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WIP Series 23.05.2024 Reminder (Thursday) - "'Im Namen von ...' Über die Gründungsdimension des Rechts mit Blick auf die Subjektkonstitution." by Kanau Kobayashi - "How democratic should democracy seeking agents be in electoral authoritarian regimes?" by Ali Emre Benli

by Adrian Josef Fleisch

Dear Colleagues, This is an email to remind you that the next presentations in the Work-In-Progress series will be given by Kanau Kobayashi and Ali Emre Benli this coming Thursday. Please see their titles below and the abstracts attached. "'Im Namen von ...' Über die Gründungsdimension des Rechts mit Blick auf die Subjektkonstitution. Psychoanalyse und Recht in Pierre Legendres politischer Philosophie" by Kanau Kobayashi "How democratic should democracy seeking agents be in electoral authoritarian regimes?" by Ali Emre Benli The meeting will take place in lecture hall 3A (NIG, Universitätsstraße 7, 3rd floor) at 17:00 and will last up to 18:30. All are invited to join us for dinner or drinks afterwards. If possible, please let us know in advance by email. You can write to wip.philosophie(a)univie.ac.at if you have any questions or would like to present for the Work-in-Progress series. Calendar and event information can be found at: https://vd-philosophy.univie.ac.at/phd-program/doctoral-training/wip-series/ Best wishes and we hope to see many of you there! The Organizing Team (Chiara Dankl, Martin Niederl, Yi-Jie Xia, Adrian Fleisch, Mark Basafa, Sophie Veigl, Raphael Aybar, Nianzu Tu) -- Adrian Fleisch, BA er, he/him SSC Philosophie Universitätsstraße 7 (NIG), B 0304 +43-1-4277-46181 adrian.fleisch(a)univie.ac.at — www.khora.philo.at

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Invitation - LogicLounge - May 28

by Institut für Philosophie

Dear colleagues, When? Tuesday, May 28 | 16:00 hours Where? Café Museum, Operngasse 7, 1010 Vienna *“Artificial Intelligence & Artificial Ignorance”* The conversation with Georg Gottlob will explore Artificial Intelligence's current state and challenges. It will also provide insights into the two main branches of AI research, symbolic AI and sub-symbolic AI, highlighting their achievements and limitations. The conversation will also delve into the recent advancements in generative AI, such as ChatGPT, and examine instances where these models excel and where they fall short. The discussion will again be moderated by journalist Sarah Kriesche. Admission-free, no registration or expertise required; this is an event for the general public. You are welcome to forward this invitation to anyone who might be interested in the talk! We look forward to seeing you there. https://www.vcla.at/2024/05/logiclounge-2024-with-georg-gottlob/ If you would like to share this information via social media, you can find us on facebook and twitter: @vclaTUwien. Thanks in advance & best wishes *Andrea Hackl, MA* Project Manager Vienna Center for Logic and Algorithms *Technische Universität Wien* Favoritenstraße 9-11, Stiege 3, 3. Stock, 1040 Wien andrea.hackl(a)tuwien.ac.at <mailto:andrea.hackl@tuwien.ac.at> www.vcla.at <http://www.vcla.at>

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Reminder: Trans*formations: Talk by Alyosxa Tudor (SOAS London) - 16.5., 12:00

by Flora Löffelmann

Dear all, this is a reminder for the Trans*formations talk by Dr. Alyosxa Tudor (SOAS London) which will take place tomorrow :) Title: Decolonising Trans/Gender Studies? Abstract: In this talk, I would like to discuss with you what it means to think of trans/gender studies as a field that engages with geopolitics, with transnational knowledge production, with histories of entangled oppressions and resistance movements. With this I try to go beyond what our attackers think trans/gender studies is towards defining what the broader field of trans/gender studies can be. Can it be a field of knowledge generation that aims for decolonisation? How can we make sure that decolonisation is not a metaphor, as Eve Tuck and Wayne Yang remind us? How can we mobilise histories and the theories and epistemologies generated from them in ways that are not reductive, simplistic and incapable of sitting with the complex contradictions that still need responsible and decisive actions in face of present-day injustices? How can we be accountable for our very different structural positions in this quest, in terms of location, postcolonial position, migratisation, queer- and transness, class and racialisation? Often this is contradictory and painful. But it must also be clear that taking a stance is necessary. When/Where: 16.5.2024, HS 3A, Neues Institutsgebäude (Universitätsstraße 7, 1010 Wien) Thanks to the Vienna Doctoral School of Philosophy and the Institute of Philosophy for co-financing this talk series! Looking forward to seeing many of you there! All the best, Flora Löffelmann P.S.: Please also invite others that could be interested, you find the poster attached! -- Flora Löffelmann, MA MA University assistant & doctoral candidate Department of Philosophy at University of Vienna Pronouns: they/them (for more info see: https://www.mypronouns.org/what-and-why/) Happy about a gender neutral "hello"!

