Organized by the Languages, Literatures, Societies, Transborder and International Studies (LLSETI) at USMB and the Association of Philosophy Teachers in Public Education, the series of philosophical lectures entitled "What work in a finite world?" continues this Wednesday, May 15, at 5 p.m. with the theme "The inevitability of order and the dynamics of will." This lecture will take place in Room 3, at the Savoie Mont Blanc University (USMB) administration building in Chambéry. It is open to all and no registration is required.
The idea that understanding the reasons behind future disasters would enable us to influence the course of events assumes that this course is not inevitable. It is this inevitability that is at issue here: what explains our inertia in the face of a shared observation? Is it still possible for us to avoid disaster? Can we overturn the system that drives states, companies, and individuals into widespread competition?
This system subjects everything to market logic, which turns sport into a business, culture into an industry, and the human body into a product. It seems to overdetermine our behavior and lock us into a dead-end logic that often futile gestures attempt to exorcise.
We will analyze the coercive nature of this market system, which leads us to describe it as a "market order," and seek to understand its meaning by placing it in the context of other approaches in order to assess its inevitability.
This conference will be led by Hervé Hutin, Associate Professor of Economics and Management and Doctor of Economics at the University of Bamako.
About the series "What work in a finite world?"
We only took note of the devastation caused by our unrestrained transformation of nature and the world when that world threatened to become uninhabitable. But is it the transformation of the world in general that is at fault, or is it an economic model that subjects everything to commodification while perpetuating the logic of domination? In short: are humans not expelling themselves from the world by failing to question these models? We have begun to feel afraid, and with good reason. Understanding why and how we got to this point is, in any case, necessary if we want to take action to change the course of events, which is not inevitable. Discussing this question would reveal its political dimension as well as the social issues at stake.
LEARN MORE
- 2023-2024 Philosophy Lecture Series Program
- LLSETI laboratory website
- Contact: Pascal Bouvier, member of the LLSETI laboratory and organizer of this conference series