Listening Session Mille Plateaux
Talk by Arianna Sforzini
19h, November 27
Ethics and aesthetics of dissonance. Do clothes make the man?
Based on a series of Foucauldian texts, including an unpublished manuscript on LesHermaphrodites published this autumn by Éditions Gallimard, my presentation aims to reflect on the aesthetics of Michel Foucault’s ‘infamous’ forms of resistance, expressed through the tiny gestures of ordinary lives, including everyday acts of insubordination, disruptive lifestyles, and clothing and attire that defy established norms. Is this merely a Foucauldian ‘minoritarianism,’ an almost indulgent passion for marginal archives, or can one discern something like an agency, a force for action, a subjective ‘performative’ capacity of giving shape to a free positioning of the self?
Arianna Sforzini is an Associate Professor in contemporary philosophy and aesthetics at the Université Paris-Est Créteil. Her research focuses on Michel Foucault’s thought, and she works in particular on the intersections between contemporary French philosophy and the arts. She is the author of Les scènes de la vérité. Michel Foucault et le théâtre (Lormont, Le bord de l’eau, 2017) and Michel Foucault. Une pensée du corps (Paris, PUF, 2014). She is the critical editor of Michel Foucault’s early course at the École normale supérieure: La question anthropologique. Cours 1954-1955 (Paris, Seuil-Gallimard, 2022).
Hochschule für Musik Basel FHNW, Klassik
Provisorium Letzi, St. Alban-Vorstadt 93/95 4052
19:00
This talk is part of the series Society in Transformation:
Society in Transformation: Lecture by Golnar Narimani
9.9. 2025 Musikhochschule Letzi Basel
Philosopher Golnar Narimani presents her research on Emmanuel Lévinas, hospitality and the actuality of his aesthetics.
The lectures in this series bring together philoso-phers, social scientists, curators and media scholars who are grappling with the changes taking place in today's society. In these turbulent times, artistic production should be aware of these changes. The lectures and discussions provide a theoretical back- ground for five projects in the master's programme 'Music and Scene in Transformation' (MUST) that deal with micro-political forms of resistance (intimate shout outs), hospitality and intersubjective encoun-ters (nice to know you), post-digital music theatre (collective work), the exhausted self (between two deaths) and the question of whether the figure of the migrating subject could lead artists beyond the dead ends of identity politics (between worlds).
The six evenings combine a guest lecture, open discussions and drinks from the bar at Letzi.
The province of aesthetic agency
24.9.2025: Christoph Haffter will give a talk at the workshop "Music and Action" in Stuttgart which is organised by Daniel Feige and Alessandro Bertinetto.
Music and AI
26.9.2025
Christoph Haffter participates in a round table on Music and AI with Alexander Schubert, Pierre Saint-Germier, Jean-Pierre Briot and Alessandro Arbo in the framework of the ENPM conference and the festival Musica in Strasbourg.
