Event overview
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GUEST LECTURE
Machines, devices, appliances, and gadgets all seem to determine the way events take place today and each new machine appears to invent its own specific temporality. This talk will address the relation between art and technology in the 21st Century.
Jean-Louis Deotte is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Paris [Paris-VIII]. He is also in charge of the PhD Programme in Aesthetics at the University of Strasbourg. He has published more than forty books and essays on art, visual culture, aesthetics, and politics. This is first visit to Goldsmiths College. He will give his lecture within the context of the Curatorial Knowledge PhD Programme (Department of Visual Cultures).
His numerous books include in French:
Portrait-autoportrait (1986), Le Musée, l'origine de l'esthétique
(1993), Oubliez! Politiques de la cendre (1994), Le jeu de l'exposition avec
Pierre-Damien Huyghe (2000), L'homme de verre: esthétiques benjaminiennes
(1998), L'époque de la disparition: politique et esthétique, (2000),
L'epoque de l'appareil perspectif (2003), Appareils et formes de la
sensibilité (2005), Qu'est-ce qu'un appareil?: Benjamin, Lyotard, Rancière
(2007).
Three good examples of his writing available in English:
-Deotte, Jean-Louis. "The Differences Between Ranciere's Political
Disagreement and Lyotard's Differend," in SubStance - Issue 103 (Volume
33, Number 1), 2004, pp. 77-90, available at:
http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/substance/v033/33.1deotte.pdf
-Deotte, Jean-Louis. "Rome, the Archetypal Museum and the Louvre, the
Negation of Division" in Pearce Susan ed., Art in Museum, Athlone Press,
London, 1995, pp. 215-22 [708.01 ART]
- Deotte, Jean-Louis. "A World With No Horizon," in Back to the Front,
F.R.A.C & Princeton Architectural Press, New York, 1994.
Dates & times
| Date | Time | Add to calendar |
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| 12 Apr 2007 | 5:00pm - 7:00pm |
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