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Can a democratic society treat all its members as equals and also recognize their specific cultural identities? Should it try to ensure the survival of specific cultural groups? Is political recognition of ethnicity or gender essential to a person's dignity? These are some of the questions at the heart of the political controversy over multiculturalism and recognition--a debate that has raged across academic departments, university campuses, ethnic and feminist associations, and governments throughout the world. In this book Charles Taylor offers a historically informed, philosophical perspective on what is at stake in the demand made by many people for recognition of their particular group identities by public institutions. His thoughts serve as a point of departure for commentaries by other leading thinkers, who further relate the demand for recognition to issues of multicultural education, feminism, and cultural separatism. In his essay Taylor compares two competing forms of liberal government: one that protects no particular culture but ensures the rights and welfare of all its citizens, and one that nurtures a particular culture yet also protects the basic rights and welfare of nonconforming citizens. Questioning the desirability and possibility of the first conception, Taylor defends a version of the second. In response Steven Rockefeller warns against the ascendancy of particularist cultural identities over the universal identity of democratic citizens. Michael Walzer defends a liberalism that authorizes democratic citizens to adapt their politics to varying situations, and suggests that a culturally neutral politics best suits the United States. Proposing an alternative perspective to Taylor's presumption of value in foreign cultures, Susan Wolf identifies the demand for multicultural education with an accurate understanding of who "we" Americans are. Amy Gutmann focuses on the debate over multiculturalism and free speech on university campuses, arguing that the demands of liberal democratic education are far greater than either essentialists or deconstructionists commonly recognize. Multiculturalism and "The Politics of Recognition" will stimulate constructive discussion and enlighten public discourse on the difficult issues surrounding multiculturalism. The volume is based on the Inaugural Lecture for the University Center for Human Values at Princeton University, founded in 1990 through an endowment by Laurance S. Rockefeller.

#readings #multiculturalism #identity #politics

Manuel Delanda, contemporary philosopher, discusses social ontology, assemblage theory, and Gilles Deleuze. DeLanda expands on such topics and thinkers as territorialization, philosophy, society, Erving Goffman, social ontology, coding, and decoding. Public open lecture for the students and faculty of the European Graduate School EGS Media and Communication Studies department program Saas-Fee Switzerland. 2011 Manuel DeLanda. Manuel DeLanda, (born 1952 in Mexico City), is a writer, artist and distinguished philosopher who has lived in New York since 1975. He is a professor and the Gilles Deleuze Chair of Contemporary Philosophy and Science at the European Graduate School in Saas-Fee, Switzerland, a professor at the Canisius College in Buffalo, New York, and professor at the University of Pennsylvania School of Design in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. DeLanda was formerly an Adjunct Associate Professor at Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation at Columbia University (New York). He is the author of War In the Age of Intelligent Machines (1991), A Thousand Years of Nonlinear History (1997), Intensive Science and Virtual Philosophy (2002), A New Philosophy of Society: Assemblage Theory and Social Complexity (2006), Deleuze: History and Science (2010), and Philosophy and Simulation: The Emergence of Synthetic Reason (2011). He has published many articles and essays and lectured extensively in Europe and in the United States. His work focuses on the theories of the French philosopher Gilles Deleuze on one hand, and modern science, self-organizing matter, artificial life and intelligence, economics, architecture, chaos theory, history of science, nonlinear science, cellular automata on the other. De Landa became a principal figure in the "new materialism" based on his application of Deleuze's realist ontology. His universal research into "morphogenesis" - the production of the semi-stable structures out of material flows that are constitutive of the natural and social world - has been of interest to theorists across many academic and professional disciplines.

Loop | Overcoming creative blocks

Bergson, Freud, Proust, Saussure & Composite Memories. Dr. Colin Gardner professor of critical theory and integrative studies at the UCSB discusses J.F.Podevin's installation.

