French philosopher and author, lecturing on mystery, art, psychoanalysis. In this lecture Jean-Luc Nancy discusses the concepts of the unconscious, drive, instinct, causality, form and content, in relationship to mythology, Leonardo da Vinci, Jaconda, Sigmund Freud, Marcel Proust and William Faulkner, focusing on the beginning and the end, action and the infinite. European Graduate School EGS
Length: 1:20:25.
Sylvère Lotringer, literary critic and cultural theorist talking about 1960's France, post-Algerian war, followed by the situationist movement and eruption of consumerism as mediated by images. In this lecture Sylvère Lotringer discusses the encounter of cosmetics with cosmics, capitalism with realism, and immaterial labor with material signs. European Graduate School
08/01/2010
Length: 1:18:17.
Samuel Weber, American Philosopher and Professor talking about crisis of religious monotheism as a frame for understanding today's modern secular world of globalized capitalism. In this lecture, Professor Weber navigates through various economic theories and speculations, critiquing the narrow parameters of political, social and economic discourse, given the dire context of today's global economic crisis. European Graduate School EGS
08/01/2010
Length: 1:02:42.
Alain Badiou, French philosopher and author, lectures on the nature and essence of philosophy, discussing the question 'what is philosophy'. He begins with three concrete problems, namely: philosophy and language, philosophy and duty and dialectical versus analytic philosophy. In Part II, of 'What is Philosophy', Badiou focuses on the paradoxical relationship between philosophy and time, specifically discussing the problem of transmission, the non-reducibility of philosophy to the present, philosophy as symptom, and the relationship between past, present and future. European Graduate School EGS
08/01/2010
Length: 1:29:25.
Alain Badiou, French philosopher and author, lecturing on the nature and essence of philosophy, asking the question: 'what is philosophy'. He begins with three concrete problems, namely: philosophy and language, philosophy and duty, and dialectical versus analytic philosophy. In Part I, of 'What is Philosophy', Badiou focuses on the problem of language, the difference between philosophical, reactive and conservative dispositions, duty, desire, subjective transformation, reflexivity, knowledge, closure and openness, and the difference between dialectic and analytic philosophy. European Graduate School EGS
Length: 1:37:09.
Alain Badiou, French philosopher and author, discusses the duty and work of philosophy and philosophers, from the point of view of time. In this lecture, Alain Badiou describes the work to be done by philosophy and philosophers with respect to the past, present and future. In the present, of philosophy is required both a negative action of resisting its place, and a positive action of knowing its conditions; with respect to the past philosophy must provide a new interpretation of the history of philosophy and its conditions; while, with respect to the future, philosophy has the duty of proposing new conceptions of truth. European Graduate School EGS 2010
08/01/2010
Length: 0:42:43.
Alain Badiou, French philosopher and author, lecturing on the dialectical relationship between eternity and time. Badiou argues that eternity can be created in time, that is, something can be both created ad eternal. In this lecture Badiou opposed this thesis to others concerning the relationship between time and eternity, including that of mysticism (eternity is the same thing as time), religion (eternity and time are two different levels of existence), GWF Hegel (the totality of time is the realization of the Absolute Idea), and Plato (time is an image of eternity). European Graduate School EGS 2010
08/01/2010
Length: 1:23:08.
Alain Badiou, French philosopher and author, lecturing on the paradoxical relationship between philosophy and time. Badiou argues that philosophy is both a proposition of justice, and a conviction of the existence of eternal truths. Philosophy, as such, is the proposition of the possibility of creating eternity in time. In this lecture, Alain Badiou draws on the similarities and distinctions of philosophy and religion, concluding that philosophy thinks the possibility of realizing religions' promises in this world, and without the hand of God. European Graduate School EGS 2010
Length: 1:31:09.
Professor Samuel Weber lecturing about textuality, McCarthyism, psychoanalysis, media, critical, intellectual, Uncanny, capitalism, language, art, interactivity, time, and universality. In this lecture, Samuel Weber discusses Derrida, de Man, Adorno, Frankfurt School, signification, and meaning, in relationship to structuralism, post-structuralism, ontotheological, subjectivity, and acoustics. European Graduate School EGS
Length: 1:34:29.
