8 Oct
2024
8 Oct
'24
12:57 p.m.
Dear Colleagues,
We'd like to cordially invite you to our upcoming conference at the
Department of Philosophy:
Foucault and Marx: Ambivalences, Legacies, and Future Struggles
University of Vienna
18-19 October 2024
The international symposium "Foucault and Marx: Ambivalences, Legacies,
and Future Struggles" aims to explore the tense relationship between
Foucault and Marx and, on the occasion of the 40th anniversary of
Foucault's death in 2024, to put it into perspective with regard to
Foucault's intellectual legacy. Foucault is generally perceived as a
harsh critic of Marxism, both in terms of its analytical possibilities
and political dangers. This contrasts strongly not only with Foucault's
repeated emphasis on the centrality of Marx, but also with clear
theoretical parallels. The subject of the symposium is therefore the
question of how this ambivalence is to be understood, what it means for
possible continuations of the Foucauldian project and to what extent the
Foucault-Marx connection can be made fruitful for current and future
questions.
No pre-registration, no fees.
More Info and abstracts: https://foucaultmarx40.univie.ac.at/
Program
Friday, 18 October 2024, 3D (NIG)
09:00-09:15 Arrival, coffee, tea
09:15-09:30 Welcome and introduction to day 1 by Eva-Maria Aigner, Ralf
Gisinger, Christoph Hubatschke, Eva Jägle, Jonas Oßwald
09:30-10:00 Matteo Polleri: "Family Resemblances: An Epistemological
Reassement of the Marx-Foucault Relationship"
10:00-10:30 Joe Grant: "Witnessing Revolution: The Philosophical
Journalism of Marx and Foucault"
10:30-11:00 Phoebe Braithwaite: "Shards of Ice: Identity, Subjectivity
and Obliquity in Marx, Foucault and Stuart Hall"
11:00-11:15 Break
11:15-11:45 Adam Takács: "Historical Totality and Social Agency:
Lukács's _History and Class Consciousness_ in a Foucauldian Perspective"
11:45-12:15 Rosa Martins: "Marx with Foucault: Human Agency and the
Motor of History"
12:15-12:45 Théo Favre Rochex: "Foucault and Marxism: The Case of
Ideology"
12:45-13:45 Lunch
13:45-14:15 Chiara Stefanoni/Francesco Aloe: " The Queer 'Viewpoint of
Reproduction': De Lauretis as a Reader of Althusser and Foucault"
14:15-14:45 Antonio Cerquitelli: "'Biopolitics' and Power in Marx"
14:45-15:15 Friederike Beier: "The Biopolitical Governing of
Reproductive Labor: A Feminist Foucauldian and Marxist Perspective on
Social Reproduction and the State(s)"
15:15-15:30 Break
15:30-16:00 Yari Lanci: "Time and the Political Synthesis of Labor
Power: On the Limits of Foucault's Critique of Marx's Anthropology"
16:00-16:30 Johann Szews: "The Domination of Time: Marx, Foucault and
Moishe Postone"
16:30-16:45 Break
16:45-17:15 Judith Bastie/Isabel Jacobs: "Vegetal Epistemologies:
Foucault, Lysenko and (Soviet) Marx"
17:15-17:45 Atila Lukić/Gordan Maslov: "As the Earth Falls into the Sun:
Foucault, Marx, and the Problem of Destruction"
18.30: Film screening and drinks at DEPOT (Breite Gasse 3)
Saturday, 19 October 2024, 3D (NIG)
10:00-10:15 Arrival, coffee, tea
10:15-10:30 Welcome and introduction to day 2 by Eva-Maria Aigner, Ralf
Gisinger, Christoph Hubatschke, Eva Jägle, Jonas Oßwald
10:30-11:30 Roberto Nigro: "Foucault's and Marx's Heretical
Neo-Marxism"
11:30-11:45 Break
11:45-12:45 Isabell Lorey: "Vagabondage and Indiscipline: Stealing with
Marx and Foucault"
12:45-14:00 Lunch
14:00-15:00 Isabelle Garo: "Biopolitics, between Marx and Foucault: A
Strategic Confrontation"
15:00-15:15 Break
15:15-16:15 Alex Demirović: "Silent Coercion or Swarm of Discourses: On
Foucault's Extension of Marx's Theory"
16:15-16:30 Break
16:30-17:30 Johanna Oksala: "The Future of Left Thought: Marx and
Foucault on Power"
18:30 Closing with drinks at Café Afro (Türkenstraße 3)
The organizing team,
Eva-Maria Aigner
Ralf Gisinger
Christoph Hubatschke
Eva Jägle
Jonas Oßwald