Images and their influence on thought and emotion have been often criticized by philosophers, if not rejected as sheer copies or simulacra of reality. However, the practice of philosophy, sciences and politics involves a great deal of imagination and is unconceivable without relying on the metaphorical use of language. What gives visual representations and metaphorical language their specific power? And which dangers are specific to political use of images borrowed from sciences?
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The Trade Fair Palace – Studio Hrdinů
The Power of Images
Who: Andrzej Leder, Miroslav Marcelli, Csaba Olay and Miroslav Petřiček
What: Debate
When: 7:15-9 PM
Language: French and Czech, with simultaneous translation
The Trade Fair Palace – Malá Dvorana
War at Distance. Tribute to Harun Farocki
What: Screening
When: 9:15-10 PM
Language: English
Thonet Chair, Right Angle and Wittgenstein
Who: Sylva Fischerová
What: Reading
When: 10:15-10:45 PM
Language: Czech
Distorted history, stolen images and faked memory
Who: Petr Koťátko and Vojtěch Vondráček
What: Reading / Performance
When: 11-11:30 PM
Language: Czech
Camera Lucida. Notes on Photography by Roland Barthes
Who: Josef Fulka
What: Reading
When: 11:45PM-0:15 AM
Language: Czech
The Paths of Image, the Paths of Blood: Art as a Mystery of Humanity
Who: Josef Vojvodík
What: Lecture / Performance
When: 0:30-1:15 AM
Language: Czech
Asphyxiating Culture by Jean Dubuffet
Who: Jan Bierhanzl
What: Reading / Performance
When: 1:30-2:15 AM
Language: Czech
The Trade Fair Palace – Velká Dvorana
L’Épopée slave / Slovanská Epopej d’Alfons Mucha (1910-1928)
Introduced by: Jiří Přibáň et Lenka Bydžovská
What: exhibition
When: 8 (Talking around the Apotheosis by Jiří Přibáň), 9 and 10 PM (by Lenka Bydžovská)
Language : Czech
Faculty of Arts – Aula
The ABC of Gilles Deleuze – C like Culture and R like Resistance (1988-1989)
Who: Pierre Montebello
What: Screening and Comments
When: 10:45 PM-0:00 AM (CZ/FR)
Language: French with Czech subtitles
What’s a Cliché? Meditation on How We Appropriate Scientific Discourses
Who: Carole Widmaier
What: Short Lecture
When: 0:15 AM
Language: French with simultaneous Czech translation
Power or Powerlessness of Images? (Deleuze, Rancière)
Who: Pierre Montebello
What: Short Lecture
When: 0:45 AM
Language: French with simultaneous Czech translation
Image as an Effect of Superimpression
Who: Miroslav Marcelli
What: Short Lecture
When: 1:15 AM
Language: Slovak
Figures and Variations of Sublime (Louis Marin)
Who: Veronika Darida
What: Short Lecture
When: 1:45 AM
Language: English
The Artist’s Blindness. The Power of Art: Derrida against Lyotard and Henry
Who: Monika Murawska
What: Short Lecture
When: 2:15 AM
Language: French with simultaneous Czech translation
Faculty of Arts – room 104
Symbols in Art and Politics: On Structural Irritation between Esthetical and Political Communication
Who: Jiří Přibáň
What: Big Lecture
When: 10-11 PM
Language: Czech
Faculty of Arts – room 217
Theory Outside Practice: Czech Avant-Guard and Political Caricatures
Who: Tomáš Winter
What: Lecture and Images
When: 9:45 PM
Language: Czech
Faculty of Arts – Kinosál (room 429)
The Werckmeister Harmony by Béla Tarr
Who: David Lengyel
What: Screening and Comments
When: 10 PM – 0:30 AM
Language: English
Faculty of Arts – History Cabinet
The Philosopher and the Filmmaker: Sharing Views
Who: David Lengyel
What: Agora
Prepared by: Hanna Trindade (Faculty of Humanities of Charles University)
When: 8:30-9:30 PM
Language: French