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Lesekreis zu Aristoteles´ De Anima III, Di, 18:30Uhr

by Institut für Philosophie

Werte Studentinnen und Studenten, liebe Kolleginnen und Kollegen, wir heißen Euch in diesem Semester wieder herzlich willkommen zum Lesekreis zu Aristoteles´ De Anima III. Wir werden uns jeden Dienstag um 18:30-20:00 im Hörsaal 3A treffen und gemeinsam die Textstelle lesen und diskutieren. Jeder von Euch ist eingeladen, teilzunehmen und mitzumachen. Wir freuen uns sehr auf Euer Kommen!

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IVC Talk: Daniel Koenig on "Mathematics as Form of Knowledge in Ernst Cassirer's Philosophy of Culture", May 23, 4.45pm

by Zarah Weiss

Dear all, our next speaker in the Philosophy of Science Colloquium organized by the Institute Vienna Circle is Daniel Koenig, who will give a talk on May 23, 4.45-6.15 pm. All are welcome! ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Philosophy of Science Colloquium TALK: Daniel Koenig MATHEMATICS AS FORM OF KNOWLEDGE IN ERNST CASSIRER'S PHILOSOPHY OF CULTURE Philosophy of Science Colloquium The Institute Vienna Circle holds a Philosophy of Science Colloquium with talks by our present fellows. Date: 23/05/2024 Time: 16h45 Venue: New Institute Building (NIG), Universitätsstraße 7, 1010 Wien, HS 3F ABSTRACT: Both Ernst Cassirer's philosophy of mathematics and his philosophy of culture received more and more attention recently. Nevertheless, there is scarcely work on the relationship between the two and in my talk I want to show, that considering both sheds new light on Cassirer's conception of mathematics and, furthermore, his overall philosophy. In a first part I will show, that in Cassirer's interpretation, the concept of number plays a central role in determining mathematics and the natural sciences: Mathematics is here a form of theoretical knowledge. In a second part, I will broaden the perspective and consider Cassirer's reflections on nonscientific conceptions of number and show, that for Cassirer there is a double function of number. The talk will close with another expansion of perspective: I will elaborate how mathematics can further be understood as a form of meta-symbolic knowledge, and hereby give a characterization of Cassirer's conception of philosophy.

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Lecture Jack Halberstam - mdw, 16.5., 17:00

by Flora Löffelmann

Dear all, I want to share this invitation to an event at mdw with you all! Event: Pre-opening: International Research Center Gender and Performativity Speaker: Jack Halberstam Title: Unworlding: Trans* Architectures When/where: Thursday, May 16th, 5pm at Großer Seminarraum (E0101), IKM / Anton-von-Webern-Platz 1, 1030 Wien Abstract: Today, I am going to lay out some ideas that build on many different aesthetic performances and practices involving trans bodies and that search for and produce new vocabularies for discussing transness and new deployments of transness for the project of dismantling world and worldedness as concepts that hold current political realities in place. I will look at trans anarchitectures alongside performances like Faye Driscoll’s incredible event, “Weathering,” to delineate what is meant by unworlding, what practices and aesthetic gestures it implies and what im/possible futures it imagines. Unworlding is a philosophy and an anti-anti-utopian idea that breaks with world-building projects (such as those found in early queer theory), and charts a course for queer and trans art that skews towards violence, acts of undoing and dismantling and the embrace of entropic unraveling. What might this look like in terms of a politics of representation, particularly one oriented around trans and queer bodies? Biography: Jack Halberstam is the David Feinson Professor of The Humanities at Columbia University. Halberstam is the author of seven books including: Skin Shows: Gothic Horror and the Technology of Monsters (Duke UP, 1995), Female Masculinity (Duke UP, 1998), In A Queer Time and Place (NYU Press, 2005), The Queer Art of Failure (Duke UP, 2011), Gaga Feminism: Sex, Gender, and the End of Normal (Beacon Press, 2012) and, a short book titled Trans*: A Quick and Quirky Account of Gender Variance (University of California Press). Halberstam’s latest book, 2020 from Duke UP is titled Wild Things: The Disorder of Desire. Places Journal awarded Halberstam its Arcus/Places Prize in 2018 for innovative public scholarship on the relationship between gender, sexuality and the built environment. Halberstam is now finishing a second volume on wildness titled: Unworlding: An Aesthetics of Collapse. Halberstam was recently the subject of a short film titled “So We Moved” by Adam Pendleton. Halberstam was recently named a 2024 Guggenheim Fellow. Find more Info here: https://www.mdw.ac.at/ikm/gender-studies/?PageId=4770 All the best, Flora Löffelmann, MA MA University assistant & doctoral candidate Department of Philosophy at University of Vienna Pronouns: they/them (for more info see: https://www.mypronouns.org/what-and-why/) Happy about a gender neutral "hello"!

