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Letters To A Young Poet - Rilke
For every teacher/student: This is Rainer Maria Rilke's letters to a young poet written from 1903-08.
http://www.carrothers.com/rilke_main.htm
"Letters To A Young Poet are ten letters written to a young man about to enter the German military. His name was Franz Kappus, he was 19 years old, and he wrote Rilke looking for guidance and a critique of some of his poems. Rilke was himself only 27 when the first letter was written. The resulting five year correspondence is a virtual owner's manual on what it is (and what is required) to be an artist and a person."
Raqs media collective
The Raqs Media Collective (Jeebesh Bagchi, Monica Narula & Shuddhabrata Sengupta) has been variously described as artists, media practitioners, curators, researchers, editors and catalysts of cultural processes. Their work, which has been exhibited widely in major international spaces and events (from Documenta to the Venice Biennale), locates them squarely along the intersections of contemporary art, historical enquiry, philosophical speculation, research and theory - often taking the form of installations, online and offline media objects, performances and encounters.
UNGROUNDING: Decolonizing Architecture
In this presentation, Israeli-born, London-based architect Eyal Weizman deals with a question whose conditions of existence have not yet materialized: How can Israeli settlements and military bases (the architecture of Israel's colonization in Palestine) be reused, recycled or re-inhabited by Palestinians, at the moment that it is unplugged from the military/political powers that charge it?
Stevie Schmiedel: With or Without Lacan? Becoming-Woman between the Language of Organs and the Anorganism of Language
Stevie Schmiedel writes: There seem to be two “camps,” two ways of reading Gilles Deleuze’s and Félix Guattari’s concept of “becoming-woman” as described in their Thousand Plateaus. My own reading of Deleuze and Guattari’s work confirms an anti-psychoanalytic and anti-dialectical understanding that turns against the psychoanalytic feminism presented by Luce Irigaray, and even against Judith Butler’s Foucauldian re-reading of Lacan with which she defines a political practice of parodic performances.
Becoming woman that does not exist
By merging two of the most misunderstood and yet influential concepts of not just feminist theory production of the 1970ies and 1980ies we are going to explore what could be at stake in this weeks "Feminism Now!?" project. At the same time the two presentations will reconnect to the last sessions work on the concept of immanence and elaborate further on it.
This is not a Dylan movie
New York Times writer Robert Sullivan has published a great long piece on Todd Haynes new movie: "You could begin the story of Todd Haynes’s Dylan movie at the very beginning, about seven years ago, while Haynes was driving cross-country in his beat-up old Honda.
Program for session #5.1
"Art is rigorously co-extensive with the truths that it generates." The first theory session of the new semester links back to the close reading of Alain Badiou's "Fifteen theses". After a brief introduction into the concept of immanence we are going to work further on the theoretical and practical challenges of art as an immanent practice as well as its ethical and esthetical challenges.
Art, truths, and immanence
"Art is rigorously co-extensive with the truths that it generates." The first theory session of the new semester links back to the close reading of Alain Badiou's "Fifteen theses": http://kit.kein.org/node/87 After a brief introduction into the concept of immanence we are going to work further on the theoretical and practical challenges of art as an immanent practice as well as its ethical and esthetical challenges.
