Current / Upcoming / Past
In this intensive seminar, Michael Marder proposes nothing less than a model for interpreting Hegel’s Phenomenology, his dialectical philosophy in general, and our historical actuality. A guiding thread of the seminar is the Hegelian concept of Wirklichkeit, which—though usually translated as “reality,” “actuality,” or “effectivity”— is a rendition of Aristotle’s energeia. Marder’s suggestion, then, is to re-read The Phenomenology from the stand- point of Wirklichkeit, which he translates as “energy- actuality,” while registering those moments in the dialectic when the apparent loss of the actual in processes he variously terms virtualization or desubstantivation hold the promise of recovering the energy that has been spent. This exegetical exercise will be accompanied by attempts to elucidate the historical ontology of the present: our perception that we live at a time of entropic inertia when everything has been already said and done; the ascend- ency of “virtual reality,” which seems to contradict this perception, and the primacy of possibility over actuality in our practical relation to what is and in thinking (e.g., existentialism); the subsequent, at once ideal and real, dematerialization of the world into streams of unfulfillable potentialities, fluxes, and processes devoid of any fulfillment, associated with “flows of desire” and cash flows. Rather than actuality, it is pure potentiality that appears to carry the day in contrast to the lesson of the Hegelian dialectic, which situates such empty abstractions at the initial and least energy-saturated stages of spirit’s unfolding.
Michael Marder is Ikerbasque Research Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of the Basque Country, Vitoria-Gasteiz. His work spans the fields of phenomenology, environmental philosophy, and political thought. He is the Associate Editor of ‘Telos: A Quarterly Journal of Critical Thought’ and the author of twelve books, including ‘Heidegger: Phenomenology, Ecology, Politics’ (2018), ‘Energy Dreams: Of Actuality’ (2017), ‘Dust’ (2016), ‘Pyropolitics: When the World Is Ablaze’ (2015), ‘Phenomena-Critique-Logos: The Project of Critical Phenomenology’ (2014), ‘Plant-Thinking: A Philosophy of Vegetal Life’ (2013), ‘The Philosopher’s Plant: An Intellectual Herbarium’ (2014), ‘Groundless Existence: The Political Ontology of Carl Schmitt’ (2010) and ‘The Event of The Thing: Derrida’s Post-Deconstruc- tive Realism’ (2009).
Registration is free, but limited to the number of seats available. Please send an email with a short CV to info@maumaus.org until 15.03.2019. Confirmation of registration will be sent by email. The seminar will be in English.
Maumaus
Avenida António Augusto de Aguiar, 148 - 3º C
1050-021 Lisboa, Portugal
Monday to Friday, 10h00 to 13h00,
14h30 to 19h00
Tel: + 351 21 352 11 55
maumaus@maumaus.org
Current:
Independent Study Programme
Call 2023
Until 04.09.2022
Upcoming:
Manthia Diawara
AI: African Intelligence
Cinema Palace
28.11.2022
19h30
Commissioned by Serpentine, MUBI and PCAI Polygreen Culture & Art Initiative, as part of Serpentine's Back to Earth project.
Upcoming:
Manthia Diawara
AI: African Intelligence
Berlin International Film Festival
16.02. – 26.02.2023
Commissioned by Serpentine, MUBI and PCAI Polygreen Culture & Art Initiative, as part of Serpentine's Back to Earth project.
Current:
Seminar
Amanda Boetzkes
Realism Without Authority
01.04, 04.04.2022
10h–13h, 14h–17h
Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian
Registration is free but limited to the number of seats available. Please send an email with a short CV to admin@maumaus.org by 24.03.2022. Confirmation of registration will be sent by email. The seminar will be in English.
Lumiar Cité
Rua Tomás del Negro, 8A
1750-105 Lisboa, Portugal
Wednesday to Sunday, 15h00 to 19h00
or by appointment.
Tel: + 351 21 755 15 70
lumiar.cite@maumaus.org
Loretta Fahrenholz
Circle Navel Nil
24.04. – 27.06.2021
24.06 | 18h00 Online conversation with Sabeth
Buchmann, Loretta Fahrenholz and Jürgen Bock
Current:
Anna Schachinger
Allover
08.10. – 11.12.2022
07.10 | 18h00 Circulating Salt, Ayami Awazuhara
08.10 | 16h00 Opening of the exhibition
Current:
Willem Oorebeek
Obstakles
17.12.2022 – 19.03.2023
Closed 24, 25, 31 December and 1 January
17.12 | 17h00 Talk with Willem Oorebeek,
Arne Kaiser and Jürgen Bock
17.12 | 18h00 Opening of the exhibition
In cooperation with Lumiar Cité:
Tiffany Chung
Thu Thiêm: an archaeological
project for future remembrance
08.06. - 08.09.2019
Johann Jacobs Museum
Maumaus/Lumiar Cité
is funded by Ministério da Cultura/Direção-Geral das Artes. With the support of Câmara Municipal de Lisboa and Junta de Freguesia do Lumiar