12/06/2012 (Workshop) Frédéric Neyrat | UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN, MADISON/LYON SOCIETIES OF CLAIRVOYANCE: CLIMATE, TIME AND POLITICS

Abstract
Two main features define our societies: the control of life and the anticipation of catastrophes. We keep creating relations as fluid as our “liquid life” - and at the same time we protect ourselves against real events that interrupt this fluid time and these fluid communications, in doing so closing out events that might change our lives. We will try to shed some light on the link between these two aspects of our dangerous societies of clairvoyance. If ecology has always been built around the concept of space, perhaps it’s nownecessary to think about a real ecology of time.


Biography
Frédéric Neyrat is a philosopher. From 2001 to 2007 he has been director of program of the Collège International de Philosophie. He is co-editor of the journal Revue Multitudes. From 2008 to 2009 he has been fellow of the Society of the Humanities at Cornell University. From 2011 to 2012 2012 he has been Visiting Professor at the Department of Comparative Literature, University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA. His work concerns issues of negativity, destruction and the logic of the wholesome and of integrity in ontology and ethics as well as in bio-, immuno- and ecopolitcs. He is actually one of the eminent thinkers of the ecophilosphical question. Neyrat is the author of Surexposés. Le Monde, le Capital, la Terre, Paris 2004, L’indemne. Heidegger et la destruction du monde, Paris 2008; Biopolitique des catastrophes, Paris 2008; Clinamen. Flux, absolu et loi spirale, Paris 2011; Conjurations. Essai sur les sociétés de clairvoyance (forthcoming).





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