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CMT seminar - Meeting 6
-The reading for this week's seminar is: Chapter 4 of Donna Haraway: Staying with the Trouble: Making Kin in the Chthulucene (Duke, 2016)
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CMT seminar - Meeting 5
-The reading for this week's seminar is: Chapter 2 of Joan Copjec: Read My Desire: Lacan Against the Historicists (Verso, 2015)
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CMT seminar - Meeting 4
-The reading for this week's seminar is: Chapter 3 of Donna Haraway: Staying with the Trouble: Making Kin in the Chthulucene (Duke, 2016)
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CMT seminar - Meeting 3
-The reading for this week's seminar is: Chapter 1 of Joan Copjec: Read My Desire: Lacan Against the Historicists (Verso, 2015)
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CMT seminar - Meeting 2
-The reading for this week's seminar is: Chapter 2 of Donna Haraway: Staying with the Trouble: Making Kin in the Chthulucene (Duke, 2016)
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Community Revisited: Nancy, Blanchot, Duras - Professor Leslie Hill, Warwick University
-The CMT will be pleased to host Professor Leslie Hill, Warwick University, for a talk entitled “Community Revisited: Nancy, Blanchot, Duras”. The presentation will be on April 24, 2:00pm (location to be announced). Professor Hill is a distinguished scholar in modern French literature and the most highly respected reader of Blanchot. ...
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Rethinking Musical Modernism - Aspects of the sublime
Taylor A08 – 1.30pm – 3.30pm Readings Lyotard, Jean-François. 1991. ‘God and The Puppet’, in The Inhuman. Polity, 153-64. Lyotard, Jean-François. ‘Music, Mutic’, in Postmodern Fables. 217-33.
March
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Rethinking Musical Modernism - Rethinking beauty in contemporary music
Taylor A08 – 1.30pm – 3.30pm Readings Lachenmann, Helmut. 1980. ‘The ‘Beautiful’ in Music Today’, Tempo 135, 20-4. Lachenmann, Helmut. 1997. ‘Open Letter to Hans Werner Henze’, Perspectives of New Music, 35/2, 189-200. Lyotard, Jean-François. 1991. ‘Obedience’, in The Inhuman. Polity, 165-81.
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Rethinking Musical Modernism - A Deleuzian semiotics of music
Taylor A08 – 1.30pm – 3.30pm Readings Campbell, Edward. 2013. ‘A Deleuzian semiotics of music’, in Music after Deleuze. London: Bloomsbury, 133-61. Deleuze, G. and Guattari, F. 1987. ‘587 B.C. – A.D. 70: On Several Regimes of Signs’, A Thousand Plateaus. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 111-48.
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Rethinking Musical Modernism - Thinking musical time
Taylor A08 – 1.30pm – 3.30pm Readings Campbell, Edward. 2013. ‘Thinking musical time’, in Music after Deleuze, London: Bloomsbury, 99-132. Deleuze, Gilles, and Guattari, Félix. 1988. ‘1837: Of the Refrain’, in A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia. Tr. Brian Massumi. London: Athlone, 310-50 (esp. 317-19, 332). Deleuze, G. and Guattari, F. 1987. ‘1730:...
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Rethinking Musical Modernism - Rethinking musical pitch: the smooth and the striated
Taylor A08 – 1.30pm – 3.30pm Readings Campbell, Edward. 2013. ‘Rethinking musical pitch: the smooth and the striated’, in Music after Deleuze. London: Bloomsbury, 67-97. Deleuze, G. and Guattari, F. 1987. ‘1440: The Smooth and the Striated’, A Thousand Plateaus. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 474-500.
February
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Rethinking Musical Modernism - Producing new music: rhizomes, assemblages and refrains
Taylor A08 – 1.30pm – 3.30pm Readings Aperghis, G. 1993. ‘Some reflections on musical theatre’, Contemporary Music Review, 8, (1), 113-14. Campbell, Edward. 2013. ‘Producing new music, rhizomes, assemblages and refrains’, in Music after Deleuze. London: Bloomsbury, 35-65. Deleuze, G. and Guattari, F. 1987. ‘Rhizome’, A Thousand Plateaus. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press,...
