Program
Radical Critical Theory Circle Nisyros, June 7 – 11, 2019 Strategies of Crisis
Friday, June 7
1:00 pm Greeting
I. 1:30 pm – 4:30 pm (3 papers) The Contemporary Crisis and the Populist Response
1. “Populism and the Future of Capitalism,” Albena Azmanova (University of Kent)
2. “Revisiting the Black Populist Moment,” Lester Spence (Johns Hopkins University)
3. “Precarity, Neo-Fascism, and a Non-Populist Politics of the People," Paul Apostolidis (London School of Economics)
4:30 pm – 5:00 break
II. 5:00 pm – 7:00 pm (2 papers) Democracy in the Contemporary Crisis
4. "Whose Crisis? Which Democracy? Notes on the Current Political Conjuncture,"
Andreas Kalyvas (New School University)
5. “Communism or Neo-Feudalism,” Jodi Dean (Hobart and William Smith Colleges)
Saturday, June 8
III. 10:00 am – 1:00 pm (3 papers) Temporalities of Crisis
6. "The Crisis of Times: Chronopower, Democratic Temporality and Time of Modern Capitalism,” Mykolas Gudelis (New School University)
7. “Between Disorder and Control - Cybernetic Chronotypes in Crisis,” Lotte Warnsholdt (Leuphana University)
8. “The Long Now: Political Time, Exhaustion, and Crisis in the Anthropocene,”
Ajay Singh Chaudhary (Brooklyn Institute for Social Research)
1:00 pm – 3:00 pm break
IV. 3:00 pm – 5:00 pm (2 papers) Freedom and the Crisis of the Subject
9. “Non-Identity and Survival - What is Left of the Bourgeois Subject?” Henrike Kohpeiß (Leuphana University)
10. “Autonomy and Autarky,” Dmitri Nikoulin (New School University)
5:00 pm – 5:30 pm break
V. 5:30 pm -7:30 pm (2 papers) Is Enlightenment Possible?
11. “Crisis of Enlightenment or Obsessive Calibanism,” Keti Chukhrov (HSE, Moscow/University of Wolverhampton)
12. “Socialization of Reason: Towards a New Concept of Enlightenment,”
Masha Chehonadskhi (Kingston University)
Sunday June 9 excursion
Monday, June 10
VI. 10:00 am – 1:00 pm (3 papers) Concepts and Critique
13. “Affirmative and Negative Critique,” Layal Ftouni (Utrecht University)
14. “The Crisis of Critical Theory, Political Sociology and the Re- Opening of the Political Horizon,” Jose Mauricio Dominguez (IESP-UERJ)
15. “Broken Threads. The Role of Concepts in the Work of Adorno and Arendt,”
Samantha Hill (Bard College)
1:00 pm – 3:00 pm break
VII. 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm (2 papers) Crisis and Rupture
16. "Blackness as epistemic rupture: the case of South African student movements," Moshibudi Motimele (University of the Witwatersrand)
17. “The Greek Crisis as Concrete Universal: On the Impossibility of Reform and the Impasse of Subjectivity,” Peter Bratsis (City University of New York)
5:00 pm – 5:30 pm break
VIII. 4:30 pm – 7:30 pm (2 papers) Capitalism and Continuity
18. “The Return of the Repressed: “Primitive Accumulation” and Capitalist Temporalities,” Sami Khatib (Leuphana University)
19. “The Continuity-Form: Towards the Genealogy of ‘Always-On’ Capitalism,” Alexei Penzin (University of Wolverhampton)
Tuesday, June 11
IX. 10:00 am – 1:00 pm (3 papers) Democracy’s Remnants
20. "Tragic Democracy: Thinking Political Theory with Cornelius Castoriadis,"
Alheli Alvarado (School of Visual Arts)
21. “Towards a Concept of Democratic Stasis: Disorder, Politicization and Freedom,"
Sara Gebh (New School University and Universität Wien)
22. “Democratic Incapacitation,” Christian Sorace (Colorado College)
1:00 pm – 3:00 pm break
X. 3:00 pm – 6:00 pm (3 papers) How to Behave in a Catastrophe
23. “Against Joy,” Kai Heron (University of Manchester)
24. “Negativity in Ethics,” Artemy Magun (European University of St. Petersburg)
25. “What is Moral Catastrophe and How to Combat It,” Ilya Budraitskis (RANEPA, Moscow)