SFU Professor Andrew Feenberg is a world-renowned STS scholar. This is an exciting chance to hear him and visiting scholar Anne Sauvagnargues discuss the French theorist Gilbert Simondon’s contributions to the field.
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Simondon, French Theory and the Political
Gilbert Simondon was one of the most important philosophers in post-war France, yet he is hardly known in the English speaking world. His theories of technology and individuation had a decisive influence on many famous French philosophers, including Gilles Deleuze, Bernard Stiegler and Bruno Latour. To fully understand these thinkers one must engage with Simondon. His books are now beginning to appear in English so that is easier than it used to be. This two day conference brings together a leading French expert on Simondon and Deleuze, Anne Sauvagnargues, David Scott, author of a book on Simondon, and Ian Angus and Andrew Feenberg from SFU. The schedule of events is as follows:
February 5, 7-10 pm, HC 7000
Anne Sauvagnargues, “Simondon’s Philosophy of Technical Modes of Existence and Its Influence on French Theory”
Andrew Feenberg, “Simondon’s Philosophy of Technology and STS”
February 6, 7-10 pm, HC 7000
David Scott, “The Subject of Trauma, the Trauma of the Subject: Simondon and the Political”
Ian Angus, “Logics of Subsumption and Invention: The Suppressed Political Alternative of Workplace Democracy”
Participants:
Anne Sauvagnargues is a professor at the University Paris X and she co-heads the series “Art Line” for the University Press of France. Her most recent books are Deleuze and Art (2013), and Artmachines: Deleuze, Guattari, Simondon (2015).
David Scott is Associate Professor and Coordinator of the Philosophy Program at Coppin State University, Baltimore, MD, USA. He is the author of Gilbert Simondon’s Psychic and Collective Individuation (2014). Scott publishes on the intersections of art and philosophy, as well as on race and social and political theory.
Ian Angus is Professor Emeritus from the Department of Humanities at Simon Fraser University. His most recent book was The Undiscovered Country: Essays in Canadian Intellectual Culture (2013). Many of his writings are available at: https://sfu.academia.edu/IanAngus.
Andrew Feenberg is Professor in the School of Communications of Simon Fraser University. He is the author of many books and articles on philosophy of technology and the Frankfurt School. His most recent book is Technosystem: The Social Life of Reason (2017). His web site is at www.sfu.ca/~andrewf.
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