Seminar on Contemporary Cultural Theory (3)

Het nieuwe thema van het Cultural Theory Seminar is CIW op de buik geschreven. Ik hoop op veel CIW geïnteresseerden. – rick 

Organised by: Dr. Rick Dolphijn (Media and Culture Studies), Dr. Iris van der Tuin (Gender Studies)
Location: Muntstraat 2a room 1.11, Utrecht
Time: 13:15 – 14:45 (you can bring your lunch)

The Centre for the Humanities in co-operation with the Graduate Gender Programme and Media and Culture Studies hosts a third round of the seminar on Cultural Theory. The seminar is a close-reading seminar, which focuses on texts that are valuable to the humanities as a whole and is open to scholars, students and people working outside of academia. In the sessions we do not build up knowledge, which means that you can join in whenever you like. Yet we work with themes in order to structure our thoughts a little bit. Earlier we have discussed “naturecultures” and “immanent times/ immanent spaces”. We hope many of you will be interested in contributing to our discussions. The reading material can be copied at Kromme nieuwegracht 20 (cursuspostvakken; ground floor) and at Janskerkhof 13 (OGC secretariat).

Theme three: Linguistics/signification/communication

The third theme of the Cultural Theory seminar is all about language, how it works and especially how it is connected to materiality. New materialist thinking – which is explored in much of the texts we read in earlier themes – is quite skeptical about the idea that language is our access to any kind of understanding or experience, an idea still dominant in much of the humanities. By critiquing the linguistic turn, we should of course rethink matter and materiality (as we did in previous themes). But we cannot stop there. It is of equal importance to come up with new conceptualizations of expression in general and language in particular. In order to do this we tried to mix influential texts in the field with new important ideas continuing these traits.

1. March 5 Vicky Kirby (1997) Telling Flesh Ch. 1 Corporeal Complexity: The Matter of the Sign

2. March 12 Paulo Virno (2004) Grammar of the Multitude Ch 3 Multitude as Subjectivity

3. March 19 Etienne Balibar (1985/1998) Spinoza and Politics Ch 5 Politics and Communication

4. March 26 Judith Butler (1993) Bodies that Matter Ch. 7 Arguing with the Real

5. April 2 Derrida (2008) The Animal That Therefore I Am

http://www.influxus.org/shelf/Derrida_AnimalFollow.pdf

6. April 9 Marcel Cobussen (2008) Thresholds Ch 6 Sirens and Ch 7 Language, Spirituality, Music (with dr. Marcel Cobussen, Leiden University)

7. April 16 J.L. Austin (1962) How to do things with words Lecture XI

8. April 23 Rosalind Coward and John Ellis (1977) Language and Materialism Ch. 1 The Philosophical Context (with prof. Rosemarie Buikema, Utrecht University)

9. May 7 N. Katherine Hayles (1999) How We Became Posthuman Ch. 2 Virtual Bodies and Flickering Signifiers

10. May 14 Donna Haraway (2004) The Haraway Reader Ch. 6 Morphing in the Order: Flexible Strategies, Feminist Science Studies, and Primate Revisions

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