平民的魔力

Course start from 2019/3/18 - 4/22 Monday (10:10-13:10) Class Room : HA Building2 106A Credit: 1 credit ---------------------------- The syllabus: " How can 'people' be both one of the most essential, indispensable, irreplaceable words of the language of politics and one of the most disputed, contentious and to some extent toxic ones? How do politics, political life, as a set of "operations", have to empower this term and, simultaneously, expose and endanger themselves by doing it? Why and how does the temptation to erase the word 'peop le' lead, in politics, to the suppression of politics as such? These i ssues have been raised by authors like Michel Foucault, Gilles Deleuze, Claude Lefort Jacques Ranciere, Giorgio Agamben, Ernesto Laclau (and others) who will guide us in this maze". In this course the term ? people ? or ? the name of the people ? will be looked at as a battlefield. It's not only in the dimension of political conflictuality that narrative battles of all kinds rage about ? the name of the people ? - what the ? real ? people is made of, who is entitled to represent it, what its limits are... It is as well in the realm of culture ans artistic production that this question appears again and again. Cinema is at this place a sensitive plate. It is not only a prolific manufacture for miscellaneous peoples, but also a field where these more or less imaginary peoples confront each other and clash. A selection of classical examples will make this point clear and show how philosophy and cinema meet up where the ? name of the people ? is at issue as the most contentious object.