Jaime del Val in Lüneburg, Germany -
19-22 july - Leuphana University - Institut für Kulturtheorie,
Kulturforschung und die Künste
Workshop „Körperwahrnehmung – Körperrepräsentation“
Keynote presentation 19 july 18'00:
Aconscious & Amorphous
From consciousness to affection: Bodies without Control
Towards an ecology of affects
Issues around consciousness
and representaion of the body usually take both terms for granted, yet they
are part of a dominant tradition of control, not necessary conditions for
a livable life. The presentation will oppose the study of consciousness and
representation as ontological and epistemological conditions for the body
and propose to go beyond their transformation in assuming that bodies are
relational motion (affects) that exceed and preceede subjectivity and consciousness
formations. Aconsciousness would be the act of feeling the affects of the
forces that constitute the process of becoming of the bodies, and this relational
movement process is always virtual, potential, open to the emergence of the
new. Representation on the other hand is a control technology that opperates
on the fixing of perception as its condition of possibility. The new account
of corporeality as amorphous becoming needs the development of new specific
technologies of the body that will be at the same time a politics of resistance
to control society and setting to motion of ecologies of affects.