Fwd: [bangaloreresearchnetwork] Ph.D workshop

[Padma Baliga]

Forwarded message: 

​Dear all,

For those who might want to be part of this work​shop, please see details below.  It will be held at Shrishti.  Open to PhD students primarily.  Interested masters students can also join.

If you are interested and intend to go and/or have any further queries, do write Vasanthi who is copied on this email.

 

Workshop Title:  Transition from Tree Model to Rhizomatic Systems.

 

“To conceive of individuality free from the confines of identity; to think difference in itself, without any reference to the same; to see the world as cauldron of becoming rather than a repository of Being; …a collective experiment in thought and action…

Brian Massumi

 

The paradigm shifts during the 20^th century and particularly from the 60’s and 70’s have devastated traditional methodology.  Its confrontation forces traditional models to recognize its limitations and particularly so when we engage with interdisciplinary explorations.  Deleuze and Foucault confront and confound the earlier model wherein they dissolve the demands of those methods.  No doubt every terminology or concept is encrusted with the residue of the past but to extricate it from the framework and foundation is a difficult labor (pun intended) indeed and it is worth the trouble.   The apriori and frameworks are questioned and discourses are excavated in the Rhizomatic model provided by Deleuze and Guattari.  This course provides the archeological instrument (Archeology of Knowledge by Foucault) necessary for such excavations of the past.  These thinkers are certainly more influential to artist, art practitioners and practitioners on art. The associative logic is primary to this method and therefore the rhizomatic momentum is organically inclusive of the logic of the Other. 

In sum they deliberate and liberate us from classical foundations. They provide a system where collected data can be organized and examined through interdisciplinary multifocal lenses and processed with nomadic and rhizomatic procedures.  More importantly they restructure our rethinking and our senses to enable and recognize the “embodied mind”—an affirmation that delegitimizes exclusionary principles.

 

The following texts will be required for the Thursday workshops, 23rd and 27th April 2015.  All readings are available on Cantadora.  Reading ahead of the session will enhance class discussions.  

 

Work shop I

23rd April 2015

The Thousand Plateau by Gilles Deleuze and Fexix Guattari

Readings:  "Introduction: Rhizome" and the chapter titled "Becoming- Intense Becoming - Animal, Becoming - Imperceptible"... 

Parasite by Michel Serres

Readings: 1-50 pages

 

Workshop II

27th April 2015

Archaeology of Knowledge by Michel Foucault

Readings: "The Unities of discourse," "Discursive Formation," "The Historical a Priori and the Archive," "Archaeology and the History of Ideas," "Original and the Regular," "Science and Knowledge."

Pandora box by Bruno Latour

Readings:  "Circulating References:  Sampling the Soil in the Amazon Forest."

 

 

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