Professor Samuel Weber lecturing about self-consciousness, meaning, Luther, anxiety, control, Walter Benjamin, time, spatial relations, action, and Post-Reformation. In this lecture, Samuel Weber discusses Uncanny, domestic violence, Descartes, Meditations, theatricality, and place, in relationship to omnipotence, doubt, causality, theology, Nietzsche, dreams, memory, and Freud. European Graduate School EGS
Length: 0:48:09.
Professor Samuel Weber lecturing about causality, singularity, empiricism, Kant, taste, post-structuralism, presuppositions, negation, and Hegel. In this lecture, Samuel Weber discusses tabula rasa, naming, event, monolithics, Al-Jazeera, and Tea Party, in relationship to Luther, Benjamin, redemption, death, and punishment. European Graduate School EGS
Length: 1:01:23.
Professor Samuel Weber lecturing about texts, de Man, anxiety, Luther, Benjamin, corruption, wealth, and money. In this lecture, Samuel Weber discusses Max Weber, Protestantism, good works, and visuality, in relationship to Descartes, self, individuality, capitalism, Hamlet, singularity, and Uncanny. European Graduate School EGS
Length: 1:51:28.
Professor Samuel Weber lecturing about language, signification, Nietzsche, Heidegger, Kafka, paternal authority, stance, Adorno, Descartes, and Luther. In this lecture, Samuel Weber discusses Luther, Freud, Uncanny, paternity, modernity, place, thread, and consciousness, in relationship to Kant, mobilization, time, humanist bias, and jokes. European Graduate School EGS
Length: 1:57:15.
Samuel Weber, philosopher and professor, talking about Derrida, iterability, speech, writing, logocentrism, hierarchy, universality, ethics, anxiety, Anton Ehrenzweig, and vision. In this lecture, Samuel Weber discusses Freud, Lacan, pleasure principle, perception, Baudrillard, learning, and French education, in relationship to Heidegger, innovation, institutions, recognizability, sound, music, time, and reality. European Graduate School EGS
Length: 1:38:14.
Samuel Weber, philosopher and professor, talking about unconscious, psychoanalysis, the Sandman, E.T.A. Hoffman, Ego, identity, technology, monotheism, immortality, Wolfram Alpha, and self-consciousness. In this lecture, Samuel Weber discusses Tea Party, reactionaries, circularity, Lacan, mirror phase, symbolic, and Derrida, in relationship to iterability, Uncanny, mathematics, deconstruction, truth, measurement, repetition, will, and authorial intent. European Graduate School EGS
Length: 1:32:50.
Samuel Weber, philosopher and professor, talking about the I, ETA Hoffman, the Sandman, placement, Nietzsche, absence, Lacan, mirror phase, anxiety, sound, and story. In this lecture, Samuel Weber discusses tense, jokes, televisual media, deformed body, power, father, narcissistic ego, and Other, in relationship to audience, hollow sound, repression, lenses, and self-consciousness. European Graduate School EGS
Length: 1:23:20.
Samuel Weber, philosopher and professor, talking about reality, Derrida, now, metaphysics, Freud, authority, law, fascism, Schmidt, identity, and differentiality. In this lecture, Samuel Weber discusses Kubrick, the Shining, Heidegger, Lacan, and Uncanny, in relationship to anxiety, fear, Descartes, self-consciousness, Adorno, iterability, and Foucault . European Graduate School EGS
Length: 1:12:57.
Literary scientist and media theorist Friedrich Kittler talking about computer monitors animated by graphics as most powerfully expressed through the mathematical algorithms of radiosity. Analogizing the computers' "ubiquitous" presence to the Christian God, he emphasizes the chemical over the physical, how knowledge of the world is known first by our machines, as in the case of the weather. He attributes today's nano-physics and technology as reflective of Richard M. Feynman's theoretical quandaries. European Graduate School EGS
Length: 1:14:24.
Friedrich Kittler talking about origins of networks, internet and its structural goals for the future of computing. In this lecture, Professor Kittler illustrates the Mathematical Model, or Moore's Law (Gordon Moore, 1965) as analogized to a cultural or biological evolution, demonstrating the infrastructure of internal environment of the computer chip to operating systems reaching the consumer. European Graduate School EGS
Length: 1:16:05.
