Frank Ruda
Vita2011- Visiting Lecturer at Bard College Berlin (Germany)
2010 - Visiting Lecturer at the Institute of Philosophy, Scientific Research Centre in Ljubljana (Slovenia)
2008 - Researcher at the Collaborative Research Project (SFB) 626 in philosophy with Prof. Dr. Georg W. Bertram
2008 - Doctorate at the University of Potsdam with Prof. Dr. Christoph Menke and Prof. Dr. Manfred Schneider
2005-2008 - Scholarship at the doctoral program „Forms of Life and the Know how of Living" at the University of Potsdam and the Europe-University Viadrina (Frankfurt / Oder)
1998-2005 - Study of Philosophy and German Literature at the Ruhr-University Bochum and the École pratique des Hautes Études (Paris)
Classes taught at Bard College Berlin:
Continental Philosophy Today
Hegel's Philosophy of Right
Introduction to Psychoanalysis
Hegel: Contemporary Actualizations
Research Interests
Aesthetics
German Idealism, esp. Kant and Hegel
Descartes
Contemporary French Philosophy, esp. Badiou, Deleuze, Rancière
Political Theory, esp. Marxism and Post-Marxism
Psychoanalysis
Further Affiliations
Co-Editor of the book series morale provisoire at Merve-publishing, Berlin.
Member of the Centre for Studies in German Idealism (Pristina)
Member of the Editorial Board: Crisis and Critique (Journal)
Member of the Editorial Board: Insolubilia (Book series)
Publications
Books
The Dash: Vicissitudes of Absolute Knowing, together with Rebecca Comay, (in preparation; with MIT-Press).
Abolishing Freedom: A Plea for the Contemporary Use of Fatalism, Lincoln 2015: Nebraska University Press (forthcoming).
For Badiou: Idealism without Idealism, Evanston 2015: Northwestern University Press (forthcoming).
Hegel's Rabble: An Investigation into Hegel's Philosophy of Right. With a Preface by Slavoj Žižek, London / New York 2011: Continuum.
Hegels Pöbel. Eine Untersuchung der "Grundlinien der Philosophie des Recht. Mit einem Vorwort von Slavoj Žižek, Konstanz 2011: Konstanz University Press.
Reviews of Hegel’s Rabble:
Review by Adrian Johnston at Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews:
Review by Jacob Blumfeldt in Hegel Bulletin of the Hegel Society of Great Britain (Volume 34 / Issue 02 / October 2013, pp 280-285):
Review by Jason Smith in Radical Philosophy
Review by Matt S. Whit in Theory and Event 15.4 (2012):
In the German daily newspaper Frankfurt Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ, 2011)
Review by Patrick Eiden-Offe in the Merkur Heft 06 / Juni 2012 (S.510-522) :
Review by Thomas Telios and David Remer in Neue Politische Literatur, Jg. 57 (2012), 158-159.
In Diàlogo Filosófico, Ano 28, Septiembre / Diciembre III, 174-176.
Online-Reviews:
http://www.gespenst-der-armut.org/hegels-pobel-frank-ruda8
http://www.thiele-und-thiele-consult.de/science-review-letters/sciencereview_ge/417_ge.html
Edited Books
History, Reason and Thought: Contemporary Readings of Kant and Hegel, ed. together with Daniel Martin Feige (in preparation, under consideration by Routledge).
Slavoj Žižek and Dialectical Materialism, ed. with Agon Hamza, London: Palgrave 2015 (in preparation).
Generische Formen in den Künsten, ed. together with Kirsten Maar and Jan Völker, Munich:Fink 2015 (forthcoming).
Art and Contemporaneity, ed. together with Jan Völker, Zurich: diaphanous 2015 (forthcoming).
Die Sinnlichkeit der Künste: Beiträge zur ästhetischen Reflexivität, ed. together with Georg W. Bertram and Daniel M. Feige, Zurich: diaphanes 2014 (under contract, forthcoming).
Chiesa, Lorenzo, Der Möglichkeitspunkt der Freiheit. (Morale Provisoire # 4), ed. together with Jan Völker, Berlin: Merve 2014 (forthcoming).
Catherine Malabou, Die Ontologie des Unfalls. (Morale Provisoire # 3), ed. together with Jan Völker, Berlin: Merve 2011.
