Agamben - "What is an apparatus?"
Heidegger - "The Thing"
Latour - "Crisis" (in: We have never been Modern)
Latour - "The slight surprise of action: facts, fetishes, factishes" (in Pandora's Hope)

Dear all,
Based on the availability of most members we have slightly changed the date for RT2 - apparatuses and things - to friday/saturday Nov. 6th and 7th.

Friday Nov 6
at Goldsmiths room 312
1030-lunch: The Factish
We will start with a reading seminar, returning to where we left it with Latour last time.
Please read the chapter "Crisis" in: We have never been Modern, and the chapter "The slight surprise of action: facts, fetishes, factishes" in Pandora's Hope.
both are posted here:
http://roundtable.kein.org/node/1137/edit

After lunch -1630: Relational Objects by Frederik Tygstrup:
This seminar will focus on the philosophical understanding of relational objects. We will start out by reassessing Latour’s agenda for hypostatizing the notion of “things”, then turn to Heidegger’s quite dense text (which we will try to work us through together) and end up by looking at Foucault’s notion of the “dispositif” as it is presented by Agamben. The overall question will be if we can learn something from Heidegger’s analysis of the notion of the thing, and how it might possibly be updated and made useful for contemporary cultural analysis through Foucault. With a bit of luck, we might even end up discussing how relational objects can inform the ways in which we set up methodologies for reading space.

Agamben - "What is an apparatus?" and Heidegger - "The Thing" are posted here:
http://roundtable.kein.org/node/1137/edit

Frederik text on space is here:
http://roundtable.kein.org/node/1135

Friday evening 1830:
113, Dalston Lane, London E8 1NH

Lawrence and Kerstin would like to invite us to a film screening evening after the PhD seminar:
Anyone wanting to show a timebased work should please bring a dvd.

Saturday 1100-1300:
113, Dalston Lane, London E8 1NH

Emanuel Licha: Fiction for Real
read: http://roundtable.kein.org/node/1138

see you all,
eyal