Projects

Comrade Josephine (impersonated by Luce deLire). “Full Queerocracy Now! Pink Totaliterianism and the Industrialization of Libidinal Agriculture.” in: McKenzie Wark (ed.), E-flux Journal (Berlin: Sternberg Press 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 “Spinoza’s Infinities”, in: Yitzhak Melamed (ed.), Blackwell Companion to Philosophy: A Companion to Spinoza (Oxford: Wiley Blackwell, 2021)

The Ancien Regime (impersonated 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 2021)

Comrade Josephine, Pink Totaliterian Desires, in: Ben Gook (ed.), Libidinal Economies of Crisis Times (Berlin: Transcript 2022)

~~Past Events:~~

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; 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

Image: Lale Willan and Luce deLire

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.

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.

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

‘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.

‘Post-#Metoo – my, your, our Pink Totalitarianism.’

view recording here