27 Jan 2020 19 30 LectureChristina WesselyMilieus, Environments, Life Forms: Biology and Critical Theory in the Gulf of NaplesThe talk aims at relating the research of Naples’ Zoological Station, founded by Anton Dohrn in 1872, to the reflections on the urban environment of Naples that resulted from the visits of Walter Benjamin, Theodor W. Adorno, Alfred Sohn-Rethel, and others associated with the Frankfurt School in 1925. 30 Jan 2020 19 30 LectureAndrea PinottiAn-Icons: Environmentalizing PicturesImmersivity and interactivity in virtual environments have enabled the production of pictures that elicit in the user an intense feeling of being incorporated into a quasi-real environment. 30 Jan 2020 16 30 WorkshopArt and the Digital EnvironmentReconfiguring ImagesDigital technologies not only enable new forms of experience but are also radically changing the human relation to images and visuality as such. 11 Feb 2020 20 00 LectureChristina von BraunPsychoanalyse trifft auf Geschichte: AntisemitismusEs werden psychische und politische Dimensionen einer 'Hasskultur' umrissen, und es wird nach den Bedingungen gefragt, unter denen diese entstehen kann. 24 Feb 2020 19 30 LectureDidier DebaiseNature and Its Others. The Invention of a Political ForceThe 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. 10 Mar 2020 20 00 LectureNadine HartmannHashtag Confessions: What Can Psychoanalysis Say About #MeToo?Public feminism today travels by way of a technological update of collective speech acts of avowal and confession understood as already constituting political action — a practice familiar from 1970s feminism. 16 Mar 2020 17 Mar 2020 SymposiumLatexCritical Inflections on (Neo)Extractivism in Latin AmericaExtraction has been historically associated with the removal of underground materials, whereas extractivism is a broader notion connoting a primarily white, colonial mode of accumulation of the West. 24 Mar 2020 19 30 LectureAvery GordonHaunted Futures: The Utopian Margins Focussing on items held by the Hawthorn Archive, the talk invites consideration of the utopian margins where running away, marronage, vagrancy, rebellion, soldier desertion and other often illegible forms of escape, resistance, and alternative ways of life predominate. 25 May 2020 19 30 LectureJennifer FayThinking on Film with Arendt and CavellThis talk connects the writings of Hannah Arendt and Stanley Cavell to questions of thinking: what it is and how it appears in the world and on film. For both, thinking may be understood as a form of leave-taking, roaming, even of straying; the mind wanders while the body stays put. 30 Jun 2020 20 00 LectureAndreas CremoniniPrekäre Verkörperungen: Die Figur des Helden zwischen Exemplarität und SingularitätWas ist ein Held, eine Heldin? Eine Figur, die bestimmte menschliche Eigenschaften, verkörpert, die wir für exemplarisch halten und Dinge tut, die vorbildlich sind?
