Who is this Luce deLire person?!

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Luce deLire on Social Media:

IG: @Luce_deLire

Twitter: @Luce_deLire

FB: Luce.deLire

Josephine on Social Media:

Twitter: @ComradJosephine, @ComradePinkBot

IG: @Pink_Totaliterianism

Best of:

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In Writing:

Trans Perspectives with TexteZurKunst

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“Lessons in Love I: On Revolutionary Flirting”, in: Anne Marie Wirth Cauchon, Stillpoint Magazine 009: Tender (2021)

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Das Selbstbestimmungsgesetz ist ein Angstgesetz! (in German)

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Alternative Draft for a Self Determination Law (in German)

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“Beyond Representational Justice”, in: Christian Liclair, Luce deLire, Antonia Kölbl, Anna Sinofzig (ed.), Texte zur Kunst 129: Trans Perspectives, March 2023

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“Trans Quilombismo and the Catastrophe of Critical Writing”, in: Texte Zur Kunst (online review), December 2023

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“How ideal is ideal theory actually? Rawls, Mills, Reverse Racism and Justice as Failure”, Philosophy Today, 67:2, April 2023

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“Why dance in the face of war?”, in: Anne Marie Wirth Cauchon, Stillpoint Magazine 010: Judge (2022)

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“Catchy Title – Gender Abolitionism, Trans Materialism and beyond”, in: Year of the Women Magazine, online publication 2022

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“Lessons in Love II: The Erotics of Toxicity”, in: Anne Marie Wirth Cauchon, Stillpoint Magazine 011: SLEEP (2022)

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“Full Queerocracy Now! Pink Totaliterianism and the Industrialization of  Libidinal Agriculture”, in: McKenzie Wark (ed.), trans|aesthetics: Eflux Journal 2021

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In Motion:

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Pink Totaliterian Desires – lecture performance at Acud, Berlin

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“Pink Show Trials” Performance at Art Spaces in catastrophic times, Kunstverein Langenhagen, Hannover (DE)

Upcoming Events:

Catchy Title [1] – Gender Abolitionism, Trans Materialism, and beyond

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Why Dance in the Face of War?

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Interview, Polyrama

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Luce deLire, “Lessons in Love I: On Revolutionary Flirting”, in: Anne Marie Wirth Cauchon, Stillpoint Magazine 009: Tender (2021)

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Luce deLire, “Spinoza’s Infinities”, in: Yitzhak Melamed (ed.), Blackwell Companion to Philosophy: A Companion to Spinoza (Oxford: Wiley Blackwell, 2021)

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Luce deLire, “‘[E]very day the matter seems to get worse, and I don’t know what I should do.’ – Violence, Spinozism, and Digital Reality”, in: Bernd Scherer (ed.), The New Alphabet (Leipzig: Spector Books 2021)

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Luce deLire, “Queer Feminist Witchcraft”, in: Katharina Rein (ed.), Magic A Companion Genre Fiction and Film (Bern: Peter Lang 2022), forthcoming

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The Ancien Regime (embodied by Luce deLire), “The Death of Critique and Its Rebirth in Traumatic Attachment”, in: Andrea Bellini and Göksu Kunak (eds.), The Artist Survival Kit: a book on Performance Economy, (Genève: Centre d’Art Contemporaine 2022), forthcoming

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Luce deLire, “The Metaphysics of Desire – Aristole, Avicenna, Spinoza and beyond”, in: Ben Gook (ed.), Libidinal Economies of Crisis Times, Transcript 2022, forthcoming

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Past Events:

02 – 2024 – VIBRATORS FOR DICTATORS! Video Launch at Vierte Welt

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01 – 2024 “Self Determination between nominal and material justice – trans, inter, non-binary”, with Nick Markwald, Esther Neuhann and Unruly Juli, Free University, Berlin (DE)

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01 – 2024 “Cuddle Communism” at Texte Zur Kunst conference Lust at NBK, Berlin (DE)

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01 – 2024 “Self Determination Work Out”, Performance at Volksbühne Berlin as Part of Velvet Voice Club, Berlin (DE)

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01 – 2024 “Again(st) Self Determination! Trans, Inter, Non-Binary”, Performance at Ballhaus Ost, Berlin (DE)

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01 – 2024 “Infinity in Descartes, Spinoza and Beyond”, Forum Descartes, University of Paris, Department of Philosophy (F)

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01 – 2024 “Navigating legislation as education through trans*bodies”, Haus der Kulturen der Welt (HKW), Berlin (DE)

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01 – 2024 “Der Tod der Kritik und ihre traumatische Widerkehr”, Hearing at Academy of the Arts, Vienna (AU)

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01 – 2024 “Can the Transsexual Speak?”, University Vienna, Department of Philosophy (AU)

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11 – 2023 “Trans Perspectives”, Lecture Performance with Christian Liclair at University Cologne (DE)

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11 – 2023 “The Spinozist Sublime”, Washington Spinoza circle (USA)

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10 – 2023 “The future of TRANS”, Lecture Performance with McKenzie Wark and Aristilde Kirby at Leslie Lohman Museum, NYC (USA)

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10 – 2023 “Body and Mind: Anti-Dualism and Parallelism”, panel with Chantal Jacquet and Oliver Thot at University Frankfurt (DE)

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09 – 2023 “The Transsexual Contract”, at QTHOMO – queer and trans historical materialisms, Pleasure Center, Berlin (DE)

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08 – 2023 “May the Real PSR Please stand up – Spinoza’s Causal Committments”, Early Career Workshop with M. Della Rocca, University Hamburg (DE)

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08 – 2023 “We Are Open!” at Trouble! An Evening of Performances, Cittipunkt e.v., Berlin (DE)

