Sócrates, Heródoto, Hipócrates & Pericles en Assassin’s Creed ~ Odyssey | Ubisoft [PlayStation 4, Xbox1 & PC]

Sócrates, pero también Hipócrates o Pericles, convivirán con el jugador en una zambullida en la guerra civil más famosa del mundo antiguo, las del Peloponeso que enfrentaron el azul de Atenas con el carmesí de Esparta —al menos, esta paleta cromática nos dicta la cultura pop—. Así las cosas, y según nos contó la jefa narrativa del título, Melissa MacCourbey, entrará dentro de nuestras posibilidades meternos al ruedo filosófico con Sócrates. Porque este Assassin’s Creed será el primero de la franquicia que ofrezca la posibilidad de elegir entre opciones de diálogo que determinarán el desarrollo de la historia. | El País

Socrates, a philosopher of such influence that the history of the field is literally divided into the pre- and post-Socratics, is a character in Assassin's Creed Odyssey. It looks like he will challenge [read: annoy] you in his customary style, dismantling your beliefs and your values merely by asking forensic questions. | PC Games N

[Ubisoft AC Odyssey] ◌ [Literatura & Videojuegos]

Filosofía en Dosis Animadas: Platón, Freud, Sartre, de Beauvoir, Aristófanes, de Aquino, McLuhan, Confucio, Locke, Hobbes, et al. | BBC Philosophy Animations

To accompany the series A History of Ideas you can find 48 animations exploring some of the philosophical ideas and big questions from the programmes including Simone de Beauvoir on Feminine Beauty and Thomas Hobbes on Freedom vs Security. Produced in partnership with The Open University and animated by Cogni+ive the short films are narrated by Harry Shearer and Gillian Anderson. | Philosophy Animated

[BBC Radio 4] ◌ [Filosofía al Cine] ◌ [videoteca]

Filosofía & Videojuegos: Ir/rational Redux de Tom Jubert | New Grounds [Free]

‘Ir/rational Redux’, es una aventura conversacional en la que se deben resolver ciertos misterios aplicando los principios de la lógica filosófica. | Yorokobu

Ir/rational Redux is the dark philosophical tale of one man's struggle to come to terms with his powers of deduction. It's also a short, text-based logic puzzle. | Tom Jubert

[ir/rational redux] ◌ [The Talos Principle] ◌ [Filosofighters]

Filosofía & Videojuegos: “The Talos Principle” de Tom Jubert & Jonas Kyratzes | Croteam & Devolver Digital [Windows, Mac & Linux]

The Talos Principle is a first-person puzzle game in the tradition of philosophical science fiction. | Steam

Sea o no cierto que Dédalo construyó al gigante Talos o, como otros dicen, fue la creación de Hefestos, podemos estar seguros de que estaba hecho de bronce y tenía solo una vena a través de la cual fluía una sustancia líquida como la sangre […] La pérdida de ese líquido fue la causa de su muerte […]  

¿No podemos entonces decir que Talos, aunque creado como una máquina o un juguete, tenía todas las propiedades de un hombre? Hablaba y escuchaba, tenía deseos y anhelos […] Si, entonces, una máquina tiene todas las propiedades de un hombre y se comporta como un hombre […] ¿no se deduce que el hombre también puede considerarse una máquina?  

Esto contradice todas las escuelas de la metafísica, pero ni siquiera el filósofo más fiel puede vivir sin sangre. | Akiba

[The Talos Principle] ◌ [Literatura & Videojuegos]

Filosofía al Cine: Socrates, Nietzsche, Wittgenstein, Arendt, Derrida, Žižek & Kurosawa, Gondry, Spielberg, Wachowski, Bergman, Kubrick, Stone, Allen [et al.]

