The Western University of Timișoara becomes a space for dialogue and reflection around a new theme "About the old sufferers of light descending into darkness and its new great accomplishments in the baths with silver salts". The A01 amphitheater will host a discussion worthy of a cultural capital, between two high-profile personalities: Peter Sloterdijk and Andrei Ujică.
Their public dialogues about "the film of philosophy and the philosophy of film" have taken Peter Sloterdijk and Andrei Ujică over the years, starting from Karlsruhe in 2001, to many places in the world: New York, Berlin, Strasbourg, Rotterdam, Locarno, Milan and now Timisoara.
The discussion will start from the chapter that gives the title of the meeting in Peter Sloterdijk's last book "Wer noch kein Grau gedacht hat. Eine Farbenlehre" (Who hasn't thought of gray yet. A theory of colors) and will revolve around the emergence of photography and film in the century. of the XNUMXth century and of their "black and white" halo of meanings.
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Peter Sloterdijk
He is one of the most famous and innovative contemporary philosophers. Foreign Policy and Prospect Magazine name him among the 100 most influential public intellectuals. A prolific writer, after graduating from the University of Munich he began to publish a long series of philosophical works. The first of these, "Critique of Cynic Reason", is immediately noted by commentators and achieves a circulation unprecedented for a philosophical work in post-war Germany. The volume is also translated, until today, into more than 30 languages.
Peter Sloterdijk has been awarded numerous prizes and honorary doctorates (Ernst Robert Curtius Award, 1993; Sigmund Freud Award, 2005; Ludwig Börne Award, 2013, etc.). His professional activity is intertwined with the public one: for two years he holds the Lévinas Chair created in Strasbourg, in 1992 he becomes a professor of philosophy and aesthetics at the University of Arts and Design in Karlsruhe, where he was also rector between 2001-2015, he has appearances constant in the German and French press, and participates in numerous international symposia, colloquiums and congresses.
Andrei Ujica
Born in Timisoara in 1951, Andrei Ujică studied letters and philosophy in Timisoara, Bucharest and Heidelberg. Starting from 1968, he published intermittently prose, poems, essays. He wrote together with Şerban Foarţă between 1973-1975, texts for the rock band Phoenix. He made his cinematographic debut with "Videograms from a revolution" (1992, in collaboration with Harun Farocki), a film that became a reference title in terms of the relationship between mass media and political power in Europe at the end of the Cold War. His next film, "Out of the Present" (1995, was called by Lars von Trier "the real Dogma 1"). "The Autobiography of Nicolae Ceaușescu" (2010), widely recognized as a monumental achievement, concludes the trilogy about the end of communism.
Participation is free, with registration at: https://forms.gle/ch3jioaWdTebPtxU9
The event is part of the cultural program "At UVT, Culture is Capital", included in the Cultural Program "Timișoara 2023 - European Capital of Culture", Oameni territory, Reflectiņi station, financed by the Municipality of Timișoara through the Project Center.
