Negri / Hardt; Empire, page 78
Modernity itself is defined by crisis, a crisis that is born of the uninterrupted conflict between the immanent, constructive, creative forces and the transcendent power aimed at restoring order
Footnote: The various nineteenth-and twentieth century philosophical frameworks of negative thought, from Nietzsche to Heidegger and Adorno, are fundamentally right to foresee the end of modern metaphysics and to link modernity and crisis. What these authors generally do not recognize, however, is that there are two modernities at play here and that the crisis is a direct result of their conflict. For this reason they are unable to see the alternatives within modernity that extend beyond the limits of modern metaphysics. On negative thought and crisis, see Massimo Cacciari, Krisis: saggio sulla crisis del pensiero negativo da Nietzsche a Wittgenstein (Milan: Feltrinelli, 1976).
Rural Filmfestival
in and of the rural
> globus call ? film festivals in about 5 different rural places, local films of and about areas, in conversation / film festival related to film production
Operai, Contadini
The Agronomist
Becoming Fire
The Cheviot ....
as a question running in the background:
how does (which) crisis affect (which) institution and what does it create -- for the institutions involved in the application as a layer of institutional critical self reflection
Nanterre University had a personality split ever since its inception in the early sixties. The campus was built on an old military base in the locality of “la Folie”, stuck between slums – the “bidonvilles” – and what would soon become continental Europe’s largest business district: La Défense. Ridley / Stupia
project-filmmaking-idea: >>> could there be an ethnographic investigation from students studying in the Jean-Rouch building which is accross the Henri Lefebvre building. Using methodologies from ethnographic filmmaking to investigate research questions from the "neighbours" -- searching for possible intersections and differences