2023 m. rugsėjo 29 d. Filosofijos fakultete viešės keturi filosofijos mokslininkai iš užsienio ir ves viešų paskaitų seriją „Waste Discard“ tema.
Maloniai kviečiame dalyvauti ir pasiklausyti anglų kalba vedamų plataus turinio paskaitų, kurių programa pateikiama apačioje:
* 13:00 (207 auditorija) - prof. Nicolas de Warren „Shall We Ever Rest in Peace? A Requiem for the Anthropocene“;
* 15:00 (214 auditorija) - dr. Basil Vassilicos „Stable evaluative landscapes and the place of waste therein: some thoughts and questions from Mary Douglas“;
* 17:00 (214 auditorija) - prof. Roland Breeur ir Elad Magomedov „Waste and creatio (dis)continua“.
Paskaitas galite stebėti nuotoliu prisijungdami šia nuoroda - https://bitly.ws/VYHH
Daugiau informacijos apie mokslininkus:
Prof. Nicolas de Warren yra filosofijos ir žydų filosofijos studijų profesorius. Jis yra knygų "Husserl and the Promise of Time" (2010 m.), "A Momentary Breathlessness in the Sadness of Time" (2018 m.), "Original Forgiveness" (2020 m.) ir "German Philosophy and the First World War" (2023 m.) autorius.
Dr. Basil Vassilicos studijavo JAV, o doktorantūros studijas baigė Leveno universitete. Nuo 2016 m. jis dėsto Filosofijos katedroje "Mary Immaculate College", Limeriko universitete, Limerike (Airija). Naujausių tyrimų temos: gestų filosofija, ar egzistuoja sutikimo "savybės", (negarsinio) triukšmo prigimtis, afekto raiškos ir kalbos aktų santykis.
Prof. Roland Breeur dėsto ankstyvųjų naujųjų laikų ir šiuolaikinę (kontinentinę) filosofiją Leveno "Katholieke Universiteit", Belgijoje.
Elad Magomedov yra Leveno filosofijos instituto podoktorantūros tyrėjas. Jis specializuojasi apgavystės filosofijos srityje. Šiuo metu jo tyrimų objektas - simuliacija ir disimuliacija propagandoje.
Daugiau informacijos apie paskaitų temas:
„Shall We Ever Rest in Peace? A Requiem for the Anthropocene“
In a most succinct and encompassing form, philosophical thought since the 20th-century can be understood as expressing, in one way or another, a fundamental inhospitality to the idea of immortality. The paradox of the Age of the Anthropocene, as I shall formulate it here, is that while conceptually we have forgone the idea of immortality, materially our modern worlds are dependent on the social and technological production of "immortality," not, however, as Classically envisioned, in terms of "great memorable deeds and actions," "enduring scientific discoveries," or "universal values," but in terms of "epic waste" (plastics, nuclear waste, etc.). Our modern world is above all defined, indeed, animated by a self-produced obliviousness to the "immortality" we ourselves produce by the way of the garbage, waste and other detritus that shall long out-live us, thus never allowing us to rest in peace -- for they did not know what they were doing. How does the material production of "epic waste" reconfigure the relation between time and eternity? How does this focus on waste in the Anthropocene challenge attempts to re-think "the ethical" in view of an imperative towards the future, the future of all futures?
„Stable evaluative landscapes and the place of waste therein: some thoughts and questions from Mary Douglas“
At least some kinds of evaluative features of the world and its constituents are less reliable than others. Yet if human communities need in some cases a stable grasp of those features - for instance when there are dangers - the question is how such an 'evaluative landscape' is constituted. After discounting a couple candidates for explaining the stability of evaluative landscapes, I turn for answers to Mary Douglas's account of how communities manage uncertainties and reinforce coordination through systems of sense-making that help their members navigate their evaluative landscapes. While Douglas's account is particularly nuanced, and can even help make sense of our contemporary world, an extant critique is its lack of consideration for waste (as distinct from 'dirt'), and the ambiguous evaluative status thereof - as either dangerous or worthless, or both. I explore whether the fault may not lie per se in Douglas's account, but in the ambiguous nature of waste as a social-material entity - that is, as a by-product of social activity whose evaluative character calls upon its own forgetting.
„Waste and creatio (dis)continua“
In the 17th century, the idea existed that every instant, the world could disappear into nothingness: but God maintained it into being thanks to what was called a creatio continua. In our presentation, we want to analyze in which sense the idea that human beings are capable of destroying their own planet and making it disappear into nothingness, affects that very idea of a creatio continua in its core. What remains, what is the status of the "continua", once it has been dissociated from the creatio? Waste.