Ilustración de Angela Cox

Este listado trata de películas “que parecen ser encarnaciones de experimentos de pensamiento filosófico clásicos o películas que tienen un problema filosófico importante como tema principal [...] Películas que incluyen temas que un estudiante serio de filosofía necesita entender. También hay algunas grandes películas basadas en la vida de filósofos famosos.” —Matt Whitlock

[45 Essential Movies for Philosophers | MUBI]

Filosofía & Videojuegos: “Ennuigi 1.0” Charles Baudelaire, Jacques Derrida, Jean-Paul Sartre & Albert Camus llegan al universo de Super Mario Bros

Josh Millard es el creador de esta versión existencial del clásico juego de Nintendo [NES]. El autor señala que tras observar críticamente el universo de Super Mario Bros, y en particular, la ausencia total de narrativa explícita en el juego original, se encontró con una serie de ideas sobre los personajes y sus experiencias. ¿Quiénes son estos hombres extraños? ¿Qué los motiva? ¿Con qué derecho causan los estragos que hacen en este extraño lugar? ¿Qué es lo que sienten acerca de dónde están y lo que están haciendo?

Y así, esta es una lente a través de la cual mirar todos esos interrogantes, con la particularidad que el héroe no es Mario, sino Luigi, el segundo hermano, el del montón, como un espectador cómplice, vagando ahora a través de algún lugar fracturado, liminal en este mundo extraño, reflexionando sobre todo en fragmentos dispersos. Pasa algún tiempo con este Luigi lacónico y deprimido, que fuma un cigarro tras otro y deambula a través de un Mushroom Kingdom en ruinas, rumiando sobre la ontología, la ética, la familia, la identidad y los errores que él y su hermano han cometido. 

“Ennui”: aburrimiento, hartazgo, hastío, desinterés, fastidio, tedio, insatisfacción, desencanto.

«El motivo que quiero precisar es el del ennui. «Aburrimiento» no es una traducción adecuada, ni tampoco Langweite, excepto, quizá, en Shopenhauer; la noia se aproxima mucho más. Tengo en mente múltiples procesos de frustración, de désouvrement acumulativo. Energías roídas hasta la rutina a medida que aumenta la entropía. El movimiento o la inactividad repetidos, cuando se prolongan lo suficiente, segregan un veneno en la sangre, un torpor ácido. Letargia febril; la náusea amodorrada (descrita con tanta precisión por Coleridge en la Biographia Literaria) del hombre que falla un escalón en la escalera: hay muchos términos e imágenes aproximados. El uso del spleen por Baudelaire es el que más se aproxima: transmite el parentesco, la simultaneidad de la espera exasperada, vaga —¿pero de qué?— con el desgarro gris [Steiner, 1977: 20].» | Steiner, George [1977]. «El Gran Ennui», en El castillo de Barbazul. Trad. de Hernando Valencia Goelkel. Madrid: Guadarrama, pp. 9-30.

[Ennuigi] ◌ [Filosofighters]

2018 Summer Seminars Institute for Critical Social Inquiry —ICSI | The New School for Social Research, New York

Applications are due: December 31, 2017

Founded and directed by Ann Laura Stoler, the Institute for Critical Social Inquiry —ICSI at the New School for Social Research offers advanced graduate students and faculty from around the world the opportunity to participate in a weeklong fellowship, during which they work closely with eminent scholars who have shaped how we think today. 

The Institute for Critical Social Inquiry (ICSI) at the New School for Social Research is pleased to announce that we are now accepting applications for our 2018 Summer Seminars [June 10-16, 2018]. Advanced graduate students and faculty are eligible to apply. Applications are due December 15, 2017. International scholars, especially those in the Global South, are encouraged to apply; scholarships and travel grants are available. 

