<nettime-ann> Paolo Virno at the Staedelschule in Frankfurt Dezember 2006

[Geert Lovink <geert@xs4all.nl>]

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> From: Bernd Huettner <bhuettner@niatu.net>
> Date: 4 July 2006 8:05:19 PM
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> http://213.138.52.53/unterdruck.html
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> Under Pressure – about pictures turning into subjects, individuals
> becoming collectives, and the new spirit of capitalism
>
> The aim of this conference is twofold: We want to discuss the value
> system resulting from the "New Spirit Of Capitalism" with three
> scholars: the Italian philosopher Paolo Virno, the French sociologist
> Luc Boltanski, and the American Professor of English Language and
> Literature W.J.T. Mitchell.
> Each of these writers has developed new tools that seem very useful for
> an analysis of the present condition. But we also want to confront some
> of their propositions with the realities of artistic production. Can
> "exit" and "disobedience", as envisioned by Virno, be considered 
> options
> from an artistic point of view? And what would an insistence on 
> "status"
> or long term projects as invoked by Boltanski/Chiapello look like if
> artists where to take on this strategy? How much can one count on
> pictures alone, as Mitchell seems to do, and can pictures really change
> the "ways of worldmaking"?
>
> The idea for this conference emerged during the course of two seminars
> at the Städelschule/Frankfurt, where three books were studied: Luc
> Boltanski & Eve Chiapello´s "The New Spirit of Capitalism," Paolo
> Virno´s "A Grammar of the Multitude," and W.J.T. Mitchells "What Do
> Pictures Want?". Despite their differences and respective 
> specificities,
> we noticed striking similarities as far as the diagnosis of our present
> condition is concerned. Where Virno emphasizes communication as the
> "queen of productive forces," Boltanski and Chiapello propose their
> notion of a "project-based Polis" in which information and contacts are
> must-haves. For Mitchell it is "Pictures" that are alive and can speak 
> –
> they are living symbols that contribute to producing the conditions of
> the new "Empire."
>
> The Institut für Kunstkritik at the Städelschule was founded by Daniel
> Birnbaum and Isabelle Graw in 2003. It regularly organizes lectures and
> seminars with critics and theorists. Among recent guests: Giorgio
> Agamben, Yve-Alain Bois, Benjamin H.D. Buchloh, and Michael Fried,
>
> Under Pressure is a collaboration with Frankfurt's Institut für
> Sozialforschung.
>
> Staatliche Hochschule für Bildenden Künste - Städelschule
> Dürerstr. 10
> 60596 Frankfurt am Main
> Germany
>
> tel.: +49 69 60 50 08 -52
> fax.: +49 69 60 50 08 -66
> http://www.staedelschule.de





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