InterCcECT invites you to a session on this question, enunciated directly by Alain Badiou in his Second Manifesto For Philosophy, and posed dynamically by his oeuvre. The text is brief; the consequences anything but. Discussion next Monday, 25 July, at 4pm in Bucktown. Address request .
What is thinking in our times?
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Badiou’s Second Manifesto for Philosophy
This month, InterCcECT hosts a reading group on Alain Badiou’s recently released Second Manifesto for Philosophy, in which his truly inventive ontology is freshly refined. Join us Monday 25 July, 4pm, details forthcoming. Points, protests, proposals? Contact us .
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Ranciere’s “The Politics of Literature”
This week, join InterCcECT for a reading-group session on Jacques Ranciere’s The Politics of Literature. Ranciere’s most recently published work in English, this text focuses his radical theory of the aesthetic on the specific properties of literature, up-ending platitudes in literary study and invigorating new modes of reading. The title essay is approximately 30 pages; meeting Wednesday 29 June at 4pm at a member’s home in Bucktown – contact us for details and pdf.
What’s on your Theory summer reading list? Propose a text or convene a group.
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Vocal Dialectics, and Convocation otherwise
A great announcement has just come across the desk, prompting an additional post this week. For convocation purposes in general, InterCcECT will aspire to announce events or call for collaboration in a once-weekly post. Please send us your details or proposals with one week’s notice.
Vocal Dialectics: an evening of classical and improvised music
InterCcECT member Anita Chari, Collegiate Assistant Professor at the University of Chicago, invites the circle to attend an experimental concert of interest to people working on aesthetics, culture, and power.
Where: Fine Arts Building, 410 S. Michigan Ave., Room 412
Who: Anita Chari, Carol Genetti, and Saori Chiba
Who: Anita Chari, Carol Genetti, and Saori Chiba
When: Wed. June 22, 7 pm
Tickets: $5 suggested donation at door
Note: Parking is difficult in this area, the FAB is best accessed by CTA
Note: Parking is difficult in this area, the FAB is best accessed by CTA
This concert is a collaboration between vocalists Carol Genetti and Anita Chari, exploring the relationship between distinct traditions of vocal music. Chari is a mezzo-soprano trained in western classical singing and opera. Genetti is an experienced singer and improviser who has studied a variety of techniques including Western singing, Hindustani classical voice and Bulgarian folk music. In the first half of the concert, Chari will sing classical arias and art songs. In the second half, Genetti and Chari will present original compositions and collaborative improvisations. Their collaboration in this concert explores questions about the role of the voice in composed versus improvised music, the mechanics of embodiment or dissociation of the voice, the source and significance of vocal affect, the subjectivity of classical singing versus that of improvised vocalization, images of the sovereignty and heteronomy of the voice, and the (im)possibility of lyricism in the age of vocal decomposition.
Program:
Verdi, Perduta ho la pace
Pietragrua, Tortorella
Fauré, Apres un Reve
Fauré, Automne
Wolf, Das verlassene Mägdlein
Schubert, Die junge nonne
Massenet, Va! Laisse couler mes larmes
Bizet, “Seguidilla”
Intermission
Improvisations by Soundbeast
Untitled, Genetti
Cogito ergo, Chari
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the Shape of Things to come
The Circle, whether boundary or figure, is a simple shape amenable to infinite concentricities and links. InterCcECT takes its shape from your points and lines. Have a chapter in progress you’d like to share? A text you’d like to read in company? A field trip? Contact us.
This week: The Marxist Literary Group’s annual Summer Institute on Culture and Society holds panels, reading groups, and film screenings at UIC. Schedule and info here.
Next week: an ECT reading group on Jacques Ranciere’s recent The Politics of Literature (title essay only). Meeting Wednesday 29 June at 4pm. Further details.
In between, and after: up to you!
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Welcome!
Inter Chicago Circle for Experimental Critical Theory
InterCcECT convenes a Chicago circle of readers, writers, thinkers, and makers working in and beyond the university, through and around the commitment to theory. “Theory” we encompass in its critical, experimental, philosophical, aesthetic, political, literary, and psychoanalytic forms.
InterCcECT coordinates the union of sets in Chicago via reading groups, workshops, performances, conferences, seminars, studios, parties, and other platforms.
InterCcECT connects offline. Less content-delivery, more event-planner: we invite collective engagement. To announce events or call for collaboration, contact us. To participate in events, click the “InterCcECT Calendar” link at right.
In the loop: check this site regularly or use the “Sign Me Up” function.
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