Theory: Philosophy for the 21st Century (gLV) 

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Nummer und TypBFA-BFA-Th.23H.012 / Moduldurchführung
ModulTheorie 
VeranstalterDepartement Fine Arts
LeitungGerald Raunig
Anzahl Teilnehmendemaximal 11
ECTS3 Credits
VoraussetzungenCourse language: English
ZielgruppenBA Fine Arts students
Open for exchange-students

Interested BA students of other study programmes can register from 28 August - 08 September 2023 by ClickEnroll; https://intern.zhdk.ch/?ClickEnroll

Interested MA students write an email between 28 August - 11 September 2023 2023 to: studium.dfa@zhdk.ch
We will inform you by e-mail in CW 39 whether participation is possible.
Applications before 28 August 2023 will not be accepted.

No registrations through our lecturers will be accepted.
Lernziele / Kompetenzen
  • Getting acquainted with contemporary philosophy
  • Understanding anti-identitarian theories and practices of multiplicity
  • Assembling examples of multiplicity in music and social life
InhalteAround 1968 and in its aftermaths, most of all with the groundbreaking book A Thousand Plateaus by Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari, emerged a huge storm against identity, unification and homogeneity. Multitude and multiplicity became central concepts both for theoretical and political practices. Today, most of all with queer and transfeminist movements, this urge against authoritarian, identitarian, totalitarian positions becomes more central than ever. The seminar will draw some lines on the theoretical necessity to understand better what it means that it is not enough to say, ‘Long live the multiple,’ but that we have to create multiplicity.


Gerald Raunig (*1963) is a professor in the BA Fine Arts. Books in English: "Art and Revolution. Transversal Activism in the Long Twentieth Century", New York/Los Angeles: Semiotext(e)/MIT Press 2007; "Art and Contemporary Critical Practice. Reinventing Institutional Critique", London: mayflybooks 2009; "A Thousand Machines", New York/Los Angeles: Semiotext(e)/MIT Press 2010; "Critique of Creativity", London: mayflybooks 2011; "Factories of Knowledge, Industries of Creativity", New York/Los Angeles: Semiotext(e)/MIT Press 2013; "DIVIDUUM". Machinic Capitalism and Molecular Revolution, Vol.1, New York/Los Angeles: Semiotext(e)/MIT Press 2016.
Bibliographie / LiteraturWill be handed out during the course
Leistungsnachweis / TestatanforderungMandatory attendance (minimum 80%); active participation
TermineTime: 09:15 - 17:00 o'clock

CW 48: 27 / 28 / 29 / 30 November, 01 December
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