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Welcome to the online start up of Economics on the border

 

Please write your contribution to the series and feel free to edit this page. If you need any help on how to use this wiki, scroll down to the bottom of the page where you will find links to the manual and instruction videos.

 

Introduction 

Economics on the Border is a student-run open seminar meant to fill the gap between economics and certain disciplines or fields of philosophical thought (such as continental and political philosophy) that are usually considered as "unaffiliated" with the methods and practices of 'mainstream' economic science. Seminars and seminal projects will therefore be run jointly by master students enrolled at EIPE (Erasmus Institute for Philosophy and Economics) and in the regular MA Philosophy at Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam. It is a "work in progress" series of seminars, run independently of EUR's curriculum and, both mostly and advisedly, it is open to any philosophy and/or economics student who wishes to discuss economics not only at the light, but also in virtue of continental philosophy tradition. For a more comprehensive description and info on the meetings please see below.

 

Scope of the Seminar 

The science of economics is not related to philosophy only through the restrictive nexus of epistemology. And philosophy is not related to economics solely through the use of vague notions such as “capitalism” and “neoliberalism”. Obviously there is a large gap in front of us and it needs to be filled. If the dimension of the gap is large enough to prevent most of us from a burdensome academic endeavor, it is not wide enough to swallow the curiosity of some students that are faced with the problem that it poses. This very curiosity is on the roots of Economics on the Border, an open seminar run jointly by students from EIPE and the Philosophy MA (EUR) in Rotterdam.

 

During the course of this series of seminars, students will try to map the various possible borders between philosophy and economics  by reading economics not with new classical glasses, but rather by appealing to those very instances standard economic  theory is reluctant to deal wtih:

 

  • In the epistemological field an attempt will be made to link economics with certain currents in continental philosophy of science that focus on questions of scientific change, worldview and their relation with the history –and not only the method- of economic thought. We will discuss philosophers and historians of science such as Gaston Bachelard, Alexandre Koyré, Georges Canguillem, Emile Meyerson, Thomas Kuhn and Michel Foucault.
  • In the field of sociology we will try to connect distant (Max Weber) and recent (Bourdieu, Senett) social theory to economics as a social science and as a concrete practice. We will focus on notions such as demystification, craftsmanship, mechanization and public space and try to see whether the practice of economic theory has a share in their effects.
  • In the field of feminist studies we will discuss the gendered and racialized rationality of capital. We will try to connect these problems both to the field of epistemology (particularly economic) and to the problematic of globalization and neoliberalism and try to define their limits.
  • In the field of the so-called “post-modern” philosophy an attempt will be made to define the borders between certain approaches to economics and capitalism and to economic theory and method. Special attention will be given to the concept of subjectivity and subject production in the works of Deleuze-Guattari, Foucault, Heidegger, Lévinas, Lacan, Benjamin. Furthermore we will try to explore some “radical” or alternative epistemological considerations that were or could be applied to economics –such as the idea of rhizome in Deleuze-Guattari,  the economics of “excess” in the work of Georges Bataille.
  • Finally in the course of the seminar -since this list cannot be fully inclusive- we will trace certain affinities between economics and phychoanalysis, critical theory, aesthetics and other fields of philosophical thought and everyday practice. Of course this depends a lot on the active participation of new “members” of the seminar and on possible visitors from other institutions.

 

The seminar will be held bi-weekly on Dek22 at 22 Willem Buytewechstraat. For more specific information on the subjects discussed please see our Proposed Contributions page. Feel free to join our seminar -new participations and lecture proposals are more than welcome! 

But most of all: feel free to speak and dare to think!

   

Agenda  

-Meeting on Tuesday 27th of October @ Dek22, Willem Buytewechstraat 22 (to be confirmed by Aetzel).

 

Each of us will try to discuss (within 15 min or so) certain problematic notions that lie between the three following fields

- political and ethical philosophy (normative philosophy)

- philosophy

- economics (mainly methodology / science; and the scientific ideal behind it)

Philosophy seems to provide the missing link between the other two. Yet philosophy itself seems to be divided itself (analytical/continental) -but at the same time it seems to provide the best place to start if we want to untie the knot.  Within this framework let's try and discuss certain notions and the way they can be connected through these fields. To be more precice we can talk about "capitalism", "liberalism", "realism/real", "truth" (that's heavy!) or whatever notion seems problematic to the link between political philosophy, philosophy and economics. Let's try to identify some crucial short circuits and draw a kind of map!

(I'm setting up a next meeting topics page, if we want to post our ideas beforehand N.)

 

 

 

 

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