Jassem Hindi
The Concept and the Idiot

This workshop is an introduction to contemporary philosophy through a set of problems. How to think with concepts? The plan is to show ways to navigate in the nervous sea of ideas, while holding on to our own idiocy. It is an introduction to the art of asking questions and how to hold on to them. Jassem will define a series of concepts and show how they can be used to build new objects and help us unfold reality.

The horizon of this workshop is the relation between “body”, “concept”, “cosmos”, and ‘the great outdoors’. This relation rests against a western history of knowledge haunted by its history of violence.

Here are a few companions on this way:

•    Language, death, and hospitality: survival techniques
•    Betraying utopia, slime utopia: poems as oracle making machine
•    History of witches: shadow history and embodied archives
•    Friendship, hauntology, science fiction: philosophy and the great outdoors
•    The Greek art of asking questions

Participants don’t need to know anything about philosophy. Jassem will share his practice and texts will be read together with the possibility to ask as many questions as needed.

Some references (no need to read anything beforehand): Kristeva, Fanon, Merleau-Ponty, Saussure, Preciado, Heraclite, Mbembé, Simondon, Jameson, Cavaillès, Derrida, Spinoza, Mohaghegh, Platon, Negarestani, Laboria Cuboniks, Koyré.