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17/5/2010

Lorenzo Chiesa: The Partisan's Morale Provisoire

KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin

Morale provisoire discussion #3. In this lecture, Lorenzo Chiesa intends to outline the way in which the subjective figure of the partisan makes it possible to think a zone of indetermination between provisional morality and radical politics. Through the partisan, at moments when fidelity to a revolutionary event is suspended and the subject is reduced to just one resistant 'point' of choice, the quest for the universalism of indeterminacy - that is, equality - is preserved in the political few, if not the one. The universalism of the partisan could be regarded as a humanism of impossibility, which is not a humanism of finitude. Lorenzo Chiesa is Senior Lecturer in Critical Theory at the University of Kent (UK) and Visiting Research Fellow at the Institute of Philosophy ZRC SAZU in Ljubljana. He is the author of Subjectivity and Otherness: A Philosophical Reading of Lacan (MIT Press, 2007), The Italian Difference: Between Nihilism and Biopolitics (Re.press, 2009, ed. with A. Toscano), and published extensively on contemporary French and Italian thought. He translated Slavoj Zizek's The Ticklish Subject into Italian and recently completed the English translation of Giorgio Agamben's Il regno e la gloria.

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