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16.12.2016 / 15:30
Roundtable discussion

Art and Politics (Walter Benjamin's Legacy)

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Roundtable discussion "Art and Politics (Walter Benjamin's Legacy)" in the framework of "Critique of the Social Sciences and Humanities" Seminar and "Human Rights" Seminar (58–60 Galernaya Street).

Program

3:30–4:30pm Panel 1

  • Valentin Golev (SPbU) "Overcoming Philology: Benjamin Defends 'Baudelaire' Before Adorno"
  • Anastasia Bergalevich (SPbU) "What is 'Aura' by W. Benjamin? Elucidation Through the Concept of 'Double Distance' by G. Didi-Huberman"
  • Anastasia Rykshina (SPbU) "Benjamin and Bataille: Intersection of French and German Discourses, Biographic and Conceptual Relationships Between Two Thinkers"

4:30–5:00pm Lunch

5:00–6:15pm Panel 2

  • Susan Gillespie (USA) "Prescience and Prediction. Walter Benjamin's Media Dialectics and the US Presidential Election of 2016"
  • Aaron Levy (University of Pennsylvania, USA) "Straying: Surviving on the Margins"
  • Artemy Magun (SPbU) "From Critique of Violence to the Concept of History: Benjamin's Analytics of Negativity"

6:15-6:30pm Coffee break

6:30–8:00pm Panel 3

  • Jean-Louis Déotte (Paris 8 University, France) "Benjamin and the 'Paradox of the Sock'"
  • Denis Skopin (SPbU) "Communal Apartments and Museums in 'Moscow Diary:' Political Aspects"
  • Sergey Fokin (SPbU) "Benjamin's Criticism of Max Weber: On the Religious Structure of Capitalism"
  • Sophie-Aurore Roussel (University Nice Sophia Antipolis, France) "Theater: A Political 'Apparatus'"

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