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Khora Kolloquium am 16.05. 18:30 HS 3D: "Georges Bataille: Immanenz, Kommunikation und der Hass der Poesie"

by Adrian Fleisch

Liebe Kolleg:innen, Ich darf ganz herzlich zum Nächsten Khora-Kolloquium diesen Donnerstag, den 16.05. um 18:30 im Hörsaal 3D einladen. Dieses Mal wird uns mit Maximilian Margreiter ein ausgewiesener Bataille-Experte das Verhältnis von Poesie und dem Begriff des Unmöglichen bei Bataille vorstellen: *Immanenz, Kommunikation und der Hass der Poesie. Batailles Denken des Unmöglichen zwischen Literatur, Ökonomie und Erotik* Georges Batailles vielschichtiges und disparat wirkendes Werk kreist um ein zentrales Problem: Das Denken, und noch wichtiger, die Kommunikation des Unmöglichen. Dieses Unmögliche ist es, was uns nach Bataille als menschliche Wesen ausmacht und uns eine souveräne Existenz verleiht. Wir werden dem Unmöglichen unter anderem in den antiökonomischen Formen des Opfers, des Festes, der Verschwendung gewahr, welche sich dem Primat der Nützlichkeit entziehen, in der erotischen Ekstase, die eine Bejahung des Lebens bis in den Tod darstellt, und in der Literatur, insbesondere der Poesie, die die Kommunikation schlechthin ist. Im Unmöglichen findet sich nach Bataille das Subjekt wieder, als das, was es wirklich ist, als Riss, an dem eine intensive Kommunikation stattfindet, die in die Immanenz verweist. 1962, kurz vor seinem Tod, gibt Bataille seine Erzählung Der Hass der Poesie, versehen mit einem neuen Vorwort unter dem Titel Das Unmöglicheneu heraus. Diese Verbindung zwischen dem Unmöglichen und der Literatur, speziell in der Form der Poesie, die Bataille so an seinem Lebensende nochmals betont hat, eröffnet einen Zugang zu einem sonst oft kryptisch und unstrukturiert anmutenden Werk. Wie immer werden wir danach im Gagarin reservieren. Wir freuen uns auf euer Kommen. Bitte schreibt an mich oder an khoraplattform(a)gmail.com, wenn Ihr die behandelten kurzen Textpassagen zugesendet bekommen möchtet. Liebe Grüße Adrian Fleisch

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Phänomenologische Forschungen - 16. Mai 2024 - Ruud Welten: Levinas and Lacan: Reflections on Language and Psychosis

by Institut für Philosophie

Phänomenologische Forschungen - 16. Mai 2024 - Ruud Welten: Levinas and Lacan: Reflections on Language and Psychosis Liebe Kolleg_innen, wir möchten Sie herzlich zur nächsten Veranstaltung der Vortragsreihe „Phänomenologische Forschungen“ einladen: 16.05.2024, 18.30–20.00 Uhr, Hörsaal 2H (Vortrag) //Ruud Welten (Erasmus University Rotterdam): "Levinas and Lacan: Reflections on Language and Psychosis" Mit besten Grüßen, Michael Staudigl, Gerhard Unterthurner https://phaenomenologie.univie.ac.at/forschung/vorlesungsreihe-phaenomenolo… <https://phaenomenologie.univie.ac.at/forschung/vorlesungsreihe-phaenomenolo…>

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Wittgen=steine: Two talks this term

