Continuous research seminar (10h in total)
Concepts and figures of critical thinking IV
Organized by Grup de Investigació sobre Teoria Crítica i Escola de Frankfurt
www.uv.es/critica
Coorganized by the Doctoral Program in Social Sciences of the University of Valencia.
- Research line seminar (specific training activity - code 50030) - -
Session 1: Knowledge, power and governance
We propose a journey through Foucault's thought by the hand of Gilles Deleuze asking us what is governance and what relation it maintains with the production of subjectivity.
Reading Texts: Gilles Deleuze (2007), Foucault, Madrid: Paidós-extracte.
Date: dimarts, 21 de maig, de 17.00 a 19.30.
Session 2: Understanding after Auschwitz?
The seminar session will deal with the work of Imre Kertész (Nobel Prize in Literature and deported to Buchenwald) and his reflection on the Holocaust, which provocatively reverses the approach of Adorn and the Frankfurt School. This raises the question of the singularity of Auschwitz, on the one hand, and the "form" of critical theory, on the other.
Text de lectura: Imre Kertesz (1999,) Un instant de silenci en la paredassa (L'Holocaust com a cultura), Barcelona: Herder - extracte.
Date: Tuesday, June 4, from 17.00 to 19.30.
Session 3: Knowledge and global power: proposals for epistemic disobedience.
In this session we will discuss theoretical-methodological routes of constructing knowledge from a grammar of decoloniality. We ask what transformations are necessary in Critical Theory if gender, race, and nature are to be fully incorporated into the conceptual and political framework?
Reading text: Walter Mignolo (2010), Desobediència Epistèmica: Retòrica de la Modernitat, Lògica de la Colonialitat i Gramàtica de la Descolonialitat, Buenos Aires: Edicions del Signe - extract.
Date: tuesday, june 18, from 17.00 to 19.30
Session 4: Knowledge, body and exclusion
In this session we will approach the subject of the body as an element, capable of generating inclusion or exclusion, taking as a basis what is considered normal or what is outside the normality. In this way, people with functional diversity have been left out of many human situations, such as: education, paid work, but also social, affective and even sexual situations.
Text de lectura: David Le Breton (2018), La sociologia del cos (Madrid: Siruela) - extracte.
Date: tuesday, july 2, from 17.00 to 19.30
All sessions take place at the Faculty of Social Sciences, Room 3A2.
To participate and receive the texts to be discussed it is mandatory to register (free of charge) by sending an email until May 15:critica@uv.es
