Event overview
(Please note that this is an alteration to the Visual Cultures Public Programme, replacing the talk by Sylvestre Nzahabwanayo advertised to take place on this date.)
The World and Its Globalization: Pieter Meurs in conversation with Jean-Paul Martinon
Globe, global, globalizing, globalization, globality: all these words have the same Latin root: globus: round mass, sphere, ball. The main characteristic of this etymological root and of its derivatives is the assumption that we are dealing with an object that can be articulated as such. But what are the limits of this object? Does it have limits? And how do we relate to it? This conversation explores the work of one of the most prominent thinker of globalization today: Jean-Luc Nancy.
Dr. Pieter Meurs is a researcher at the Centre Leo Apostel, Free University of Brussels, Belgium. His research focuses on the relationship between the body and globalization, with a special interest in the work of Jean-Luc Nancy. He has written extensively on this topic for journals such as Meta, Ethische Perspectieven, and the Journal of Critical Globalization Studies.
Dr. Jean-Paul Martinon is Senior Lecturer in Visual Cultures at Goldsmiths College. His recent publications include The Curatorial: A Philosophy of Curating (Bloomsbury, 2013), The End of Man (Punctum Books, 2013) and After “Rwanda” (Rodopi, 2013).
Chair: Simon O’Sullivan
... all welcome
Objects and Relations
Within the theoretical humanities there has recently been a resurgence of interest in objects and objectivity – often pitched against those ontologies that are more relational. Of course, it might be said that an interest in objects has always been a concern of art history and practice (not least contemporary practice) – and that ideas of a ‘relational aesthetics’ have, for some time now, been a dominant trend in art theory. The Autumn term Visual Cultures Public Programme uses these latest developments in philosophy and art as a point of departure for a series of talks from thinkers and artists that might be said to connect with, parallel, pre-date or critique what has come to be known as the ‘speculative turn’.
Dates & times
| Date | Time | Add to calendar |
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| 28 Nov 2013 | 5:00pm - 7:00pm |
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