Projects

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

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)

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

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

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

~~Past Events:~~

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

-> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IBEhlBXzYMA

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

-> https://www.spinozaandemp.com/events/delire2-fkwdg-epc7g

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

-> https://www.spinozaandemp.com/events/delire2-fkwdg

06/30/22 – KHM, Josephine on Pink Totaliterianism

(online performance)

-> https://youtu.be/VSbumv2Vgn0

07/02/22 – German Spinoza Society Biannual Meeting, Lecture on Spinoza’s Theory of the Affects

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

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

02/26/22 – Undoing Mastery, Panel Discussion with Sabine_ Hark and Luce deLire

12/8/21 – 12/12/21, Post-revolutionary audioguide (in German), video (in German) and prints as part of Grains – Performative Research, Kassel

Image: Samuel Ferstl

Interview, Polyrama

Thursday, September 23rd 2021, Katie Lee Dunbar‘s “Vogelperspektive” / “Bird’s Eye View” at Neukölln Arkaden Berlin, as part of Panorama Museum

Sunday, September 19th 2021, “Spinoza’s Theory of Distinctions”, online at Spinoza&EMP

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

Friday, July 17th 2021, “The hegemonial, the paradigmatic and the pink revolution”, as part of “Perspectives on Hegemoniality”

Wednesday, May 19th 2021, 6pm CET: Book Presentation: Jule Govrin Begehren und Ökonomie, moderated by Luce deLire

Wednesday, May 26th 2021, 2pm – 230pm CET: TransFeminismen: Eine sehr kurze Einführung

Monday, February 22nd, Humboldt University Berlin, 5.15pm, CET, Presentation: Spinoza’s Theory of Absolute Infinity.

Wednesday, February 10th 2021, Centre of New Media and Feminist Public Practices, 6pm CET, Workshop: Digital Enclosure and it’s Revolutionary Other, Session 4: Ziauddin Sardar – Cyberspace as the Darker Space of the West.

Thursday, January 14th 2021, American Philosophical Association Eastern Division Meeting, 11am EST, Invited Symposium: Infinity in Modern Philosophy, with Dan Arbib. Paper: Spinoza’s puzzling theory of the infinite and the indefinite.

Thursday, January 14th 2021, Centre of New Media and Feminist Public Practices, 6pm CET, Workshop: Digital Enclosure and it’s Revolutionary Other, Session 3: McKenzie Wark.

Sunday, December 20th 2020, Johns Hopkins University, 1pm EST, Talk: Spinoza’s Theory of Indeterminacy. Recording Available here (ask for password).

Thursday, December 10th 2020, Centre of New Media and Feminist Public Practices, 6pm CET, Workshop: Digital Enclosure and it’s Revolutionary Other, Session 2: Pink Totaliterianism.

Thursday, November 26th 2020, Centre of New Media and Feminist Public Practices, 6pm CET, Workshop: Digital Enclosure and it’s Revolutionary Other, Session 1: Original Accumulation – A feminist Perspective.

Monday, October 28th 2019, Royal Academy of Arts; Living Inside the Problem – Catastrophe, Trauma, Extinction, lecture performance (recording to come)

Image: Lene Vollhardt

Friday, October 11th 2019, Institute for Cultural Inquiry, Berlin; WTF! – Das queere und feministische Potenzial des Skandals, with Reyhan Şahin (aka Lady Bitch Ray), Jule Govrin and others, moderated by Luce deLire.

FULL REVIEW HERE

Friday, September 27th 2019, Acud Macht Neu, Berlin; Pink Totaliterian Desires ,lecture performance at: Libidinal Economies of Crisis Times

Saturday, September 14th 2019 through Sunday, September 22nd 2019, Sakakini Center, Ramallah; Metaphysics of Averroes and Avicenna (co-facilitated workshop).

Image: Faiq Habash

Monday, August 19th, Public Seminar, The New Queer – Aesthetics of the Esoteric Left and Virtual Materialisms

Thursday AND Friday, June 13th AND 14th 2019, 7pm, Gorki Theater, Berlin; Queer Cabarette, moderated by Luce deLire. Click here for more.

Friday, June 14th 2019, 930pm, GELEGENHEITEN (48H Neukölln), Berlin; The Philosophy Machine – Performance with/in Paintings by Lale Willan, see facebook event here

Sunday, June 16th 2019, 7pm, ZÖNOTÉKA Hobrechtstraße 54 (48H Neukölln); Panel and Punkrock – CHAOSTAGE Neukölln JETZT

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.

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.