September 14th-15th, workshops on Canguilhem-Simondon and Philosophical Anthropology, Durham and Newcastle Universities<\/p>\n
Two events may be of interest, running on consecutive days in Durham and Newcastle.<\/p>\n
1) Sept 14th, Durham University, Centre for Cultural Ecologies, Canguilhem-Simondon: Epistemology and Ontology of the Milieu<\/p>\n
To date, the intellectual legacies of Georges Canguilhem (1904-1995) and Gilbert Simondon (1925-1989) have largely been recognised through their impact on others, with Canguilhem known as an influence on Michel Foucault and Simondon influencing Gilles Deleuze and, latterly, Bruno Latour and Bernard Stiegler. With the shift of research in continental philosophy towards biology, technology and the medical humanities, plus the importance of their concept of \u2018milieu\u2019 to the environmental sciences, both are now increasingly seen as major philosophers in their own right. It is this concept of milieu that links Canguilhem and Simondon together. The former defined health and pathology in terms of the ability to withstand environmental perturbation, or \u2018inconsistencies in the milieu\u2019, and ultimately saw knowledge and technology as extensions of the norms through which biological organisms create their own environment. The latter sought to update the work of his supervisor to account for the constitutive role of technical environments (\u2018associated milieus\u2019) in the \u2018individuation\u2019, or ontogenesis, of the tool-user, which led in turn to a fundamental revision of Marx\u2019s theory of alienation. This workshop will provide a forum for discussing all aspects of the work of Canguilhem and Simondon, taken both in their own right and in relation to others. Discussions will start with the milieu, but range beyond it to broach topics including epistemology and ontology; pathology and disindividuation; biological and technical normativity; science and work, among others.
\nConfirmed speakers include: Andrea Bardin (Brunel)\u2014Stuart Elden (Warwick)\u2014Ana\u00efs Nony (Florida State)\u2014Mauro Senatore (Durham)<\/p>\n
There are still a couple of spaces available to give a paper. For further information, or to register your participation (free of charge), email gerald.moore@durham.ac.uk.<\/p>\n
2) Sept 15th, Newcastle University, Philosophy
\nPhilosophical Anthropology and Contemporary Continental Philosophy<\/p>\n
What is the relation between the empirical species,\u00a0homo sapiens<\/em> and the symbolic cultural institutions and structures to which it must accommodate itself in order to become fully \u2018human\u2019? How are we to understand the transition between the \u2018human animal\u2019 and the transcendental subject, \u2018Dasein\u2019, or however we choose to describe the human being\u2019s philosophical double?\u00a0What sort of natural character must the human animal possess if it is to be capable of the role that philosophy has assigned it? And what effects if any should this natural character have on this role and on the political and institutional arrangements which we ultimately advocate?<\/p>\n With the turn of continental philosophy towards the natural sciences, including, in particular, evolutionary theory and\u00a0biology, and the increasingly theoretical inclinations of Cultural Anthropology,\u00a0it seems that a reconsideration of the idea of a \u2018philosophical anthropology\u2019 might prove to be fruitful in indicating a way out of certain of the impasses of contemporary thought.<\/p>\n This workshop attempts a preliminary gathering together of perspectives on the question of man in contemporary continental philosophy with a view to clarifying the problem and identifying possible solutions. Figures to be addressed include Martin Heidegger, Gilbert Simondon, Jacques Derrida, Giorgio Agamben,\u00a0Catherine Malabou, Bernard Stiegler,\u00a0and Paolo Virno.<\/p>\n Confirmed speakers for that event are Anne Alombert (Nanterre); Lorenzo Chiesa (Genoa School of Humanities\/European University at St. Petersburg); Elizabeth Cykowski (Oxford); Michael Lewis (Newcastle); Nina Power (Roehampton). For information and (free) registration, email michael.lewis@newcastle.ac.uk or gerald.moore@durham.ac.uk.<\/p>\n https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/2017\/04\/14\/workshop-on-philosophical-anthropology-and-contemporary-continental-philosophy\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" September 14th-15th, workshops on Canguilhem-Simondon and Philosophical Anthropology, Durham and Newcastle Universities Two events may be of interest, running on consecutive days in Durham and Newcastle. 1) Sept 14th, Durham University, Centre for Cultural Ecologies, Canguilhem-Simondon: Epistemology and Ontology of the Milieu To date, the intellectual legacies of Georges Canguilhem (1904-1995) and Gilbert Simondon (1925-1989) … Continue reading September 14th – Canguilhem and Simondon & September 15th Philosophical Anthropology<\/span>