Program

 

June 6-10  2014

Inter-University Centre Dubrovnik (IUC)

 

Organizers: Banu Bargu, Robin Celikates, Jodi Dean, Regina Kreide, David Strecker

 

 

Friday, June 6

 

            Welcome dinner

 

 

Saturday, June 7             What is Critical Theory?

 

10:00-11:30 am 

 

            What is Critical Theory?

            One Perspective, Three Tasks and Multiple Issues

                        David Strecker

 

            Critique and Obstacles to Action.

            Why Political Philosophy needs Social Theory

                        Regina Kreide

 

            Critical Theory and the ‘Incapacitation Trap’

                        Robin Celikates

 

11:45am-1:00 pm

 

            Politics beyond Publicity: Towards a Critical Theory of Sabotage

                        Darin Barney

 

1:00-2:30pm        Lunch + meeting with graduate students

 

2:30–4:30

 

            Notes for Communist Critical Theory

            Jodi Dean

 

            Rethinking Althusser on State Apparatuses

            Banu Bargu

Sunday, June 8                 Revisiting Communism

 

10:00am-12:00pm

 

            The State that Falls Asleep: Revisiting Lenin’s Idea of Communism

                        Alexei Penzin

 

            The Question of Political Form in Early Soviet Marxism: Andrei

            Platonov and Alexander Bogdanov

                        Maria Chehonadskih

 

            Negativity in Communism

                        Artemy Magun

 

            The Dialectics of Consciousness and the Unconscious in Vygotsky,          Bakhtin and Ilyenkov

                        Keti Chukhrov

 

12:15-1:30           

 

            Nationalist Interpellations in the Balkans: The Teterritorialization of Tragedy by Farce

                       Artan Sadiku

 

1:30-3:30pm        Lunch

 

Free afternoon

 

 

Monday, June 9               Critique and Revolt

 

10:00-11:30am  

 

            Legality, Ideology, and Individual Resistance

                        Petra Gümplova

 

            Critique after Neoliberalism

                        Frieder Vogelmann

 

            Critiquing Neoliberalism - Possibilities and  Limits

                        Thomas Biebricher

 

 

11:45am-1:15pm          

 

            A Democratic Critique of Political Modernity

                        Andreas Kalyvas

 

1:15-3:15pm        Lunch + meeting with graduate students

 

 

3:15-5:15pm

 

            The "New Human Type": Gramsci, Adorno, and Benjamin on Political             Anthropology 

                        Massimiliano Tomba

 

            Reading Marx Non-Philosophically: Of Immanent Revolt as Theory

            and Political Practice

                        Katerina Kolozova