What Does a New Yorker Think When He Eats a Hamburger?
Debating Jean Baudrillard’s Intellectual Legacy
Tuesday 16 October, 2012
6:30pm, $0/Rsvp
New York University, Deutsches Haus
42 Washington Mews
Please join us for a panel discussion on questions of power and communication featuring philosophers Caroline Heinrich (Germany), Mathieu Potte-Bonneville (France) and our visiting scholar Peter Engelmann. The secret of power is, that there is no power. Power is neither a truth nor a substance, but rather reversible at any time, and always threatened by its own death, thought Jean Baudrillard. On the other hand, how can we explain the reality of domination, and the stability of social order, without using the concept of power - without recognizing, at the same time, its inexistence and its efficiency?
Philosopher Caroline Heinrich, author of What Does a New Yorker Think When He Bites into a Hamburger? and a friend of Baudrillard's, will meet with Foucault expert Mathieu Potte-Bonneville to discuss Baudrillard’s concepts of power, reality in the simulation, and paradoxical communication. In conversation with Peter Engelmann, philosopher and director of the publishing house Passagen Verlag, they will debate Baudrillard’s intellectual heritage and the relevance of his theories today.
This event is presented as part of “Walls and Bridgesâ€, a 10-day French-American arts and ideas festival curated by the Villa Gillet, a French cultural institute interested in thought in all its expressions, bringing together thinkers and artists from all over the world. For more information go to www.villagillet.net.
Events at Deutsches Haus are free of charge. Please let us know which event you would like to attend by sending us an email to deutscheshaus.rsvp@nyu.edu. Space at Deutsches Haus is limited, please arrive ten minutes prior to the event. Thank you!
Philosopher Caroline Heinrich, author of What Does a New Yorker Think When He Bites into a Hamburger? and a friend of Baudrillard's, will meet with Foucault expert Mathieu Potte-Bonneville to discuss Baudrillard’s concepts of power, reality in the simulation, and paradoxical communication. In conversation with Peter Engelmann, philosopher and director of the publishing house Passagen Verlag, they will debate Baudrillard’s intellectual heritage and the relevance of his theories today.
This event is presented as part of “Walls and Bridgesâ€, a 10-day French-American arts and ideas festival curated by the Villa Gillet, a French cultural institute interested in thought in all its expressions, bringing together thinkers and artists from all over the world. For more information go to www.villagillet.net.
Events at Deutsches Haus are free of charge. Please let us know which event you would like to attend by sending us an email to deutscheshaus.rsvp@nyu.edu. Space at Deutsches Haus is limited, please arrive ten minutes prior to the event. Thank you!