InterCcECT

Locke’s ​Essay Concerning Human Understanding ​might seem an unlikely place to espy the origins of aesthetic philosophy, but the deadlocks of empiricism it formulates may be precisely what necessitated the category of aesthetic cognition. InterCcECT is delighted to host a works-in-progress session on these questions with Professor Viv Soni.

Join us Thursday 10 May at 5pm at the InterCcECT Salon in Bucktown for “The Vanishing Place of Judgment between Empiricism and Aesthetics: The Case of Locke’s Essay.” Request the paper and final details.

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InterCcECT reminds you to attend our upcoming mini-seminar with Kiarina Kordela, “(Psychoanalytic) Biopolitics and Bioracism” (readings available here), Monday, 9 April, 4pm, UIC Institute for the Humanities, 701 S Morgan St, lower level.

Some theory events April showers on Chicago (and our neighbor, Milwaukee!):

3 April Richard Weisberg, In Defense of Flexiphobia: How a Touch of Faulknerian ‘Intractability’ Might Help Avoid Historical and Hermeneutic Disasters, UIC Forum for Research on Law, Politics, and the Humanities

4 April, Saskia Sassen, Digital Formations of the Powerful and the Powerless, UIC

5 April, Christopher Menke, The “Different Form” of Domination: Toward a Crtiique of the Social Critique of Law, Northwestern U.

13 April, Pre-Occupy Symposium, UW-Milwaukee Center for 21st Century Studies

20 April, In a Rut, Arts of Non-Sovereignty series, U Chicago

To propose or announce events, contact us .

In her forthcoming book ​Being, Time, Bios: Capitalism and Ontology​, Kiarina Kordela’s psychoanalytically inflected readings of the history of philosophy prompt a a redefinition of biopolitics. In place of Foucault’s formulation that biopolitics is “the administration of bodies and the calculated management of life” she proposes to think “the administration and management of the subject’s relation to mortality and immortality, as a compensation for the loss of eternity.”

InterCcECT is delighted to present a miniseminar with Professor Kordela, Monday 9 April at 4pm, at the UIC Institute for the Humanities (Stevenson Hall, 701 S. Morgan St, lower level). We’ll be discussing her article “(Psychoanalytic) Biopolitics and Bioracism,” which she has generously made available here.

Mark your calendars now for two other special events presented by InterCcECT this spring, a workshop on the origins of aesthetic philosophy with Viv Soni, 5pm 10 May, and a talk on Deleuze by Tom Eyers, 5pm 4 June. To propose or announce events, including reading groups, performances, and other experiments, contact us .
We hope to see you soon, perhaps next week at Nancy Fraser’s lecture and seminar, “Theorizing the Crisis of Capitalism in the 21st Century.”