Combustible Tools
A talk by Tom Dale
Date: Wednesday 13 April
Time: 14.00
Venue: Ruskin 211
From a discussion with Gilles Deleuze in 1972, Michel Foucault developed the idea of philosophy as a 'Tool Box' which we could rummage through and use, in what ever ways we saw fit. It seems admirable of Foucault, even now, to draw together in one term the potency of philosophy with the immediacy of the tool and the action that ideas so often necessitate. But expanding on the the old adage 'Every tool is a weapon, if you hold it right' this talk will take as it's starting point Eyal Weizman's recent research into the Israeli militaries interpretation of key texts by Deleuze & Guattari, George Bataille, Bernard Tschumi and the Situationists for more lethal means.
From Chuck Palahniuk's 'aroma therapy assassins' in his book Haunted, to the instructive and potentially explosive knowledge conveyed by the installations of Gregory Green, this talk will formulate an analysis of the ways and means through which theory, and its practice, is used to both subvert and project power.
Date: Wednesday 13 April
Time: 14.00
Venue: Ruskin 211
From a discussion with Gilles Deleuze in 1972, Michel Foucault developed the idea of philosophy as a 'Tool Box' which we could rummage through and use, in what ever ways we saw fit. It seems admirable of Foucault, even now, to draw together in one term the potency of philosophy with the immediacy of the tool and the action that ideas so often necessitate. But expanding on the the old adage 'Every tool is a weapon, if you hold it right' this talk will take as it's starting point Eyal Weizman's recent research into the Israeli militaries interpretation of key texts by Deleuze & Guattari, George Bataille, Bernard Tschumi and the Situationists for more lethal means.
From Chuck Palahniuk's 'aroma therapy assassins' in his book Haunted, to the instructive and potentially explosive knowledge conveyed by the installations of Gregory Green, this talk will formulate an analysis of the ways and means through which theory, and its practice, is used to both subvert and project power.
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