Event overview
What use Art? A series of seminars on Art and Instrumentality
What use Art?
A series of seminars on Art and Instrumentality.
October 2011 | April 2012
InC, Continental Philosophy Research Group. University of London | http://www.gold.ac.uk/inc
The seminars will be structured around four main areas:
- Art and philosophy: the first topic interrogates the place philosophy finds for art within its own systems. Why does art often get used to solve questions of ethics, metaphysics and politics, rather than being a question for philosophy in itself?
- Use and validation: the second topic investigates the arguments for art’s validation/non- validation in relation to its description as being either useful/useless (art and education, theory and practice);
- The end of art: the third topic looks at contemporary reading of art’s death, framed in relation to its use;
- Survival: the fourth topic aims to tackle the issue surrounding the survival/non-survival of the arts in our current political environment. What art would have to do, or what use it would need to fulfil to survive, and whether this survival of the arts at all cost is to be considered desirable.
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John Mullarkey is Professor in Film and TV at the University of Kingston.
He is the author of Bergson and Philosophy (1999), Post-Continental Philosophy: An Outline (2006), and Philosophy and the Moving Image: Refractions of Reality (2010), and is an editor of Film-Philosophy.
His work explores variations of 'non-standard-philosophy', arguing that philosophy is a subject that continually shifts its identity through engaging with (supposedly) 'non-philosophical' fields such as film. He is currently working on a book-film project dealing with the representations of animals in film and philosophy.
Recent publications include:
Books:
• Philosophy and the Moving Image: Refractions of Reality, Palgrave-Macmillan, 2010
• edited, with Beth Lord, The Continuum Companion to Continental Philosophy, Continuum Press, 2009
Articles:
• ‘Equally Circular: Bergson and the Vague Inventions of Politics’, in Bergson, Politics and Religion, edited by Alex Lefebvre, Palgrave-Macmillan 2011, forthcoming
• ‘Film Can’t Philosophise (and Neither Can Philosophy): Introduction to a Non-Philosophy of Cinema’, in New Takes in Film-Philosophy, edited by Havi Carel and Gregg Tuck, Palgrave-Macmillan 2011, pp.86-100
• ‘Badiou and Deleuze’, in Badiou: Key Concepts, edited by Justin Clemens and Adam Bartlett, Acumen 2010
• ‘Deleuze’, in Film, Theory and Philosophy: The Key Thinkers, edited by Felicity Colman, Acumen Press 2010, pp.179-189
• ‘Film As Philosophy: A Mission Impossible?’, in European Film Theory Anthology, edited by Temenuga Trifonova, Routledge, 2008, pp.65-79.
• ‘Life, Movement, and the Fabulation of the Event’, in Theory, Culture & Society, Vol. 24, no.6 (2007): pp.53-70.
Dates & times
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1 Nov 2011 | 4:00pm - 6:00pm |
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