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ANTONIO NEGRI - LECTURE - 8 February 2012
Please find below details of the lecture to given by Antonio Negri on
Wednesday, 8 February at 6.00pm in the Kenneth Clark Lecture Theatre.
His lecture is entitled Formare, Deformare, Inaugurare / To Form, De-
Form, and Inaugurate and will be delivered in Italian with
accompanying text displayed in English on the screen. Questions
afterwards can be asked in Italian and English.
Ticket/entry details: Open to all, free admission but due to limited
space advance booking is strongly recommended. Online booking: http://courtauld-institute.digitalmuseum.co.uk
. In case of queries, send an email to [log in to unmask]
Please scroll down for further details.
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Research Forum
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Coming soon to The Courtauld Gallery:
Mondrian || Nicholson: In Parallel
16 February ˆ 20 May 2012
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Antonio Negri
Wednesday, 8 February 2012
18.00, Kenneth Clark Lecture Theatre, The Courtauld
Formare, Deformare, Inaugurare / To Form, De-Form, and Inaugurate
N.B. This lecture will be delivered in Italian with accompanying text
displayed in English
Italian:
In alcuni testi degli anni '50, il filosofo francese Maurice Merleau-
Ponty assegna alla creazione artistica una valenza ontologica, e ne
qualifica la potenza: si tratta di una deformazione coerente radicata
all'interno di un'esperienza soggettiva, ma che non presuppone nessun
"soggetto" stabile (chi crea viene a sua volta preso dentro il
movimento della creazione: colui che costruisce è allo stesso tempo
costruito, ed è questo chiasma che sta alla base della nostra
differenza ontologica), e procede per "squilibri" dell'ordine prosaico
del mondo, per spostamenti e inaugurazioni di linee di forza, per
svuotamenti e reinvestimenti dell'esistente: insomma, per
quell'attività che non distingue più tra il trasformare e l'inventare,
e alla quale Merleau-Ponty darà il nome di "prosa". Ma negli stessi
testi, non mancano le allusioni alla necessità di spostare l'analisi,
nei medesimi termini, dal mondo della creazione artistica alla
politica. Con quali forze, quali energie, quali linee di rottura? E
ancora: dall'interno della carne del mondo, in virtù di quale tipo di
inaugurazione?
Antonio Negri (1933) è stato docente di Teoria dello Stato presso
l'università di Padova (Italia), e ne ha diretto l'Istituto di Scienze
politiche. Ha successivamente insegnato in Francia, all'università di
Paris VIII, all'Ecole Normale Supérieure e al Collège International de
Philosophie. Ha pubblicato numerosi libri sulla storia della filosofia
politica moderna (in particolare su Spinoza e Marx) e alcuni saggi di
teoria giuridica e politica. Ricordiamo in particolare, insieme a
Michael Hardt, la trilogia Empire (Harvard U.P., 2000), Multitude
(Penguin Books, 2004) e Commonwealth (Harvard U.P., 2009)
English:
In his texts of the 1950s, the French philosopher Maurice Merleau-
Ponty assigns artistic creation an ontological value, while at the
same time qualifying its power: the artistic creation is a consistent
deformation rooted in a subjective experience, but without positing a
'stable' subject (who creates and is in their turn caught within the
internal movement of creation, who constructs and is at the same time
constructed ˆ this is the chiasmus upon which our ontological
difference is based); it proceeds through 'imbalances' of the prosaic
world order: displacements, lines of force, inaugurations, processes
of emptying and psychological investment - by means of that activity
going beyond the distinction between transformation and invention
which Merleau-Ponty would term 'prose'. His 1950s texts also, however,
voice the need for a translation of the same analysis from the sphere
of the artistic creation into that of politics. By which forces or
energies and along which breaking lines should this translation take
place? And then: from within the flesh of the world, in virtue of
which inauguration?
Antonio Negri (1933) was Professor of Theory of the state at Padua
University (Italy) and Director of the Padua University Political
Science Institute. He subsequently taught in France, at Paris VIII
University, Ecole Normale Supérieure and Collège International de
Philosophie. He has published several books on the history of modern
philosophy (particularly on Spinoza and Marx) and numerous essays
dealing with juridical and political theory, notably a trilogy,
written together with Michael Hardt:Empire (Harvard U.P., 2000),
Multitude (Penguin Books, 2004) and Commonwealth (Harvard U.P., 2009).
Ticket/entry details: Open to all, free admission but due to limited
space advance booking is strongly recommended. Online booking: http://courtauld-institute.digitalmuseum.co.uk
. In case of queries, send an email to [log in to unmask]
Organised by Jacopo Galimberti
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