INTERLUDE #3
STUDIORUM
MOHAMED NAMOU
14 SEPTEMBER - 5 OCTOBER, 2024
ENCOUNTER 1: For the love of the collective? From Fantasy to Plasticity: The Limits of Idealism
Conversation between Jean-Baptiste Brenet & Catherine Malabou, Saturday 14 of September 2024, 5 pm
Link toward the full video : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=No0cL6YJOIc&t=4389s
Opening the interlude, this conversation focuses on the developments of the two researchers regarding the social and political construction of the intellect. Centered around the meeting of the central concepts of plasticity in Catherine Malabou’s work and fantasy in Jean-Baptiste Brenet’s, the conversation aims to understand our mechanisms of representation of the world and others from the perspective of the permeation of thought and the potential of our intelligence as a collective act.
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ENCOUNTER 2 : What is a barzakh? Dialogue on dreams and the intellect of acquisition
Conversation between Jean-Baptiste Brenet & Mohamed Amer Meziane, Saturday 28 of September 2024, 5 pm
Link toward the full video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KbK13akwNZo&t=5281s
This meeting aims to combine the concept of fantasy with that of Barzakh to understand the atypical metaphysical space opened up by the world of dreams—in the wake of the reception of the thought of the Andalusian philosopher Averroes and the sociologist Abdelkébir Khatibi, who occupy a paradoxical place in the corpus of Western decolonial thought. The life trajectories of the two thinkers, the fascination aroused by their works, and the conflicted reception of their ideas will allow us to grasp the contemporary relevance of representation.
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ENCOUNTER 3 : What future for anarchism? Metaphysics and ontology, from representation to dispossession
Conversation between Catherine Malabou & Mohamed Amer Meziane
Video translated to come
The critical study of modernity common to the work of Catherine Malabou and Mohamed Amer Meziane—centered around the reception of Hegelian ontology by the social sciences and anthropology—will enable us to trace the origins of the dialectic of domination underlying the colonial ideology from the 19th century to the present day. In this respect, their meeting opens up a rereading of the dispossession of bodies and the mutualization of their collective conation.