SEMINAR 3.
ADRIAN HEATHFIELD AND LOUIS MORENO

From Infra- to Intra-structures:
Life-force and Spirit
11.6.2015

The third seminar in the freethought programme built on interests drawn from the ‘spectres of infrastructure’ discussed in the last session. If infrastructure has traditionally been thought as material or technical foundation for culture and art, how might we re-think the infrastructural as already existing within those lived human practices? What other kind of ‘ground’, ‘support’ or maintenance is this, given that art and culture are constantly changing?

SUGGESTED READING

Elizabeth Grosz, “Sensation. The Earth, a People, Art” in Chaos, Territory, Art, Columbia University Press, 2008.

Donnalee Dox, “Spiritual Logic from Ritual Bodies” in Religion, Theatre and Performance: Acts of Faith, Ed. Lance Gharavi, Routledge, 2012.

Eugene Thacker, “Spectral Life and Speculative Realism” in After Life, University of Chicago Press, 2010.

Henri Focillon, “In the Realm of Space” in The Life of Forms in Art, Zone Books, 1989.

Giorgio Agamben, “What is an Apparatus?” in What is an Apparatus?, Stanford University Press, 2009.