Event overview
Objects and Relations - Visual Cultures Public Programme Autumn 2013.
Relations ... Objects ... Immanence ... Absolute?
Benjamin Noys (University of Chichester)
The contemporary theorization of art inhabits a series of often interlocking positions concerning the virtues or vices of objects, relations, and immanence. The key term is immanence, which slides between a militant excess and the untranscendable horizon of capitalist value. Analysing the tensions of immanence - between theological transcendence and immersion, between relation and dissolution - requires an analysis of the attempt to disembed objects, relations, and immanence from the horizon of capitalist metrics. The missing term, I suggest, is the situated absolute, which I trace through Deleuze's attempt to deploy the early Sartre for his vitalist project of immanence as 'a life'. This term offers a chance to locate a embedded 'militant fold' (Jaleh Mansoor) that can dispute the theological residues inhabiting immanence and contest the metrics of value.
Chair: Simon O’Sullivan
... all welcome
Objects and Relations - Visual Cultures Public Programme Autumn 2013.
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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| 1 Nov 2013 | 5:00pm - 7:00pm |
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