After successful completion of the course, students are able to better follow live lectures of contemporary theory discourses, and to express and formulate in short and concise reports their own engagement with the positions.
This course opens up an international, most virulent and highly contemporary lecture program in philosophy for the architecture And spatial planning students at our faculty:
The School of Materialist Research (SMR) is an informal graduate and post-doc level program that offers seminars and workshops that address the materialisms running through contemporary science, philosophy, art, mathematics, design, architecture, and politics. SMR is an international platform, founded by the Center for Philosophical Technologies at Arizona State University, Institute of Social Sciences and Humanities, Skopje, Department for Architecture Theory and Philosophy of Technics at TU Vienna, which, in cooperation with the Critical Inquiry Lab at the Design Academy Eindhoven, functions as a global online school combining education, research, and mentorship to advance academic study at the intersection of the social sciences and humanities (SSH) and the STEM sciences. The Spring and Summer Sessions of 2021 were offered for free and open to the public serving as promotional events that illustrate the programmatic commitment and style of work offered by the School of Materialist Research. Some of the confirmed speakers in the Spring/Summer series of seminars included: Paul Cockshott, Greg Michaelson, Ray Brassier, Anne-Françoise Schmid, John Ó Maoilearca, Giuseppe Longo, Agon Hamza, Adam Nocek, Katerina Kolozova, Vera Bühlmann, Iris van der Tuin, and many many more. As of 2021-2022 we will continue offering free of charge courses and seminars, mentorship and workshops, but also longer format courses for a fee, offering university level credit certificates (ECTS/US credit system). Some of the confirmed speakers for the next year are: Achille Mbembe, Tzuchien Tho, Keti Chukhrov, Willow Verkerk, Chantelle Gray, Aragorn Eloff, J.P. Caron, Romina Wainberg, Jelisaveta Blagojević, Martin Rosenberg and many more.
Task: Listen to 6 of the full lectures (of your choice, all the moderation clips count as one lecture) carefully. Write short reports for each lecture, recapitulating and critically interrogating the argumentation and theme of the talks.
SATURDAY JANUARY 8TH 2022, starting 09:00:
Conference Day. We watch all the lectures together and discuss them together.
Students who sign up for this course are to hand in a written report on the different lectures they have heard in the program of the SMR School for Materialist Research:
https://www.schoolformaterialistresearch.org/
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCsVGCswNTPYp32-9FF85LjA
We expect a report on at least 6 of the full lectures of the conference.
There will be Sprechstunden on ZOOM to exchange experiences and techniques of how to learn to follow and report on academic lectures.
Final delivery via TUWEL by: 9. Februar 2022