Beyond Potentialities? Politics Between the Possible and the Impossible, ed. together with Mark Potocnik / Jan Völker, Berlin: diaphanes 2011
Translated Books
Zupančič, Alenka, Der Geist der Komödie: The Odd One In. (Morale Provisoire # 5), ed. and translated together with Jan Völker, Berlin: Merve 2014.
Badiou, Alain: Die Kommunistische Hypothese. (Morale Provisoire #2), ed. and translated together with Jan Völker, Berlin: Merve 2011.
Badiou, Alain: Ist Politik denkbar? (Morale provisoire #1), ed. and translated together with Jan Völker, Berlin: Merve 2010.
Rancière, Jacques: Ist Kunst widerständig?, ed. and translated together with Jan Völker Berlin: Merve 2008.
Badiou, Alain: Dritter Entwurf eines Manifests für den Affirmationismus, ed. together with Jan Völker, Berlin: Merve 2007.
Edited Journal Issues
Idealism, Art, Politics, and Ideology, Special issue of “Stasis”, ed. together with Jan Völker, Moscow 2015. (forthcoming)
Crisis and Critique: “Politics and Religion Today”, ed. together with Agon Hamza, Prishtina: 2015 [http://www.crisiscritique.org/].
Crisis and Critique: “Critique Today”, ed. together with Agon Hamza, Prishtina: 2014 [http://materializmidialektik.org/category/revistajournal/ ].
Science and Thought. Special International Issue of Filozofski Vestnik, ed. together with Jan Völker, Ljubljana 2012.
Schwerpunkt: Reflexivität in den Künsten. Zeitschrift für Ästhetik und Allgemeine Kunstwissenschaft, ed. together with Georg W. Bertram and Simone Mahrenholz, Hamburg 2010.
Articles / Book Chapters
2015
“Hegel, Rabble, and Consequences”, in: The Cambridge Guide to Hegel's Philosophy of Right, ed. by David James, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2015. (in preparation)
“Hegel and Predestination”, in: Slavoj Žižek and Dialectical Materialism, ed. by Frank Ruda and Agon Hamza (in preparation).
“Inheritance and Genius. On A Possible Link Between Freud And Hegel”, in: Inheritance, ed. by Tim Dean, Durham: Duke University Press 2015 (in preparation).
“Life at the End. On Hegel, Life and Living”, in: Logos, Moscow 2015 (forthcoming).
“Generisch, Spekulativ” [Generic, Speculative], in: Generische Formen, by Kirsten Maar, Frank Ruda, and Jan Völker, München: Fink 2015. (forthcoming)
“First as ‘Politics’, then as ‘Art’”, in: Idealism, Art, Politics, and Ideology, special issue of “Stasis”, ed. together with Jan Völker, Moscow 2015. (forthcoming)
“Die Eumeniden schlafen, aber... Rächende und strafende Gerechtigkeit bei Hegel” [The Eumenides sleep, but… Avenging and Punishing Justice in Hegel], in: Affekt und Urteil, ed. by Michael Lüthy, Berlin: transcript 2015. (forthcoming)
“Dawn of the Dead, Dawn of the Mad. Politik der Untoten” [Politics of the Undead] (with Mark Potocnik), in: Suspensionen: Zur Epistemologie des Untoten, ed. by Carolin Blumenberg, Alexandra Heimes, Erica Weitzmann, Sophie Witt, München: Fink 2015. (forthcoming)
“We are All Hot Girls in a Mental Asylum. The 'Hollywood Left' and Contemporary Democracy”, in: Art and Contemporaneity, ed. by Frank Ruda und Jan Völker, Berlin: diaphanes 2015. (forthcoming)
“Allgemeinheit ohne Einheit vs. Einheit ohne Allgemeinheit. Eine Grundsatzdebatte” [Universality without Unity vs. Unity without Universality. A Fundamental Debate], in: Die Sinnlichkeit der Künste: Beiträge zur ästhetischen Reflexivität, ed together with Georg W. Bertram and Daniel M. Feige, Zürich: diaphanes 2015. (forthcoming)
"Die Formel der unendlichen Entbindung, mit einer Antwort auf Zdravko Kovbe" [The Formula of Infinite Unbinding, with an Answer to Zdravko Kovbe] (Slovene Translation), in: Problemi Ljubljana 2015. (forthcoming)
"Less than Nothing, More than Thought", in: More Than A Lot, ed. by Bruno Besana and Ozren Pupovac, Sydney: re-press 2015. (forthcoming)
"For a Platonism of the Not-All”, in: Repeating Žižek, ed. by Agon Hamza, Durham: Duke University Press 2015. (forthcoming)
“Who Thinks Reductively? Capitalism's Animals”, in: theory@buffalo, issue 15, Buffalo 2015. (forthcoming)
“What is to be Judged? On Infinitely Infinite Judgments and Their Consequences”, in: Žižek and Law, ed. by Laurent de Sutter, London / New York: Routledge 2015. (forthcoming)
“The Immanence of Truths: Badiou with Hegel”, in: Hegel and Badiou, ed. Jim Vernon / Antonio Calcagno 2015. (forthcoming)
2014
"Dichtung und Wirklichkeit. Dreieinhalb Paradigmen" [Poetry and Reality. Three and a Half Paradigms], in: Kunst und Wirklichkeit, ed. by Michael Lüthy, Berlin: transcript 2014, 47-64.
