In the meantime the first episode of Spirit is a Bone is online!
Luís Neiva and Björn Schmelzer embark on this new adventure of thinking together the structures and subjectivities of our world, culture, history and practices…
In the first episode Björn and Luís kick off with a celebration-reading of Slavoj Žižek's first English book, "The Sublime Object of Ideology", published in december 1989, exactly 35 years ago. They discuss their approach, the importance of the past to the present times, and how all this becomes visible through the "miracle" operated by Slavoj Žižek in "The Sublime Object".Also featuring: Hegel, Lacan, Georges Didi-Huberman, Alenka Zupančič & Mladen Dolar, Andrew Cole, Georges Bataille, Michel Foucault, Aby Warburg, Walter Benjamin, Cusanus, Velazquez, Fra Angelico, Marcel Duchamp, Mad Max, Pollock, Freud, theology, the body of Christ, David Hasselhoff, Fukuyama, waste, phrenology, New Historicism, Panofsky and Iconology, Ernst Bloch, Leonardo da Vinci and much more...Next episode we continue reading the Introduction to Žižek's "Sublime Object", stay tuned!Thinking Together, exploring the dialectics of reality.
SPIRIT IS A BONE is an association based in Lisbon. Its name, taken from an infamous oxymoron (or "infinite judgment") by the German philosopher Hegel, underscores its commitment to exploring the productive potential of contradiction.The association aims to think together and explore how such infinite judgements function and especially how they relate to the dialectic, how far dialectic can think and what escapes the dialectic, what remains, what gets separated, what gets stuck: the bone in the throat. The aim of the association is to propagate a thinking of these residual phenomena.
SPIRIT IS A BONE is currently curated by artists and researchers Luís Neiva and Björn Schmelzer. Alongside hosting a regular podcast, the association aims to organize readings, discussions, and live online events featuring other participants and guest speakers, as well as a summer and winter school, seminars, masterclasses, and other educational programs.
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