Ereignis Center for Philosophy and the Arts

Ereignis () means to make an experience, concept, or technology your own. Ereignis Center for Philosophy and the Arts enriches lives with a liberating philosophy grounded in artifice and an ethics of artificial life. With our expressive approach to life in the event of technology you will be better able at being you.

8 September, 2023 CfP: Inscriptions invites contributions to our upcoming themed issue, Beyond Dualism. Deadline 15 September/15 October, 2023. Read the full CfP.more...

15 July, 2023 Journal: Inscriptions 6, n2, Open issue, is out. Anda Pleniceanu on Adorno’s negative dialectic. Georgios Tsagdis on Agamben. Creative criticism.more...

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Modernism and metaphysics

Instructor: Prof. Jørgen Veisland

Modernist literary works coincide with paradigmatic changes in philosophy, physics, music, painting, literature and history. Religion and theology are replaced by a radical search for meaning and unity in the midst of apparent civilizational disunity and chaos. Join our new live seminar to explore modernism and metaphysics.

First seminar: Saturday October 14.

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Ethics after Nietzsche

Instructor: Dr. Mehdi Parsa

Learn about the developments of ethical thought in continental European philosophy (particularly in France) after and in response to Nietzsche’s critique of morality which appears in his Genealogy of Morality and Beyond Good and Evil.

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Life Technologies

Instructor: Dr. Torgeir Fjeld

This course presents a distinct view of technology and technological change. As we situate technology within various philosophies of the event we learn to appreciate a whole range of life techniques for ethical – good – living in the event of technology. Sign up at any time to join!