ICSI offers advanced graduate students and faculty from around the world the opportunity to spend a week at the New School’s campus in Greenwich Village, working closely with some of the most distinguished thinkers shaping the course of contemporary social inquiry. The Institute is founded on the premise that responding to current and emergent problems requires developing our collective capacities to formulate new and better questions, rather than relying on the application of all too familiar ready-made theories. Our themes are mobile and responsive, joining conceptual labor with pressing political concerns in our times, in an effort to understand and act upon better that which is emergent on our collective horizons. The Institute offers a unique and intensive opportunity for fellows to pursue this charge in one of the three week-long seminars designed to cultivate styles of thinking and conceptual vocabularies that address the disparate sites and unequal conditions in which we live. 

[The New School | Institute for Critical Social Inquiry]

CFP: “Critical Times: Interventions in Global Critical Theory” International Consortium of Critical Theory Programs | University of California, Berkeley

Deadlines for Submissions: Issue 1 - July 17, 2017 | Issue 2 - November 15, 2017 | Issue 3 - March 19, 2018 | Issue 4 - July 16, 2018

Critical Times: Interventions in Global Critical Theory is a peer-reviewed, open access online journal published by the International Consortium of Critical Theory Programs with the aim of foregrounding contemporary critical theory operating within a global frame. The journal will publish its first issue in October 2017 and invites submissions for its first year of publication.  The journal seeks to reflect upon and enact forms of transnational solidarity that draw upon critical theory and political practice from various world regions, calling into question hemispheric epistemologies in order to revitalize left critical thought for these times. Critical Times publishes essays, interviews, dialogues, dispatches, visual art, and various platforms for critical reflection. It occasionally reprints classical key critical texts from various world regions, re-envisioning the foundations of critical theory and mapping its future possibilities.   

Critical Times seeks to publish perspectives that shed light on contemporary practices of authoritarian and neo-fascist politics, nativist and atavistic cultural formations and forms of economic exclusion, as well as spaces and forms of life where different, emancipatory social worlds might be imagined and articulated. Hence, we aim at publishing essays that analyze emerging forms of authoritarianism and fascism; occupation and dispossession; race and racism; war and apartheid; neo-liberal legal and economic formations; sovereignty and post-national power; articulations of law and violence; technology; nature/climate change/environmental justice; biopolitics/necropolitics; religion; intellectual work in and of social movements; as well as socialism, ideals of transformation, equality, resistance, transnational solidarity, radical democracy and revolution.   

For inquiries and submissions, please contact CriticalTimes@berkeley.edu.   

[Critical Times] ◌ [International Consortium of Critical Theory Programs]

Programa de Becas de la Fundación Rosa Luxemburg | Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung, Alemania

Deadline for applications is: October 15, 2017

La Fundación Rosa-Luxemburg otorgará dos becas de doctorado sobre el tema de los Derechos Sociales Mundiales [GSR] a partir del 1 de abril de 2018 por un período de dos años, con un plazo de dos prórrogas de 6 meses, como parte del grupo cooperativo de investigación doctoral sobre Derechos Humanos en las Universidades de Kassel y Fulda [Alemania].

The Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung will award two PhD scholarships on the subject of Global Social Rights [GSR] starting 1 April 2018 for a duration of two years, with scope for two 6-month extensions, as part of the cooperative doctoral research group on Social Human Rights at the Universities of Kassel and Fulda. Please find enclosed the announcement in German (_DE) and Englisch (_EN). 

[Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung Scholarship]

CFP: 56º Congreso Internacional de Americanistas —ICA “Universalidad y Particularismo en las Américas” | Universidad de Salamanca, España

Fecha límite para ponencias: 20 de octubre de 2017

El Comité Organizador del 56º Congreso Internacional de Americanistas —ICA invita a la comunidad académica a participar en el encuentro que se celebrará en la Universidad de Salamanca el 15 al 20 de julio de 2018. Bajo el lema «Universalidad y particularismo en las Américas», esta edición del ICA llama a la reflexión sobre la dialéctica entre la universalidad y los particularismos en la producción de conocimiento, un diálogo en el que la necesidad de conocer los particularismos de los fenómenos sociales, políticos, artísticos y culturales obliga a formular nuevas hipótesis que enriquecen y replantean las grandes teorías generales de las ciencias y las humanidades.

