News

Last Train - a thought thriller a play of voices by Fred Dalmasso & John Schad - based on John Schad’s 2007 book Someone Called Derrida HowTheLightGetsIn Festival, Hay-on-Wye 31st May 2016 https://howthelightgetsin.iai.tv/events/last-train-to-oxford-2309 Someone called Jacques Derrida, the philosopher, someone called him on the phone, someone who was dead.  A mystery, he thought, a mystery that begins in 1968 when Derrida visits Oxford and there he dies, several times.  Murder, he thought. So too thought another man, an Oxonian dying of dementia in 1996.  And so we investigate, not just the Oxford of the 1960s but the Oxford of the 1930s…

Very interested to learn of the work of your community. My colleague and friend Chiara Cappelletto and I are currently teaching (with the artist David Levine) an experimental grad seminar at Princeton that engages many of the questions that I think are of interest to the "Performance Philosophy" cohort.  The class deals with the relationship between pedagogy and theatricality.  There is a website that summarizes the work in progress: https://enactedthought.wordpress.com ; It is exciting to me to discover that there is a significant research body working on similar issues, and I look forward to learning more from all of you about…

CFP: “The Arts of Logistics” Call for Papers Proposals due 22 Feburary Queen Mary University of London 3-4 June 2016 Keynote Presentations: Deborah Cowen (University of Toronto) and Alberto Toscano (Goldsmiths, University of London) The so-called “logistics revolution” and its attendant technologies have made possible capitalism’s reproduction and restructuring over the past half century. Among other things, logistics sped up the loading and unloading of ships and helped establish the “global factory,” thereby drastically reducing the labor time required to produce and circulate commodities. This allowed capitalism to expand its economies of scale and relocate manufacturing to wherever worker militancy and…

Hey Everyone!  We are very very very excited about a 56-hour Durational Conference that The School of Making Thinking is hosting at a major Contemporary Arts Center in Montreal called The Darling Foundry.  We are looking for unusual/experimental proposals that performatively explore the fissures between making and thinking.  Deadline is Feburary 15th. Read more: Call for Proposals: Words & [     ] — a Durational Conference of Art & Thought

Hey all! Room Dances Festival got a new website. the festival starts this week. come join us! www.roomdancesfestival.com

The School of Making Thinking is delighted to announce the pre-launch of Quiddle.Quiddle is an interdisciplinary and multi-media journal that aims to enliven and expand our experience of the traditional academic platform. We maintain a strong commitment to inquiry while welcoming creative methods which elude the structures of the standard scholarly journal. Serving as a site for both critique and innovation, Quiddle affirms the transformative potential of putting on a silly hat while sitting with a serious thought.In the spirit of the silly-serious, we invite you to submit to our Quiddle Pre-Issue: “Syllabus, Impossible.” Syllabus, ImpossibleThe humble syllabus is a hybrid creature of unacknowledged creative potential.At once a pedagogical…

We now welcome submissions for the upcoming conference:     DELEUZE + ART: MULTIPLICITIES |THRESHOLDS |POTENTIALITIES   8 – 10 April 2016, Trinity College Dublin, Eire   Conference co-hosted by School of Drama, Film and Music at Trinity College Dublin and Trinity Long Room Hub Arts and Humanities Research Institute   Conference venue: Trinity Long Room Hub   Conference organisers: Radek Przedpełski, Prof. Stephen Elliot Wilmer   Conference website: deleuzeart.wordpress.com     Drawing on Henri Bergson, Gilles Deleuze elaborates the notion of qualitative multiplicity escaping the dialectical opposition of the one and the many.  As Deleuze points out in Bergsonism,…

63 variations on the body. Open call for Composers. 2nd edition.   AMAE/DE PINTO 58 (+1) INDICES ON THE BODY PROJECT. 63 variations on the body — Open call for Composers. 2nd edition. Deadline October 31st, 2016 After the launch of the project on Soundcloud, featuring Jean-Luc Nancy’s recorded voice reading his treaty 58 Indices on the body, it was time to turn the text into music. For that reason, and in anticipation of the making of a documentary about the whole project, we opened a first call for composers to create a background track for each index/statement – written and…

Just published! RESISTING BIOPOLITICS: PHILOSOPHICAL, POLITICAL, AND PERFORMATIVE STRATEGIES (Routledge, 2015). The volume includes articles by Giorgio Agamben, Rosi Braidotti, Eugene Thacker, Saskia Sassen and others. http://www.amazon.co.uk/Resisting-Biopolitics-Philosophical-Performative-Contemporary/dp/1138789488/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1444276577&sr=8-1&keywords=resisting+biopolitics

This text was read at TaPRA Worcester on 9/9/15. It is rough but it would be great to hear what colleagues think. Bergson and Performance by Nik Wakefield   Waiting with others. Standing in a line outside in the cold. Maybe it is snowing. All making the act of registration. To place the name on the list. One is defying an offer of exemption. The offer could be a sympathetic response to his achievements. He refuses the offer and renounces all previous honours given by the government. After seventeen years spent in bed because of arthritis he finds himself in…