Reading Group\u00a0within the Praxis-CFUL activities<\/p>\n
Working language: English<\/p>\n
Convener: Tamara Caraus (tcaraus@letras.ulisboa.pt)<\/p>\n
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Argument:<\/strong> Currently, visibility and the fact of being visible acquire an unprecedented importance: \u2018views\u2019 on social media are becoming a source of self-esteem and self-respect for the users, the increasing number of \u2018views\u2019 acquires economic value, and the notions such as \u2018economy of attention\u2019 are being advanced to capture the new reality of economics. Apart from social media, the proliferation of reality shows display a need to be seen of \u2018ordinary\u2019 persons, as though striving to have the \u201815 minutes of fame\u2019 (anticipated by Andy Warhol). Concomitantly, the main political stake of political actions now is to make the injustice visible. In the logic of protest movements and \u2018occupations\u2019, if we are to register and respond rightly to conditions of suffering and injustice, these conditions must be visible. The different needs of being visible generate some puzzling questions concerning ethics and politics of visibility: Is the fact of being visible a kind of ontological guarantee of person\u2019s being?\u00a0 If we inhabit a world in which visibility is shaped by structures of domination, and in which individuals\u2019 capacities for ethical perception and judgment are often substantially compromised by the existent power, do those who are less visible have less \u2018being\u2019? Is the contemporary situation a tragicomic reversal of the Benthamic-Orwellian notion of the panopticon society in which we are (potentially) observed all the time and have no place to hide from the omnipresent gaze of the Power, since today anxiety arises from the prospect of not being seen?\u00a0 Can the maxim \u2018I think, therefore I am\u2019 be replaced by \u201cI am looked at, therefore I am?\u2019, etc. In order to answer these questions, the proposed Reading Group aims to go back to the authors who (attempted to) identify Being with appearing (Heidegger and Arendt), examined the \u2018dialectics\u2019 of visible and invisible (Merleau-Ponty), described the need for the Other\u2019s gaze serving as the guarantee of the subject\u2019s being (Lacan), defined politics as re-distribution of the sensible and the visible (Ranciere) and offered a critique of the \u2018pornographic age\u2019 (Badiou).<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Meetings& Readings: <\/strong><\/p>\n Session I \u2013 27 February 2020:<\/u> Martin Heidegger, Introduction to Metaphysics<\/em>, Yale University Press (translation by Gregory Fried and Richard Polt), Chapter 4, pp. 98 \u2013 210.<\/p>\n Session II \u2013\u00a0 15 October 2020:<\/u> Hannah Arendt, The Life of the Mind<\/em>, Harcourt, New York and London, 1978 (volume 1 and 2 combined), Vol. 1 Chapter I \u201cAppearances\u201d and Chapter II \u201cMental Activities in a World of Appearances\u201d, pp. 19-129.<\/p>\n Session III \u2013 29 October 2020:<\/u> \u00a0Maurice Merleau-Ponty, The Visible and the Invisible<\/em> (Edited by Claude Lefort, translated By Alphonso L. Ngis) Northwestern University Press, 1968; Michel Henry, Seeing The Invisible.<\/em>(Translated by Scott Davidson), Continuum 2009, p. 5-12.<\/p>\n Session IV \u2013 12 November 2020<\/u>: Jacques Lacan, \u201cOf The Gaze As Objet Petit a<\/em>\u201d In The Seminars of Jacques Lacan, Book XI: The Four Fundamental Concepts of Psychoanalysis<\/em> (edited by Jacques-Alain Miller, translated by Alan Sheridan) Norton, 1981, pp. 67 \u2013 123.<\/p>\n Session V \u2013 26 November 2020:<\/u> Jacques Ranciere, Disagreement<\/em> (translation by Julie Rose), University of Minnesota Press, 1999.<\/p>\n Session VI \u2013 10 December 2020:<\/u> Alain Badiou, The Pornographic Age<\/em> (translated by A. J. Bartlett, J. Clemens) Bloomsbury Academic, 2020.<\/p>\n Session VII:<\/u> \u00a014 January 2021: Round-Up meeting: Is an Ethics and Politics of Visibility Possible? \u00a0Visibility versus <\/em>Recognition?<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Some other readings of these and other authors may be added, according to the development of the theme from the suggested titles.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Reading Group\u00a0within the Praxis-CFUL activities Working language: English Convener: Tamara Caraus (tcaraus@letras.ulisboa.pt) Argument: Currently, visibility and the fact of being visible acquire an unprecedented importance: \u2018views\u2019 on social media are becoming a source of self-esteem and self-respect for the users, the increasing number of \u2018views\u2019 acquires economic value, and the notions such as \u2018economy […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1858","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cful.letras.ulisboa.pt\/praxis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1858","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cful.letras.ulisboa.pt\/praxis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cful.letras.ulisboa.pt\/praxis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cful.letras.ulisboa.pt\/praxis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cful.letras.ulisboa.pt\/praxis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1858"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cful.letras.ulisboa.pt\/praxis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1858\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1863,"href":"https:\/\/cful.letras.ulisboa.pt\/praxis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1858\/revisions\/1863"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cful.letras.ulisboa.pt\/praxis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cful.letras.ulisboa.pt\/praxis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cful.letras.ulisboa.pt\/praxis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}