Next Workshop (tba)
Pattern Recognition and Kant’s Schematism.
Artificial Experience II
Yale University
The ›Yale-Düsseldorf Working Group on Philosophy and Media‹ juxtaposes thought figures from the history of philosophy with concrete media-technical ensembles. More specifically, under the rubric ‘Artificial Experience’ it studies the artificiality of human and non-human experience as media. The hypothesis is that historical philosophical figures offer different perspectives on traditional as well as current media-technical objects. Following Gilbert Simondon’s theory, the group also hopes to uncover specific modes of experience embedded in certain media-technical ensembles, modes which have remained hidden because the better thought figure has not yet been tested.
Pattern Recognition and Kant’s Schematism.
Artificial Experience II
Yale University
more information soon
Social Media and Leibniz’ Monadology. Artificial Experience I
ICI Berlin
Organized by Martin Doll (Düsseldorf) and Paul North (Yale)
ICI Berlin
Christinenstr. 18-19, Haus 8, 10119 Berlin
In English
This workshop will juxtapose Leibniz’s ‘monad’—understood as an atomistic and highly perspectival account of experience—with current media technologies (for example, social media).
The workshop is divided into two sessions.
1. The first is a collaborative, in-depth reading of the Monadology and related texts and letters, asking questions such as: what forms of human and non-human experience can be observed there? Can this be understood as a mode of media or artificial experience? What roles do historical media play in Leibniz, the window, the mirror, the city, etc.?
2. The second session will connect the figure of the monad with concrete media technologies proposed by participants themselves. What dimension of experience can be brought to light in the chosen media technology, if it is linked with Leibniz’s monadic thinking?
The number of participants will be limited. If you would like to register, please send a short expression of interest to: martin.doll@hhu.de and paul.a.north@yale.edu.
Programme
WEDNESDAY, October 5th
10:00-10:15 Martin Doll (Düsseldorf)/Paul North (Yale)
Welcome and Short Introduction
Session 1: Close Reading of the Monadology and Related Texts
10:15-11:00 Paul North (Yale)
§ 1-12
11:00-11:45 Martin Doll (Düsseldorf)
§ 13-24
Coffee Break
12:00-12:45 Martin Doll/Paul North
§ 25-29/30-35
12:45-13:30 Tobias Matzner (Paderborn)
§ 36-46
Lunch
14:45-15:30 Group
§ 47-57
15:30-16:15 Astrid Deuber-Mankowsky (Bochum)
§ 58-68
Coffee Break
16:30-17:15 Matthew Shafer (Florida International)
§ 69-79
17:15-18:00 Mirjam Schaub (Hamburg)
§ 80-90
Reception
THURSDAY, October 6th
Session 2: Monadic Media
10:00-10:45 Paul North (Yale)
Dollar
10:45-11:30 Martin Doll (Düsseldorf)
Hashtags
Coffee Break
11:45-12:30 Tobias Matzner (Paderborn) – canceled
Algorithms
12:30-13:15 Katerina Krtilova (Zurich) – canceled
Non-Graphical User Interfaces and Tangible Interfaces
Lunch
14:30-15:15 Astrid Deuber-Mankowsky (Bochum)
Protests Going Viral
15:15-16:00 Matthew Shafer (Florida International)
Advertisement
Coffee Break
16:15-17:00 Mirjam Schaub (Hamburg)
tba
17:00-18:00 Closing Discussion