Talk with Vinciane Despret

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The Crac is teaming up with La Nouvelle Librairie Sétoise to offer you a talk with Vinciane Despret about her book Les morts à l’œuvre, published in 2023 by Les Empêcheurs de penser en rond / La découverte.

(…) « In this book, Vinciane Despret tells us five stories in which people who have died, either recently or a long time ago, have forced the living to give them a new place. These dead people ‘insist’, because there was something unjust in their fate: victims of violence, commandos from Africa and from Provence, political deaths in which might was right… Those who remain decided to respond to this insistence by commissioning a work thanks to a political and artistic protocol called the New Patrons programme. This protocol consists in choosing an artist and collectively deciding on a work. It will deeply change the patrons.» (…)

Biographical information

Vinciane Despret is a philosopher and psychologist, a researcher in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Liège.
After having discovered the work of ethologists, she directed her research towards the philosophy of science. She is the author of several books of thought on living beings, which are today works of reference.
She also dedicates some of her work to life with the dead, another important theme in a career teeming with inventiveness.
In those two fields of research, Vinciane Despret develops her thought from a perspective that leads her to explore the political consequences of our theoretical choices: “which leads me to take an increasing interest in, on the one hand, the question of how to live with the animal, and, on the other hand, political questions raised today by psychotherapeutic practices with the human being”.

Selected bibliography
Et si les animaux écrivaient, Paris, Bayard, 2022.
Autobiographie d’un poulpe et autres récits d’anticipation, Arles, Actes Sud, 2019.
Our Grateful Dead: Stories of Those Left Behind, Minneapolis, University of Minnesota Press, 2021.


In partnership with La Nouvelle Librairie Sétoise.
Cultural action room.
For all.

Date: Thursday 19 October 2023

Time: 6.30 p.m.

Location: 26, quai Aspirant Herber
34200 Sète (Hérault)
Crac Occitanie, Centre régional d'art contemporain

Free event

Audience: Tout public