Friedrich Kittler talking about computers as prescient knowledge, distributing cognition and information, feedback, cybernetics and computing power. In this lecture, Professor Kittler iterates the evolution of fundamental structures of programming language, developing from C to C++ (congruous to the theories of Leibnitz vs. Boole), Pascal, Java (developed by James Gossling), input and output devices, algorithms to operating systems. European Graduate School EGS
Friedrich Kittler talking about computer language and operating systems being reflective of socio-cultural trends. The histories of the networks themselves reiterates Kittler's model for the march of technology seeded by conflict, war and the military, and subsequently filtering into commerce, institutions and then to us, the social/political body. European Graduate School EGS
Length: 1:08:44.
Friedrich Kittler discusses the invention of transmitting letters into humanly readable form, elaborated in Claude Shannon's Mathematical Theory of Information and Communication. Professor Kittler posits his philosophical duty in linking the philosophical work of 17th-Century German philosopher and mathematician Gottfried Leibnitz to Claude Shannon's information theory and the rise of all things digital. European Graduate School EGS
Length: 1:20:41.
Friedrich Kittler talking about the contributions of Meta-mathematics by German Mathematician David Hilbert and invention of the first Typewriter by Alan Turing. In this lecture Professor Kittler discusses the trials of Alan Turing and Claude Shannon, highlighting the personal side of mathematical and engineering sciences. European Graduate School EGS
Friedrich Kittler talks about transistors, analogue principles, feedback theory, and theory of amplification. In this lecture, Professor Kittler lectures about nonlinear oscillator devices, multiple and maximum (digital) frequencies, the Moog Synthesizer, musical instruments and chips of computer motherboards. European Graduate School EGS
Length: 1:14:10.
Friedrich Kittler tracing the movement from storage media to digital media. In this lecture, Professor Kittler discusses storing, transmitting and proceeding; the three mechanical workings of analogue circuitry, focusing on storage and transmission medium via flip-flop, (frequency of particle events), and CPU (universal medium capable of transmission storage).
Length: 1:18:28.
Friedrich Kittler talking about James Maxwell's mathematical development of the magnitude of sound, discussing gravity feedback loops, reverse function of time, wireless frequency control used by WWI German Army/Navy, amplitude, frequency modulation, electrical transparency and bio feedback loops. European Graduate School EGS
Length: 1:18:39.
Friedrich Kittler talks about 19th Century/WWII invention and use of electronic telegraphy, the first technical infrastructure marking the early globalization of communication. Kittler's assistant, Tania Hron, presents the development of public transportation in Berlin; from horse to steam locomotive railways, electrified steam engines (1881) to electro locomotives (1897) culminating in the early inventions of trains and trams, connected by the U-Bahn (Alfred Grenander) and S-Bahn systems (Richard Brademann). European Graduate School EGS
Length: 0:47:41.
Friedrich Kittler talking about frequency range, Marconi's (1901) development of frequency modulation and radio frequency identification. In this lecture Dr. Kittler discusses parabolic acoustic mirrors, high frequency FM developing into WWII massive German wireless traffic, and the advent of emitters and receivers resulting in the invention and use of walkie-talkies. European Graduate School EGS
Length: 1:20:14.
Friedrich Kittler talking about vectors in media technology, historical roots in the physical sciences and geography through ancient Greece, the Middle Ages, the 18th and 19th Century, World War I, World War II and Post War Western engineering sciences. Kittler traces technology's accelerated march forward, sign-posting the work of Leyden, Antoine-Laurent de Lavoisier, Alessandro Volta, Luigi Galvani, Hans Christian Ørsted Oersted, Faraday, Watt, Carnot, Boltzman, Gauss, Helmholtz, Siemens, Braun, Edison, Maxwell, Hertz, Marconi, Deforrest, Bessel, Chebychev, Butterworth, Vannevar Bush, Claude Shannon and Alan Turing. European Graduate School EGS
Length: 1:27:50.
Bruce Sterling, noted critic, science fiction writer and net theorist, lecturing on historical narrative, futurism and the emergent network culture. He ponders the trans-temporal and trans-cultural effects of network culture in relation to cultural signifiers and rhizomatic subversions of postmodern culture, focusing on the collapse of historical narrative embedded in a disintegrating digital culture. He brings to light a philosophy of history that is evolving towards an atemporal condition of the emergent net culture, relegated to a dissipation of time-bound origins and identities. European Graduate School
Length: 1:01:03.
