A 1980s debate between Bulgarian “structuralists” and so called “impressionist critics” provides a line of demarcation between structuralists and post-structuralists while simultaneously delineating “Orphism” as the heavily controversial theoretical counterpart to the rise of Thracian studies in archeology and historiography. Since national identity turns out to be a major ideological wager of these controversies, they acquire an unforeseen relevance today. Full text here.
Source: Project MUSE – Revolution and Time in Kristeva’s Writing
Julia Kristeva’s recent novel The Enchanted Clock confronts the acute feeling of closure and wounded projectivity which surfaces in contemporary representations of the divine qua machine. It thus presents a new chapter in Kristeva’s theoretical explorations of revolution as a crucial and multi-faceted aspect of temporality – from the political interface of poetic language via the psychoanalytic angle on the births and rebirths of the speaking subject up to the sick ideality at the heart of new forms of revolt. Beyond the contemporary political upheavals, those new forms respond, perhaps, to a fundamental alteration of our position vis-à-vis the appropriation, by the descendants of the “enchanted clock” of the Enlightenment, of what we thought was most intimately human. Evoking Dante’s neologism trasumanar, transhumanize, Kristeva’s reflection moves from anamnesis to fantasy and from return to rupture in order to reopen the question of revolt as a defining characteristic of the human.
Еньо Стоянов
През есента на 2016 година Еньо Стоянов представи вижданията си за отношението между алгоритъм и наратив на един опит за “преброяване на дивите зайци” на интересуващите се от видеоигри в Софийския университет. Малко сме се надявали тогава, че само две години по-късно – през есента на 2018 – ще можем да очакваме старта на магистърска програма “Дигитални медии и видеоигри”, където Еньо Стоянов ще участва като един от преподавателите (по-подробна информация за програмата ще има в най-близко време). Междувременно текстът му беше публикуван в сборника “Парачовешкото. Грация и гравитация“, откъдето с позволение на автора го препечатваме тук – НАРАТИВ И АЛГОРИТЪМ.
“What if philosophy is a problem? Not in some Heideggerian-inspired sense in which “problem” would come to mean that philosophy takes itself as its object of concern or some such (although this is certainly part of the problem identified in Kolozova’s work), but in the literal sense that it is something that we ought to resist because it is oppressive, exploitative, and destructive of human and animal life?”
This is the beginning of Rick Elmore’s Introduction to a discussion of Kolozova’s radical metaphysics comprising Anthony Paul Smith‘s and Dominic Fox‘s commentaries. My is forthcoming.
Софийският литературоведски семинар – наред с още няколко български научни и образователни центрове – е включен в Международния консорциум на програми за критическа теория. За повече информация вж. тук
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October 13-16, 2016
Stockholm, Sweden
Keynote Speakers: Miglena Nikolchina & Eivind Engebretsen
Honorary Guest and Speaker: Julia Kristeva
Program
Thursday October, 13, Södertörn University
15.00 -16.00 Registration, Södertörn University
16.00 MB416
Welcome speech by Gustav Amberg, Vice-Chancellor of Södertörn University
16.15-18.00 MB416
Julia Kristeva: Interpréter le Mal radical (the speech will be given in English)
18.00 Reception, only by invitation for participants at the conference
Friday October, 14, Södertörn University
9.00- 9.30 Registration
9.30-11.00 MA636
Keynote: Miglena Nikolchina, University of Sofia
11.00-11.15 Coffee/tea
11.15-12.45 MB505
Plenary session: Roundtable discussion on Elaine P. Miller’s Head cases: Julia Kristeva on Philosophy and Art in Depressed Times
Speakers: Fanny Söderbäck, DePaul University, Sarah K. Hansen, California State University Northridge, Sara Beardsworth, Southern Illinois University Carbondale
Response: Elaine P. Miller, Miami University Ohio
12.45-14.00 Lunch
14.00-15.30 Parallel sessions
A. MC216
Laura Wahlfors, The Impudent Voice of the Musician – On Kristeva’s Interpretation…
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October 13-16, 2016
Stockholm, Sweden
Keynote Speakers: Miglena Nikolchina & Eivind Engebretsen
Honorary Guest and Speaker: Julia Kristeva
Program
Thursday October, 13, Södertörn University
15.00 -16.00 Registration, Södertörn University
16.00 MB416
Welcome speech by Gustav Amberg, Vice-Chancellor of Södertörn University
16.15-18.00 MB416
Julia Kristeva: Interpréter le Mal radical (the speech will be given in English)
