Stefano Harney: Logic, Logistics and Logisticality

The Department of VISUAL CULTURE is pleased to welcome STEFANO HARNEY for a four-part seminar series open to all.

The third seminar will take place on Thursday, 25.05.2023, 18:00 in seminar room AC0440 (TU Wien, Main Campus, staircase 10, 4th floor). The seminars build upon each other but can be attended individually as well.

LOGIC, LOGISTICS AND LOGISTICALITY

Logic works through inference, a word derived from ‚move forward.‘ And indeed this form of thinking has, as DENISE FERREIRA DA SILVA teaches us, a firm linearity in its structure. Today, with what might be called Logistical Capitalism, everything moves forward, and everything seeks access. What happens when this relentless movement toward access encounters the resistance of no resistance in the operations of what FRED MOTEN and I have called logisiticality. We might understand logisticality as a historically derived capacity to reconstitute entanglement in the face of being straightened out by the line, which in turn provokes the line’s vengeful return. This state of affairs will in turn ask us to contemplate the connection between access and affordances.

 

Next event in the three-part seminar series:

22.06.2023 (with DR. RONALD ROSE-ANTOINETTE, KHM)
THE REAL DEAL

 

STEFANO HARNEY (Dr.) is Professor of Transversal Aesthetics at the ACADEMY OF MEDIA ARTS COLOGNE and a Honorary Professor in the Institute of Gender, Race, Sexuality, and Social Justice at the UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA. He is a scholar specializing in Black Studies and has taught in the fields of anthropology, sociology, art criticism, American studies and business and management. 2022/23 he joins the Department of VISUAL CULTURE as Professorial Research Fellow. 

TU WienRoom AC0440 (stair 10, 4th floor)Karlsplatz 13
1040 Wien