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As semesters adjourn and quarters eye the end, InterCcECT invites you to propose summer projects. What are your summer reading goals? Writing goals? Want to convene a session or working group? We want you! Contact us us or connect on Facebook.

May is wrapping up with a theory bang around town; let some of these events this week from our calendar inspire your proposals to us!

17-19 May, Which Way Forward for Psychoanalysis?
19-21 May, Phenomenology Roundtable
20-21 May, Paul of Tarsus Working Group presents Aidan Tynan, “Belief in This World: Deleuze, Paul and the Apocalyptic Mood” and InterCcECTer Adam Kotsko, “What St. Paul and the Franciscans Can Tell Us About Neoliberalism: On Agamben’s The Highest Poverty”.

With the generous support of Gallery 400, InterCcECT is very pleased to present “Nothing Just Isn’t (what it used to be): The Void and Structure,” a talk by Tzuchien Tho, researcher at The Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften and The Centre International d’Etude de la Philosophie Française Contemporaine. Join us Thursday 25 April at 4pm at Gallery 400!

abstract:
Alain Badiou inherited a series of concepts in the late 60’s that manifest a similar sort of argumentative strategy. From
Neo-Kantianism, French epistemologie, Hegelianism and structuralism, there were a number of different figures of the void, the nothing, indeed the “not”, all of which stood in as a reified repository for the undetermined and contingent (the virtual), the not-yet (the new in history), the horizon of determination and knowledge (regulative judgment). By looking at how Badiou refuted this construal of the problem of the void (the nothing and the like) in the late 60’s, I will demonstrate how these initial works led to his arguments concerning the void in the 1980’s provided a real alternative to those that he inherited. In turn, understanding Badiou’s rejection from this late 60’s context of treating the notion of the void sheds light on the meaning of his “mathematical ontology” through set theory and allows us to evaluate his larger philosophical project from a different historical vantage.

highlights from our calendar: — as always, Contact us to announce or propose events!
12-13 April, Norms of Freedom in Kant and Hegel
19-20 April, Death Penalties
20 April, Andrew Curran, Before Anthropology: Enlightenment Science and the Category of the Human
2 May, Jacques Derrida: Points of Departure

InterCcECT is pleased to commence the new year with a winter line-up bookended by two special events in contemporary philosophy:

24 January, 4pm: InterCcECT presents Andrew Benjamin, “Being-In-Relation,” Newberry Library, Room B82

19 March, 4pm: InterCcECT presents Andrew Cutrofello, “Two Contemporary Hegelianisms,” Newberry Library, Room B82

“Being-In-Relation: Philosophy’s Other Possibility,” Professor Benjamin’s latest project, revisits Descartes, Fichte, Kant, Hegel, and Heidegger in a radical attempt to think the priority of relationality to singularity. For the InterCcECT works-in-progress session, we will pre-circulate a draft of Chapter One, which establishes the parameters of the problem. Request the paper and join us!

In between, look out for our February event announcement, and check our calendar regularly for highlights from around town, like:

9 January, Wendy Brown, The Protoean Morphology of Homo Economicus
11 January, Graham Harman, A New Look at Identity and Sufficient Reason
17, 18, 25 January, Andrew Benjamin, The Fabric of Existence, Recovering Relationality, and more
31 January, Pierre Keller, Kant’s World Concept of Philosophy
13 February, Elizabeth Rottenberg, Freud’s Other Legacy

InterCcECT wants to hear your theory new year’s resolutions! Contact us to announce or propose events, and “like” us on Facebook for frequent links.