Des vies au bord du politique
Conferences directed by Jérôme Mauche.
Philosopher Antonia Birnbaum and poet Oscarine Bosquet are the guests of this new edition of Poetry Platform.
With « Des vies au bord du politique » [« Lives on the Edge of the Political »], a title reminiscent of one of Jacques Rancière’s books, we will try and question how concepts as well as poetic and philosophical fragments end up opening paths, perspectives, destinies, always in an uncertain manner. Each in their own way, Antonia Birnbaum’s and Oscarine Bosquet’s approaches and works thus subtly attest to a concern for experimentation, resistance and reception in relation to History -and stories. They are part of what keeps the possibility of a horizon of emancipation alive.
BIOGRAPHIES
Anotnia BIRNBAUM
After studying in the United States and Germany, Antonia Birnbaum completed her doctorate in philosophy in France. A former director of the program « La philosophie à l’épreuve de l’art contemporain » at the Collège international de philosophie, she now is an assistant professor at Université Paris 8. Her books rigorously and boldly reexamine some philosophical corpuses, paying particular attention to concepts, with an interest in the shocks and echoes they generate in contemporary space. Her Nietzsche. Les aventures de l’héroïsme (2000) and Bonheur Justice Walter Benjamin (2009) were both published by Payot in the collection « Critique de la politique. » Birnbaum is also the author of studies such as Le Vertige d’une pensée. Descartes corps et âme (Horlieu, 2003) as well as countless articles on Schelling, Kleist, Feuerbach, Kracauer, and Rancière. She is currently writing a series of Political Lives on major figures of contemporary philosophy. She also collaborates to many publications on contemporary art, including Retours d’y voir (the periodical of the MAMCO in Geneva); besides her texts on artists, she has struck up collaborations with some of them: Jean-François Guiton, Susanna Fritscher, Olivier Nottellet, Claude Levêque, to name a few.
Oscarine BOSQUET
Oscarine Bosquet is a poet and teaches at the Ecole Supérieure d’Arts in Brest. She publishes her work in reviews, in France as well as abroad: Action poétique, If, Raddle Moon, Livraison, The Poetry Project Newsletter, De(s)générations. Her texts have appeared in important anthologies of poetry: Territoires (Fourbis, 1997); Noir sur blanc (Biennale du Val-de-Marne, 1997); Cinquante Ans d’Action poétique (Flammarion, 1998); Double-change(Les Presses du Réel, 2009). She is also the author of several books: Chromo (Fourbis, 1997); Abstractions façonnées (Processus bleu éditions, 2008); Participe présent (Le bleu du ciel, 2009); and more recently, Mum is down (Al Dante, 2012). Oscarine Bousquet’s poetic practice is steeped in observation; relying on testimonies and aware of their possible disappearance, it attempts to render the event (including the political event), even as individual or collective historical material comes to disrupt speech.