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Rethinking Musical Modernism - Music, difference and repetition
Taylor A08 – 1.30pm – 3.30pm Readings Campbell, Edward. 2013. ‘Music, difference and repetition’, in Music after Deleuze. London: Bloomsbury, 3-34. Foucault, Michel. ‘Theatrum Philosophicum’. Available online at http://www.generation-online.org/p/fpfoucault5.htm Nesbitt, N. (2004), ‘Deleuze, Adorno and the composition of musical multiplicity’ in I. Buchanan and M. Swiboda (eds), Deleuze and Music. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University...
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Rethinking Musical Modernism - Modernism, Postmodernism or What?
Taylor A08 – 1.30pm – 3.30pm Readings Badiou, Alain. 2009. ‘Scholium: A Musical Variant of the Metaphysics of the Subject’, in The logic of Worlds. London: Continuum. 79-89. Deleuze, Gilles, and Guattari, Félix. 1988. ‘1837: Of the Refrain’, in A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia. Tr. Brian Massumi. London: Athlone, 310-50. Rancière, Jacques....
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Title: Rethinking Musical Modernism - Introduction: Music since 1900
Taylor A08 – 1.30pm – 3.30pm
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Morphogenesis and Cultural Dynamics
The event will take place on Monday, May 30, 2:00-5:00 PM, Taylor A36 (We may have to allow this event to run past its closing time.) CMT will host a conversation with our visitor Sha Xin Wei on the topic of “Morphogenesis and Cultural Dynamics.” Professor Sha...
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Philosophy and Poetry workshop
The Centre for Modern Thought will host a workshop on the relation between philosophy and poetry on the afternoon of Friday, May 27: “Finding Grounds: Poetry, Philosophy, and Amity” This workshop will feature two special guests: Judith Balso, Professor of Poetry at the European Graduate School and...
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"Poetry And"
Friday, May 27 • 2:00pm - 8:00pm Taylor Building A36 (refreshments provided) an inquiry of poetry and other arts a workshop featuring: Judith Balso, professor of poetry at the European Graduate School (Saas-Fee, Switzerland) and lecturer at the Collège International de Philosophie (Paris) with Nachoem M....
2008
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'The Medium and Its Shadow: Reflecting on Recoded'
-The Centre for Modern Thought at the University of Aberdeen hosted the conference, "Recoded: Landscapes and Politics of New Media" from 24th to the 26th of April 2008. Over three days, mediumistic questions and fantasies ran through the discussion, over the days and around them, talk of interfaces, transmitters, points...
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4-5 April: "Narrating the World"
-Professor Mario Biagioli will be delivering a paper at “Narrating the World: Current Debates in Science and Literary Studies Revised,” a conference at Harvard’s Barker Center. See the poster (PDF) for more details.
February
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Showing Khalefi and Sivan's Route 181: Fragments of a Journey in Palestine-Israel
The Centre, in partnership with Peacock Visual Arts, has arranged a showing of Khalefi and Sivan’s Route 181: Fragments of a Journey in Palestine-Israel, Feb 26th.
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Professor Bruno Latour, "Another European Tradition: Traceability of the social and the vindication of Gabriel Tarde," at LSE
Latour will deliver his talk at the London School of Economics and Political Science from 6.30 to 8 pm. For full details, please see the flyer (Word document).
2007
December
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Godard's Histoire(s) du cinéma, pt. 2
The Centre and Peacock Visual Arts are presenting Godard’s extraordinary project: Chapters 1 & 2, December 4 at 7pm; chapters 3 & 4, December 11 at 7pm. Showing Histoire(s) du cinéma, Dec. 4 & 11 “Let each eye negotiate for itself” Histoire(s) du cinéma In Histoire(s) du cinéma (1988/98) Jean-Luc Godard demands that...
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Modern Thought seminar I
310 MacRobert, 3-5. The reading is Sick Building Syndrome and the Problem of Uncertainty: Environmental Politics, Technoscience, and Women Workers, by Michelle Murphy.
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Professor Derek Attridge, "Knowing Works of Art"
The School of Language & Literature Research Forum presents a seminar with the internationally renowned literary critic. KCG5, 5.15–7 pm; Further details (Word poster).