“Die Geburt der Komödie aus dem Geist der Komödie” [The Birth of Comedy From the Spirit of Comedy] (with Jan Völker), in: Zupančič, Alenka, Der Geist der Komödie. The Odd One In. Morale Provisoire # 5, ed. and translated together with Jan Völker, Berlin: Merve 2014 258-264.
“Recht ohne Recht. Hegel als Theoretiker universaler Empörung” [Right Without Right. Hegel as Theorist of Universal Indignation], in: Zur Architektonik praktischer Vernunft – Hegel in Transformation, ed. by Hartmut Rosa and Klaus Vieweg, Berlin: Duncker & Humblot 2014, 47-64.
“How to Think What One Cannot Think? Inaesthetics of the Flesh”, in: Aesthetics of the Flesh, ed. Felix Ensslin, Berlin: Sternberg Press 2014, 303-320.Uc “Introduction”, in: Crisis and Critique, Vol. 1. No. 3, 2014 (with Agon Hamza), 4-11 [http://materializmidialektik.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/intro.pdf].
“How to Act as if One Were Not Free. A Contemporary Defense of Fatalism”, in: Crisis and Critique, Vol. 1. No. 3, 2014, 174-199 [http://materializmidialektik.org/wpcontent/uploads/2014/07/rud.pdf].
“Kakšna je tvoja dialektika? Badioujeva in Žižkova predelava negacije” [What is your Dialectic? Badiou and Zizek on Negation], in: Problemi, Ljubljana, Vol. 3, No. 14 /14, 107-142.
“Gelungene Kommunikation” [Functioning Communication], in: Texte zur Kunst, Berlin, Juni 2014, 24. Jahrgang, Heft 94, 108-113.
“Idealism without Idealism. Badiou's Materialist Renaissance”, in: Angelaki. The Journal for Theoretical Humanities, London: Taylor & Francis 2014, 85-98.
“Entlassen. Remarks on Hegel, Sacrifice, and Liberation”, in: Crisis and Critique. Special Issue, ed. by Acheronta Movebo, 111-128 [http://materializmidialektik.org/wpcontent/uploads/2014/06/CC-2-Entlassen.pdf].
"Conditioning Communism: Badiou, Plato and Philosophy as Meta-Critical Anamnesis", in: Badiou and the Political Condition, hg. von Marios Constantinou, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press 2014, 56-75.
"The Indignant of the Earth", in: Crisis and Critique, Vol. 1, Issue 1, 2014, 67-88.[http://materializmidialektik.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/Ruda_Indignant.pdf].
2013
“The Necessary Critique of Divine Violence” (with Jan Völker), in: Agamben and the Coming Politics: Legal, Political and Philosophical Perspectives, ed. by Tom Frost, London / New York: Routledge 2013, 75-96.
“Père-Versionen des Passiven” [Père-Versions of the Passive], in: Theorien der Passivität, ed. by Kathrin Busch and Helmut Draxler, München: Fink 2013, 258-275.
“Heglove prve beside” [Hegel's First Words] (Slovene Translation), in: Problemi, Ljubljana, 2013, 29-82.
"Was ist eine geschichtliche Sequenz? Zur philosophischen Analyse von Prozessen der Veränderung" [What is a Historical Sequence? On the Philosophical Analysis of Processes of Change], Können wir der Geschichte entkommen?, ed. by Christian Schmidt, Frankfurt (Main) / New York: Campus 2013, 219-240.