Barbara Hammer, experimental filmmaker, lesbian artist and feminist talking about her book debut "Hammer! Making Movies Out of Life and Sex" an autobiographical collection of 4 decades of films from the 70's to today. Barbara Hammer encouraging active cinema, a recursive process of dialectic and collective union between the audience and the film whose responsibility is to inspire agency, engagement, and thought. European Graduate School
Length: 1:39:01.
Lev Manovich, Russian-American artist and theorist, lectures on the different methods of visualization, and exploratory analysis. In this lecture, Lev Manovich, discusses the field of cultural analytics, which takes cultural data sets, and through a given method of visualization and automatic image analysis, provides a new type of interface for media exploration. European Graduate School EGS
Length: 1:26:36.
Claire Denis talking about storytelling, perspective, identity, Deleuze, states, migration, movement, nomadic, immigration, gender, sexuality, suicide, Thin Red Line and White Material; lecturing on change, film, aesthetic, dreams, memory and revealing the methods and questions involved in developing cultural anthropology in cinema and theory. European Graduate School
Length: 1:10:51.
Claire Denis talking about narrative construction, multiple narratives, identity, clichés, 'walls' and borders, nationality, strangers, outsiders, immigration, nomads, wanderers, gender, suicide Rear Window and White Material; lecturing on and revealing the methodology of narration, and cultural anthropology in cinema. European Graduate School EGS
Length: 1:54:36.
Claire Denis talking about actors, relations, disguises, Billy Budd, Melville, Britten, Claggart, Deleuze, Wings of Desire, Wenders, static, movement, Beau Travail, living death, deception, risk,; lecturing on and revealing the methodology of narration, and cultural anthropology in cinema. European Graduate School EGS
Length: 1:25:55.
Claire Denis talking about actors, disguises, static, movement, Beau Travail, living death, deception, risk, storytelling, fiction, Gramsci; lecturing on and revealing the methodology of narration, and cultural anthropology in cinema. European Graduate School EGS
Length: 1:25:58.
Claire Denis taking about Goddard, intrusion, fiction and documentary, characters, present and past, train travel, Paris, and 35 Shots of Rum; lecturing on and revealing the methodology of narration, and cultural anthropology in cinema. Public lecture open for the students and faculty of the European Graduate School EGS
Length: 1:07:38.
Claire Denis talking about Fiction, Documentary, Pessoa, Goddard, movement, the unknown, trains, time and space, perspective, narrative, context; lecturing on and revealing the methodology of narration, and cultural anthropology in cinema. European Graduate School EGS
Length: 1:01:58.
Claire Denis talking about Fernando Pessoa, fate, movement, the unknown, point-of-view, trains, time and space, perspective, narrative, context; lecturing on and revealing the methodology of narration, and cultural anthropology in cinema. European Graduate School EGS
Lev Manovich talking about software studies, new media, effects of software on society, and social media. In the lecture, Lev Manovich discusses Bruno Latour, visualization in relationship to architecture, flow of information, visual imagination, interactive visualization, focusing on culture visualization, and visualization techniques. European Graduate School. 2010
Lev Manovich talking about Ben Fry, Bruno Latour, information visualization, and new media. In this lecture, Lev Manovich discusses direct visualization, media visualization, and coordinated use, genre, style and taxonomy in relationship to Mondrian, manga, wave form and histograms focusing on style space, and Many Eyes. European Graduate School EGS 2010
Lev Manovich talking about software studies, new media, effects of software on society, and social media. In this lecture, Lev Manovich discusses visualization, theory, hypertext, architecture, flow of information in relationship to visual imagination, interactive visualization, culture visualization, creativity focusing on visualization techniques, and manga with input from students involved in the lecture. European Graduate School EGS 2010
Lev Manovich, new media theorist, talking about Bruno Latour, visualization, new media, individualization, data, visual culture. In this lecture, Lev Manovich discusses totalization, categorization focusing on the Blue Brain Project, software studies, and reality mining in relationship to information architecture and virtuality. European Graduate School EGS 2010
