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July 23, 2008

Thinking Nothing Programme

Here is the programme of events for the Thinking Nothing symposium on July 31st. For those who can't make it, a transcription of the papers and discussions will be made to appear either here on the website or in a future volume of Collapse.

thinkingnothing-programme.pdf [484kb]

Parrhesia/Collapse/iRes Event

PARRHESIA - A Journal of Critical Philosophy (www.parrhesiajournal.org)
,
COLLAPSE - Journal of Philosophical Research and Development (www.urbanomic.com)
and
iRes - Research in Interactive Art & Design (www.ires.org.uk)

present a one day symposium:

THINKING NOTHING - the void and its resurgence in contemporary thought

From the emergence of empty set as a basis for ontology, to materialist negative theology, to Metzinger's 'nemocentric' destitution of the subject, contemporary thought seems to be obsessed with nothing. But the politics of this nothing seems drastically different from its earlier existentialist and postmodern nihilistic incarnations. This symposium seeks to explore the problem of nothing in contemporary thought, asking precisely how the postulation of an inherent negativity as a productive realm of philosophical discourse has come to characterise our intellectual landscape, and how the contemporary void relates to those of Ancient and Modern philosophical traditions.

Speakers:

Justin Clemens (University of Melbourne; Author of 'The Mundiad', 'Avoiding the Subject' [with Dom Pettman], and coeditor/translator of Alain Badiou's 'Infinite Thought')
Ray Brassier (Middlesex University; Author of 'Nihil Unbound', Translator of Alain Badiou's 'Saint Paul')
John Sellars (University of the West of England; Author of 'The Art of Living' and 'Stoicism')
Alex Murray (University of Exeter; Author of 'Recalling London', co-editor of 'The Work of Giorgio Agamben: Law, Literature, Life')
Robin Mackay (Middlesex University; Editor of 'Collapse', Translator of Alain Badiou's 'Number and Numbers')

Please contact Alex Murray for further details or to register.

July 19, 2008

Under Pressure

List of Works (PDF) for Under Pressure Show at Urbanomic Falmouth. nb. Show will now run from 6pm on Saturday 19th and 12pm-6pm Sunday 20th July.

July 16, 2008

Urbanomic Studio Event

UNDER PRESSURE
Prints by
Henri Matisse
Edward Bawden
Sara Ogilvie
Simon Dara
Sam Bradbury
Kristen Alvanson
Ruth & Robin Mackay

Saturday 19th July, From 6pm
at Urbanomic, Falmouth.

Urbanomic
The Old Lemonade Factory
Windsor Mews Studios
Falmouth
TR11 3EX
07977 449416
office@urbanomic.com