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Event Date: 26 May 2011
Institute of Contemporary Arts
The Mall
London SW1Y 5AH

The Centre for Research in Modern European Philosophy (CRMEP) presents

Media, New Media, Post-Media:
What is German Philosophy of Media?

Introduction by Professor Peter Osborne (Kingston).

Professor Boris Groys (New York University)

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Professor Lorenz Engell (IKKM, Bauhaus University Weimar)

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Professor Bernhard Siegert (IKKM, Bauhaus University Weimar)

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response: Professor Eric Alliez (Kingston)

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Audience questions:

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Chair: Professor Peter Osborne (Kingston)

Event date: 4 May 2011
Institute of Contemporary Arts
The Mall, London SW1Y 5AH

Slavoj Žižek – Screening Thought: The Media’s Philosophical Problem

Continental philospher Slavoj Žižek and Paul A. Taylor (author of Žižek and The Media) explore the difficulty of conveying philosophical ideas within today’s media.

Increasingly, intelligence is only tolerated in pre-approved and reassuringly non-challenging forms – deprecatory humour (Stephen Fry), decaffeinated reasoning (Alain de Botton), or suspiciously grand narratives (Simon Schama). Žižek himself is constantly pigeonholed by such media clichés as ‘the Elvis of cultural theory’ and ‘the Marx Brother’. This event sets out to question ‘what can be done?’ by serious thought in a culture of sound bites. Is the best that media philosophers can hope for to ‘Try again, fail again, fail better’?

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