[PHILOS-L] Seminar of Catherine Malabou on Heidegger (August 23-28)
Nemanja Mitrovic
Catherine Malabou will give a seminar at the EGS this year (August 23-28).
This seminar will be held in Saas-Fee, but it will also have an option of online attendance (via Zoom).
Heidegger in the Age of the Critique of Technofascism
August 23-28
4:45 pm - 7:15 pm Paris time
This seminar starts from a deliberately unsettling hypothesis: many contemporary critiques of “technofascism” unconsciously reactivate Heideggerian categories, even as they explicitly condemn Heidegger because of his political legacy. The result is a paradoxical situation in which Heidegger is both rejected and silently reinstated as the conceptual background of today’s anti-technological discourse.
Through a close reading of key texts by Martin Heidegger—including The Question Concerning Technology, The Danger, The Turn, and On the Question of Being—the seminar examines the persistence of notions such as Gestell, danger, domination, calculability, and world-loss in contemporary analyses of technology.
The seminar is organized around three central questions:
Under what conditions is it still possible to philosophically question technology today?
Has the very structure of questioning been reshaped by technological regimes it seeks to interrogate?
Has philosophy itself been structurally transformed by technology, particularly by artificial intelligence?
If conceptual synthesis, inference, and interpretation are increasingly delegated to technical systems, what becomes of philosophical critique?
Do current critiques of “technofascism” reproduce a Heideggerian logic of technology while stripping it of its ontological horizon?
What remains of Gestell once the question of Being is no longer operative—and once Heidegger himself has become, in many contexts, institutionally or ethically suspect?
Rather than attempting either a rehabilitation or a dismissal of Heidegger, the seminar treats his thought as a conceptual machine whose effects continue to structure contemporary critique, even where his name has been excluded. Heidegger thus functions both as a foil and a provocation: a way of clarifying the limits of current technocritical discourse and of reopening the question of how to think technology, AI, and power today.
The seminar concludes by engaging contemporary thinkers and alternative frameworks that allow us to move beyond both Heideggerian metaphysics and purely moral denunciations of technology, in order to rethink critique at a time when concepts themselves are becoming artificial.
For more information about our other seminars, please follow this link.
All seminars are open to auditing, with the following fees:
*$600 (in-person auditing);
$400 (online auditing).
To apply as an auditor or to inquire about any of our seminars, please contact Dr. Nemanja Mitrović (nemanja....@egs.edu) or Kerstin Venetz (admis...@egs.edu).
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