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186: Hegemony and Antagonism
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This reading group will involve a close reading of Ernesto Laclau and Chantal Mouffe’s “Hegemony and Socialist Strategy” and selections from Mouffe and Laclau’s writing on Antagonism. We will also explore related texts by Richard Rorty, Jurgen Habermas, and possibly Hans Blumenberg. Date: September 14, 23, and 28 from 7-9pm (3 meetings) |
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This sounds brilliant and timely, and it would be good in relation to Jacques Ranciere and his political theories: e.f., “disagreement” …..
Hey - are the dates for this class correct? August?
Thank you, the correct month is September!
It was mentioned in a public school email to “see the class webpage for information regarding readings.” Is this the page for that?
hello, yes this is the place. I think we should start with the concept of antagonism and an overview of liberal politics and discursive democracy. So if everyone can read chapters 1 and 2 of Mouffe’s “On the Political” and chapter 4 of “The Democratic Paradox” titled “For an Agonistic Model of Democracy”. That will give us all a good foundation to start with. My copy of On the Political is in rough shape, so if someone can scan those parts and add them to aaaarg.org that would be great. I can scan “For an Agonistic Model of Democracy” on thursday (when i return).
I don’t have these texts yet, BUT can help with scanning if someone has them. Would be great to get them uploaded sooner than later.
-c
c and others.
i have these tests, if you pick them up you can scan them. i am home tomorrow night, friday and most of saturday. if you do get them, then i think i may have additional compies of some, but i do not know: you are more than welcomed to them.
-robt — robtsum@gmail.com
OK! i’ll pick them up tmr evening.
the above “c” = caleb.
i’ll email you to arrange a meet.
I put For an Agonistic Model of Democracy up no aaaarg.org. You can find it here.
I am not sure the PDF for Mouffe’s chapter uploaded completely and/or correctly. All that I was able to download was pp. 82-107, and the fist page was blank. Please advise.
-Robert
hrm. anyone else seeing this? it should be pages 80-107 but no blanks. i can try to re-upload when i get home.
Looks good to me - Is anyone putting up the chapters from On the Political?
I’m going to get “On the Political” tonight from Robert and scan it tmr morning. Will post here when its uploaded.
-c
Mouffe on AAAARG
(sorta)
http://aaaarg.org/on-the-political-excerpt-ch-1-2
Mouffe on AAAARG in a new spot:
http://aaaarg.org/on-the-political-excerpt-ch-1-2-2
Class field trip?:
http://redcat.org/season/0809/cnv/laclau.php
Does anyone have any Redcat contacts? Could we get free - or at least student rate - on tickets?
“we” have to go! there is a student rate, no? it is cheap. esp. to see a brilliant thinker, although such events should be free: i mean, hello, disney!
there must be a way! he is a wonderful speaker.
great class last night everyone. I just added Laclau’s text Why do empty signifiers matter to politics? to aaaarg which is a good supplement for the readings from Hegemony and Socialist Strategy.
I added chapters 3+4 of Hegemony and Socialist Strategy to aaaarg, here. Let me know if the quality is too low. It was tricky to get 100pgs into 7mb.
Maybe you could break it into 2 uploads
or you could just email me/ YSI the bigger file and
I’ll FTP it onto aaaarg and circumvent the whole 7mb limit
LOL with the YSI and the FTP: WTF. Rx
To FTP or SCP, 17 mb
For anyone who may have missed the calendar, the 2nd class is on Tuesday and not Sunday.
I think those extra 2 days will come in handy for getting through the reading!
FYI, and out of respect: I know I am usually late — I would like to consider it fashionably late, but I may be, or will be, a bit MORE late to the Tuesday meeting, given I teach a class from 3.30-6.15 pm. I will have my class end early, but i’ll be coming from west to east … so.
-robert
Field Trip … Still?
October 16, 2008
Ernesto Laclau
Co-presented with CalArts’ graduate Aesthetics and Politics Program
Argentine political theorist Ernesto Laclau, one of the most influential thinkers of our time, is on hand to expound on his latest works and their relationships with contemporary political processes in a conversation with fellow political theorist Martín Plot. The longtime director of the doctoral Programme in Ideology and Discourse Analysis at the University of Essex in England, Laclau is the author, with Chantal Mouffe, of Hegemony and Socialist Strategy: Towards a Radical Democratic Politics (1985), a landmark volume that reinvigorated social and political theory and the project of radical democracy. His other books include Emancipation(s) (1996), On Populist Reason (2005) and, most recently, Elusive Universality (2008).
Date & time General
Admission Students,
Alumni with
Affinity Card CalArts
Students,
Faculty and Staff
Thu 10.16.08 8:30pm $10 $5 free
hey everyone, the readings for the last class are up on aaaarg. This class will be on sunday at 7. We’re going to start by discussing the use of Mouffe in Claire Bishop’s critique of Relational Aesthetics. Then talk about the exchange between Laclau and Rorty from “Pragmatism and Deconstruction”. Laclau’s text is here, and Rorty’s response is here, also useful for the Rorty/Laclau thread is Laclau’s essay Community and Its Paradoxes: Richard Rorty’s ‘Liberal Utopias’.
and since a few folks missed tuesday we can chat more about the readings from H&SS if people are interested.