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[stefan rusu]

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From: Marko Stamenkovic <marko.stamenkovic at gmail.com>
Date: Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 9:32 PM
Subject: [KOTOR] Capitalism Never Takes a Vacation!
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Theory today, more than ever before, is not entitled to somnolence.

Because, “*money never sleeps, and capitalism never takes a vacation”*.



*The Philosopher’s Piazza – “Capitalism Never Takes a Vacation!”*

*http://www.kotorart.org/pjacaen.html*



**6 – 13 August 2011

Kotor (Montenegro)



Participants:

*Giorgio Agamben  //  Renata Salecl  //  Zarko Paic  //  Mario Kopic  //  Boris
Gunjevic  //**
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*Nebojsa Jovanovic  //  Tonci Valentic  //  Milica Jovanovic  //  Aleksandar
Becanovic*



Philosopher’s Piazza Editors:
*Andrej Nikolaidis & Srecko Horvat*



Programme:

“Hommage à Agamben”

*6 August 2011*
The Cultural Center, 8 p.m.
Mario Kopic, lecture on Giorgio Agamben, Philosopher

The Cultural Center, 10 p.m.
Zarko Paic, lecture on Giorgio Agamben, Philosopher



*7 August 2011*
The Square of the Cinema, 9 p.m.
“What's left of the time, what's left of the politics” - Round table on
Giorgio Agamben, Philosopher

Speakers: Zarko Paic, Mario Kopic, Boris Gunjevic, Milica Jovanovic, Andrej
Nikolaidis, moderator - Srecko Horvat



*8 August 2011*
The Church of the Holy Spirit, 8 p.m.
Giorgio Agamben, lecture



“Hommage á Salecl”

*11 August 2011*
The Square of the Cinema, 9 p.m.
Book Presentation – *Choice* by Renata Salecl
Speakers: Tonci Valentic, Nebojca Jovanović and the author / film



*12 August 2011*
The Square of the Cinema, 9 p.m.
Debate “What exactly are we talking about when we talk about Choice”
Speakers: Aleksandar Becanovic, Nebojsa Jovanovic & Srecko Horvat, moderator
- Andrej Nikolaidis / film



*13 August 2011*
The Square of the Cinema, 9 p.m.
Renata Salecl, Lecture:  “The Matter of Choice in Late Capitalism”



This summer started with riots in Greece and a touching message Hilary
Clinton sent to the African nations - she warned the citizens of the poorest
continent about the imminent danger of the new colonialism: The Chinese. The
circle has closed: the colonizers now warn the colonized about the dangers
of colonialism.



Then a notable economist from New York University, Noriel Roubini, announced
the arrival of the *Perfect Storm *– the greatest economic crisis ever seen,
due to start in 2013, when the global economy will be affected by the sum of
a number of unfavourable conditions: a slowdown in the Chinese economy,
European debt restructuring, and stagnation in Japan. And, as the icing on
the cake, the American President, Barack Obama, has announced that 2012 will
also be a year of economic crisis. In the semi-peripheral countries, such
announcements are received without much interest: as if it has nothing to do
with us. These are, certainly, the key processes that will in the long term
determine the destiny of us all. The local form of capitalism combines the
bare brutal exploitative strategies of the early forms of capitalism with
the blasé cynicism of the later ones. Any alternative seems to be farther
away than ever: however, it is much needed, now more than before. In the
words of Terry Eagleton: “The capitalist system is in trouble once people
start talking about it.” That is exactly why, this summer in Kotor, we will
be talking about capitalism. Even when you most stubbornly refuse to deal
with it, capitalism still deals with you. In a series of presentations, many
respectable theorists from this region along with this year’s special Piazza
guest - one of the most significant contemporary philosophers, Giorgio
Agamben, will talk about the ways in which the modern state achieves full
control over our bodies and existences. Mario Kopić will give a lecture on
the different aspects of Agamben’s political philosophy (Mario is also his
Croatian translator). Sometimes it seems that our destiny is locked and
predetermined: there is nothing we can do to change it. At that moment,
precisely, when faced by a multitude of illusory choices, when everything
suggests that we actually do not have a choice, the matter of choice becomes
fundamental. Renata Salecl of the London School of Economics will give a
lecture entitled “The Matter of Choice in Late Capitalism”, while her
book *Choice
*will also be discussed. A team of respectable theorists will gather this
summer in Kotor, in a working atmosphere, at the seaside, to try and answer
the question: *what should we do*?


Theory today, more than ever before, is not entitled to somnolence.

Because, “*money never sleeps, and capitalism never takes a vacation”*.





BIOGRAPHY/BIBLIOGRAPHY:

Renata Salecl is a prominent philosopher and legal theorist. She teaches at
the London School of Economics. Every year she lectures for several weeks at
Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law in New York. She is a leading world expert
on the relations between psychoanalysis and the law.

*The Spoils of Freedom: Psychoanalysis and Feminism after the Fall of
Socialism* (London - New York, Rutledge, 1994)

*(Per)versions of Love and Hate* (London - New York, Verso, 1998)

*Gaze and Voice as Love Objects* (co-ed.) (Durham - Duke University Press,
1996)

*Sexuation* (ed.) (Durham - Duke University Press, 2000)

*On Anxiety* (London - New York, Rutledge, 2004).

*Choice* (London - New York, Profile Books, 2010).



Giorgio Agamben is one of the most influential thinkers of our time.
Two central concepts of his philosophy are *the state of exception and Homo
sacer. *First and foremost, Agamben is a political philosopher and a legal
philosopher.

He lives quietly in Italy. In his youth he was friends with Elsa Morante,
Alberto Moravia and Pasolini, in whose movie *The Gospel according to St
Mathew*, Agamben played the Apostle Philip.

According to his own account, Martin Heidegger initiated his encounter with
the world of philosophy, in 1966 and 1968 when he attended seminars
organized in Le Thor, in Provence, by the poet René Char. In many respects,
the work of Agamben is a sort of dialogue with this great German thinker.

As his second role model, who can be considered to be the most important in
terms of the influence and significance he has had for Agamben, he mentions
Walter Benjamin.

Works available in local translation:

*Homo Sacer:* *Sovereign Power and Bare Life*;
*The Time that Remains: A Commentary on the Letter to the Romans;*
*Remnants of Auschwitz; State of Exception; Idea of Prose; *
*Nudities; Bartleby or On Contingency*.


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