Welcome to the online start up of Economics on the border
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Introduction
Economics on the Border is a student-run open seminar meant to fill the gap between economics and certain disciplines or fields of thought (such as continental and political philosophy) that are usually concidered as "unaffiliated" with the methods and practices of economic science. It is run jointly by master students enrolled in EIPE (Erasmus Institute for Philosophy and Economics) and in the Philosophical Anthropology MPhil at the Erasmus University in Rotterdam. It is a "work in progress" seminar, run independently of the university's curriculum and it is open to any philosophy and/or economics student that wishes to discuss certain unexplored or understated affiliations between the two (or more!) disciplines. For a more comprehensive description and info on the meetings please see the link below.
Agenda
-no definite date for the first meeting yet (Aetzel?)
Proposed contributions by Participants
Marco Sachy
The Seminar will be focused on Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattary Mille Plateaux - Capitalisme and Schizophrenie. I will make a comparison between the modern and analytical metaphor of the 'tree' with the post-modern and continental one of the 'rhizome'. The thesis is that on the one hand a configuration with the 'tree' as a syntactic and epistemic leading metaphor brings about a hierachical, top-down framework to produce knowledge, also economic knowledge. This in turn leads to a limitation in the possibilities of knowledge. On the other hand Deleuze and Guattari's 'rhizome' is a suitable metaphor to exemplify that in different configurations such as nets or webs the connections of those knots are not established through a dichotomy, but rather in way that enables to make connections in a system that is now a-centered and a-hierachical. An intuitive example is the way the internet and the web do develop.
Nikos Skiadopoulos
Chiara Bonfiglioli
Sanne van Driel:
This seminar will be devoted to 'Capitalism and Subject Production'. The focus will be on Felix Guattari's Three Ecologies and the way he describes what he calls Integrated World Capitalism as the dominant subject productionmachine, that is polluting our world. But Guattari also creates a meta-model through which the process of subject production can be understood and different ways of being in the world, au milieu, can be found, a space for other voices can be created. At the end of Three Ecologies Guattari cites Walter Benjamin from his text The Storyteller, in which Benjamin describes, comparing the storyteller to a craftsman, how the art of storytelling in our age has come to a decline. Considering the seminar on Sennett, we could again, from a different light, discuss the possibility of craftsmanship/storytelling/becoming-minor in our technocapitalist society.
Izaak Dekker:
In this seminar the critiques and theories of Richard Sennett (The culture of new capitalism, The craftsman, The uses of disorder) will be presented and evaluated. Furthermore I would like to use this presentation in order to discuss the broader themes Sennett brings up in his writings. For example the possibility of craftsmanship in a technocapitalist environment and the impacts of economical factors on culture and public life. Sennett has written much about the ways in which our public space is organised. Abstract ways of planning on enormous scale by the municipality a company or government fail in making living and vibrating neighbourhoods, can this be re-organised (or maybe dis-organised) and in what way?
Aetzel Griffioen
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