deBuren

Discover our English activities!

Written by deBuren

• 16.04.2013 - 19:30 Erotic Capital: Lecture and interview Catherine Hakim
• 26.04.2013 - 02.06.2013 citybooks exhibition in Amsterdam
• 28.04.2013 - 17:00 The New Sermon #4: lecture by Jules Evans (Philosophy for life)
• 14.05.2013 - 19:30 'Grijze Cellen': lectures and debate about scientific misconduct
• 16.05.2013 - 19.05.2013 - 19:00 Film: Élevage de poussière / Dust breeding by Sarah Vanagt
• 17.05.2013 - 20:30 A discussion with Sarah Vanagt about the deciphering of marks of war
• 21.05.2013 - 20:30 The Pop-Up City Live: citybooks in the Brakke Grond
• 23.05.2013 - 20:00 MO*Lecture: Sunita Narain: Ecology of the poor
• 24.05.2013 - 19:30 MO*Lecture: Sunita Narain: Who still believes in global environmental agreement?
• 22.06.2013 - 9:00 > 17:30 I Am Europe: Join the debate, share your ideas, get heard

The right to laziness, an urgent claim

Written by Isabelle Stengers

In the framework of the group exhibition Bon Travail, Argos invited two philosophers on the 27th of march to talk about the role of laziness in society today: Isabelle Stengers (ULB) and Petra Van Brabandt (Sint Lucas Antwerp). They investigated what our ambiguous position regarding laziness says about working, enjoyment, the modern day production and consumption model and our mortality. Click here to read the lecture Isabelle Stengers gave during that evening.

Lecture on laziness

Written by Petra Van Brabandt

In the framework of the group exhibition Bon Travail, Argos invited two philosophers who talked about the role of laziness in society today: Isabelle Stengers (ULB) and Petra Van Brabandt (Sint Lucas Antwerp). During a debate on the 27th of March they talked to each other about what our ambiguous position regarding laziness says about working, enjoyment, the modern day production and consumption model and our mortality. Click here to read the lecture Petra Van Brabandt gave before the debate.

A landscape of snow under a beautiful sun

Written by Gertjan Boulet

During the annual international conference Computers, Privacy and Data Protection (CPDP2013) a beautiful sun shined upon our capital city which was covered in snow.  A nice metaphor for both the cold and warm feelings that our information society evokes; or for the efforts of the organization committee of CPDP2013, including myself from the Vrije Universiteit Brussel, to shed a better light on a surveillance landscape that has been crystallized into snow. David Lyon would say liquid surveillance ….