Chimères n.78 - Soigne qui peut (la vie) - Janvier 2013

Mise en ligne du numéro en cours 
Valérie Marange, Soigne qui peut

POLITIQUE 
Anne Perraut-Soliveres, Attention, fragile... 
Jean-Pierre Martin, Soin et (des)institutionalisation 
Max Dorra, Leçons de solitude.

CLINIQUE 
Noelle Lasne, Le contrat 
Pierre Delion, La représentation d'autrui dans le développement du petit d’homme 
Marie-Jeanne Gendron, D’un corps à l’autre, de l’odeur à la parole 
Blandine Ponet, La voie matérielle 
Anne Brun, Les médiations thérapeutiques dans les cliniques de l'extrême 
Chantal Lheureux-Davidse, De l'agrippement sensoriel à la métaphore partagée dans la clinique de l'autisme 
Isabelle Ginot, Écouter le toucher

CONCEPT 
Erin Manning , Vivre dans un monde de textures
Brian Massumi, Reconnaître la neurodiversité 
Carla Bottiglieri, Soigner l’imaginaire du geste : pratiques somatiques du toucher et du mouvement 
Michelle Ducornet, Penser de tout son corps 
Josep Rafanell i Orra, Habiter. Quelques notes

TERRAIN 
Monique Selim, Violence, folie et réhabilitation imaginaire à Canton 
Clara Novaes, Olivier Taïeb, Marie Rose Moro, L'expérience urbaine de l'ayahuasca au Brésil 
Michael Querrien, La qualité d’une démarche de soin

FICTIONS 
Annie Vacelet-Vuitton, La nuit du Pangolin

ESTHETIQUE 
Virginia Kastrup, Bergson, l’attention et les aveugles 
Olivier Derousseau, Chagrin 
Christophe Boulanger, Les victimes mortes se vengent très bien… 
Fred Périé , Sans titre, à...

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Deleuze in China: 2012 Kaifeng International Deleuze Conference

2012 Kaifeng International Deleuze Conference

May 18，2012–May 21，2012

College of Foreign Languages，Henan University

2012 Kaifeng International Deleuze Conference, hosted by College of Foreign Languages, Henan University, in collaboration with University of New South Wales, Australia, will be held in Kaifeng City, a famous ancient capital city of seven dynasties. We invite participation by Chinese and international scholars. This conference will provide an opportunity for Chinese and international scholars to exchange ideas around the work of Gilles Deleuze.

Keynote Speakers include:

• Anne Sauvagnargues (Université Paris Ouest Nanterre, France)
• Ronald Bogue (University of Georgia, USA)
• Rosi Braidotti (Utrecht University, Netherlands)
• Brian Massumi (Université de Montréal)

Invited Speakers include:

• Paul Patton (University of New South Wales, Australia)
• Daniel W. Smith (Purdue University, USA)
• Patricia Pisters (University of Amsterdam, Netherlands)
• Ian Buchanan (University of Wollongong, Australia)
• Manola Antonioli (École Supérieure d'Art et de Design de Valenciennes, France)
• Kim Sang-Hwan (Seoul National University, South Korea)
• Chan-Woong Lee (Ewha Womans University, South Korea)
• Timothy O'Leary (Hong Kong University)
• Eugene W. Holland (The Ohio State University)
• Charles J. Stivale (Wayne State University)
• Gao Jihai (Henan University, China)
• Du Xiaozhen (Peking University, China)
• Wang Minan (Beijing Foreign Languages University, China)
• Jiang Yuhui (East China Normal University, China)

Topics include:

• 1. Interpretation of important Deleuzian concepts;
• 2. Deleuze and cinema, art, philosophy, painting, literature, politics, music, religion, architecture, etc.;
• 3. Deleuze and other poststructuralist philosophers such as Derrida, Foucault, etc.;
• 4. Deleuze and psychoanalysis: Freud, Lacan, Guattari;
• 5. Developing and transcending Deleuze: the application of Deleuzian ideas in Arts and Humanities disciplines in China and throughout the world.

We welcome individual abstracts as well as panel proposals from scholars both at home and abroad. An English version of the abstract is required for domestic scholars and scholars from other non-English speaking countries: it should be between 300 to 500 words. Keynote speeches (40-55 minutes) will be in English and Chinese with simultaneous translation. Those interested in participating in the conference should send a title, keywords and abstract to 2012kdic@gmail.com before October, 31, 2011. Those interested in proposing panel topics should send panel proposals to 2012kdic@gmail.com before October 31, 2011. Attendance at the conference will be limited so a selection will be made on the basis of abstracts submitted. Papers selected will be notified by December 1st 2011. The deadline for full conference papers (20-25 minutes) is March 15, 2012.

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Brian Massumi -Semblance and Event Activist Philosophy and the Occurrent Arts - MIT Press - November 2011

Semblance and Event
Activist Philosophy and the Occurrent Arts
Brian Massumi

Events are always passing; to experience an event is to experience the passing. But how do we perceive an experience that encompasses the just-was and the is-about-to-be as much as what is actually present? In Semblance and Event, Brian Massumi, drawing on the work of William James, Alfred North Whitehead, Gilles Deleuze, and others, develops the concept of "semblance" as a way to approach this question.

It is, he argues, a question of abstraction, not as the opposite of the concrete but as a dimension of it: "lived abstraction." A semblance is a lived abstraction. Massumi uses the category of the semblance to investigate practices of art that are relational and event-oriented--variously known as interactive art, ephemeral art, performance art, art intervention--which he refers to collectively as the "occurrent arts." Massumi argues that traditional art practices, including perspective painting, conventionally considered to be object-oriented freeze frames, also organize events of perception, and must be considered occurrent arts in their own way. Each art practice invents its own kinds of relational events of lived abstraction, to produce a signature species of semblance.

The artwork's relational engagement, Massumi continues, gives it a political valence just as necessary and immediate as the aesthetic dimension. Massumi investigates occurrent art practices in order to examine, on the broadest level, how the aesthetic and the political are always intertwined in any creative activity.

About the Author

Brian Massumi is Professor in the Department of Communication Sciences at the University of Montréal. He is the author of Parables for the Virtual: Movement, Affect, Sensation and A User's Guide to Capitalism and Schizophrenia: Deviations from Deleuze and Guattari (MIT Press, 1992).