Lev Manovich, new media theorist, talking about new media, software culture, epistemological technologies, search engines, and new media. In this lecture, Lev Manovich discusses software studies, feature space and data focusing on meta technology, Mondrian, and visualization in relationship to new media theory and communication. European Graduate School EGS
Lev Manovich, new media theorist, talking about applications, architecture, software studies, visual media, and visual software. In this lecture, Lev Manovich discusses interface, new media, digital media and medium focusing on visual language and hybridity in relationship to cultural analytics, and MK12. European Graduate School EGS 2010
Lev Manovich, new media theorist, talking about social media, broadcasting, television, communication, medium, and interface. In this lecture, Lev Manovich discusses applications, cloud computing, Roland Barthes and remixing in relationship to visual culture, visualization, data mining and search interface design focusing on google, and sampling. European Graduate School EGS 2010
Lev Manovich, new media theorist, talking about new media, visualization, software culture, manga, labels, visual communication, and eye tracking. In this lecture, Lev Manovich discusses etre, Pivot, GIS, direct visualization and production focusing on sampling, looping, Eisenstein and Structuralism in relationship to visualization techniques, and dimension reduction. European Graduate School EGS 2010
Michael Hardt speaking about about the common wealth, the duality of the common ground and the creative commons, capitalism, the need for a new political reality, the new world order and its terms. Michael Hardt lecturing about a process of transformation, the rise of a network power, the role of information, association and affects, property and labor conditions, the definition of time, the working day, precarious work, and the modes of affection in a lecture entitled "The Common Wealth / Was wir in einer gerechteren Welt gemeinsam besitzen können" at the Schaubühne Berlin. A Streitgespräch led by journalist Carolin Emcke at the Schaubühne in Berlin, Germany.
Brian Holmes talking about the post-war culture of machine society autopoiesis, Karl Marx, the globalization of art, geopolitics, providing a cultural critique, a philosophy of cybernetic activism and developing a theory of 'Pathways Through Chaos.' Lecture at European Graduate School, Saas-Fee, Switzerland.
Length: 1:14:13.
Michael Taussig, philosopher, talking about magic, death, and ritual. In the lecture Michael Taussig discusses the concepts of society, community, trauma and spirituality focusing on the sacred, Baitaille, anthropology, politics, drawings, Benjamin, fieldwork. European Graduate School, Media and Communication Division, Saas-Fee, Switzerland.
Length: 1:14:53.
Michael Taussig, philosopher, talking about impossibility, strategy, fictocriticism. In the lecture Michael Taussig discusses the concepts of editing, writing, dreams, theory and praxis focusing on identity, political correctness, academy, politics, scrapbooks, Benjamin, knowledge. European Graduate School, Media and Communication Division, Saas-Fee, Switzerland.
Length: 1:20:26.
Michael Taussig, philosopher, talking about the crime scenes, drawing, conversation, storytelling, Derrida, magic. In the lecture Michael Taussig discusses the concepts of autobiography, metaphysics, song and hands focusing on, Corporeal, Dionysian, Nietzsche, dance, anthropology, mystery, fieldwork, fetish.European Graduate School, Media and Communication Division, Saas-Fee, Switzerland.
Length: 1:05:02.
Michael Taussig, philosopher, talking about chance, images, spirits, ethnography and authority. In the lecture Michael Taussig discusses the concepts of truth, post-modernity, style, academic discourse, focusing on surrealism, talisman, scrap books, collections. European Graduate School, Media and Communication Division, Saas-Fee, Switzerland.
Length: 0:45:03.
Michael Taussig, philosopher and anthropologist, talking about writing, essay, text and the place of diary in fieldwork. In the lecture Michael Taussig discusses the concepts of heroism, seasons, Georges Bataille focusing on sacrifice in relationship to modern states and primitive. The lecture discusses the general economy, restricted economy, Foucault, diffusion, responsibility, sacred, sacrifice. European Graduate School, Media and Communication Division, Saas-Fee, Switzerland.
Length: 0:55:54.
Michael Taussig, philosopher, talking about the devil, storytelling, customs and catastrophe. In the lecture Michael Taussig discusses the concepts of Benjamin, subcultures, repression and freedom focusing on lust, shock, anthropology, mystery, fieldwork. European Graduate School, Media and Communication Division, Saas-Fee, Switzerland.
