IMMANENCE AND MATERIALISM CONFERENCE
QUEEN MARY, UNIVERSITY OF LONDON
23 June 2009
Registration for this event is now open: please contact Simon Choat
([log in to unmask]) to register. Registration and attendance are free.
Programme details below. All papers will take place in Room 3.28,
Francis Bancroft Building, Mile End Campus, Queen Mary, Mile End Road,
London.
PROGRAMME
9:00am Registration
9:30am Panel 1: Immanence, Transcendence, Ontology (Chair: Simon Choat)
Michael O'Neill Burns (University of Dundee): 'The Life of
Materialism: Politics between Concept and Affect'
Brian Smith (University of Dundee): 'Extending Badiou's
Mathematical Materialism to Account for Real Change: Beyond the
Transcendence/Immanence Dichotomy'
Paul Rekret (Queen Mary, London): 'Derrida, Foucault, Immanence,
Transcendence'
11:10am Tea Break
11:30am Panel 2: Marx, Materialism, Immanence (Chair: Alberto Toscano)
Nicole Pepperell (RMIT University, Melbourne): 'What's the Matter
with Marx? Notes on Marx's Immanent Critique of Materialism'
Vidar Thorsteinsson (Reykjavik Academy): 'Materialism's Cognitive Edge'
Francesca Manning (CUNY): 'Capital as Axiomatic within Spinoza's
Communist Ontology'
1:10pm Lunch Break
2:15pm Panel 3: Philosophy, Politics, Praxis (Chair: James Williams)
Matteo Mandarini (Queen Mary, London): 'The Fate of Politics'
Duncan Law: 'Two Ontologies of Materialism: from Non-Philosophy to
Non Philosophy'
Michael Goddard (University of Salford): 'Misrecognising
Immanence: Towards a Critique of the Anti-Deleuzian Strategies of
Badiou, Zizek and Hallward'
3.55pm Tea Break
4:15pm Keynote Address (Chair: Caroline Williams)
James Williams (University of Dundee)
Alberto Toscano (Goldsmiths, London): 'Immanence Unframed:
Secularization, Enlightenment, Fanaticism'
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Dr Simon Choat
Lecturer in Politics
Queen Mary, University of London
Office: Hatton House 1B
Email: [log in to unmask]
Tel: 020 7882 8592
www.politics.qmul.ac.uk/staff/choat/index.html
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