El carácter interdisciplinario e inclusivo que ha caracterizado al ICA desde su inicio en 1875, como un congreso de estudios de área en sentido completo, hace aún más significativa esa dinámica de producción de conocimiento. Con un planteamiento interdisciplinario e inclusivo, ICA reúne a investigadores que estudian el continente americano, desde Alaska hasta Tierra de Fuego, incluyendo el territorio del Caribe, a partir del análisis de su política, economía, cultural, lenguas, historia y prehistoria. Así, el Comité Organizador les invita a presentar sus propuestas y participar en el análisis y la reflexión sobre las especificidades de las Américas y el Caribe con el objetivo de enriquecer las grandes teorías generales.

Fechas del evento: 15 al 20 de julio de 2018

[Congreso Internacional de Americanistas USAL]

CFP: “Walter Benjamin and Method: Re-thinking the Legacy of the Frankfurt School” Biennial Conference of the International Walter Benjamin Society 2017 | University of Oxford, England

Deadline for submissions: April 7, 2017

The interdisciplinary project of the Frankfurt School set out by Max Horkheimer in 1931 remains a powerful model for new work that combines insights from across traditional divisions between the humanities, the social and the natural sciences. In Horkheimer’s account, the rigorous pooling of concepts and methods from philosophy, cultural criticism, psychology, anthropology, biology, economics and sociology should be guided by normative questions about human flourishing (Horkheimer 1993). The Frankfurt School approach unites interdisciplinarity with an attention to ethics often missing in contemporary work on the borders between the humanities and the natural sciences. Looking back almost ninety years later, the power of the Frankfurt School’s approach is partially masked by the way in which, in addition to prefiguring the concerns of the twenty-first century, their arguments are shaped by the intellectual habits of the early 20th century, in particular a debt to Hegel’s concept of totality, and his brand of dialectical argument. The idea of the conference is to generate a critical discussion of Benjamin’s actual and potential contribution to methodologies across the disciplines he worked in. The focus on Benjamin’s method will enable a new perspective on the interdisciplinary project Horkheimer first set out in 1931.

The conference will be organized in six thematic strands with two convenors each. Panels in each strand will consist of three 20-minute papers.  Proposals [250 words] for 20-minute papers in either English or German should be submitted as Word documents to benjamin.conference@worc.ox.ac.uk.  The proposals should be anonymous, but please include your affiliation and a brief bio in the accompanying email, saying which strand(s) you wish to be considered for.

● Benjamin and the Study of Images and Imaging - Andrew Webber [Cambridge] / Caroline Sauter [Berlin] ● Benjamin and the Study of the Human - Ben Morgan [Oxford] / Mike Jennings [Princeton] ● Benjamin and Reading - Hindy Najman [Oxford] / Daniel Weidner [Berlin] ● Benjamin and Political Method - Yoav Rinon [Jerusalem] / Julia Ng (Goldsmith’s) ● Benjamin between Theology and Philosophy - Andrew Benjamin [Monash/Kingston] / Ilit Ferber [Tel Aviv] ● Benjamin’s Writings: Methodology, Archive, Edition – Carolin Duttlinger [Oxford] / Erdmut Wizisla [Berlin].

Event: September 24-27, 2017

[International Walter Benjamin Society]

2017 Summer Seminars The School of Criticism and Theory —SCT: Emily Apter, Faisal Devji, Michael Puett Walter & Carolyn Rouse | Cornell University, Ithaca, Estados Unidos

Applications are due: December 1, 2016 - February 1, 2017

In an intensive six-week course of study, faculty members and graduate students from around the world, in the humanities and social sciences, explore recent developments in critical theory. The 2017 Session is scheduled for June 18 – July 27. 

