Reading Group: What Is Structuralism?
Meeting 2: Deleuze – “How Do We Recognize Structuralism?”
Saturday June 1st
3:30-5:30pm
Or Gallery
555 Hamilton Street, Vancouver
What Is Structuralism? is a monthly reading group on the history and philosophy of structuralism, from foundations to contemporary developments. Meetings will be held on the first Saturday of each month.
For our second meeting we are discussing Gilles Deleuze’s 1972 paper “How Do We Recognize Structuralism?” This text enumerates a set of characteristic properties of the structuralist project: symbolic order, localization, differential relationship, virtual genesis, seriality and “the empty square”. These properties are explained using examples from the work of Lacan, Althusser, Foucault and Lévi-Strauss.
Contact Alex at universalmathesis (at) gmail (dot) com for further details. A pdf of the text is available at https://www.topoi.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/How_Do_We_Recognize_Structuralism.pdf – please read the full text prior to the session.