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    dOCUMENTA (13) What is Thinking?
Or a Taste that Hates Itself

June 18–September 4, 2012
*Program launch: *Monday, June 18, 6pm

A program of seminar sessions focusing on the relationship between art and
philosophy.
Conceived by Christoph Menke with Chus Martínez for dOCUMENTA (13) in
Kassel.

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*What is Thinking? Or a Taste that Hates Itself
*Conceived by German philosopher Christoph Menke in collaboration with Chus
Martínez, and led by invited speakers, the seminar *What is Thinking? Or a
Taste that Hates Itself *is a series of twelve two-part sessions focusing
on the relationship between art and philosophy, between thinking and
perceiving. It is an attempt to address the questions and the methods of
philosophy for those who are curious but not necessarily close to the
field. Each session is divided into a public lecture on Monday evenings in
the Ständehaus, followed by a more intimate discussion seminar on Tuesday
mornings in the Zwehrenturm of the Fridericianum.

In September 1959, the philosopher Theodor W. Adorno gave a lecture on the
occasion of documenta 2. A few days earlier, he had mentioned in a letter
to Max Horkheimer his interest in visiting the exhibition, in seeing what
culture—art—could do after the greatest collapse that the country and the
world had ever experienced. This lecture, "Die Idee der neuen Musik*" *(The
Idea of New Music), is of key significance to dOCUMENTA (13). It is read
and commented upon by Albrecht Wellmer at the opening of the exhibition and
by Carla Harryman at the close, as the inspiration and source for a
reflection on the importance of deeds, like art, and thoughts, like
philosophy, that are less driven by aims and results, than guided by values.

The *What is Thinking? *seminar is a rigorous meditation on language, on
meaning, on the limits and possibilities of skepticism, on imagination and
politics, and on art and experience. It aims to contribute to an
understanding of the importance of an art exhibition with the history and
tradition of documenta, as a crucial space for ethical and aesthetic
questions.

The seminar sessions can be attended individually or in full. Texts and
other materials for the sessions are available online.

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further information and booking details.

*Full program

**Emmanuel Alloa: Aisthesis – Or why there is no thinking without phantasms*
* *(English)
Monday, June 18, 6pm
Bode-Saal, Maybe Center for Conviviality at the Ständehaus
Ständeplatz 6-10, Kassel
Open session, free entry

Tuesday, June 19, 11am
Fridericianum Zwehrenturm
Friedrichsplatz 18, Kassel
Access with dOCUMENTA (13) entrance ticket, booking required

Emmanuel Alloa is a philosopher and an assistant professor at the School of
Humanities and Social Sciences of the University of St. Gallen. Since 2010
he is the head of the philosophical dialogues in the theater of
Gennevilliers (Paris). His research interests include German and French
phenomenology, aesthetics, image theory, and the question of embodied
memory. He is the author of *La résistance du sensible. Merleau-Ponty
critique de la transparence *(2011).

*Frank Ruda: Warum man das undekbare denken muss. **Eine materialistische
antwort** *(German)
Monday, June 25, 6pm
Bode-Saal, Maybe Center for Conviviality at the Ständehaus
Ständeplatz 6-10, Kassel
Open session, free entry

Tuesday, June 26, 11am
Fridericianum Zwehrenturm
Friedrichsplatz 18, Kassel
Access with dOCUMENTA (13) entrance ticket, booking required

Frank Ruda is a philosopher and Research Associate at the Collaborative
Research Centre on Aesthetic Experience and the Dissolution of Artistic
Limits at the Free University of Berlin, Germany. Since 2011 he is guest
professor at the Institute of Philosophy, Scientific Research Centre in
Ljubljana. Amongst his recent publications is *Hegel's Rabble: An
Investigation of the Hegelian Philosophy of Right *(2011).

