In November 2021, the Istanbul art magazine Art Unlimited published the Turkish version of the writing experiment "Écriture sabotée/sabotage créateur. Reading Simone Weil, Strolling Through Textual Ruins" by Tom Sojer, Max Walther and Martina Bengert. We experimented with Simone Weil’s notion of ‘not reading’ in collaboration with artist Thomas Hirschhorn, approaching the concept via multiple ... Mehr ...
Esther Ramharter, member of the HUVAC-project, will give the denʞkollektiv the opportunity to introduce itself to new students of Simone Weil's work in the context of her Simone Weil reading seminar at the University of Vienna. The seminar takes place during Winter Term 2021/22 and focuses on giving students a broad understanding of Weil while ... Mehr ...
Martina Bengert made a contribution in the context of the interdisciplinary workshop "Intra/Sections, Schnitt/Mengen. Post-Anthropocentric Concepts of Multiplicities" at ICI Berlin.
In this review, Thomas Sojer and Max Walther discuss the two works 'The Subversive Simone Weil. A Life in Five Ideas' by Robert Zaretsky and 'Effort and Grace. On the Spiritual Exercise of Philosophy' by Simone Kotva. It was published in Soziopolis in July 2022. Read the review here.
We need knots. The denkkollektiv, c’est vivre la cordée: Manifold lines of flight, people, friends, yet unknown projects docking and un-docking, ever-changing constellations, and cooperation. From time to time – at least once a year – we hold our breaths to let the past, present, and future merge. This year we will come together in ... Mehr ...
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 ...