Over fifty philosophers and other guests will be talking with the public during the Night from five main countries—the Czech Republic, France, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia. You’ll find out more about them as the Night is approaching in our dedicated articles. We introduce them here in alphabetical order.
Étienne Balibar (FR)
- Bio-Politics or Cosmopolitics? (Debate)
- Violence and Civility (Agora)
- The Philosophy of the Migrant Condition (Lecture)
Pavel Barša (CZ)
- The Ends of Multiculturalism (Short)
- War and Violence (Debate)
Jean-Michel Besnier (FR)
- Human Enhancement: A Deadly Ambition (Short)
- Should Humans Be Enhanced? (Debate)
Jan Bierhanzl (CZ)
- The Refugee and the Bare Life (Short)
- Case for a Rookie Hangman by Pavel Juráček (1969) (Introduction)
- Asphyxiating Culture by Jean Dubuffet (Reading)
Adam Budak (CZ)
- The Human Mask by Pierre Huyghe (Introduction)
Ivan Buraj (SK)
- Security and/or Rights and Liberties? (Short)
Lenka Bydžovská (CZ)
- The Slavic Epic / Slovanská Epopej by Alfons Mucha (1910-1928) (Guided Tour)
Amy Dahan (FR)
- Nature and Environment: New Political Trends and New Imaginaries (Short)
Veronika Darida (HU)
- Figures and Variations of Sublime (Louis Marin) (Short)
Éric Fassin (FR)
- Performing Race. On the Representation and Under-Representation of Minorities (Short)
- War and Violence (Debate)
Bernard Feltz (BE)
- Human-Nature Relationship and the Crisis of Modern Culture (Lecture)
Sylva Fischerová (CZ)
- Thonet Chair, Right Angle and Wittgenstein
(Reading)
Fabrice Flipo (FR)
- From Environmentalism to Ecology (Short)
- Political Ecology in Action (Screening and Commentary)
Michael Foessel (FR)
- The End of the World Today (Short)
- Cinema and Eschatology. Images of Apocalypse in Contemporary Films and TV shows (Screening and Commentary)
Arnaud François (FR)
- From Defense to Tolerance and Beyond: A History and Analysis of Political Patterns in Immunology (Short)
Josef Fulka (CZ)
- Language Otherwise: Deafness as a Philosophical Problem (Short)
- Camera Lucida. Notes on Photography by Roland Barthes (Reading)
- Journey Into the Wonderland (Short)
Kristin Gissberg (US)
- War at a Distance. Tribute to Harun Farocki (Screening)
Slávek Horák (CZ)
- Homecare (Screening, Debate)
Frédéric Keck (FR)
- Images of Sick Animals: Animal Pain At a Distance (Screening and Commentary)
Karel Kleisner (CZ)
- Is Life Superficial? The Evolution of the External Aspect of Organisms (Short)
Petr Koťátko (CZ)
- Distorted History, Stolen Images and Faked Memory
(Reading)
Petr Kouba (CZ)
- The Foreigner As a Need (Short)
- The Intruder by Claire Denis (2004) (Introduction)
Michał Kozłowski (PL)
- Live to Let Die: from Multitude to Pogrom Crowd in Capitalist Post-Modernization (Short)
- Can Women Still Save Us? (Agora)
Andrzej Leder (PL)
- On Walter Benjamin’s Sentence: ‘There Is No Time to Fall’ (Short)
- The Power of Images (Debate)
David Lengyel (FR/HU)
- The Werckmeister Harmonies, Béla Tarr (2000) (Screening and commentary)
- The Philosopher and the Filmmaker: Sharing Views (Agora)
Michał Łuczewski (PL)
- Eternal Nations (Short)
Miroslav Marcelli (SK)
- Image as an Effect of Superimpression (Short)
- The Power of Images (Debate)
Claire Marin (FR)
- The Improved Body (Short)
Jan Maršálek (CZ)
- Society As an Organism: the Power of a Theoretical Metaphor (Short)
Jaromír Matějek (CZ)
- Ethical Counseling. Solving Ethical Problems in Everyday Medecine (Short)
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- Homecare (Screening, Debate)
- Homecare (Screening, Debate)
Pierre Montebello (FR)
- Power or Powerlessness of Images? (Deleuze, Rancière) (Short)
- The End of the Human World: Paving the Post-Anthropocentric Discourse (Short)
- The ABC of Gilles Deleuze (1988-1989) – C like Culture and R like Resistance (Screening and Commentary)
Monika Murawska (PL)
- The Artist’s Blindness. The Power of Art: Derrida against Lyotard and Henry (Short)
Antonio Negri (IT)
- Bio-Politics or Cosmopolitics? (Debate)
- Producing Commonship: A New Internal Enemy? (Lecture)
Csaba Olay (HU)
- The Human Existence in the 21st Century (Short)
- The Power of Images (Debate)
Michaela Pejčochová (CZ)
- Circle of Animals / Zodiac Heads by Ai Weiwei (2010) (Introduction)
Corine Pelluchon (FR)
- Taking Animals Seriously: What Does It Change for Ethics and Politics? (Short)
- The Ethics of Care (Debate)
Miroslav Petříček (CZ)
- The Power of Images (Debate)
Jiří Přibáň (CZ)
- Symbols in Art and Politics: On Structural Irritation between Esthetical and Political Communication (Lecture)
- The Slavic Epic by Alfons Mucha: Musing About the Apotheosis
Judith Revel (FR)
- Biologization and Naturalization of ‘Threats’ (Short)
- War and Violence (Debate)
- Bios and Politikos (Agora)
- In Search for Ethics in Times of Crises. The Attitudes towards Others and Selves (Short)
Jan Sokol (CZ)
- War and Violence (Debate)
- Freedom and Ethics of Life (Agora)
Jan Sowa (PL)
- Is There Life after Work? A Brief Enquiry into Postcapitalist Imaginaries (Short)
Ádám Takács (HU)
- Embodiment and Forms of Political Emancipation (Short)
Gáspár Miklós Tamás (HU)
- Bio-Politics and Class Politics (Short)
Étienne Tassin (FR)
- Bio-politics or Cosmopolitics? (Debate)
- The Philosophy of the Migrant Condition (Lecture)
- The Wound by Nicolas Klotz (Introduction)
- Politics and Manifestation (Agora)
Petr Urban (CZ)
- Joint Attention As the Key to the Difference Between Man and Other Animals? (Short)
- The Ethics of Care (Debate)
Emil Višňovský (SK)
- Humanism, Post-Humanism, Trans-Humanism (Short)
- Should Humans Be Enhanced? (Debate)
Josef Vojvodík (CZ)
- The Paths of Image, the Paths of Blood: Art as a Mystery of Humanity (Lecture)
Carole Widmaier (FR)
- War and Violence (Debate)
- What’s a Cliché? Meditation on How We Appropriate Scientific Discourses (Short)
Tomáš Winter (CZ)
- Theory Outside Practice: Czech Avant-Guard and Political Caricatures (Lecture and Images)
Benedetta Zaccarello (FR/IT/CZ)
- Détruire, dit-elle by Marguerite Duras (Introduction)
- Man Beyong Mankind: The Myth of the Mutant in Contemporary Philosophies (Short)