[spectre] Lectures: Levels of Embodiment, Nov 20/21, 19:00 (ICI Berlin)

[ICI Kulturlabor Berlin]

ICI KULTURLABOR BERLIN / INSTITUTE FOR CULTURAL INQUIRY
Christinenstr. 18/19, 10119 Berlin - Tel: 030 / 473 7291 10
www.ici-berlin.org

Einladung / Invitation

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LECTURES: LEVELS OF EMBODIMENT, NOV 20/21, 19:00
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How is cognition anchored in the body, how could high-level intelligence
evolve out of purely physical interactions with the environment? What
exactly does it mean that intersubjectivity is grounded in
intercorporality? What is the role of bodily self-consciousness in the
evolution of the human mind? Two public lectures will explore these
questions as part of the first of two meetings of the MIND Group in
Berlin.
The MIND Group – initiated and coordinated by Thomas Metzinger – is a
group of young philosophers and scientists with a strong interest in
questions concerning the mind, consciousness and cognition. One major
purpose of the group is to help bridge the gap between the sciences and
the humanities. The group’s meetings normally take place in the Villa
Giersch in Frankfurt am Main, but now, for the first time, they will  
take
place in Berlin, in cooperation with the ICI Berlin and the
Wissenschaftskolleg. A second meeting will follow in May 2009.

Speakers
Nov 20, 19:00
Prof. Dr. Holk Cruse: “From First-order Embodiment to Second-order
Embodiment - A Simulation Approach”
Holk Cruse is Biocyberneticist, Bielefeld, currently Wissenschaftskolleg
Berlin)
, is author of: Autonomes Laufen (2005), Neural Networks as
Cybernetic Systems (2002), Die Entdeckung der Intelligenz oder: Können
Ameisen denken? (1998).

Nov 21, 19:00
Prof. Dr. Rick Grush: „How the Brain Represents Space and Time“
Rick Grush (Philosopher, UC San Diego),
is author of: “The Machinery
of Mindedness” (in preparation) and “Temporal Representation” (in
preparation).

Location
ICI Berlin,
Christinenstr. 18/19, Haus 8, 10119 Berlin

Lectures will be held in English, admission is free.

Organizer
MIND Group (http://fias.uni-frankfurt.de/philosophie/)
For further information, please contact Miriam Gabriel
(gabrielm(at)students.uni-mainz.de)

Supporters
Barbara-Wengeler-Stiftung (München); Frankfurt Institute for Advanced
Study; Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin, ICI Berlin.

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VORSCHAU AUF WEITERE VERANSTALTUNGEN / FORTHCOMING EVENTS
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NOV 24, 19:30. LECTURE: IRIT ROGOFF, PERFORMANCE: ANA HOFFNER
http://www.ici-berlin.org/event/nov-24-1930-lecture-irit-rogoff-geocultures/
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Irit Rogoff: Circuits of Art and Globalisation
GeoCultures is an attempt to understand how a large range of current
cultural practices are producing new and unexpected realities within
circuits of globalisation. These departures are not simply the  
production
of new subject matter or forms, but the production of new artistic  
arenas
which enact contemporary political conjunctions.
Irit Rogoff is a theorist, curator and organizer who writes at the
intersections of the critical, the political and contemporary arts
practices. Rogoff is Professor of Visual Culture at Goldsmiths College
London University, a department she founded in 2002.
Ana Hoffner: Panic: Perverted
The performance "Panic: Perverted" is a reenactment of Valie Export’s
Aktionshose: Genitalpanik (1969). It articulates perspectives of  
Expanded
Cinema and Body Performance for the present. By making use of a complex
media installation the performance explores possibilities of feminist
counter positioning in times of global migration.
Ana Hoffner is a performance artist and works in and on queer and  
migrant
politics.

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ABENDVORTRAG UND WORKSHOP: EXPERIMENTALISIERUNG DES POLITISCHEN, NOV  
27-29
http://www.ici-berlin.org/index.php?RDCT=0a8e7e9f2d991074489c
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Nov 27, 19:00: Vortrag von Michael Gamper (Zürich): Politik als
Massen-Experiment: Regieren, Revoltieren, Normalisieren.
Nov 28-29: Workshop. Er hat das Ziel, über das Experiment als ein
Verfahren nachzudenken, das sich zu Beginn des 20. Jahrhunderts aus den
Naturwissenschaften kommend in den Sphären der Politik wie der Ästhetik
etabliert.

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PODIUMSDISKUSSION: EUROPA UND SEINE KULTUREN, DEZ 2, 17-19:30
http://www.ici-berlin.org/index.php?RDCT=619cf91489f52ecf2500
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Zu viel oder zu wenig des supranationalen Föderalismus?
Seit den Römischen Verträgen propagiert die Politik der Europäischen
Kommission ein Europa der verschiedenen Kulturen. Dem entgegen wirken
jedoch die wachsende Uniformisierung der Produktion und vor allem der
Konsumgewohnheiten; die kulturelle Vielfalt wird zunehmend durch die
Überwindung der Nationalstaaten in Frage gestellt.

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TAGUNG: TRANSFORMATIONEN DER ANTIKE, DEZ 4.-6
http://www.ici-berlin.org/index.php?RDCT=c0d81a0e1227bb45b5c5
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Macht Antike Politik?
Auch nach dem Ende der politischen Strukturen der Antike hat das  
Altertum
seinen Einfluss auf das öffentliche Denken und Handeln Europas und der
westlichen Welt nie ganz verloren: Antike Lehren und Vorbilder dienen  
bis
in unsere Tage als Bezugspunkte der unterschiedlichsten politischen
Diskurse und haben diese nachhaltig geprägt. Es scheint offensichtlich,
dass Antike Politik ‚macht‘. Welche Bedeutung ihr dabei allerdings
genau zukommt, bedarf ebenso der weiteren Klärung wie die
Funktionsweisen, die hierbei wirksam werden.

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SPANNUNGSÜBUNG 3: THE POWER OF TOLERANCE, DEC 11, 19:30
http://www.ici-berlin.org/index.php?RDCT=06a1ad2811157b67d932
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In the third ICI-Spannungsübung, Wendy Brown (UC Berkeley) and Rainer
Forst (University of Frankfurt/Main) will discuss different discourses  
of
tolerance, their normative premises, limits, and political implications.
The main focus will be on social and political conflicts over the
recognition of differences in civil societies, national politics, and
transnational relations.



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