the Expert of the project START Shavlohova Anastasia will present a lecture in the framework of the philosophy club at the Winery

Philosophical society of the Winery is: 18 July at 19:30 for the first time in Moscow will give a lecture about one of the most famous contemporary philosophers, the Creator of OOO (object oriented ontology), Professor at the American University in Cairo, the ideologue of the group of speculative realists and the real star of the modern philosophy of Graham Harman. In his lecture, he will present the ideas of a recent book “Broken hammer Dante”.

Graham Harman insists: “the World — that's not what we think of him”. Your theory of the relationship between subject and object, American aesthetic formalism, that formalism has to say about ethics and metaphysics, and that is why you should take a closer look at things, Graham Harman will tell in his lecture on “Factory”.

Curator of the Philosophical club of the Winery Anastasia Shavlohova:

“the Third cycle of the Philosophical club of the Winery we have dedicated completely to the questions of contemporary aesthetics. First of all, I and my co-curator Andrew Schoenthal, we realized the situation in Russia is that during the time of Soviet History and of dogmatic Marxism-Leninism in academic terms, we are far behind in matters of aesthetics. In fact, in Russia practically do not teach the aesthetics as discipline. It a little affect in the realm of philosophy or of art. In the framework of the philosophy club we were able to create a comprehensive programme that includes a variety of topics, from post-Internet aesthetics to cyberfeminism, from de-colonial turn to the aesthetics of the space. Now in Russia the Philosophical club of the Winery is a unique platform where consistently understand the most important currents of modern culture, we gather the most relevant speakers from around the world, always emphasizing the democratic project. There is a perception that philosophy is something very secret understanding only. It is this stereotype we want to break within the framework of the philosophy club, translating academic knowledge into language modern culture”.

 

co-curator of the Philosophical club of the Winery

Andrew Schoenthal: 

“Statement of Graham Harman's "a New approach to the formalism in ethics, aesthetics, and metaphysics” – Central lecture of our course. He is saying that the aesthetics of today defines the entire philosophy. Modern man, he believes, opens the sensory measurement at the moment of application objects: “all things are of infinite depth, and all things break to enjoy along the smallest facades in the world”. In the first lecture given in Moscow, the founder of object-oriented ontology will talk about his latest book “Broken hammer Dante”, where he will defend formalism in the broad sense of the word. The choice of this topic is not accidental — Russia has its own strong formalist tradition. Speculative realism can be treated in different ways, including critical (personally, I lean toward the latter), but the performances of Harman — is primarily artistic and philosophical performance that you want to see live, especially because of his charisma and energy he is not inferior to other stars philosophy”

 

Graham Harman — philosopher, founder of object-oriented philosophy, Professor of the American University in Cairo and an active blogger. Editor of the book series “Speculative realism" in publishing the University of Edinburgh and jointly with Bruno Latour "New metaphysics" at Open Humanities Press. Among recent books: “bells and Whistles: more speculative realism" (2013) Bruno Latour: rebuilding political" (2014), “Materialnet: objects and social theory" (2016).

 

Philosophical club Brewery - a platform for discussion of issues and events of modern philosophy in maxims of art, culture, anthropology and sociology, established on the basis of the SRC WINZAVOD. Artistic processes, as we know, cannot exist without a cultural context. Contemporary art is a zone of intersection of philosophy, politics, culture, social anthropology, creating and resolving tensions and conflicts within society. The project will be held a meeting with researchers and practitioners in the field of philosophy and culture, as well as seminar meetings, where the students themselves will be able to create a field for discussion.