On December 2-3, an international conference “Gilles Deleuze’s Philosophy in the Contemporary Political Context” will take place in the reading room of the Contemporary Art Centre in Vilnius. Remembering the prophecy of Michel Foucault that perhaps one day our century will be called Deleuzian, the conference will analyze contemporary political life and manifestations of the political in social and creative milieus. The two-day conference will consist of four sessions, during which problems of political activism will be addressed, creative alternatives for global capitalism will be discussed and the relationship between philosophy, politics and art will be analyzed. Twelve experts in the philosophy of Deleuze and Felix Guattari from various European countries will participate in the conference. Some of them are known to apply the theories of the above-mentioned thinkers not only in the academic field but also within the social and political milieus.

CONFERENCE PROGRAMME

THURSDAY, December 2

10.00-10.10 Welcome and Introduction

I. DELEUZE & GUATTARI AND POLITICAL ACTIVISM
Chair: Andrius Bielskis

10.10-11.10 Franco Berardi – Bifo
What Should We Do With Deleuze and Guattari in the Deleuze-Guattarian Century?
11.10-11.40 COFFEE BREAK
11.40-12.40 Simon Choat
Deleuze and the Crisis of Capitalism
12.40-13.30 Kasparas Pocius
Deleuze & Guattari in Contemporary Activism
13.30-15.00 LUNCH BREAK

II. CREATIVE LINES OF FLIGHT
Chair: Nerijus Milerius

15.00-16.00 Marietta Radomska
Feminist Lines of Flight and the Thought of Novelty
16.00-17.00 Gintautas Mažeikis
Twinkle Mouse on the Landscape of Situationism: From Deleuze to the Situationist International
17.00-17.30 COFFEE BREAK
17.30-18.30 Gerald Raunig
A New Dividual Scale

FRIDAY, December 3

III. PHILOSOPHY AND THE POLITICAL
Chair: Gintautas Mažeikis

10.00-11.00 Ian Buchanan
To Dwell as a Poet or an Assassin?
11.00-12.00 Andrius Bielskis
Deleuze’s Reading of Nietzsche: the Claims of Nietzsche and Philosophy
12.00-12.30 COFFEE BREAK
12.30-13.30 Audronė Žukauskaitė
The Political Between Schizophrenia and Paranoia: Deleuze & Guattari VS Badiou
13.30-15.00 LUNCH BREAK

IV. ART AND THE POLITICAL
Chair: Audronė Žukauskaitė

15.00-16.00 Nerijus Milerius
Short-Term and Long-Term Memory as the Tools of Politics of Space
16.00-17.00 Nicholas Thoburn
Why Have We Kept Our Own Names? Anonymous Authorship and the Multiple Single
17.00-17.30 COFFEE BREAK
17.30-18.30 Stephen Zepke
‘Scuze me while I kiss the sky’; Art, Politics and the Sublime in Deleuze and Guattari