by Martin Kusch

Dear All, The "Wittgen=steine" series (organized by the Wittgenstein Research Group) features two talks this term: April 12th, 2024; 3:00pm to 4:30pm, HS 3A: Pavel Arazim: "Therapie(n) als Methode(n) -- warum und wie? Vergleich der Antiphilosophie Wittgensteins und Bergsons" May 14th, 2024: 3:00pm to 4:30pm, HS 3A: Anna Boncompagni: "Once more with feeling" A feminist-Wittgensteinian take on language and liberation" Abstracts: Pavel Arazim: "Therapie(n) als Methode(n) - warum und wie?" Wittgenstein wurde bereits mit vielen Autor:innen verglichen, kaum aber mit Bergson. Dabei war er wohl der populärste Philosoph unmittelbar bevor Wittgenstein bekannt wurde. Schon deshalb liegt es nahe, die Möglichkeit eines Einflusses zu untersuchen. Darüber hinaus wurden beide Autoren von William James inspiriert und entwickeln seinen Ansatz weiter, philosophische Probleme eher aufzulösen, statt sie zu lösen. Folgende Fragen sollen im Vortrag behandelt werden: Was bedeutet es für Bergson und Wittgenstein, dass eine philosophische Frage verschwinden soll? Inwiefern lässt sich dieser Zugang als allgemeine Auffassung der Philosophie verteidigen? Soll also Philosophie keine Thesen aufstellen und mit welcher Begründung? Womöglich hilft Bergsons Zugang zu Bewegung und Veränderung zum besseren Verständnis dessen, was Wittgenstein zu dieser Methodologie führen konnte. Die Wirklichkeit ist lebendig und dynamisch, und deswegen kann sie nicht mittels verallgemeinernder Begriffe ausgedrückt werden. Mein Anliegen besteht darin aufzuzeigen, wie sich dieser therapeutische und anti-theoretische Zugang im Verständnis der Normativität bei beiden Autoren widerspiegelt. Anna Boncompagni: "Once more with feeling ..." Recent work in feminist epistemology and philosophy of language highlights how language use contributes to oppressive practices. For instance, Tirrell (2012), building on Wilfrid Sellars and Robert Brandom, analyzes the normative power of derogatory terms and how they engender harmful actions and behaviors. McGowan (2019), developing David Lewis' approach, claims that conversational contributions enact norms and permissibility facts both within the conversation and in social practices, thereby constituting harms and keeping oppressive practices in place. Both perspectives are indebted to the Wittgensteinian notion of language games. In this paper, I retrace this inheritance and further argue for a Wittgensteinian understanding of these phenomena, also appealing to his concepts of rule-following and forms of life. However, rather than oppression, I apply these insights to liberation: I claim that certain moves in language games enact positive changes in social norms and forms of life. In particular, I apply this approach to linguistic moves related to LGBTQ issues. This Wittgensteinian-feminist framework, I argue, helps better understand both the difficulties and the potentialities of liberatory and innovative conversational moves. Everybody welcome! Best wishes from the organizers, Esther Heinrich Anja Weiberg Martin Kusch

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Trans*formations: Talk by Alosxa Tudor (SOAS London) - 16.5., 12:00

by Flora Löffelmann

Dear all, I want to cordially invite you to the second installment of the Trans*formations talk series! Trans* Philosophy is one of the most exciting 'new' strands of philosophical theorizing, and we are happy to host the second event on the topic at the Department of Philosophy, to be followed by more later this year. This time, we will be joined by Alyosxa Tudor, Chair of the Centre for Gender Studies at SOAS London. Their work connects trans and queer feminist approaches with transnational feminism and postcolonial studies. Alyosxa’s main research interest lies in analysing (knowledge productions on) migrations, diasporas and borders in relation to critiques of Eurocentrism and to processes of gendering and racialisation. Title: Decolonising Trans/Gender Studies? Abstract: In this talk, I would like to discuss with you what it means to think of trans/gender studies as a field that engages with geopolitics, with transnational knowledge production, with histories of entangled oppressions and resistance movements. With this I try to go beyond what our attackers think trans/gender studies is towards defining what the broader field of trans/gender studies can be. Can it be a field of knowledge generation that aims for decolonisation? How can we make sure that decolonisation is not a metaphor, as Eve Tuck and Wayne Yang remind us? How can we mobilise histories and the theories and epistemologies generated from them in ways that are not reductive, simplistic and incapable of sitting with the complex contradictions that still need responsible and decisive actions in face of present-day injustices? How can we be accountable for our very different structural positions in this quest, in terms of location, postcolonial position, migratisation, queer- and transness, class and racialisation? Often this is contradictory and painful. But it must also be clear that taking a stance is necessary. When/Where: 16.5.2024, HS 3A, Neues Institutsgebäude (Universitätsstraße 7, 1010 Wien) Thanks to the Vienna Doctoral School of Philosophy and the Institute of Philosophy for co-financing this talk series! Looking forward to seeing many of you there! All the best, Flora Löffelmann P.S.: Please also invite others that could be interested, you find the poster attached! -- Flora Löffelmann, MA MA University assistant & doctoral candidate Department of Philosophy at University of Vienna Pronouns: they/them (for more info see: https://www.mypronouns.org/what-and-why/) Happy about a gender neutral "hello"!

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