Length: 1:45:09.
Michael Taussig, philosopher, talking about Corn-Wolf, observation, documentary and perspective. In the lecture Michael Taussig discusses the concepts of Freud, gaze, works, in progress, documentary, dream time, focusing on shamanism, Foucault, objectification, intimacy. European Graduate School, Media and Communication Division, Saas-Fee, Switzerland.
Length: 1:00:17.
Michael Taussig, philosopher and anthropologist, talking about Walter Benjamin, Storytelling, thesis on the philosophy of history. In the lecture Michael Taussig discusses the concepts of religion, anarchism, marxism and desire focusing on revolution in relationship to a film that discusses Storytelling and corrida or song. The lecture discusses the encounter between anthropologist and other scholars while looking at the role of song and music in storytelling. EGS, European Graduate School.
Length: 1:37:07.
Michael Taussig, philosopher, talking about Corn-Wolf, writing, craft presence and storytelling. In the lecture Michael Taussig discusses the concepts of theory, fieldwork, diaries, works, in progress, documentary, Roland Barthes focusing on Mauss, gift, Derrida, shamanism, fetishism, culture, mimesis, alterity, Adorno, form, essay, art, politics, nature, magic, science, social, anthropology, Benjamin, Berger, EGS, European Graduate School. 2010
Length: 1:04:25.
Michael Taussig talking about poetry, fiction, mood, the dialectical image state of emergency, and pre-Copernican heliocentrism. A lecture focusing on Night Cries, Tracy Moffatt, Nietzsche, weather, sleep awakening, Walter Benjamin Arcades story, Proust, mythology, sun, worship, twilight and sunset. European Graduate School, EGS Media and Communication Studies department program Saas-Fee Switzerland Europe 2010
Length: 1:07:11.
Alenka Zupancic, Slovenian philosopher and author, talking about the truth, Lacan, Nietzsche, and the Other. In the lecture Alenka Zupancic discusses the concepts of exposure, obscenity, the split, affirmation, in relationship to psychoanalysis, ethics, symbolic, imaginary, real, sexuality, focusing on difference, discursivity, and subjectivization. European Graduate School EGS
Length: 1:31:32.
Alenka Zupancic, Slovenian philosopher and author, talking about the culture of lying, Nietzsche, Lacan, and truth. In the lecture Alenka Zupancic discusses the concepts of discursivity, speech, power, Freud, in relationship to culture, norms, structure, the Big Other, affect, the split, focusing on psychoanalysis, knowledge, and subjectivity. European Graduate School EGS
Length: 1:27:17.
Alenka Zupancic, Slovenian philosopher and author, talking about ethics, Nietzsche, morals, and nihilism. In the lecture Alenka Zupancic discusses the concepts of biopolitics, ontology, Meillassoux, correlationism, in relationship to objectivity, knowledge, the death of God, affect, reason, discourse, focusing on politics, ideology, and culture. European Graduate School EGS
Length: 1:02:51.
Alenka Zupancic, Slovenian philosopher and author, talking about the Event, Nietzsche, Badiou, and the Real. In the lecture Alenka Zupancic discusses the concepts of art, madness, the Two, truth, in relationship to love, time, the edge, life, Lacan, Hamlet, focusing on manifestos, knowledge, and subjectivity. European Graduate School EGS
Length: 1:19:07.
Paul Miller aka DJ Spooky, American Artist and Media Theorist, talking about the potentials of digital media, patterns, structures, and repetition. In the lecture Paul Miller discusses the concepts of physicality, music history, networks, creativity, in relationship to relationality, John Cage, Nietzsche, iPhone apps, distribution, knowledge, focusing on identity, social structures, and technology.
Length: 1:37:08.
Paul Miller aka DJ Spooky Artist, Musician and Mitchell Joachim, Architect talking about nature, patterns, mixing, and literature. In the lecture Paul Miller discusses the concepts of music mirroring society, art, interface, James Joyce, beats, four four rhythm, rock, techno. Joachim Mitchell and DJ Spooky discuss theories in non-linearity, science, synchronized, Socratic dialogue, chaos, nettime and poetry focusing on imagination, hip hop, social spaces and language. European Graduate School
Length: 1:22:59.