“Die Notwendigkeit des unmöglichen Ganzen: Brechts ‘Jahrhunderttext’”(with Eva Marlene Heubach) [The Necessity of the Impossible Whole: Brecht's ‘Text of the Century’], Fatzer Jahrbücher, 2013, 18-33.
“Remembering the Impossible. For A Meta-Critical Anamnesis of Communism”, in: The Idea of Communism 2: The New York Conference, ed. Slavoj Žižek, London / New York: Verso 2013, 137-165.
“An Army of Me. Review of ‘Badiou and Philosophy’”, in: Notre Dame Philosophical Review, on: http://ndpr.nd.edu/recent-reviews/.
“Thinking Politics Concretely: Negation, Affirmation and the Dialectics of Dialectics and Non-Dialectics”, in: Thinking - Resisting - Reading the Political, ed. by Stephen Packard et.al., Zurich: diaphanes 2013, 137-154.
2012
“Iz gozda na plan” [Out of the Woods], in: Filozofski vestnik, Vol. XXXIII, No. 2/2012, Ljubljana 2012, 169-190.
“Antworten zur Philosophie A. Badious” [Answers on the Philosophy of A. Badiou], in: Information Philosophie, 2012.
“The Speculative Family, or: Critique of the Critical Critique of Critique”, in: Science and Thought. Filozofski Vestnik, Vol. XXXIII, No. 2, Ljubljana 2012, 53-76.
“How to Do Things With Faith? A Review of Simon Crichtley's Faith of the Faithless”, http://marxandphilosophy.org.uk/reviewofbooks/reviews/2012/593.
“Remembering, Repeating, Working Through Marx: Badiou and Žižek and the Re-Actualizations of Marxism”, in: Revue Internationale de Philosophie, 3-2012, Vol. 66, No. 261, Brussels: 2012, 293-320.
“Die Spekulative Familie” [The Speculative Family], in: Texte zur Kunst, Berlin, Juni 2012, 22. Jahrgang, Heft 86, 172-176.
“A Politics of Aesthetic Indetermination: An Interview of Jacques Rancière” (with Jan Völker), in: Everything is in Everything. Jacques Rancière Between Intellectual Emancipation and Aesthetic Education, ed. by Jason E. Smith / Annette Weisser, Zurich: JRP Ringier Kunstverlag 2012, 10-33.
2011
“The Event of Language as Force of Life: Agamben's Linguistic Vitalism” (with Lorenzo Chiesa), Angelaki. The Journal for Theoretical Humanities, London / New York: Verso 2011, 163-180 [http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/0969725X.2011.621233].
“Was tun mit der Wissenschaft?” [What should we do with science?) (with Jan Völker), in: Catherine Malabou, Die Ontologie des Unfalls (Morale Provisoire # 3), Berlin: Merve 2011, 97-104.
(Translation) Maximilien Robespierre, “Entwurf einer Erklärung der Rechte” [Sketch of a Declaration of Rights], in: Die Revolution der Menschenrechte: Grundlegende Texte zu einem neuen Begriff des Politischen, ed. by Francesca Raimondi and Christoph Menke, Frankfurt / Main: Suhrkamp 2011.
(Translation) Etienne Balibar, “Bürger-Subjekt. Antwort auf die Frage Jean-Luc Nancys: Wer kommt nach dem Subjekt?” [Citizen-Subject. Answer to Jean-Luc Nancy’s Question: Who Comes After the Subject)], in: Die Revolution der Menschenrechte: Grundlegende Texte zu einem neuen Begriff des Politischen, ed. by Francesca Raimondi and Christoph Menge, Frankfurt / Main: Suhrkamp 2011.
“Wie sich im Scheitern orientieren?” [How to orient oneself in failure?] (with Jan Völker), in: Alain Badiou, Die Kommunistische Hypothese, (Morale provisoire #2), Berlin: Merve 2011, 175-185.
“Thèses sur une morale provisoire communiste” [Thesis on a Communist morale provisoire] (with Jan Völker), in: L’idée du Communisme 2., ed. by Alain Badiou and Slavoj Žižek, Paris 2011: Lignes, 215-237.
“Back to the Factory. A Plea for a Renewal of Concrete Analysis of Concrete Situations”, in: Beyond Potentialities? Politics between the Possible and the Impossible, ed. by Frank Ruda, Mark Potocnik and Jan Völker, Berlin: diaphanes 2011, 39-54.