*Bruno Bosteels: What is an event?** *(English)
Monday, July 2, 6pm
Bode-Saal, Maybe Center for Conviviality at the Ständehaus
Ständeplatz 6-10, Kassel
Open session, free entry

Tuesday, July 3, 11am
Fridericianum Zwehrenturm
Friedrichsplatz 18, Kassel
Access with dOCUMENTA (13) entrance ticket, booking required

Bruno Bosteels is a philosopher and Professor of Romance Studies and
Comparative Literature at Cornell University. His research interests
include Latin American literature and culture, contemporary European
philosophy and political theory, and art and aesthetic theory. He is the
author of *Alain Badiou, une trajectoire polémique *(2009), and *Marx and
Freud in Latin America: Politics, Psychoanalysis, and Religion in Times of
Terror *(2012). He has recently published a notebook within dOCUMENTA
(13)'s *100 Notes – 100 Thoughts *series.

*Alexei Penzin: Sleep, subjectivity, and artwork *(English)
Monday, July 9, 6pm
Bode-Saal, Maybe Center for Conviviality at the Ständehaus
Ständeplatz 6-10, Kassel
Open session, free entry

Tuesday, July 10, 11am
Fridericianum Zwehrenturm
Friedrichsplatz 18, Kassel
Access with dOCUMENTA (13) entrance ticket, booking required

Alexei Penzin is a philosopher and researcher on analytical anthropology at
the Russian Academy of Sciences in Moscow. His interests include theories
of subjectivity in modern philosophy and political thought, the
post-Soviet/postcolonial dimension, questions of "crude thought" in Brecht
and Benjamin, and non-dogmatic Soviet Marxist philosophy. Penzin is a
member of the interdisciplinary group Chto Delat? (What Is to be Done?).

*Alexander Düttmann: Kein denker versteht sich selbst* (German)
Monday, July 16, 6pm
Bode-Saal, Maybe Center for Conviviality at the Ständehaus
Ständeplatz 6-10, Kassel
Open session, free entry

Tuesday, July 17, 11am
Fridericianum Zwehrenturm
Friedrichsplatz 18, Kassel
Access with dOCUMENTA (13) entrance ticket, booking required

Alexander Düttmann is a philosopher and Professor of Philosophy and Visual
Culture at Goldsmiths, University of London. His research has focused on
the philosophical problem of deconstruction, the work of Italian filmmaker
Luchino Visconti, the concept of exaggeration in philosophy, and Adorno's
moral philosophy. He has published a number of authored books,
including *Derrida
and I. The Problem of Deconstruction *(2008).

*Felix Ensslin: Faith, paranoia, knowledge, thought: a conversation with
Luther and Lacan* (German)
Monday, July 23, 6pm
Bode-Saal, Maybe Center for Conviviality at the Ständehaus
Ständeplatz 6-10, Kassel
Open session, free entry

Tuesday, July 24, 11am
Fridericianum Zwehrenturm
Friedrichsplatz 18, Kassel
Access with dOCUMENTA (13) entrance ticket, booking required

Felix Ensslin is a philosopher, director, and curator based in Berlin. He
has a background in philosophy and theatre direction and received a PhD
from the Philosophy department of Universität Potsdam in 2009. Since 2010,
Ensslin has been Professor of Art Theory and Aesthetics in Kunstakademie
Stuttgart where he focuses on issues of art education, aesthetics and
psychoanalytic cultural theory.

*Rado Riha: Über die ununterscheidbarkeit von denken und handeln* (German)
Monday, July 30, 6pm
Bode-Saal, Maybe Center for Conviviality at the Ständehaus
Ständeplatz 6-10, Kassel
Open session, free entry

Tuesday, July 31, 11am
Fridericianum Zwehrenturm
Friedrichsplatz 18, Kassel
Access with dOCUMENTA (13) entrance ticket, booking required

Rado Riha is a senior research fellow and currently head of the Institute
of Philosophy, Centre for Scientific Research at the Slovenian Academy of
Sciences and Arts. He also coordinates the philosophy module at the
postgraduate study programme of the University of Nova Gorica. Riha's
research topics include ethics, epistemology, contemporary French
philosophy, the psychoanalysis of Jacques Lacan, and the philosophy of
Immanuel Kant.

