The Art & Philosophy Reading Group Series
The Art & Philosophy Reading Group was set up to explore different links between theoretical and philosophical writing and various forms of artistic and other cultural practice. Meeting in domestic environments in or around London, the group engaged in close readings of series of texts on specific themes. You can download a pdf version of the Art & Philosophy Series Reader here.
Session 1: Wednesday May 17, 2006, hosted by C.CRED (Whitechapel)
Alain Badiou, ‘The Ethic of Truth’ in Ethics: An Essay on the Understanding of Evil (London and New York; Verso, 2001), pp. 40 – 57
Session 2: Wednesday, June 7, 2006, hosted by C.CRED (Whitechapel)
Gilles Deleuze ‘What Is An Event?’ in The Fold, Leibniz and the Baroque (Minneaopolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1992), pp. 76 – 84 and Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari ‘Prospects and Concepts’ in What Is Philosophy? (London and New York: Verso, 1994), pp. 135 – 162
Session 3: Wednesday, June 21, 2006, hosted by Neil Chapman (Denmark Hill)
Gilles Deleuze ‘The New Harmony’ in The Fold: Leibniz and the Baroque (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1993), pp. 121 – 138 and Yve Lomax, ‘Dancing to the Tune of the Infinitive’ in Sounding the Event: Escapades in Dialogue and Matters of Art, Nature and Time (I. B. Tauris, 2004)
Session 4: Friday 21 to Monday 24 July 2006, hosted by Martin Wooster (Chalford)
Reading: G. W. Leibniz, ‘On Monadology’ in Monadology (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1991)
Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari, ‘Treatise on Nomadology: The War Machine’ in A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia (London and New York; Continuum, 2003), pp. 351-423
Michael Hardt and Toni Negri, ‘Traces of the Mutitude’ and ‘Demonic Multitudes’ in Multitude: War and Democracy in the Age of Empire (London: Hamish Hamilton, 2005)
Session 5: Thursday, August 10, 2006, hosted by Neil Chapman (Denmark Hill)
Alain Badiou, ‘The Fold: Leibniz and the Baroque’, in Boundas, C. and Olkowski, D. Gilles Deleuze: The Theatre of Philosophy (NYC: Columbia, 1994).
Session 6: Thursday, November 9, 2006, hosted by Neil Chapman (Denmark Hill)
Giorgio Agamben ‘On Potentiality’ in Potentiality: Collected Essays in Philosophy (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1999)
Session 7: Tuesday, December 5, 2006, hosted by Martin Wooster (Chalford)
Herman Melville, Bartleby (see http://www.gutenberg.org) and Giorgio Agamben ‘Bartleby, or On Contingency’ in Potentiality: Collected Essays in Philosophy (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1999) and Gilles Deleuze ‘Bartleby; or The Formula’ in Essays Critical and Clinical (London: Verso, 1994)
Session 8: Wednesday, December 20, 2006, hosted by Lee Simmons (Brockley)
Giorgio Agamben ‘Bartleby, or On Contingency’ in Potentiality: Collected Essays in Philosophy (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1999) and Friedrich Nietzsche, sections 5-8 (pp. 76-88) in On the Genealogy of Morals (New York: Vintage Books, 1969) and Arthur Schopenhauer pp. 194-200 and 406-410 in The World as Will and Representation (New York: Dover Publications, 1966)
Session 9: Monday, January 15, 2007, hosted by Teresita Dennis (Brockley)
Giorgio Agamben ‘Form of Life’ and ‘What is a People?’ from Means Without End (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2000) and Antonio Negri ‘Spinoza: Five Reasons for his Contemporaneity’ in Subversive Spinoza (London: Angelaki, 2004) and Antonio Negri ‘Difference and the Future’ in A Savage Anomaly (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1991)
Session 10: Thursday, March 29, 2007, hosted by Adriana Eysler (New Cross)
Manuel DeLanda, Intensive Science and Virtual Philosophy (Continuum International Publishing Group,2002) and Badiou, The Century (Polity Press,2007)