to have done with life: vitalism and antivitalism in contemporary philosophy – zagreb, june 17-19, 2011

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Afternoon (magazine), Dasein, Jacques Lacan, John McDowell, Martin Hägglund, Meaning of life, Nancy Cartwright, Parallel Lives, philosophy, Ray Brassier

Schedule

June 17 [Friday]

Morning Session
10:00-12:00  Stephanie Wakefield & Jason Smith

Wakefield: “Dasein is Design: Form-of-Life, World, Environment”
Smith: “Parallel Lives: Form-of-Life, Living Labor”

Afternoon Session
14:00 – 16:00 Nathan Brown & Alexi Kukuljevic

Brown: “The Lucidity of the Unliving: Crystallography and Inorganic Poetry”
Kukuljevic: “Notes on Lifeless Matter”

Evening Session
18:00 – 20:00  Evan Calder Williams & Benjamin Noys

Williams: “Imitation of Imitation of Life”
Noys: “The Poverty of Vitalism”

June 18 [Saturday]

Afternoon Session
13:00 – 14:30  Martin Hägglund
15:00 – 16:30  Ray Brassier

Hägglund: “The Trace of Time and the Death of Life”
Brassier: “Life in Mind: Critique of Thompson”

Evening Session
19:00 – 21:00  Roundtable (Brassier, Hägglund, Johnston, Malabou)

June 19 [Sunday]

Afternoon Session
13:00 – 14:30  Adrian Johnston
15:00 – 16:30  Catherine Malabou

Johnston: “Second Natures in Dappled Worlds: John McDowell, Nancy Cartwright, and Hegelian-Lacanian Materialism”
Malabou: “Epigenesis and the Plasticity of Life”

Evening Session
19:00 – 21:00  Roundtable (Brassier, Hägglund, Johnston, Malabou)

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