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06 – 2023 “Gender between discipline and exploitation”, Talk at University of Art and Media, Cologne (DE)

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06 – 2023 “Trans Perspectives”, Talk at University of Art and Media, Cologne (DE)

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06 – 2023 “Pink Show Trials” Performance at Art Spaces in catastrophic times, Kunstverein Langenhagen, Hannover (DE)

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05 – 2023 “Trans Perspectives”, Lecture Performance with Christian Liclair at University of the Arts, Berlin (DE)

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05 – 2023 “Trans Perspectives”, Panel at Fadensonnen with Ginevra Shay, Jamie Grace Alexander, Rose Buttress, Jo Giardini, Baltimore (USA)

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05 – 2023 “Trans Perspectives”, Panel with Mine Pleasure Bouvoir at Mental Health Art Space, Berlin (DE)

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05 – 2023 “Trans Perspectives”, Lecture Performance with with Christian Liclair at GAK, Bremen (DE)

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04 – 2023 “Pink Totaliterianism” as part of workshop Decolonizing Architecture at the Royal Institute of Art, Stockholm (SE)

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04 – 2023 “Pink Show Trials” Performance at JUF, Poetry Project, Madrid (ES)

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02 – 2023 “The Spinozist Sublime”, talk at Vanderbilt University, Nashville (USA)

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02/07/23 – The Spinozistic Sublime – Towards a critique for the post-critical age.

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1/22/23 – “Pink Show Trials” Performance at Hochschule für Kunst und Medien, Vienna (A) (pw: Luce)

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01 – 2023 “Get trans or die trying?”, University for Art and Media, Vienna (A)

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12/1/22 – Erotics as first philosophy—Metaphysics and/of Desire between Aristotle, Avicenna, Cavendish and Spinoza (online presentation)

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10/13/22 – Portrait of Descartes as a Spinozist (online presentation)

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04/15/22 – Cavendishian Hermaphrodites at Transfiguring Philology, JHU (Baltimore)

04/08/22 – The Revenge of the Galli – Transfiguring Lucretius (will post recording soon)

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Monday, September 6th, 2.30pm – 4pm CET, “Inflections of Infinity: the true, the good, the beautiful”, online at XXV. Congress of Deutsche Gesellschaft für Philosophie, Section: Early Modern Philosophy

PMK – Deutschland Schafft Sich Ab (Song) – Germany Abolishes Itself

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Thursday, May 30th 2019, at APL, Viadrina University, Klagenfurt; Panel Discussion with Comrade Josephine and the Ancien Regime, moderated by Luce deLire. Click here for conference schedule.

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Wednesday, April 17th 2019, at Tuffts University, Boston; Panel Discussion with Comrade Josephine and the Ancien Regime, moderated by Luce deLire. Click here for recording.

Tuesday, November 27th through December 2nd 2018, at Werkstatt der Kulturen, Berlin; Sculpture: ‘The Person Who Destroys Everything is Not An Accident,’ with: Eshan Rafi as part of Transformations Trans Film Festival

Wednesday, October 17th 2018, 6pm, BANFF, ‘The Person Who Destroys Everything is Not An Accident,’ with: Eshan Rafi

Saturday, October 6th 2018, 8pm, Calgary, Mountain Standard Time Festival, as part of: Eshan Rafi’s ‘How to Make an Image,’ in collaboration with Beau Molnar

Wednesday, October 3rd 2018, 7pm, Jerusalem, Al-Hoash Gallery, ‘Towards a Critique of Pure Treason,’ (a fuller documention of the performance is available upon request) with Blake Shaw

Thursday, July 5th 2018, 8pm, Berlin, Spektrum: ‘What do we even want from one another? On Anxiety, Permeation and Identity in the age of a slowly imploding liberalism – with Luce deLire and Jamieson Webster’

Transcript Here

Image: Eshan Rafi

Thursday, june 28th – saturday, june 30th 2018, 7pm, Berlin: lecture performance as part of ‘Talking Straight Life: Durational Performance with and by Talking Straight’

Image: Foto Phil Dera

Thursday, may 24th 2018, 9am, Montreal: ‘Two Dogmas of Deconstruction;’ part of: Derrida Today.

‘What do We Even Want From One Another?’

Read the transcript on ‘Public Seminar’: ‘What do we even want from one another? On Anxiety, Permeation and Identity in the age of a slowly imploding liberalism – with Luce deLire and Jamieson Webster’

Event Page is here.

Friday, may 18th 2018, 7pm, New York City: ‘Post-#Metoo – my, your, our Pink Totalitarianism;’ lecture performance – invite only – use contact form for details.

Response to Paul Preciado, comment on #metoo:

Read response here.

Lene Vollhardt, The Grace Chapter, Film still 2017

Technopolitics of Cryptocurrencies:

Interview on virtuality, seduction and neighbors:

Click here to read interview.

Lene Vollhardt/Luce deLire, cement X, film still 2018

Breaking up and Down:

Find description here.

Luce deLire, get out and talk about the drive, collage 2017

Open Letter to Ivanka Trump:

https://www.instagram.com/p/BRd1rRrgwT6

Cards against Commodities: Lecture Performance:

Read and listen here (42.30 and onwards)

Luce deLire, small fish flit nervous, collage 2017

What is Queer today is not Queer tomorrow: Curated Exhibition:

View exhibition page here.

Raju Rage, Monster Terrorist Fag, Print 2014

Cement X: Video Art with Lene Vollhardt:

Watch video here

Lene Vollhardt/Luce deLire, Cement X, Video Still 2018

Roundtable on Critique with Dennis Schep, Jan-Philipp Kruse, Hansun Hsiung and Jule Govrin:

Find discussion here.

Credit: Jean-Paul Sartre, Gilles Deleuze, and Michel Foucault; picture by Elie Kagan