CALLED OFF: On Violence

#7 Anthropological Differences: How Do They Compare? How Do They Intersect? A Philosophical Inquiry

With Étienne Balibar
Moderation: Manuela Bojadžijev & Ivo Eichhorn
Part of “On Violence”

  • Dialogue
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Due to health reasons, Étienne Balibar’s lecture as part of “On Violence” on 11 November  cannot take place as planned. We deeply regret this and apologize for any inconvenience. Tickets purchased online for “On Violence #7” with Étienne Balibar will be automatically refunded. In other cases, for a refund of tickets already paid, please contact our ticketing team: service@hebbel-am-ufer.de.

Instead, we invite you to an evening of solidarity in the migration society: “Transforming Solidarities. Berlin Declaration – In Defense of the Migration Society”.
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Gender, race, mental and physical health, but also age and intelligence can be described as anthropological differences. This is because they are perceived as human ways of being, yet they contain opposing determinations of the human, such as masculine versus feminine and normal versus pathological. They are socially, historically, and culturally constructed, permeated by relations of domination and shaped by ideologies. Because of this, they remain the subject of dispute, opposition, and transgression. Contemporary critical theories point out that these differences can never be neatly demarcated from each other, trying to link them in the construction of identities and collective agency. Perhaps the most influential model for this is intersectionality. The philosopher Étienne Balibar discusses this model based on an examination of what makes anthropological differences both comparable and untraceable to one other at once.

Dates

Past

Credits

A cooperation of the Institute for European Ethnology and the Berlin Institute for Migration Research of the Humboldt University Berlin with HAU Hebbel am Ufer. Funded by: Alliance of International Production Houses with funds from the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media.

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