15 Oct
2025
15 Oct
'25
12:11 p.m.
Dear members,
This is a short-notice invitation for two events of the series THINKING
NATURE [1] at the Department of Philosophy, University of Vienna. It
will be a two-day lecture and workshop with Didier Debaise (Université
Libre Bruxelles), who is joining us in Vienna in person (but online
participation is also possible):
Thinking Nature: Didier Debaise - Lecture and Workshop [2]
Thursday, October 16: Lecture "From Nature to the Earthbounds:
Rethinking the Adventure of the Moderns"
18:00-20:00 (CET), Room 3A (NIG) and online
Friday, October 17: Workshop "Geophilosophies"
10:00-16:30 (CET), Room 3A (NIG) and online
Lecture "From Nature to the Earthbounds: Rethinking the Adventure of the
Moderns" (October 16)
Abstract: The Moderns are notably defined by their concept of nature. In
this talk, I aim to examine the birth, circulation, and normative power
of the concept of nature, as well as its current crisis. How was the
idea of nature and a natural order invented? To which events was this
idea connected? How was it deployed across all levels of Modern
experience to become the focal point of all major issues? Finally, how
did nature become a political force that now reveals its limitations
within the framework of the "new climatic regime"? These questions will
be explored through the lens of several thinkers, primarily Whitehead,
Deleuze, Stengers, and Latour.
Workshop "Geophilosophies" (October 17)
Description: Reading and discussion of texts by and with Didier Debaise
(Université Libre Bruxelles).
Inputs/talks by Christoph Hubatschke (IT:U Linz), Eva Jägle (University
of Vienna/ University of Music and Performing Arts), Lilian Kroth
(University of Fribourg), Isabella Schlehaider (Academy of Fine Arts
Vienna).
Texts for the workshop and online participation (Zoom):
ralf.gisinger(a)univie.ac.at [3] or eva-maria.aigner(a)univie.ac.at [3]
Workshop-texts:
- "The earthly becomings of thought. How do we take the legacy of
Geophilosophy?" (Deleuze and Guattari Studies)
- "The Land of the Modernes. The sense of Latour's Pragmatism" (Theory,
Culture and Society)
- "An Ethology of Abstractions: Learning How to Cultivate Our Modes of
Thought with Stengers" (Adventure of Aesthetics)
- (With I. Stengers): "An ecology of trust? Consenting to a pluralist
universe"
Didier Debaise is professor at the Université Libre Bruxelles. His main
areas of research are contemporary forms of speculative philosophy,
philosophy of nature, and links between American pragmatism and the
French contemporary philosophy. He wrote several books on Whitehead's
philosophy (_Un empirisme spéculatif, Le vocabulaire de Whitehead _and
_L'appât des possibles_), edited volumes on pragmatism (_Vie et
experimentation_), on the history of contemporary metaphysics
(_Philosophie des possessions_), and he wrote numerous papers on
Bergson, Tarde, Whitehead, Simondon, Deleuze, Latour and Stengers. Two
of his books were published in English: _Nature as Event _and_
Speculative Empiricism_.
Next Event 2025
Claire Colebrook (Penn State University)
_November 21_, 10:00-12:00, online. Live-Streaming and Responses in Room
3A (NIG)
THINKING NATURE [4], organized by Eva-Maria Aigner and Ralf Gisinger
Research Circle Poststructuralism, Gender Theory, Psychoanalysi
Funded by the Vienna Doctoral School of Philosophy
Contact
Eva-Maria Aigner (eva-maria.aigner(a)univie.ac.at [3] )
Ralf Gisinger (ralf.gisinger(a)univie.ac.at [3] )
https://poststrukturalismus.univie.ac.at [5]
Links:
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[1]
https://poststrukturalismus.univie.ac.at/veranstaltungen/thinking-nature-ev…
[2]
https://poststrukturalismus.univie.ac.at/veranstaltungen/thinking-nature-di…
[3] https://webmail2016.univie.ac.at/#NOP
[4] https://backend.univie.ac.at/index.php?id=219906&L=0
[5] https://poststrukturalismus.univie.ac.at/