EVENTS
Jean-Louis Déotte. "The Aesthetic, Artistic Apparatus and the Muses"
16/11/2009 – 18/11/2009
Jean-Louis Déotte
The Aesthetic, Artistic Apparatus and the Muses
Walter Benjamin was the first to distinguish the arts (the muses) from the means of reproduction (photography, cinema, etc.). By reading The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction it becomes evident that neither photography nor cinema are simply means of reproduction for the work of art. Since both of them convey the structure of feeling of a given period. They are apparatuses that necessarily contain a technical dimension. Benjamin provides a rich analysis of new relations with temporality that determine both of them. These apparatuses are not in themselves artistic, rather they inflect each art providing it with a new meaning. This category of the aesthetic apparatus allows for other techniques that do not have a real status to be integrated within it: as it is the case with perspective. It is also the case with institutions such as the museum that have radically altered the discourse of the visual arts, etc.
Sessions
In the first session Déotte will talk about modern aesthetic (mainly projective) apparatuses and the arts. Here, the apparatus should not be understood as a device in Foucault’s and Agamben’s sense.
In the second session Déotte will approach the Benjaminian philosophy on technique, in particular the question of iron and concrete architecture of the 19th Century that is developed through a reading of S. Giedion (Construire en France, construire en fer, en béton). Benjamin develops the notion of the plastic form as the solution for a technical problem.
In the third session Déotte will analyse how an artist can develop his own artistic apparatus under the influence of an aesthetic apparatus. He will focus on the case of Kurt Schwitters and the Merz apparatus.
Biography
Jean-Louis Déotte is the former director of the Collége International de Philosophie in Paris. He is currently Professor of Philosophy at the Université Paris 8 Sain-Denis-Vincennes and he is coordinator of the Maison des Sciences de l’Homme Paris Nord. He is also responsible for the international research programmes and director of the Colection Esthétiques at L‘Harmattan (with 100 titles published). He is responsible for the online magazine Appareil, sponsored by the Maison des Sciences de l’Homme Paris Nord. He has published fifteen books including L’époque des appareils (2004), and Le musée, l'origine de l'esthétique (1990)
Information and enrolment
Language of the Seminar: French with simultaneous translation into Spanish
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Auditorium Capacity: 140 people
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