In addition to 'Antigone' on Wednesday, on Thursday we will be watching another very exciting film 'Zizek!' that follows the philosopher Slavoj Zizek from his sickbed to Boston and Buenos Aires. This film, sourced by Jean for KIT before it has even been released in Europe, is of particular interest in relation to aspects of Lacanian 'desire' that we talked about in the first week of the semester. Morfe info at: http://www.zizekthemovie.com/

We shall probably also watch 'The Specialist' by Eyal Sivan that Florian has managed to source.

Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri, in their book Empire make a distinction between ‘multitude’ and ‘people’ in that the former is a multiplicity with an open, inconclusive constituent relation while the latter is homogenous and merely a resource for the state: the people are constituted in preparation for sovereignty. However, if people – activists - are conceived as multitude then things change.

First, the activist event is not static which it might be if it is subsumed into the ‘res-publica,’ (for instance the sphere of state designated spaces for protest – city squares, avenues etc.) organized around a specific object ('res') for dissent.

The Research file can be a way of archiving your progress and tracking the choices, rejections and chance encounters with material that you make during the course of your theory-practice.