WIth the workshop we aim to address the following questions:
\nCan critical theory\, by utilizing its vast underlying philosophical currents of German Idealism\, Marx and materialist thought\, Freud and contemporary psychoanalysis\, provide a meta-theoretical discourse in determining the conceptual maturation of the notion Institution? How do institutions conceptually emerge\, what are their historical and material conditions\, what are their modes of presentation and representation\, what are they in essence and what forms do they acquire\, how are they reflected in subject&rsquo\; consciousnesses\, what is the relation between human agency and institutional frameworks etc.? Can we transcend the analytical framework of rules\, behaviour and coordination\, by historically and ideologically deconstructing institutional structures and frameworks of contemporary societies?
\nProgramme:
\nThursday 25th August &ndash\; Mala dvorana
\nIntroduction (9.30)
\nSession 1 (10.00 &ndash\; 11.30) &ndash\; Philosophy and Institutions
\nOliver Feltham (American University of Paris)
\nInstitution or Organization? A Humean reply to Nunes
\nUro&scaron\; Kranjc (University of York)
\nCan Institutions be Thought as Multiplicities &ndash\; Marx\, Veblen\, Badiou
\nCoffee Break
\nSession 2 (12.00 &ndash\; 14.00) &ndash\; Sociological and Political Roots of Contemporary Institutions \;
\nRudi Rizman (University of Ljubljana &\; University of Bologna) (via ZOOM)
\nWhat is Left of Institutional Regulation and Democracy in the Time of Neoliberal Hegemony?
\nTomaž Mastnak (ZRC SAZU)
\nIs Economic \;Power an Institution? The Limits of August Ludwig von Rochau's Redefinition of Liberal Politics
\nPeter J. Verov&scaron\;ek (University of Sheffield)
\nA Critical Theory of Political Institutions: Charting the Frankfurt School's Shift from Social to Political Categories
\n\nFriday 26th August &ndash\; Mala dvorana
\nSession 3 (9.00 &ndash\; 12.00) &ndash\; Psychoanalysis and Institutions
\nCindy Zeiher (University of Canterbury) (via ZOOM)
\nPsychoanalysis&rsquo\; Slip of the Discourse
\nMike Grimshaw (University of Canterbury) (via ZOOM)
\nRadical Theology and the &lsquo\;Weakening&rsquo\; of Bourgeois Institutions
\nJelica &Scaron\;umič Riha (ZRC SAZU)
\nSade or the Institution of the Right to Enjoyment
\nLorenzo Chiesa (Newcastle University)
\nOn Some Questions Prior to any Possible Treatment of Lacan&rsquo\;s Theory of Discourses as Political
\nCoffee Break
\nSession 4 (13.00 &ndash\; 15.00) &ndash\; Marx and the Institutional Dispositive
\nCarolina Alves (University of Cambridge) (via ZOOM)
\nProvisional: Marx's Influence on Keynes Circle\, Joan Robinson and Economic Institutions
\nWerner Bonefeld (University of York)
\nOn Real Abstraction: Wealth\, Suffering and Negation
\nClosing Remarks
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