2010
“Radikale Reflexion – Phänomenologie der Kunst bei Merleau-Ponty” [Radical Reflection – Phenomenology of Art in Merleau-Ponty], in: (eds.) Zeitschrift für Ästhetik und allgemeine Kunstwissenschaft, Heft 55, 2 Jahrgang, 2010, ed. by Maria Moog-Grünewald and Joseph Früchtl, Hamburg: Meiner, 275-287.
“Was ist das Reale des zeitgenössischen Realismus? Canetti, Jameson, Badiou” [What is the Real of Contemporary Realism? Canetti, Jameson, Badiou], in: Realismus in den Künsten der Gegenwart, ed. by Dirk Linck, Michael Lüthy, Brigitte Obermayr, and Martin Vöhler, Berlin: Diaphanes 2010, 159-174.
"Was es heißt, ein Marxist in der Philosophie zu sein?" [What does it mean to be a Marxist in Philosophy?] (with Jan Völker), in: Badiou, Alain: Ist Politik denkbar? (Morale provisoire #1), Berlin: Merve 2010: 135-165.
“Lenin und das Glück” [Lenin and Happiness], in: Happy Days: Lebenswissen nach Cavell, ed. by Kathrin Thiele and Katrin Trüstedt, München: Fink 2010, 100-106.
"Proletarischer Aristokratismus und das Gattungswesen Mensch. Marx mit Badiou" [Proletarian Aristocratism and the Human Species Being. Marx with Badiou] in: Der sich selbst entfremdete und wiedergefundene Marx, ed. by , Helmut Lethen, Falko Schmieder, and Birte Löschenkohl, München: Fink 2010, 277-292.
2009
“Zmoremo, torej moramo” [We can, so we must], in: Filozofski Vestnik, Ljubljana, Vol. XXX, No. 3 / 2009, 61-74.
“Humanism Reconsidered, or: Life living Life”, in: Filozosfki Vestnik, Ljubljana, Vol. XXX, No. 2, 2009, 175-197.[http://filozofskivestnikonline.com/index.php/journal/article/viewFile/79/94]
“Verhältnislos. Zur Kompossibilität von Politik und Kunst” [Without Relation. On the Compossibility of Politics and Art] (with Jan Völker), in: Inästhetik Nr.2, ed. by Tobias Huber and Marcus Steinweg, Berlin: diaphanes 2009, 113-120.
“Politique de l'indétermination estéthique” [Politics of Aesthetic Indetermination] (with Jacques Rancière and Jan Völker), in: Jacques Rancière: Politique de l'esthétique, ed. by Jérôme Gâme, Aliocha Wald Lasowski, Paris: Archives Contemporaines 2009, 157-175.
“Was ist ein Marxist? Lenins Wiederherstellung der Wahrheit des Namens” [What is a Marxist? Lenin’s Reconstitution of the Truth of the Name], in: Namen. Benennung, Verehrung, Wirkung (1850-1930), ed. by Tatjana Petzer, Sylvia Sasse, Franziska Thun-Hohenstein and Sandro Zanetti:, Berlin: Kadmos 2009, 225-242.
2008
“Alles verpöbelt sich zusehends! Namenlosigkeit und generische Inklusion” [Everything is visibly becoming mobized! Namelessness and Generic Inclusion], in: Soziale Systeme 14 (2008), Hb. 2, ed. by Sina Farzin, Sven Opitz, Urs Stäheli, Stuttgart: Lucius & Lucius 2008, 210-228.
“Von der Treue als subtraktiver Institution” [Of Fidelity as Subtractive Institution], in: Ereignis und Institution. Anknüpfungen an Alain Badiou, ed. by Gernot Kamecke, and Henning Teschke, Tübingen: Narr 2008, 69-96.
“Nachwort” [Afterword] (with Jan Völker), in: Rancière, Jacques: Ist Kunst widerständig?, Berlin: Merve 2008, 91-109.
2007
“Wir müssen das affirmative Begehren hüten” [We have to protect the affirmative desire] (with Alain Badiou and Jan Völker), in: Badiou, Alain: Dritter Entwurf eines Manifests für den Affirmationismus, Berlin: Merve 2007, 37-54.
