ReSet Seminar on Philosophy and Media: “Participation”
7/26
10:00-12:00 Introduction
12:00-1:30 Lunch
1:30-3:00 Lecture, Ernesto Laclau
Read: Ernesto Laclau and Chantal Mouffe, “Beyond the Positivity of the Social”; Ernesto
Laclau, “The ‘People’ and the Discursive Production of Emptiness”; Ernesto Laclau, Floating Signifiers and Social heterogeneity.”
3:15-5 Laclau continued
5.15-7.00 – Screening
7/27 Ernesto Laclau
10-11:30 Seminar with Laclau
No readings: Everyone should prepare a question for Laclau about his work.
11:45-13:15 Laclau continued.
13:15-2:30 Lunch
2:30-4:30 Screening Videograms of a Revolution (1992, Harun Forocki)
4:45-7:30 Group work
7/28 Democratic Engagement: Film, Video, TV
10-11:30 Seminar: Sorin Radu Cucu
Read: Regis Debray, “A New Turn?”; Claude Lefort, “The Question of Democracy”
11:45-13:15 Seminar continued.
13:15-2:30 Lunch
2:30-4:30 Screening: The Trial (1962, Orson Welles)
4:45-7:30 Group Work
7/29 Euphemism, Disobedience, and the University
10-11:30 Lecture, Alexander García Düttmann, “Euphemism, Disobedience, and the University"; Jacques Derrida, “The Future of the Profession or the Unconditional University”
Read: Franz Kafka, “Before the Law”; Henry David Thoreau, “Resistance to Civil Government”
*See the readings for 7/30. Düttmann’s seminar the following day will be derived from the texts to which he refers in his talk. Major emphasis will be given to Kafka and Thoreau, but it would be helpful to read the texts assigned for 7/30 before Düttmann’s lecture.
11:45-13:15 Lecture discussion
13:15-2:30 Lunch
2:30-4:30 Screening: The Flight of the Red Balloon (Hou Hsiao-Hsien, 2009).
4:45-7:30 Group work
7/30 Euphemism, Disobedience, and the University
10-11:30 Seminar, Alexander García Düttmann
Read: Jacques Derrida, “Before the Law”; John Rawls, “The Definition of Civil
Disobedience”; Hannah Arendt, “Civil Disobedience”; Ronald Dworkin, “Civil Disobedience.”
11:45-13:15 Seminar continued.
13:15-2:30 Lunch
2:30-4:30 Screening: Exquisite Corpses (Ernie Gusella, 1978) and Stand Up and Be Counted.
4:45-7:30 Group work
7/31 A Working Community
10-11.30 Seminar, Meghan Sutherland
11.45-13:15 Seminar, Meghan Sutherland, continued
13:15-2:30 Lunch
2:30-4 Participants’ presentation. Anastasiya Pshenychnykh
4.15-6:15 Screening: Summer Hours (2009, Olivier Assayas)
8/1 Off
8/2 Participatory Friendship, Distant Objects
10-11:30 Seminar, Brian Price
Read: Jacques Derrida, “Oligarchies: Naming, Enumerating, Counting”; Sarah Kofman, “The Melancholy of Art”; Maurice Blanchot, “Museum Sickness.”
11.45-13:15 Seminar, Brian Price continued
13:15-2:30 Lunch
2:30-4:00 Participants’ seminar – Tatiana Litvin. Image and Mediality in the Phenomenology of M.Merleau-Ponty.
Readings: Maurice Merleau-Ponty “The ‘sensation’ as a Unit of Experience” from Phenomenology of Perception. Pp 2-10; Judith Butler, “Merleau-Ponty and the Touch of Malebranche”
4:15-5:45 Seminar continued
6:00-7:30 - Screening: The Kids are Alright (2010, Lisa Cholodenko)
8/3 Medialization of politics as a challenge for intellectuals: ‘direct observation’ or evasive participation?
10-11.30 Almira Ousmanova, Introduction: Representation as a political category
Readings: Ankersmith F.R. Political Representation (Stanford University Press, 2002), pp.91 - 132, pp.186 – 198.
11.45-13:15 Almira Ousmanova, The regimes of transparency: the erosion of public sphere or the dissolution of the private?