This paper examines the development of Deleuze’s ontology of time from his early readings of Bergson to his reading of Nietzsche’s eternal return. Its central argument is that Deleuze ultimately finds Bergson’s ontology of duration, which he uses to ground the chronological passage of time, to be inadequate, and that Deleuze’s ultimate break with Bergson is precisely in favour of an ontology that ungrounds time’s chronological passage. The key in this respect is Bergson’s privileging of quality over quantity, by which he tries to establish an absolute separation of time and space, and his failure, as Deleuze will argue, to consider the possibility of a notion of intensive quantity that Deleuze finds in Nietzsche. While Bergson promises that duration escapes the linear time of mechanical causality and explains time’s novelty, Deleuze, maintains that it does not and that the source of Bergson’s transcendence lies precisely in duration’s privileging of the pure past. In contrast, Deleuze contends that an ontology of the event, understood as eternal return, maintains an absolute independence of the present from the past, establishes time as a true generator of creativity, and completes the contemporary philosophical project of immanence. In contrast to many interpreters who align Deleuze with Bergson, this paper will show how, through his shift to Nietzsche, Deleuze develops an ontology of time that accounts for the contingency and complexity of history without reducing it to mere randomness or accident.

Vibration Sympathique-

https://www.mixcloud.com/pauljasen/vibration-sympathique/

A 40-minute, sub-centric mix built for my talk at the Electric Fields / Champs Électriques festival. So much discussion about bass focuses on dancefloor material, so this mix goes the other direction, collecting a series of low-frequency investigations into industrial and earthly hum, pure tones, pipe organs, peculiarities of bodily resonance, and overlapping fictions of sound and signal. Listen loud. To borrow Eleh’s instruction: Volume reveals detail.

#deja vu #michio kaku

Humanist geographer Yi-Fu Tuan explores the Tao of "home" and the interplay that coexists between emotional attachment and the nature of humans to migrate

#Yi-Fu Tuan #place #space #home #migration

#place #space #experience #Edward Relph

Society for Philosophy and Culture seminar, held at McMaster University, Canada, in January 2013, as part of our series "Crossing Borders". Marcus Boon speaks on "The Politics of Vibration" with responses by Barry Allen and Ken McLeod.

Steve Goodman's recent book Sonic Warfare: Sound, Affect and the Ecology of Fear proposes an ontology of vibration, drawing on readings of Gaston Bachelard, Henri Lefebvre and Alfred Whitehead as well as the music-focused work of Jacques Attali. Goodman's important work is part of a broader turn towards an analysis of what Jane Bennett calls 'vibrant matter' and what Graham Harman and others have termed 'speculative realism' and/or 'object oriented ontology', exploring the peculiar agency that nonhuman objects have, their role in politics and aesthetics. Until now, little attention has been paid to music and/or sound as objects in this sense, or what the relation of object or sound to vibration might be at the level of an ontology.

There are questions about Goodman's approach however. Using evidence drawn mostly from contemporary musical subcultures, Goodman focuses almost exclusively on an "ontology of vibrational force" conceived of mostly in military or counter-military terms, and therefore in terms of violence. In this paper, I explore the possibility of other genealogies of vibrational ontology, that take into account the compelling association of music, sound and vibration with violence. Through readings of Sigmund Freud, Erwin Schrodinger, Julia Kristeva and Roberto Esposito, I present a different model of vibration as a fundamental constituent of what is, one that acknowledges the problem of violence but pays equal attention to an erotics of vibration, built around intimacy, solidarity and awareness, qualities often cultivated by those who participate in subcultural music scenes. I look at some examples of thinkers who have articulated a specific politics of vibration, including Wilhelm Reich and Amiri Baraka, and I explore the challenges of drawing specific political principles or conclusions from an affirmation of the fundamental nature of vibration.

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AUDINT is a research cell investigating how ultrasonic, sonic and infrasonic frequencies are used to demarcate territory in the soundscape and the ways in which their martial and civil deployments modulate psychological, physiological and architectural states. Re-formatted in 2008, AUDINT currently consists of Toby Heys and Steve Goodman. For Sound Development City the history of AUDiNT - since its formation by 3 members of the Ghost Army in 1945 -- will be presented in the form of a multi-media presentation. The live composition will patch together a mix of the whispered and the unsound into an audible journey that - links the underground groove of the Large Hadron Collider with the vaults of the Bank of Hell ; connects the Dead Record Network with the Phantom Hailer ; and traces the evolution of the Wandering Soul Tapes to the viral dynamics of the online spectreware named IREX^2

#sonic #territory #steve goodman #audint

Ryoji Ikeda. micro | macro

Ryoji Ikeda data.path installation - Madrid

#Ryoji Ikeda #installation #digital #art #sound

#Eleni Ikoniadou #sound #art #contemporaryart

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