“Namenlosigkeit, von nichts zu Nichts oder Vom Pöbel zum Proletariat” [Namelessness, from nothing to Nothing or from the Rabble to the Proletariat], in: Latenz. 40 Annäherungen an einen Begriff, ed. by Stefanie Diekmann and Thomas Khurana, Berlin: Kadmos 2007, 158-163
Smaller Works
Entries on: “Communism”, “Factory”, “Nature”, “Prescription”, “Saturation”, “Subtraction”, in: The Badiou Dictionary, ed. by Steve Corcoran, Edinburgh 2014: Edinburgh University Presp. (forthcoming)
“Philosophieren heißt leben zu lernen. Rezension zu A. Sell”, in: DZPhil 62 (2014) 1, 164-171.
Entries on: “Thomas Hobbes: Naturzustand”, “René Descartes: Genius Malignum”, “Immanuel Kant: Volk von Teufeln” in: Gedankenexperimente, ed. by Georg W. Bertram, Stuttgart 2012: Reclam.
Review: “Heideggerscher Vitalismus” [Heideggerian Vitalism. Review of Three Books by G. Agamben], Rezension zu G. Agamben, in: DZPhil 59 (2011) 3, 18-23.
“Unvereinbarkeit macht Dinge klar” [Irreconcilability Clarifies] (Interview with Jan Völker), in: Formate der Unsicherheit, ed. by Goethe Institut, Munich 2011, 9-11.
(Translation) Alain Badiou, “Das Reale dieses Krisenspektakels” [The Real of This Crisis Spectacle], in: TAZ, 13.11.2008.
“Ideology” (with Lars Bullmann), in: Encyclopedia of Social Theory, ed. by Austin Harrington, Barbara L. Marshall and Hans-Peter Müller, New York 2006: Verso, 264-267
Conference Papers / Lectures
“Wider das Soziale. Für eine Politik des A-Sozialen”, Hagen, March 2015.
“Organization, Free Association and Immanent Critique”, Berlin, January 2015.
“Freiheit und Indifferenz”, Berlin, January 2015.
“Für eine Politik der Flüchtlinge”, Weimar, December 2014.
“How Can Something Be Present and Yet Not Exist?” Weimar, December 2014.
“Für eine Politik der Flüchtlinge”, Weimar, December 2014.
“Contemporary Usages of Predestination”, Saint Petersburg 2014.
“On the Emancipatory Power of the End (of History, Art and All Related Matters)”, Saint Petersburg, November 2014.
“Inhumanism. A Manifesto”, Moscow, November 2014.
“For A Comic Fatalism”, Prague, October 2014.
“What is to be Done (With Hegel's Monarch)?”, Cambridge, September 2014.
“First as ‘Politics", then as ‘Art’”, Berlin, July 2014.
“Hegel, Resistance and Release”, Dublin, June 2014.
“Generisch-Spekulativ”, Berlin, Mai 2014.
“The Un-Animal. Marx and the Nature of Capitalism”, Montréal 2014.
“The Impossible In-sight. Or: How to Screen What Cannot be Seen?”, New York 2014.
“Contemporary Platonism”, Ljubljana 2014.
“Who Thinks Reductively? Marx and the Nature of Capitalism”, Ljubljana 2014.
“Entlassen. Rethinking Externalization with Hegel”, Ljubljana 2014.
“Hollywoods Linke. Oder: Warum und wie man filmisch Demokratiekritik betreibt”, Offenbach 2014.
“Elements of An Emancipatory Theory of Sacrifice”, Berlin 2013.
“Elements of An Emancipatory Theory of Sacrifice”, Canterbury 2013.
“German-French Fatalism. Descartes, Schmid, Diderot, Hegel”, Zagreb 2013.
“Einleitung” (with Daniel M. Feige) to the conference “Der Wert der Kunst”, Berlin, September 2013.
“The Ontico-Ontological Indifference”, Berlin 2013.
“The Real is the Plastic, The Plastic is the Real (isn't it?)”, Frankfurt am Main 2013.
“Empörte Welt, Welt der Empörung. Hegel und der politische Affekt”, Flensburg 2013.
“The Dash: Working Through Absolute Knowing”, Birkbeck, London 2013 [http://backdoorbroadcasting.net/2013/05/the-actuality-of-the-absolute-hegel-our-untimelycontemporary/]
“Introduction”, to Lorenzo Chiesa “Psychoanalysis, Religion, Love”, ECLA 2013.
“Mirror, Mirage, Image. Lacan and the Ego as Surface”, ECLA, Berlin 2013.