The School of Criticism and Theory was founded in 1976 by a group of leading literary scholars in the conviction that an understanding of theory is fundamental to humanistic studies.  Today, in an unparalleled summer campus experience, the SCT offers faculty members and advanced graduate students in the humanities and social sciences a chance to work with preeminent figures in critical thought — exploring debates in and across literary studies, political theory, history, philosophy, art, and anthropology; examining the role of ideological and cultural movements; and reassessing theoretical approaches that have emerged over the last fifty years.  Cornell also offers participants the resources of one of the great research libraries in the United States.

Seminars & Mini-Seminars 2017 | Emily Apter [Professor of French and Comparative Literature; Chair, Department of Comparative Literature, New York University] Thinking in Untranslatables: Revisiting the Gender/Genre Problem | Faisal Devji [Reader in History and Fellow of St. Anthony’s College, University of Oxford] Humanity | Michael Puett Walter [C. Klein Professor fo Chinese History, Department of Eastern Languages and Civilizations; Chair of the Committee of the Study of Religion, Harvard University] Rethinking Religion: Cosmopolitan and Comparative Perspectives | Carolyn Rouse [Professor and Chair of Anthropology and Director of the Program in African Studies, Princeton University] The Case Against Reparations: A Radical Rethinking of Social Justice in the 21st Century.

[The School of Criticism and Theory 2017]

2017 Winter Theory Institute: Antitheory | Society for Critical Exchange —SCE, University of Houston-Victoria, Texas

9 al 12 de febrero de 2017

The Society for Critical Exchange is North America’s oldest scholarly organization devoted to theory. Our various interdisciplinary projects, conferences, and symposia serve to advance the role of theory in academic and intellectual arenas. Our projects encompass a broad spectrum of disciplines, most prominently literary studies, legal studies and practices, economics, composition, and pedagogy.

The Society for Critical Exchange —SCE, in collaboration with the University of Houston-Victoria, School of Arts and Sciences is pleased to announce the topic of the eight annual SCE Winter Theory Institute: Antitheory. What is antitheory? What does it mean to be against theory in the new millennium? What is the current state of post-theory, the alleged deaths of theory, and the critique of critique?

[Society for Critical Exchange]

Nietzsche & Critical Social Theory “Affirmation, Animosity, Ambiguity” | Critical Sociology Journal & SDSU Cultural Studies Collective, San Diego State University, EE.UU.

Deadline for submitting papers for presentation: October 15, 2016

As the title of the conference indicates, we are soliciting contributions that range from those that focus on the problems with, and limitations of Nietzsche’s thought, to those that develop new ways to demonstrate the value of Nietzsche for the critical analysis of a variety of contemporary social problems and social movements.  We also seek contributions that explore the often ambiguous place of Nietzsche’s thought as it relates to critical social theory and practice.  Some of the important topical areas we seek to address include, but are not limited to:

●The Absent Presence of Nietzsche in Sociology ●Beyond Capitalism and Socialism – Understanding Revolutionary Struggle in Marx & Nietzsche ● Twilight of Work - Nietzsche’s Critique of the Labor Movement ● Timely Meditations – Nietzsche and Feminist Theory ● Nietzsche, Critical Race and Postcolonial Theory ● Beyond Truth and Relativism – Epistemology after Nietzsche ● Nietzsche and the Question of Science and Technology ● Negation and Affirmation – The Frankfurt School and Nietzsche ● Advantages and Disadvantages of Genealogical Analysis ● Morality and its Discontents - Nietzsche and Psychoanalysis ● Nietzsche in Light of Right and Left-Libertarian Politics ● Nietzsche, Foucault and Neoliberalism ● The Fascism Question and Nietzsche ● Intellectual Indigestion – The Significance of the Body for Nietzschean Critique ● Queering Nietzsche – Nietzsche’s Relation to the LGBTQ Movement ● All-Too-Human: Nietzsche and the Animal ● Question Crisis of the Natural Environment – The Place of Nietzschean Critique ● Music and the Spirit of Social Movements – A Nietzschean Perspective.

