︎ Open Seminars Summer 2021


Cluster 1: Strange(r) Dialectics

Reid Kotlas
June 15

Title: Why was Marx’s Materialism ‘Dialectical’ ?

Jonathan Fardy
June 18

Title: From Estrangement to the Stranger: Marx after Laruelle


Cluster 2: Life, Computing and the Friction of the Real

Giuseppe Longo
June 23

Title: A World of “Instructions”:  The Computational Myths in Cognition and Life vs. Alternative Paths for Invention and Understanding

Alexander Wilson
June 25

Title: Real Non-Patterns and the Automation of Science



Cluster 3: Mathematics,Complexity, and the Limits of  Algorithmic Ontologies


Jan Overwijk
June 17

Title: ‘Simple Rules, Complex Behavior’: Paradoxes of Cybernetic Rationalization


Davor Löffler
June 29

Title: The Meaning of Life: A Journey to the Origins of Worlds
 

Cluster 4: Aesthetics and the Architectures of Novelty


David Roden
June 26

Title: The Aesthesis of Unworlding: Against Aesthetic Inferentialism


Ben Woodard
June 30

Title: Lancelot Hogben and the Bio-Aesthetics of Utopia