Thu 13.12.2018 - KuvA Research Days

Thursday 13.12.2018

NOTE DIFFERENT VENUE: Kone Chamber (Tehtaankatu 21 B 45, 5th Floor, Helsinki)

Host: Erick Beltrán

PROGRAM 

13:00 COFFEE

13:30–14:30 Gerald Raunig: Dividuum
Zurich University of the Arts

Gerald Raunig develops a philosophy of dividuality as a way of addressing contemporary modes of production and forms of life. As the philosophical, religious, and historical systems that have produced the “individual” (and its counterparts, society and community) over the years continue to break down, the age of “dividuality” is now upon us. The roots of the concept of the “dividuum” can be traced back to Latin philosophy, when Cicero used the term to translate the “divisible” in the writings of Epicurus and Plato; later, medieval scholars utilized the term in theological discussions on the unity of the trinity.

Grounding himself in the writings of the medieval bishop Gilbert de Poitiers and his extensive commentaries on Boethius, Gerald Raunig charts a genealogy of the concept and develops a philosophy of dividuality as a way of addressing contemporary modes of production and forms of life. Through its components of dispersion, subsistence, and similarity, dividuality becomes a hidden principle of obedience and conformity, but it also brings with it the potential to realize disobedience and noncompliant con/dividualities.

14:45–15:15 Notes
Gerald Raunig; Pedro G. Romero; Erick Beltrán