Graham Harman. Black Holes. 2014

source: European Graduate School     2015年3月16日
http://www.egs.edu Graham Harman, Philosopher, talking about the thing-in-itself, black holes, withdrawn objects, Speculative Realism, Heidegger, correlationism, essence, Object Oriented Philosophy, the History of Philosophy, materialism. Public open lecture for the students and faculty of the European Graduate School EGS Media and Communication Studies department program Saas-Fee Switzerland Europe. 2014. Graham Harman.

Slavoj Zizek. Ideology and Modalities of Not Knowing. 2014

source: European Graduate School   2015年3月10日
http://www.egs.edu/ Slavoj Zizek, Slovenian philosopher and cultural critic, talking about ideology, transgressions and modalities of not knowing. How are transgressions inscribed in systems of power, and what counts as a subversion of such a system? Public open lecture for the students and faculty of the European Graduate School EGS Media and Communication Studies department program Saas-Fee Switzerland Europe 2014 Slavoj Zizek.

Giorgio Agamben. Resistance in Art. 2014

source: European Graduate School  2015年3月2日
http://www.egs.edu/ Giorgio Agamben, Italian philosopher and writer, delivers a lecture in which he takes up a Deleuzean thread considering the act of creation as an act of resistance. Agamben discusses potentiality, impotentiality and actuality which is a philosophical problem dating back to Aristotle. The potential in the act of creation not only resists an external force, but also the impotentiality itself which is internal. This relation is unique to humans and allows for the act of creation such that it exists in no other species. This resistance acts as a critical power which restrains the blind drive of potentiality, leading to the retention of some imperfection and therefore the simultaneous exertion of potentiality and impotentiality. This, Agamben will call, Poetics of Inoperativity. Further, he will claim that true human praxis, by making inoperative works and functions of humans, will open the possibility for new works and usage. Open lecture delivered to the students and faculty of the European Graduate School, August 2014.

Jacques Rancière. An Archaeology of the Temporality of Modernism and Ava...

source: European Graduate School  2015年2月4日
http://www.egs.edu/ Jacques Rancière, philosopher of aesthetics and politics, delivering a talk on the temporality of modernism as "the time of the not-yet." Rancière presents his reading of artistic modernism as communist treatment of heterogeneous movement and time in the work of Emerson, Vertov, Mallarmé, Woolf and others. Topics discussed include dance, poetry, capitalism, art as the creation of new forms of life, freedom, leisure, and work. Other philosophers mentioned are Hegel, Marx, Aristotle, Schiller, and Grundberg. Public open lecture for the students and faculty of the European Graduate School EGS Media and Communication Studies department program Saas-Fee Switzerland Europe 2014.

Michael Hardt. The Leadership Problem. 2014

source: European Graduate School  2015年1月27日
http://www.egs.edu/ Michael Hardt, Philosopher, talking about the question of leadership and organization in recent uprisings and political movements, cycles of struggle, democracy, the Arab Spring, Occupy, the commons, the multitude, counter-power. Public open lecture for the students and faculty of the European Graduate School EGS Media and Communication Studies department program Saas-Fee Switzerland Europe. 2014. Michael Hardt.

Catherine Malabou. The future of Continental philosophy. 2014

source: European Graduate School   2015年1月21日
http://www.egs.edu/ Catherine Malabou, philosopher and writer, presents a critical engagement with a question posed by French philosopher Quentin Meillassoux. Meillassoux proposes in his book, After Finitude, that we must relinquish the transcendental which would also mean a break with Kant. This break, for Malabou, also brings us to a larger question which deals with the future of Continental philosophy. Can we continue to do Continental philosophy, which essentially begins with Kant and therefore hinges on an acceptance of the transcendental; or, if we assent, must we begin to move towards the Analytic tradition? Malabou lays out and critiques the arguments of Meillassoux, shows existing critiques of Kant and the transcendental which have come from the Continental tradition, then reveals how she would answer this question which has been put forward. Public open lecture for the students and faculty of the European Graduate School EGS Media and Communication Studies department program Saas-Fee Switzerland Europe. 2014.

Christopher Fynsk. The Transformative Lecture. 2014

source: European Graduate School  2015年1月6日
http://www.egs.edu/ Chris Fynsk, American philosopher , talking about pedagogy, the lecture, higher education, academia, the humanities, teaching, Heidegger, Ranciere, Lyotard and the right of speech. Public open lecture for the students and faculty of the European Graduate School EGS Media and Communication Studies department program Saas-Fee Switzerland Europe. 2014.

Judith Butler. Wrong-Doing, Truth-Telling. 2014

source: European Graduate School   2015年1月1日
http://www.egs.edu Judith Butler, philosopher and author, speaking about avowal and disavowal in conversation with Michel Foucault's Wrong-Doing, Truth-Telling in which Foucault attempts to establish a set of modifications which have taken place in the practice of avowal leading to an increasing connection with juridical and penal practices. Public Open Lecture at the European Graduate School in August 2014.

Avital Ronell. Walking as a philosophical act. 2014

source: European Graduate School   2014年12月26日
http://www.egs.edu/ Avital Ronell, philosopher and author, takes us through some thoughts on walking as a philosophical act. She explores the walker as well as possible accidents or diversions, tumbling and toppling over which may find us or which we may find along the way. Encounters and their counters, interlocutors and those who we come up against, Ronell takes us through literary tracks and typologies of the walker. Through the Reveries of a Solitary Walker of Rousseau as well as Nietzsche, Celan and DeMan, and Heidegger, Ronell expounds on variations of this theme in the opening lecture of the series at the European Graduate School in August 2014.

John Frazer. Computational Design. 2014

source: European Graduate School  2014年12月11日
http://www.egs.edu/ In this lecture John Frazer asks, what exactly was it about designing that needed aiding before computer aided design? Frazer describes the history of computational design through his own work, it’s operating mechanisms, tools, and possibilities. Public Open Lecture for students of the European Graduate School EGS, Media and Communication Studies department program, Saas-Fee Switzerland, Europe 2014

How do geckos defy gravity? - Eleanor Nelsen

source: TED-Ed     2015年3月30日
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Geckos aren’t covered in adhesives or hooks or suction cups, and yet they can effortlessly scale vertical walls and hang from ceilings. What’s going on? Eleanor Nelsen explains how geckos’ phenomenal feet allow them to defy gravity.
Lesson by Eleanor Nelsen, animation by Marie-Louise Højer Jensen.