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counterrealism. the group for thinking and making

Hello. counterrealism group for thinking and making is a university-independent reading and art making platform where one of the aims is to look at the way the ‘real’ is conceptualized in the writings of the philosophy of science, social critique and postcolonial theory.

What are the consequences of thinking about the ‘real’ as socially constructed or as structurally unknowable for the politics of emancipation? Can such questions reinvigorate the thinking of history, social relations and modernit(ies)? Possibly.

Except for the Badiou and Butler texts the readings will be in English and will include the selections from:

Alain Badiou, Das Jahrhundert

Dipesh Chakrabarty, Provincializing Europe. Postcolonial Thought and Historical Difference

Judith Buter, Körper von Gewicht

Roy Bashkar, from the ‘Critical Realism essential readings’

Hamid Dabashi, Close Up. Iranian Cinema: Past, Present and Future

And others to be announced.

The project is an opportunity for a critical overview of the texts through a discontinuous and intense process of close reading and debate. We also want to organize a platform for the expanded series of seminars and film screenings to take place next semester. If you have ideas for the reading group or the film screenings, meet us.

Gatherings will take place in Berlin, from late April onwards.

Please write us for times and locations:

counterrealism@googlemail.com

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