“A Yet Unknown Hegel (with Badiou)”, Ljubljana 2013.
“A Defence of Fatalism”, Ljubljana 2013.
“Identifying with Loss. Old Problems With New Phenomena”, Helsinki 2012.
“At the End? Gegenstoß!”, Telos and Totality, Maastricht 2012.
“Acting as if one is not free”, Kingston University, London 2012.
“Fighting Irresolution”, Institute for Philosophy, Bristol 2012.
“Die Eumeniden schlafen, aber... Rächende und strafende Gerechtigkeit bei Hegel”, Berlin 2012.
“Indecision. A Problem of and for Philosophy”, Center for Contemporary Arts, Moscow 2012.
“Everday Life and Modern Science”, Berlin 2012.
“The State and History, or: History against the State?” ECLA, Berlin 2012.
“Teleology and Mechanism in the Real World”, ECLA, Berlin 2012.
“Fatalismus als Befreiung. Descartes wider die Unentschiedenheit”, Frankfurt 2012.
“Von der unmittelbaren zur wirklichen Revolte”, Salon Polarkreis, Berlin 2012.
“Die Notwendigkeit des unmöglichen Ganzen” (with Eva Heubach), Fatzer Tage, Mülheim 2012.
“Warum man das Undenkbare denken muss. Eine materialistische Antwort”, What is Thinking?, Seminar: documenta, Kassel 2012.
“Dialectics, Contradiction, Iteration. Learning by Dividing (Hegel)”, The Actuality of German Idealism, Berlin 2012.
“Recht ohne Recht. Hegel als Theoretiker universaler Empörung”, Hegel in Transformation, Jena 2012.
“Marx and Human Property”, ECLA, Berlin 2012.
“Who thinks abstractly? Hegel and the Properties of Philosophical Practice”, ECLA, Berlin 2012.
“Descartes / Badiou”, Ljubljana 2012.
“More Void than Void. Descartes' Subtractive Adventure”, Ljubljana 2012.
“Vagabunden der Leere. Pynchons Gegen den Tag”, Abschiedskolloquium für Manfred Schneider, Gerlewe 2012.
“Pöbel oben, Pöbel unten. Hegel, Paris, London und die Zeit der Revolte”, Helle Panne, Berlin 2012.
“Transindividuelle Bürgerschaft und Vervielfältigung des Klassenkampfes. Balibars Spinozismus”, Luxemburg 2012.
“Man hat immer Recht, gegen Reaktionäre zu revoltieren. Beitrag zu einem Streitgespräch mit Micha Brumlik”, Communitas, Commune, Communismus, Essen 2012.
“Was ist eine geschichtliche Sequenz? Zur philosophischen Analyse von Prozessen der Veränderung”, Leipzig 2012.
“Einleitung” [Introduction] (with Jan Völker) to the lecture and discussion with Udi Aloni, morale provisoire, Berlin 2011.
“On (the Impossible Necessity of) Philosophical Forcing”, Revolution, Democracy, Philosophy, Istanbul 2011.
“Denken, was man nicht denken kann. Descartes über das Andere im Subjekt”, Ästhetik des Fleisches / Aesthetics of the Flesh, Stuttgart 2011.
“Hegel's Rabble”, Historical Materialism, London 2011.
“Chinese Dialectics. Hegel in the Far East”, Historical Materialism, London 2011.
“The Rabble to the Monarch. Hegelian Thoughts on Communism”, Columbia University, New York 2011.
“Remembering the Impossible. For a Meta-Critical Anamnesis of Communism”, Idea of Communism III, New York, October 2011.
“Lacans vier Diskurse, Badious vier Affekte”, Lacanian Summer, Bochum 2011.
“Introduction and Response” (with Jan Völker), to the lecture and discussion with Alain
Badiou: “For a Contemporary Conception of the Absolute”, morale provisoire at the Volksbühne, Berlin 2011.
“Was kommt?”, response to Eric Santner, Salon Populaire, Berlin 2011.
“Can Animals be Political? A Question of Philosophy and Indifference”, The Human Animal in Politics, Science and Psychoanalysis, Maastricht 2011.
“For a Society of Materialist Friends of Hegel's Dialectics”, Book launch of Hegels Pöbel with Slavoj Žižek, Berlin 2011.
“Agamben's Linguistic Vitalism” (with Lorenzo Chiesa), Agamben & The Future of Law, Politics and Philosophy, