Penumbra ~ Mayra A. Rodríguez Castro's seminar from Confluence to Confluence

May 2024: Confluence 5 in Middelburg

Absoluteness

The trumpeter and composer, Wadada Leo Smith, defines absoluteness as a traceable unit in musical composition—“the sum of the elements and their placement.”

In the fifth confluence of Penumbra, we will revisit works by Edmund Husserl, Frantz Fanon, and Marleau Ponty to draw a closing diagram of The Basic Principles of Phenomenology. This time, our efforts turn to the protocol as collective document of analysis and final thesis workshop. Our interlocutors include Omnia S. El Shakry and Nise da Silveira.

Saturday, May 25

10:00 - 13:00 — House

13:00 - 14:00: Lunch

14:00 - 18:00 — Thesis Workshop

19:00 - 20:00: Dinner

20:00 - 21:00 — Screening

Sunday, May 26

10:00 - 13:00 — House

13:00 - 14:00: Lunch

14:00 - 18:00 — Documents

19:00 - 20:00: Dinner

20:00 - 21:00 — Closing

Readings:

Edmund Husserl. The Basic Principles of Phenomenology. Translated by Ingo Farin and J.G

Hart. Dordrecht: Springer, 2006.

Martin Buber. I and Thou. Translated by Ronald Gregor Smith. London: T&T Clark, 1942.

Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Eye and Mind. Translated by Carleton Dallery. Evanston, IL:

Northwestern University Press, 1964.

Frantz Fanon. Alienation and Freedom. Translated by Steven Corcoran. London: Bloomsbury

Academic, 2018.

Wadada Leo Smith. notes (8 pieces). Chicago: The Renaissance Society, 2015.

April 2024: confluence 4 in Essaouira

Des nervures

Things have an internal equivalent in me; they arouse in me a carnal formula of their presence. — Merleau Ponty.

In this confluence of Penumbra, we will reflect on contemporary phenomenology, the betrayal of science, and the history of psychiatry as addressed by Merleau Ponty and Frantz Fanon. Parting from our readings of Husserl, and guided by the second to third chapters of his Basic Problems of Phenomenology, we will augment definitions of the Leib for a social, physical, and lived body today.

The fourth confluence of Penumbra will be accompanied by a perception diary written in Essaouira.

Friday, April 19

10:00 - 13:00 — Virtual House

13:00 - 14:00: Lunch

14:00 - 18:00 — Thesis Workshop

19:00 - 20:00: Dinner

20:00 - 21:00 — Screening

Saturday, April 20

10:00 - 13:00 — Virtual House

13:00 - 14:00: Lunch

14:00 - 18:00 — Perception Diary

19:00 - 20:00: Dinner

20:00 - 21:00 — The Basic Problems: Protocol

Sunday, April 21

10:00 - 13:00 — The Basic Problems: Protocol

*Office hours by sign-up

13:00 - 14:00: Lunch

14:00 - 18:00 — Thesis Workshop

19:00 - 20:00: Dinner

20:00 - 21:00 — Evening House

Readings:

Edmund Husserl. The Basic Problems of Phenomenology. Translated by Ingo Farin and J.G Hart. Dordrecht: Springer, 2006.

March 2024: confluence 3 at PAF

Consciousness

“In this world, there are not two separate worlds,” writes Husserl, although his definition of consciousness already proposes a fracture. For the philosopher, consciousness is the very distinction between what appears and ”the appearing itself.” In the second confluence of Penumbra we will revisit the opening chapter of The Basic Principles of Phenomenology. Our meeting will traverse the natural attitude, appearance, and forms of judgment to arrive at the notion of all-nature.

Saturday, March 9

10:00 - 13:00 — House

13:00 - 14:00: Lunch

14:00 - 18:00 — The Argument I

19:00 - 20:00: Dinner

20:00 - 21:00 — The Basic Body

Sunday, March 10

10:00 - 13:00 — House

13:00 - 14:00: Lunch

14:00 - 18:00 — The Argument II

19:00 - 20:00: Dinner

20:00 - 21:00 — Evening Farewell

readings:

Edmund Husserl. The Basic Principles of Phenomenology. Translated by Ingo Farin and J.G Hart. Dordrecht: Springer, 2006.

Martin Buber. I and Thou. Translated by Ronald Gregor Smith. London: T&T Clark, 1942.

January 2024: confluence 2 at NAC, Nida

The ‘I’ In the Natural Attitude

During the first confluence of Penumbra, we will consider the opening chapter of The Basic Problems of Phenomenology. Our collaborative reading will attend to concepts such as reduction, the ‘I’ and its faculties, forms of judgment, and the natural attitude. In this session, we will strive towards empathy and the other I. Our studies will include works by Abbás Kiarostamí and Ueda Akinari, as well as the letters of Antonio Gramsci, and compositions by Brother Ah.

Friday, January 19

10:00 - 13:00 — House

13:00 - 14:00: Lunch

14:00 - 18:00 — A History of Phenomenology

19:00 - 20:00: Dinner

20:00 - 21:00 — Evening Reading

Saturday, January 20

10:00 - 13:00: — House

13:00 - 14:00: Lunch

14:00 - 16:00 — Reading Presentations

16:00 - 18:00 — Sunset Observation

19:00 - 20:00: Dinner

20:00 - 21:00: — Screening

Sunday, January 21

7:30 - 9:30 — Sunrise Observation

13:00 - 14:00: Lunch

14:00 - 16:00 — Thesis Workshop

16:00 - 18:00 — Teach-Out TBD

19:00 - 20:00: Dinner

20:00 - 21:00: Farewell Reading

readings:

Edmund Husserl. The Basic Principles of Phenomenology. Translated by Ingo Farin and J.G Hart. Dordrecht: Springer, 2006.

November 2023: introduction days at PAF, St. Erme:

DAI-BULLETIN 2023—2024 nr. 1 November 2023

 

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