Readings: Baudrillard J. The Ecstasy of communication; Samuel Warren and Louis D. Brandeis «The Right To Privacy». Eco U. Turning Back the Clock. Hot Wars and Media Populism, “The Loss of Privacy”, pp.77 – 88, “On political Correctness”, pp.89 – 96; Альмира Усманова «Утраченная приватность: «технологии» депривации в советском и постсоветском контекстах»
13:15-2:30 Lunch
2:30-4 Seminar on Gender and Media, Olga Blackledge
Read: Judith Butler, “Subjects of Sex/Gender/Desire”; Penelope Deutscher, “Gender Trouble / Constitutive Trouble”
4.15-5:45 Seminar, Olga Blackledge, continued
6-7:30 Screening
8/4
10-11.30 Almira Ousmanova, The sites of power and spaces of resistance: struggle for representation and visibility in public space
Readings: Wodiczko Krzysztof .“Strategies of Public Address: Which Media, Which Publics?”; Jacques Ranciere “Misadventures of Universality”; Chantal Mouffe “Agonistic public spaces: Democratic politics and the Dynamics of Passions” .
11.45-13:15 Almira Ousmanova, Interpassivity, or the political promises of new media: is democratic mobilization still possible?
Readings: Andrejevic Mark iSpy. Surveillance and Power in the Interactive Era, pp.1 – 21, 187 – 211; Gijs van Oenen “Interpassivity revisited: a critical and historical reappraisal of interpassive phenomena”
13:15-2:30 Lunch
2:30-4 Participants’ presentations: Olga Nedvyga
4:15-5:45 Participants’ presentations: Victoria Larchenko
6-7:30 Screening
8/5
10-11.30 Almira Ousmanova, Political actionism as media Eventness: flashmobs, silent protests and other performative acts of the ‘crowd’. Words VS images.
Readings: Debord Guy, “A User’s Guide to Détournement”
11.45-13:15 Almira Ousmanova, Intellectuals on the frontline: on the possibilities of practical media philosophy
Readings: Pinto, Louis, « Le journalisme philosophique »; Eco U. “Towards a Semiological Guerilla Warfare”; “The Multiplication of the Media”; “Culture as Show Business”
13:15-2:30 Lunch
2:30-4 Andrei Gornykh, Quilting points of freudo-marxist synthesis: media and desire
Psychoanalysis as social philosophy. Zizek’s concept of “parallax”: the gap between the individual and the social Order. “Dialectical materialism”, again? Philosophy and the paradox of direct participation in the Universal.
Readings: Zizek S. The parallax view. Cambridge, Massachusetts, London, England the MIT press, 2006. P. 4-10.
4:15-5:45 Andrei Gornykh, Leap of faith in the commodity. Why labour is represented by the value or how does desire work? Commodity fetishism as constitutive fantasy. Logic of fetishist disavowal and the capi¬talist "unconscious fantasy". Money: from subject of desire to the possessed by drive. Capital as the Real: human, all too human.
Readings: Zizek S. The parallax view. Cambridge, Massachusetts, London, England the MIT press, 2006. P. 50-63, 170-171.
6-7:30 Screening
8/6
10-11.30 Andrei Gornykh, Modernization of society and the ethical work of "mediation". A moment of truth in "totalitari¬anism”. Dialectics of political representation. “Violence is needed – but what violence?”
Readings: Zizek S. The parallax view. Cambridge, Massachusetts, London, England the MIT press, 2006. P. 126-127, 331-342, 379-384.
Futher readings: Lacan J. The four fundamental concepts of psychoanalysis. New York: Penguin books, 1977. Melville H. Bartleby, the Scrivener: A Story of Wall Street
11.45-13:15 Andrei Gornykh, The end of art: media flow
Reading: Jameson F. The cultural turn. Selected writings on the Postmodern 1983-1998. London, New York: VERSO, 1998. P. 59-91, 104-112, 141-161.
Further reading: Mulvey L. Death 24x a Second. Stillness and the Moving Image. London: Reaktion Books, 2006; Baudrillard J.Symbolic Exchange and Death. Sage Publications, 1993., Gornykh A., Ousmanova A. “Aesthetics of Internet and visual consumption. On the RuNet’s essence and specificity” in Control + Shift. Public and private usages of the Russian Internet.(Norderstedt, 2006) P. 198-214.
13:15-2:30 Lunch
2:30-4 General discussion of the project: presence of all the participants is crucial.
4:15-5:45 General discussion, continued
6-7:30 Screening
8/7
10-11.30 Andrei Gornykh, TV: production of knowledge
DVD “Media and Society” (Gornykh A., EHU, 2011).
Further reading: Williams R. Television. Technology and cultural form. New England, Hanover, and London: Wesleyan University Press, 1992; Fiske J. Television Culture. London: Routledge, 1987; Bignell J. Introduction to television studies London: Routledge, 2004.
11.45-13:15 Andrei Gornykh, TV: production of knowledge , continued
13:15-2:30 Lunch
2:30-4 Participants’ presentation.
