BECOMING MINORITY

Becoming Minority The ConferenceStudium Generale is an extensive trans-disciplinary theory program that addresses students and teachers of all departments of the Gerrit Rietveld Academie.From March 8 till March 12 2010 Studium Generale presents a five day conference under the overarching title Becoming Minority. For Rietveld students the program is a mandatory complement to the curriculum. Visitors from outside the academy are most welcome to attend the conference as well (Interested outsiders can send a mail to subscribeSG@rietveldacademie.nl mentioning your name and program(s) of your choice. You can subscribe till March 1st )During a remarkable seminar at the Rietveld Academie in April 1997, a dedicated group of students and teachers reflected on the immense resonance that French philosopher Gilles Deleuze’s body of thought had in even the remotest corners of the various art, film, and music scenes of the nineties. They contemplated enchanting concepts such as the ‘rhizome’, the ‘body without organs’, ‘lines of flight’, ‘becoming woman’, and last but not least the ‘becoming minor or minority’. It was unclear at that time whether this inspired congregation of terms marked the end or the beginning of an era.Today, after 9/11 and in the middle of the ongoing ‘war on terror’, Deleuze appears to have lost quite a bit of his magic. New icons of ‘theory’ have emerged and some thinkers even declared that one of the most important Deleuzian concepts, that of ‘becoming minority’, was the last creative rebound of a decadent Eurocentric

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