Paul Miller aka DJ Spooky, American artist, philosopher, and author, talking about the ethics, displacement, futurist, and rock music. In the lecture Paul Miller discusses the concepts of musical aesthetics, transparent materials, amplification, Nietzsche, in relationship to Wagner, Dionysus, freedom, mixing, focusing on plurality, globalization, and language. European Graduate School
Length: 0:59:28.
Paul Miller aka DJ spooky, American philosopher and author, talking about the art, borders, audience, and film. In the lecture Paul Miller discusses the concepts of non-linear, storytelling, narrative, Russian revolution, in relationship to fonts, Orson Welles, F for Fake, pattern recognition, realism, phenomenology, focusing on consistency, media files, and Citizen Kane. European Graduate School EGS
Length: 0:56:02.
Mitchell Joachim and Paul Miller aka DJ Spooky, talking about standardized, mathematics, fractals, and music. In the lecture Paul Miller and Mitchell Joachim discusses the concepts of particles, water, iPad, socio-ecological principles, in relationship to DJ culture, acoustic, recycling, ecological thought, America, ethics, propaganda, focusing on community, anthropocentric, and globalization. European Graduate School
Length: 0:59:43.
Paul Miller aka DJ Spooky, activist, scholar and performer with Mitchell Joachim, Architect talking about itunes, mixing, media, and the organization of patterns in information. In the lecture Paul Miller discusses the concepts of collage, intuition, pattern recognition, ecosystem, DJ Mixer App, dematerialized, search terms, social network. Joachim Mitchell discusses his work in urban design, smart cars, soft cars, wheels, ecoengineering, design, and environment, algorithms, and coding. European Graduate School EGS
Length: 1:18:33.
Mitchell Joachim, American Architect, talking about energy, Bill Gates, Ted Talks, and design. In the lecture Mitchell Joachim discusses the concepts of nuclear energy, zero emissions, style, environment, in relationship to images, ambiguity, clarity, violence, nature, environmental terrorism, focusing on gender, aesthetic reasoning, and earth. European Graduate School EGS
Length: 1:11:00.
Mitchell Joachim, Architect talking about environmental movements, Obama administration, preservation, and conservation. In the lecture Mitchell Joachim discusses the concepts of designed degradation, reduced consumption, eco-friendly, capitalism, efficiency, choice, pluralism, community based design. Joachim Mitchell discusses theories in planning, futurism, goal setting, eco-engineering, advertising, and empty environmental slogans, energy, MIT, and fuel consumption. European Graduate School
Length: 1:27:49.
Lev Manovich providing techniques and examples about information visualization and talking about software culture, manga, film, and new media. In this lecture, Lev Manovich discusses genre, image processing, focusing on technology, interaction and movement in relationship to graphic arts, interactive visualization, and style space. European Graduate School EGS 2010
Length: 0:59:24.
Simon Critchley, philosopher and professor, talking about philosophy, comedy, humor, wit, Freud, Superego, and laughter. In this lecture, Simon Critchley discusses eccentricity, conscience, melancholia, ethical demand, Foucault, discipline, and self love, in relationship to jouissance, Lacan, desire, sexuation, finitude, Badiou, and jokes. and in relation to. European Graduate School EGS, August 2010
Length: 1:22:12.
Simon Critchley, philosopher and professor, talking about philosophy, vivisection, psychoanalysis, Lacan, happiness, sublimation, Freud, Ego, Superego, death drive, and aesthetic. In this lecture, Simon Critchley discusses Antigone, Oedipus, tragedy, tragic hero, authenticity, and facticity, in relationship to humor, jokes, unconscious, melancholia, Hamlet, mania, and love. European Graduate School EGS, August 2010
Length: 0:45:04.
Simon Critchley, philosopher and professor, talking about philosophy, political theory, morality, and subjectivity. In this lecture, Simon Critchley discusses Badiou, conviction, Marx, and formalism, in relation to equality, globalization, Paris Commune, law, Lenin, history, and Plato. European Graduate School EGS, August 2010
Length: 1:42:17.
