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Deconstruction of Economy, Economics and Deconstruction II (seminar)

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Start time:

April 30, 2025 @ 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm

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Location:

Librairie Utopia, Paris, 75005

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Speakers

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Marie Cuillerai
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Quentin Badaire
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Manola Antonioli
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Anne Alombert
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Luca Paltrinieri

Local Partners

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Librairie Utopia
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Collège International de Philosophie
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CIELAM, Aix-Marseille Université
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LLCP, Université Paris 8

Description

This seminar seeks to bring the philosophical perspective of deconstruction – beginning with Jacques Derrida – into dialogue with the field of economics, aiming to foster a reciprocal questioning.

The use of economic terminology is a programmatic feature of deconstructive thought. Its very hallmark, “différance,” is defined as an “economic notion.” If deconstruction seeks to describe a structure of reality based on a postulate of the non-conservation of any principle, it entails a critique of any law (nomos) of property and proximity (oikos). Moreover, economic metaphors and notions shape the deconstructive theorization of perception, meaning, epistemology, ethics, and politics, as well as of the very structure of experience. The necessity, both de jure and de facto, of taking into account an open dialectic between negotiation and the unconditional, the calculable and the incalculable, motivates the imperatives of this approach.

And yet, this line of thought has (almost) never addressed the domain of economics: neither economic phenomena, nor the texts of economists, nor the documents marking economic history. The sessions of the second year of this seminar expand this inquiry through engagement with other contemporary French philosophical perspectives, notably those of Gilles Deleuze, Félix Guattari, Michel Foucault, Bernard Stiegler, and the broader discourse of biopolitics.

The seminar will take place in a mixed format, in person and by videoconference.

For more information, please contact giustinodemichele@gmail.com

 

The sessions, in French, will be held at the Librairie Utopia,

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