Our summer course’s wide, general topic of Living Together also raises the quetion of the status of the ”singularities” that in some form or way actually did, do or may live together. Whether individuals, human persons, members of a community; or bodies, biological entities or other forms of bare life, the question of the status of the “singularities” also actualises their being’s relation to the law and the subject positions endorsed, allotted or produced by the rights of law. This makes some of Giorgio Agamben’s work highly topical and inspirationally relevant for our event.

While Agamben has written on the complex relationship between philosophy and poetry, between prose and verse (e.g. Language and Death: The Place of Negativity; [1982] 1991; Stanzas: Word and Phantasm in Western Culture; [1977] 1993; The Idea of Prose; [1985] 1995), there are (at least) four Agamben books with direct relevance for the event: The Coming Community ([1990] 1993); Homo Sacer: Sovereign Power and Bare Life ([1995] 1998); State of Exception ([2003] 2005); and The Highest Poverty: Monastic Rules and Form-of-Life ([2011] 2013).


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giorgio_Agamben


Derrida:

The Work of Mourning. Ed. Pascale-Anne Brault and Michael Mann. Chicago: Chicago University Press, 1981.
"The Deaths of Roland Barthes”. In The Work of Mourning. Ed. Pascale-Anne Brault and Michael Mann. Chicago: Chicago University Press, 1981 1981. 31-68.
The Gift of Death. Transl. Wills. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, [1991] 1995.
The Ear of the Other: Otobiography, Transference, Translation. Transl. Kamuf. Ed. McDonald. New York: Shocken Books, 1985.
The Other Heading: Reflections on Today’s Europe. Transl. Pascale-Anne Brault, Michael B. Naas. Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, [1991] 1992.
The Politics of Friendship. Transl. George Collins. London and New York: Verso, 1994.
Given Time: I. Counterfeit Money. Transl. Kamuf. Chicago: Chicago University Press, 1992.
Memoires: For Paul de Man. Transl. Lindsay, Culler, Cadava, and Kamuf. New York: Columbia University Press, 1989.
Of Hospitality. Transl. Rachel Bowlby. Stanford, SUP, 2000.
On Cosmopolitanism and Forgiveness. London: Routledge, 2001
Rogues: Two Essays on Reason. Transl. Pascale-Anne Brault and Michael Naas. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2005.
“The Last of the Rogue States: The ‘Democracy to Come’, Opening in Two Turns”. In: Rogues: Two Essays on Reason. Transl. Pascale-Anne Brault and Michael Naas. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2005. 78-94.


In his work, Barthes focuses on the concept of "idiorrhythmy," a productive form of living together in which one recognizes and respects the individual rhythms of the other. He explores this phenomenon through five texts that represent different living spaces and their associated ways of life: Émile Zola's Pot-Bouille, set in a Parisian apartment building [l’immeuble bourgeois]; Thomas Mann's The Magic Mountain, which takes place in a sanatorium (le grand hôtel); André Gide's “La Séquestrée de Poitiers”, based on the true story of a woman confined to her bedroom [la chambre solitaire]; Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe, about a castaway on a remote island [le repaire; lair; den; hideout], and Pallidius's Lausiac History, detailing the ascetic lives of the desert fathers [le désert]. – CUP

http://www.zibaldon.es/idiorrhythmia/    —> idiorrhythmia
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The PhD students are summoned to participate in the plenary sessions where invited keynotes present their talks followed by ensemble discussions, and in one of three groups where the students’ pre-submitted papers are discussed. Keynotes will be given according to a selection of the issues involved.