Simon Critchley, philosopher and professor, talking about philosophy, Badiou, Nietzsche, Wagner, endurance, eternal return, Kant, Nature, tragedy, literature, Prometheus, and disappointment. In this lecture, Simon Critchley discusses anxiety, limitation, nihilism, neoliberalism, liberal democracy, and law, in relationship to democratic deficit, anarchism, Gramsci, Marx, ethical subjectivity, authenticity. European Graduate School EGS, August 2010
Length: 1:01:57.
Simon Critchley, philosopher and professor, talking about philosophy, Wittgenstein, Deleuze, praxis, authenticity, communication, text, and memory. In this lecture, Simon Critchley discusses living speech, logical speech, logocentrism, phonocentrism, Derrida, virtuality, and aurality, in relationship to historicity, disappointment, limitation, Badiou, theology, nihilism, and Nietzsche. European Graduate School EGS, August 2010
Length: 1:23:02.
Bracha L. Ettinger talking about art, painting, transference, objectivity, gaze, trauma, sublime, beauty, psychoanalysis, and subject. In this lecture, Bracha discusses trans-subjectivity, freedom, resistance, identity, transject, matrixial, art-object, anxiety, and other, in relationship to aggressive, sexuality, compassion, communicaring, maternal subjectivity, ready-made-mother-monster, inspiration, fantasy, jouissance, and Jacques Lacan. European Graduate School EGS 2010
Length: 1:21:36.
Avital Ronell and Christopher Fynsk talking about Heidegger, greeting, friendship, Dostoyevsky, technology, art, equipment, production, being, and addiction. In this lecture, Ronell and Fynsk discuss abbreviation, Antigone, uncanny, biography, Nietzsche, anxiety, suffering, and timidity, in relationship to Levinas, Blanchot, exposure, truth, usage, powerlessness, and language. European Graduate School 2010
Length: 1:14:29.
Avital Ronell and Christopher Fynsk talking about Heidegger, courage, call, philosophy, and art. In this lecture, Ronell and Fynsk discuss task, freedom, technology, truth, negativity, and language, in relationship to humour, demand, poet, naming, authority, risk, and inspiration. European Graduate School EGS 2010
Length: 0:45:54.
Avital Ronell, philosopher and professor at EGS, talking about philosophy, origins, deconstruction, hermeneutics, psychoanalysis, genocide, broadcasting, television, technology. In this lecture, Ronell discusses media, Scum Manifesto, Valerie Solanas, Hamlet, Derrida, patriarchy, and Bataille, in relationship to depaperization, drugs, security, surveillance, and Julia Scher. European Graduate School EGS 2010
Length: 1:17:08.
Avital Ronell lecturing about philosophy, reading, transference, learning, anxiety, abbreviation, Heidegger, resistance, Freud, and Lacan. In this lecture, Ronell discusses television, petite a, self, contract, and law, in relationship to authority, respect, being, superego, eating, remorse, hospitality, Derrida, and performativity. European Graduate School EGS 2010
Length: 1:23:04.
Avital Ronell, philosopher and professor at EGS, talking about constats, performativity, promises, contracts, architecture, location, speech act, documenting, hospitality, Derrida, and violation. In this lecture, Ronell discusses agreement, Nietzsche, violence, offer, conditions, in relationship to resistance, mountainscape, sublime, withdrawal, act, and futurity. European Graduate School EGS 2010
Length: 0:54:48.
Hendrik Speck talking about the political and social implications of the Internet, information warfare, search engine ranking systems, intellectual property, ownership, open source, copy right, copyleft, and collective identity. In this lecture he talks about the history of the Internet, the changes in perception involved in adapting the technology, and the Internet's use of existing infrastructures. European Graduate School EGS
Length: 0:30:48.
Hendrik Speck talking about the political and social implications of the Internet, information warfare, search engine ranking systems, intellectual property, ownership, open source, copy right, copyleft, and collective identity. In this lecture he talks about source codes, HTML, compiler languages, open source, browsers, and Internet security. European Graduate School EGS
Length: 1:10:49.
Hendrik Speck talking about the political and social implications of the Internet, information warfare, search engine ranking systems, intellectual property, ownership, open source, copy right, copyleft, and collective identity. In this lecture he talks about the digital divide, Internet accessibility as a function of communication infrastructures, satellites, cables, and connectivity on a global scale. European Graduate School EGS