L'animal a l'esquena presents a seminar by Marina Garcés: Body and Contemporary Thought, within the MACAPD program (Master in Contemporary Arts Practice and dissemination) organized in collaboration with the FUdGiF and Càtedra Unesco.

Marina Garcés is a Doctor of Philosophy by the University of Barcelona and teaches at this university.

Agenda:

0-INTRODUCTION :
Reappropriation of the body, Contemporary Thought horizon: ¿free the body or free with the body?
Discourse inflation's paradoxes. Body and narcissism, some notes on J.Baudrillard.
A return to the real. H.Foster y S.Zizek.
The knowledge of the body/ To think from the body: Epicuro-Spinoza-Nietzsche. The thread from a minor tradition.
Comments on the bibliography, the list of topics and on the collective activity proposal.

1-BODY AND EMBODYMENT
Main author: M.Merleau-Ponty
Other references:, F.Varela, J.Pallasmaa
Concepts: embodied subject, flesh, world

2-BODY AND RESISTENCE
Main author: M.Foucault
Other references: queer theory (J.Butler), post-humanism (D.Haraway, P.Sloterdijk)
Concepts: discipline, biopolitics, strength, rule, performativity, post-humanity

3-BODY AND DISTERRITORIALIZATION
Main author: G.Deleuze
Other references: Guattari-Suely Rolnik, R.Braidotti
Concepts: body without organs, desire, creation, nomadism

4-OPEN CONCLUSION: BODY AND AFECTION
B.Latour, J.Butler, B.Massumi
Concepts: affect, vulnerability, community