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AFTER YEAR ZERO Geographies of Collaboration 1945
19.09 - 24.11.2013 | Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin
www.hkw.de/en/afteryearzero

Recording of Fred Moten's contribution to "Geographies of Collaboration I. Writing History."

“Geographies of Collaboration” reflects the framework conditions of the new political order following the “catastrophe of civilization” that was World War Two. 


The image of the twentieth century is dominated by the historico-philosophically charged, bipolar confrontation between liberal universalism and socialist internationalism. The greater and ongoing challenge to the chronicling of history, however, is the revision of the modern era against the background of colonial history and the critique of what the European historical narrative has included and excluded. The first day of “Geographies of Collaboration” examines the fundamental role of Africa in the European construction of universal history, as well as the continuities at the nexus of colonial rule and fascism.

Fred Moten (Los Angeles) is a poet and student of the black radical tradition. He is author of In the Break: The Aesthetics of the Black Radical Tradition, Hughson’s Tavern, B. Jenkins, The Undercommons: Fugitive Planning and Black Study (with Stefano Harney), and The Feel Trio. He lives in Los Angeles and teaches at the University of California, Riverside.

Fred Moten | Keynote | After Year Zero - Geographies of Collaboration I. Writing History

On this week’s episode, Cooper and I welcome Ray Brassier to discuss the trajectory of his philosophical education, his translations of contemporary French theorists, the key insights of Prometheanism, nihilism, and his future work on Fatelessness.

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Ray Brassier - Brassier Unbound

Introduction to the workshop Simondon and Digital Culture (Yuk Hui, Mercedes Bunz, Erich Hörl, Jeremy Gilbert)
Recording: Jörg Diernberger

SIMONDON Intro 21.XI.2013

This week Cooper and Taylor discussed Michel Serres' The Birth of Physics. A discussion centering on flows, vortices, the clinamen and optimal pathways.

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Michel Serres - The Birth of Physics

This week Cooper and Taylor discuss Raymond Ruyer's Neofinalism. Neofinalism offers a systematic and lucidly argued treatise that deploys the innovative concepts of self-survey, form, and absolute surface to shape a theory of the virtual and the transspatial. It also makes a compelling plea for a renewed appreciation of the creative activity that organizes spatiotemporal structures and makes possible the emergence of real beings in a dynamic universe.

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Raymond Ruyer's Neofinalism

This week Graham Harman returned to discuss his first book, Tool Being, and share some great stories from his career.

Graham's first appearance:
https://soundcloud.com/podcast-co-coopercherry/graham-harman-object-oriented-ontology?si=d162f30106dc42088c8379e1df7ce67b&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graham_Harman

https://www.sciarc.edu/people/faculty/graham-harman

https://doctorzamalek2.wordpress.com/




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Graham Harman - Tool Being

In this week's episode Cooper and Taylor speak with Elizabeth Grosz, who has published and edited over a dozen books and whose most recent work, The Incorporeal: Ontology, Ethics, and the Limits of Materialism, will be the topic of today’s discussion.

Links:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Grosz

https://cup.columbia.edu/book/the-incorporeal/9780231181631

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Elizabeth Grosz - The Incorporeal

Cooper and Taylor discuss the Introduction and first chapter of Gilbert Simondon's Individuation in Light of Notions of Form and Information, Form and Matter.

This volume was translated by our very own Taylor Adkins.

https://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/individuation-in-light-of-notions-of-form-and

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Gilbert Simondon - Form and Matter

Nieuwe Instituut and the Erasmus School of Philosophy (ESPhil) host philosopher and legal scholar Antoinette Rouvroy for a lecture and discussion with professor of philosophy Yuk Hui. During the meeting, they will discuss the notion of algorithmic realism as a utopia that seems to be taking over more and more domains of human thought and coexistence.

6 May 2024 19:30 - 21:00

Antoinette Rouvroy - Persistence of critique against the tide of algorithmic realism. 6 may 2024

This week Cooper and Taylor tackle the introduction and chapter 1 of Gilbert Simondon’s On the Mode of Existence of Technical Objects. Chapter 1 Genesis of the technical object: the process of concretization.

PDF:
https://monoskop.org/images/2/20/Simondon_Gilbert_On_the_Mode_of_Existence_of_Technical_Objects_Part_I_alt.pdf

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Gilbert Simondon - On The Mode Of Existence Of Technical Objects

An interview between Joel White and Yuk Hui, around Eastern philosophies of energy. Recorded as part of the AHRC-funded project Energy: A Philosophy of Practice, University of Dundee. Find out more: energy-philosophy.ac.uk/

Yuk Hui on qi and concretisation

Donna Haraway, Rencontre Avec Fabrizio Terranova

Following a symposium titled  Technology is History (https://www.e-flux.com/announcements/214106/symposium-technology-is-history/), in association with the exhibition "One Hand Clapping" at the Guggenheim, curator Xiaoyu Weng and Brian Kuan Wood join Yuk Hui to discuss his work. 

The conversation was followed by a talk by Yuk Hui at e-flux titled “What Begins After the End of Enlightenment?” https://www.e-flux.com/program/218683/e-flux-lectures-yuk-hui-what-begins-after-the-end-of-enlightenment/

Text mentioned in the conversation:  "30 Years after Les Immatériaux - Art, Science and Theory" (https://meson.press/books/30-years-after-les-immateriaux/).&nbsp; 

Yuk Hui is a philosopher based in Berlin. He is the author of three monographs: "On the Existence of Digital Objects" (University of Minnesota Press, 2016), "The Question Concerning Technology in China: An Essay in Cosmotechnics" (Urbanomic, 2016), and "Recursivity and Contingency" (Rowman and Littlefield International, Spring 2019).  Read Yuk Hui in e-flux journal: https://www.e-flux.com/journal/?q=person_82704.

Xiaoyu Weng is The Robert H. N. Ho Family Foundation Associate Curator of Chinese Art at the Guggenheim. &nbsp; 

Brian Kuan Wood is a founding editor of e-flux journal.

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