*Maria Muhle: Re-thinking past thought. Reenactment between history
and art*(German)
Monday, August 6, 6pm
Bode-Saal, Maybe Center for Conviviality at the Ständehaus
Ständeplatz 6-10, Kassel
Open session, free entry

Tuesday, August 7, 11am
Fridericianum Zwehrenturm
Friedrichsplatz 18, Kassel
Access with dOCUMENTA (13) entrance ticket, booking required

Maria Muhle is a media theorist and Professor of Aesthetic Theory at the
Merz Akademie, Stuttgart. Her research focuses on political aesthetics and
aesthetic realism, bio politics and life, and history and media. She is
co-founder of the August Verlag Berlin, a forum for theory at the
intersection of philosophy, art, and politics, and the author of *Biopolitische
Konstellationen *(2011).

*Ethel Matala de Mazza: Gitter und ornament* (German)
Monday, August 13, 6pm
Bode-Saal, Maybe Center for Conviviality at the Ständehaus
Ständeplatz 6-10, Kassel
Open session, free entry

Tuesday, August 14, 11am
Fridericianum Zwehrenturm
Friedrichsplatz 18, Kassel
Access with dOCUMENTA (13) entrance ticket, booking required

Ethel Matala de Mazza is the Professor for New German Literature at
Humboldt-Universität Berlin. Her research interests are literary history of
the last three centuries and literary theory and history of the political
imaginary, interactions between law and literature, and cultural theory and
anthropology. Currently she is working on a book titled *Poetik des
Kleinen. **Verhandlungen der Moderne zwischen Operette und Feuilleton*.

*Patricia Falguières: On techné* (English)
Monday, August 20, 6pm
Bode-Saal, Maybe Center for Conviviality at the Ständehaus
Ständeplatz 6-10, Kassel
Open session, free entry

Tuesday, August 21, 11am
Fridericianum Zwehrenturm
Friedrichsplatz 18, Kassel
Access with dOCUMENTA (13) entrance ticket, booking required

Patricia Falguières is an art historian and professor of Renaissance
cultural history and contemporary art history and theory at L'École des
hautes études en sciences sociales EHESS in Paris. Since 2006, she has
collaborated with Nataša Petrešin-Bachelez, Elisabeth Lebovici, and Hans
Ulrich Obrist on the seminar series *Something You Should Know: artists and
producers today*.

*Christiane Voss: Aesthetics of illusion* (German)
Monday, August 27, 6pm
Bode-Saal, Maybe Center for Conviviality at the Ständehaus
Ständeplatz 6-10, Kassel
Open session, free entry

Tuesday, August 28, 11am
Fridericianum Zwehrenturm
Friedrichsplatz 18, Kassel
Access with dOCUMENTA (13) entrance ticket, booking required

Christiane Voss is a philosopher and Professor of Media Philosophy at the
Bauhaus University Weimar since 2009. Her research focuses on philosophical
aesthetics and epistemology, film theory, and media anthropology of
emotions. She is also a filmmaker.

*Christoph Menke and Chus Martínez: Closing notes* (German)
Monday, September 3, 6pm
Bode-Saal, Maybe Center for Conviviality at the Ständehaus
Ständeplatz 6-10, Kassel
Open session, free entry

Tuesday, September 4, 11am
Fridericianum Zwehrenturm
Friedrichsplatz 18, Kassel
Access with dOCUMENTA (13) entrance ticket, booking required

Christoph Menke is a philosopher and Professor of Practical Philosophy at
Goethe University in Frankfurt/Main. He is interested in the relationship
between rule and freedom, law and violence, irony in theater, and the
philosophy of human rights. His recent publications include *Tragic Play:
Irony and Theater from Sophocles to Beckett *(2009), *Kraft *(2008),
and *Reflections
of Equality *(2006).

Chus Martínez is Head of Department of dOCUMENTA (13) and a member of its
Core Agent Group. A philosophy scholar, her current research focuses on
artistic research: how thinking can happen through matter and how sense can
be reversed by experience. She was the director of the Frankfurter
Kunstverein (2005–08), and chief curator of the Museu d'Art contemporani de
Barcelona (MACBA) (2008–11).

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The documenta and Museum Fridericianum Veranstaltungs-GmbH is a nonprofit
company supported and financed jointly by the City of Kassel and the State
of Hessen as partners, with support from the Federal Cultural Foundation.

The Maybe Center for Conviviality of the Maybe Education and Public
Programs has been made possible thanks to the support of Absolut Art
Bureau, Corporate Benefactor.

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