January 28-29, 2017

[Nietzsche & Critical Social Theory]

¡Dosis Ilustradas de Fin de Año! Presentando a: F. Nietzsche, J.P. Sartre, A. Schopenhauer, S. Žižek, T.W. Adorno, M. Zambrano, Sócrates, H.P. Lovecraft, C. Marx & Cia., A. Hitchcock, Platón, Aristóteles, R. Descartes, J. Locke, & J.J. Rousseau

Wisecrack & 8-Bit Philosophy | 8-Bit de Jacques Derrida

Boulesis | Schopenhauer & Nietzsche en Brasil 2014 

El joven Lovecraft

Existential Comics | Filosofighters

Grant Snider/ Incidental Comics | Dosis Literarias de Incidental Comics

Trampantojos de Max | Dosis Literarias de Max

Dead Philosophers in Heaven  | Filosofía al Cine

2017 Summer Seminars Institute for Critical Social Inquiry —ICSI: K. Anthony Appiah, David Harvey & Michael Taussig | The New School for Social Research, New York

Applications are due: December 1, 2016

The Institute for Critical Social Inquiry at the New School for Social Research is pleased to announce that we are now accepting applications for our 2017 Summer Seminars [June 11–17, 2017].  Advanced graduate students and faculty are eligible to apply.

2017 Seminars and Faculty | K. Anthony Appiah  [Professor of Philosophy and Law, NYU] The Cosmopolitan Nationalism of W.E.B. Du Bois | David Harvey [Distinguished Professor of Anthropology and Geography, CUNY] Marx and Capital: The Book, The Concept, the History | Michael Taussig [Professor of Anthropology, Columbia University] Thought-Images, Body, and Mimesis in Walter Benjamin. 

Institute for Critical Social Inquiry —ICSI offers advanced graduate students and faculty from around the world the opportunity to spend a week at the New School’s campus in Greenwich Village, working closely with some of the most distinguished thinkers shaping the course of contemporary social inquiry. The Institute is founded on the premise that responding to current and emergent problems requires developing our collective capacities to formulate new and better questions, rather than relying on the application of all too familiar ready-made theories. Our themes are mobile and responsive, joining conceptual labor with pressing political concerns in our times, in an effort to understand and act upon better that which is emergent on our collective horizons. The Institute offers a unique and intensive opportunity for fellows to pursue this charge in one of the three week-long seminars designed to cultivate styles of thinking and conceptual vocabularies that address the disparate sites and unequal conditions in which we live.

[The New School | Institute for Critical Social Inquiry]

Coloquio Internacional Walter Benjamin 2016: “Las guerras civiles en la época contemporánea” | Universitat de Girona & Museu Memorial de l’Exili —MUME

En el pensamiento y los variados intereses transversales de Walter Benjamin destacan sus reflexiones sobre la violencia y sus críticas a cualquier discurso enaltecedor de la experiencia bélica. Los desastres causados por la Gran Guerra y la posterior brutalización del ámbito político crearon situaciones de confrontación civil de extrema gravedad en toda Europa. La generación del filósofo berlinés se encontró inmersa en una Europa convulsa afectada por la crisis del liberalismo, el avance del comunismo soviético de corte estalinista, el ascenso de los fascismos y la eclosión de enfrentamientos civiles armados abiertos el paradigma de los cuales fue la Guerra Civil española. 

En el año que se cumple el 80 aniversario de aquel conflicto aún tan vivo en la memoria de nuestro país, parece indispensable, siguiendo la estela dejada por Walter Benjamin, fijar la atención en el concepto de Guerra Civil como categoría histórica. En este sentido, se impone la necesidad de atender a este concepto con toda su complejidad y ambigüedad o, lo que es lo mismo, asumir que estos procesos bélicos no permiten miradas reduccionistas duales.

30 de septiembre al 2 de octubre de 2016

[Coloquio Walter Benjamin 2016 Portbou-Girona]