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CENTRE FOR RESEARCH IN MODERN EUROPEAN PHILOSOPHY
MIDDLESEX UNIVERSITY
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16 & 17 April 2010
In the final decades of the twentieth century, the ‘great books’ of postwar French theory transformed study in the humanities in the Anglophone world. These books were all, in one way or another, transdisciplinary in character. Yet their reception has primarily taken place in an array of specific disciplinary contexts, isolated from a broader understanding of the intellectual dynamics, forms, significance and innovative potential of transdisciplinarity itself. This conference aims to redress this situation. Each speaker will reflect on the transdisciplinary functioning of a single concept in French thought since 1945, with respect to a founding text, a particular thinker or a school of thought.-------------------------------
Speakers:
Éric Alliez (CRMEP, Middlesex University)
'Rhizome'
Etienne Balibar (University of Paris X/Irvine UC)
'Structure'
Andrew Barry (Oxford University)
'Network'
Tom Conley (Harvard University)
'Writing'
François Cusset (University of Paris X)
'Theory'
Patrick Guyomard (University of Paris VII)
'Object a'
Jean-Marc Lévy-Leblond (University of Nice)
'Science'
Alain de Libera (EPHE, Paris/University of Geneva)
'Subject'
Peter Osborne (CRMEP, Middlesex University)
'Transdisciplinarity'
Michèle Riot-Sarcey (University of Paris VIII)
'History'
Stella Sandford (CRMEP, Middlesex University)
'Sex'
£45 / £20 students (free to members of the CRMEP, but booking is essential)
Advance registration: please write to Tom Eyers, at TE122[at]mdx.ac.uk.
Cheques should be made payable to ‘ Middlesex University’. Send to: Prof. Peter Osborne, CRMEP, Middlesex University, Trent Park campus, Bramley Road, London N14 4YZ, United Kingdom.
Supported by the Cultural Service of the French Embassy
«Expérimenter de nouveaux langages pour produire de nouvelles subjectivités, de nouvelles causes et un nouveau regard politique»
A true politics of psychiatry, or antipsychiatry, would consist
therefore in the following praxis: (1) undoing all the reterritorializations
that transform madness into mental illness; (2) liberating the schizoid
movement of deterritorialization in all the flows, in such a way that this
characteristic can no longer qualify a particular residue as a flow of
madness, but affects just as well the flows of labor and desire, of
production, knowledge, and creation in their most profound tendency.
Here, madness would no longer exist as madness, not because it would
have been transformed into "mental illness," but on the contrary because
it would receive the support of all the other flows, including science and
art—once it is said that madness is called madness and appears as such
only because it is deprived of this support, and finds itself reduced to
testifying all alone for deterritorialization as a universal process. It is
merely its unwarranted privilege, a privilege beyond its capacities, that
renders it mad. In this perspective Foucault announced an age when
madness would disappear, not because it would be lodged within the
controlled space of mental illness ("great tepid aquariums"), but on the
contrary because the exterior limit designated by madness would be
overcome by means of other flows escaping control on all sides, and
carrying us along.*
It should therefore be said that one can never go far enough in the
direction of deterritorialization: you haven't seen anything yet—an
irreversible process.
