Travailler la violence #5 continues the reflection begun in 2021 at CN D, to bring together works on the subject of violence, all of which question its objectification. Analyzing, chronicling, putting violence on trial and criticizing it means reasoning through dissonance, thwarting, undoing, deconstructing and fabricating in return perceptions, consciousnesses, concepts and visions from below, on the ground, from inner worlds, like so many historical positivities, carnal densities; it means opening up, relaying and reviving conflictuality. During these two days of encounters, the aim is to grasp these skills of contemporary criticism, to map them out, to talk about the arts of everyday life, flesh and fiction, the arts of concept, language and life, the art of narrative, archives and choirs, to take stock of the weapons amassed, the forces gathered. In philosophy, history, the history of art and contemporary creation, literature and sociology, what can we learn from critiques of violence?
Elsa Dorlin
Elsa Dorlin is a professor of contemporary political philosophy at the University of Toulouse Jean Jaurès, and she has been working for over twenty years on writing another history of bodies through a genealogy of modern power dynamics. She was awarded the bronze medal from the CNRS in 2009 for her research on feminist philosophy and epistemology. She was a visiting professor in Berkeley University in 2010-2011, a Fellow in the Columbia Institute for Ideas & Imagination in 2018-2019, and a resident in the Camargo Foundation (2020-2021). She is the author of La Matrice de la race. Généalogie sexuelle et coloniale de la Nation française, Paris, La Découverte, 2006/2009, and Sexe, genre et sexualités. Introduction à la philosophie féministe, Paris, Puf, 2008/2021. She published Se Défendre. Une philosophie de la violence in 2017 (originally published by Zones editions and translated in several languages), which was awarded the Frantz Fanon Prize from the Caribbean Philosophical Association. She directed Feu ! Abécédaire des féminismes présents, Paris, Libertalia, 2021. Continuing her reflection on the complexity of processes like domination, sexism, racism and capitalism, she focuses on physical resistance – the ways in which bodies resist in their flesh, in their bones and in their senses.