2009 Part One examining arguments from the European philosophical tradition. Seminar #3 - Monday 18th May 2009 The Contingency of the Encounter as Political Condition (introduced by Amanda Beech and Suhail Malik) Reading: Louis Althusser, 'The underground current of the materialism of the encounter', from "Philosophy of the Encounter”, (London: Verso, 2007, pp.163-207) for an overview/review of Althusser's thinking see: www.borderlands.net.au/vol4no2_2005/morfino_lexicon.htm or for PDF click here Seminar #2 - Tuesday 10 March 2009 (introduced by Amanda Beech and Suhail Malik) Reading: V I Lenin, 'Materialism and Empirio-criticism'
(Chapters One and Four) For PDF click here (introduced by Amanda Beech and Suhail Malik) |
 The Political Currency of Art (PoCA) Research Group investigates the condition and consequences of the claims to critique in contemporary art and elsewhere when such claims can be readily assimilated, as they now are, with the interests of more or less dominant cultural, state and financial institutions. |
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