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Dear colleagues,

happy new year!

I am delighted to invite you to the 3rd session of the 2017/2018 Unit of Play Pluralistic Variations lecture series. Everyone is welcome! Please share widely

Thursday 25th January | 4.30-6.30pm | Richard Hoggart Building (RHB) 150, Goldsmiths, University of London
Didier Debaise (Université Libre de Bruxelles)
Pragmatics of the Earth
Discussant: Prof Jennifer Gabrys (Sociology)
Organiser: Dr. Martin Savransky (Sociology)

My starting assumption is the following: The moderns have invented a concept of nature in order to inhabit the earth, thus identifying two things that should without a doubt have been strictly separated. It seems to me that this hypothesis can serve as a guide which allows accentuating an ensemble of transformations which have been developing over the past decades, starting with operations of reciprocal capture between anthropology and metaphysics concerning the subject of the various ways of inhabiting the earth. It has today become paramount to question the particularly modern invention of nature not only because it defines the status and the function of the main categories at the basis of modern thought and its contemporary heritage – even where they are not explicitly concerned with nature – , but also because it constitutes a necessary condition for reflecting upon the consequences linked to the “new climatic regime”. I will proceed in two steps: first of all I will establish a genealogy of the constitution of nature and its effects; secondly I will proceed to setting up another manner for the articulation of beings, another metaphysics that takes as its starting point the concept of precarity.

Didier Debaise is a permanent researcher at the Fonds National de la Recherche Scientifique (FNRS) and director of the Centre of Philosophy at the Free University of Brussels (ULB) where he teaches contemporary philosophy. He is the co-founder, with I. Stengers, of the Groupe d’études constructivistes (Geco). His main areas of research are contemporary forms of speculative philosophy, theories of events, and links between American pragmatism and French contemporary philosophy. He is the author of numerous books, including (most recently translated to English), Nature as Event (Duke 2017) and Speculative Empiricism (Edinburgh University Press). He is currently working on a new book titled Pragmatiques de la Terre.








Dr. Martin Savransky
Lecturer | Department of Sociology
Director, Unit of Play (UoP)
Convenor, MA Critical & Creative Analysis
Goldsmiths, University of London
London SE14 6NW

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