On Wednesday, 5 October 2022, Simone Weil aka Martina will debate the question ‘What can we still do now? Alert and utopia’ (‘Was ist uns jetzt noch möglich? Alarm und Utopie‘) together with Hannah Arendt, Hans Jonas, and Ernst Bloch. This discussion among four dead philosophers is part of the philosophy festival ‘Leipzig denkt’. The ... Mehr ...
"Criatura, creador, decreación. Simone Weil | Giorgio Agamben" will be the topic of Martina's talk at the international conference "Giorgio Agamben. The Urgency of Thought / Giorgio Agamben: la urgencia del pensamiento". From 19 to 21 October scholars, philosophers, and artists from different fields try to find approaches to Agamben's oeuvre. One of the many ... Mehr ...
Treffpunkt: Simone Weil Map On Thursday, 10 November, the denkkollekiv will meet with Thomas Hirschorn at HGB Leipzig (Academy of Fine Arts Leipzig). As a part of an exhibition curated by an artist collective, we will talk about Thomas’s readings of Simone Weil and the way in which he engages with her ideas artistically. In ... Mehr ...
From 25th–27th November 2022 Christine Zyka and Emmanuel Gabellieri will give an international bilingual seminar on Simone Weil at the Newman Institute in Uppsala, Sweden. Over the last years, Emmanuel Gabellieri’s ‘Simone Weil Seminars’ have become an important meeting and melting point of current international Simone Weil scholarship. Now the seminar comes to Sweden for ... Mehr ...
On 9 December 2022, the denkkollektiv will organise a workshop at the diffrakt, Berlin. On this afternoon we will come together with other collectively working, thinking, living, creating people to read and discuss Ludwik Fleck’s seminal Denkstile und Denkkollektive from 1935. Note that this workshop will be held in German. Further information will follow…
Die Veranstaltung findet an der Katholischen Akademie in Berlin statt. Die Anmeldung erfolgt auf der Website der Katholischen Akademie in Berlin. „Nur die Distanz, die Trennung, die Fremdheit stiftet Verbindung“, schreibt Thomas Macho in seiner Studie zum gnostischen Welt- und Gottverständnis bei Simone Weil und Jacob Taubes. Das darin aufgerufene spannungsreiche Verhältnis von Präsenz und Absenz ... Mehr ...
What do you think, Simone? - An encounter with Simone de Beauvoir and Simone Weil metaxyophon: about the event series We are always searching for new ways of thinking and working together in order to find inspiring and innovative ways of working in collectives, communities and networks that supplement ‘regular’ academic events such as workshops, ... Mehr ...
Martina Bengert will give an overview on Simone Weil's life and work, in addition to past and present projects of the denʞkollektiv, in the context of Prof Dr Ruth Conrad's Oberseminar at Humboldt University Berlin.
August 24, 2023 is the 80th anniversary of the death of Simone Weil in the sanatorium at Grosvenor Hall in Ashford, Kent, UK. Paris-based artist Thomas Hirschhorn built a stone memorial in the mountains above Davos in Switzerland: In a tribute to the 80th anniversary of Weil's death, Thomas Sojer from the Denkkollektiv drew ... Mehr ...
The German-language philosophy magazine "Weiter Denken" produced a special issue on Simone Weil and included a report on the Denkkollektiv. The report can be read online here.
The life and work of Simone Weil – philosopher, mystic, activist, and enigma – has defied easy description and categorization. Although Albert Camus categorised her as ‘the only great spirit of our times’, in recent years attention has been given to her metaphysics, her political philosophy, and the radicality and subversiveness of her ideas. Beyond ... Mehr ...