18.00 Reception, only by invitation for participants at the conference
Friday October, 14, Södertörn University
9.00- 9.30 Registration
9.30-11.00 MA636
Keynote: Miglena Nikolchina, University of Sofia
11.00-11.15 Coffee/tea
11.15-12.45 MB505
Plenary session: Roundtable discussion on Elaine P. Miller’s Head cases: Julia Kristeva on Philosophy and Art in Depressed Times
Speakers: Fanny Söderbäck, DePaul University, Sarah K. Hansen, California State University Northridge, Sara Beardsworth, Southern Illinois University Carbondale
Response: Elaine P. Miller, Miami University Ohio
12.45-14.00 Lunch
14.00-15.30 Parallel sessions
A. MC216
Laura Wahlfors, The Impudent Voice of the Musician – On Kristeva’s Interpretation of Diderot’s Le Neveu de Rameau
Surti Singh, The Mental Image and the Spectacular Imaginary: Kristeva on Sartre
Rachel Boué-Widawsky, Journey and Humanism as a Poeisis in Julia Kristeva’s Work
B. MC219
Katji Lindberg, “Reason gives way to resonance” – Two Ways to Conceptualize Transmission in Relation to Language, Body and Affect
Gertrude Postl, Text, Writing, Experience: Kristeva as Reader, Kristeva as Writer
John Swedenmark, An Epistemological Shock – The Design of Description in Le Langage, cet inconnu
C. MC221
Marie Christine Navarro, Thérèse d’Avila versus Julia Kristeva
Anna Nyström, Listening as a Way to Subjectivity, in Julia Kristeva’s Teresa, My Love
Frances Restuccia, Saint Teresa’s Psychoanalytic Mystical Journey
15.30 Coffee/tea
18.00-19.00 Moderna Museet
Conversation with Julia Kristeva
Moderators: Carin Franzén & Cecilia Sjöholm
Saturday October, 15, Södertörn University
9.30-11.00 MB505
Keynote: Eivind Engebretsen, University of Oslo
11.00-11.15 Coffee/tea
11.15-12.45 Parallel sessions
D. MC216
Mary Marley Latham, The Maternal Sublime: Aesthetic Implications of Klein’s Object-Relations Theory
Hong-qian Zhang, Research on Kristeva’s About Chinese women – The Effect of Chinese Elements on Kristeva Scientific Ideology
Synnøve Myklestad, Julia Kristeva – Disturbing the Calculation of Education. Searching for “the Zero Degree of Humanity” through Questioning the Effective and the Affective in Education
E. MC219
Noëlle McAfee, “Let’s Make America Great Again”: Trump’s Adolescent Syndrome of Ideality and his many Paranoid-Schizoid Positions
Zehra Çiftci, Emancipatory Power of Language through Maternity: A Case of Saturday Mothers
Carol Mastrangelo Bové, Kristeva in America: Reimagining the Exceptional
F. MC221
Ruth Y. Jenkins & Katie Jenkins-Moses, Incarnating Art: Inscribing the Body
Ariane Lolita Willson, The Beautiful Grotesque and Other Glorified Horrors: A Study of the Abjection of Female Beauty in Modern Art
Tomasz Szczepanek, Lars von Trier’s Depression Trilogy – Deconstruction of the Logocentric Order
12.45-13.45 Lunch
13.45 – 15.15 Parallel sessions
G. MC216
James Donnelly, Psychoanalytic Insight and a Philosophy of Existence: A Meditation after Bion, Kristeva and Winnicott
Emilia Angelova, Kristeva and Interactive Vulnerability: Fantasy, Narcissism, and the Non-Discursive Relation
Geraldine Cuddihy, Performativity and Affect: A Reader’s Response to Julia Kristeva’s Essay on Abjection
H. MC219
Marius Crous, Abjection in Selected Post-Colonial Afrikaans Literary Texts
Zeynep Harputlu, Abject Bodies in Fiction by Charles Dickens and Arthur Morrison
Fabrizio Ciccone, Beckett’s Theater of Severed Heads
I. MC221
Panel: The Early Kristeva and the Chance of Semiotics
a) Darin Tenev, Semiotics as the Making of Models
b) Enyo Stoyanov, Process and Ruination in Revolution in the Poetic Language
c) Maria Kalinova, The Concept of “ideologeme” in Kristeva’s Semanalysis
d) Kamelia Spassova, Dual Codes: the Semiotic and the Symbolic in Lotman and Kristeva
15.15-15.30 Coffee/tea
15.30-16.30 Parallel sessions
J. MC216
Catharina K. Hellberg, Disruptive Semiotics: A Kristevan Reading of Thomas Hardy’s Fiction
Cecilia Annell, Nora, Dora & Chora
K. MC219
Athena Colman, “The Trace of Refusal in Existence”: Sartre’s Nihilation in Kristeva’s Intimate Revolt
Harrison Demas, An Incredulous Position: Belief, Death, and Melancholia in Kristevan Theory
L. MC221
(En français)
Pierre Johan Laffitte, Trois négativités ou Un point de voyance dans le reel : de la fonction d’idéal du moi de certains énoncés de J. Kristeva dans le champ intellectuel
Alain Delay, Une lettre d’amour de Julia Kristeva à Thérèse d’Avila
16.45- 17.45 MB505
Plenary session: Roundtable discussion on Kristeva’s Legacy:
Speakers: James Donnelly, USA, Per-Magnus Johansson, University of Gothenburg, Sweden, Maria Yassa, Stockholm, Sweden.
19.00 Conference dinner at Långholmen restaurant, only by invitation
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Миглена Николчина Miglena Nikolchina 