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Walter Benjamin et le cinéma
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24.11.2011 Journée d’études à Paris. “La culture : défis épistémologiques et critiques”
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21-22.11.2011 Journées d’études à Paris “Walter Benjamin et la technique”
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12.10.2011-05.02.2012 Exposition “Walter Benjamin Archives” à Paris – et événements liés
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Towards a Politics of ‘Pure Means’: Walter Benjamin and the Question of Violence
In his compelling essay on the Critique of Violence (1921), Benjamin dwells on the dialectic of “mythic violence” consisting of law-preserving and law-constituting violence (Gewalt), which mutually presuppose each other. While the former might be identified with today’s bio-political microphysics of power, the latter refers to the constitutive act of establishing power through violence...
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01.11.2011, Call for Papers, Anthropology + Materialism : “Myth”
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04.07.2011, Conference in Potsdam: Phantasmagorisches Berlin. Vor und nach dem Mauerfall
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17.03.2011, Conference in Paris: Mass Culture and the Francfort School
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« Explosions », ou le matérialisme anthropologique de Charles Fourier
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01.05.2011, Call for papers
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The Time of Capital and the Messianicity of Time: Marx with Benjamin
Whereas for traditional Marxism history was driven by ‘objective’ historical forces towards its communist telos within history, critical Marxism attempted a blast of the very horizon of capitalisthistory itself. According to Slavoj Žižek (1989), in Marxian thought this ‘non-historical “ex-timate” kernel of history’ was only touched by Walter Benjamin’s last reflections On the Concept...
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Seven Short Temporary Statements on Anthropological Materialism
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Chronique du mur de Berlin. Sur le rapport entre temps et mémoire
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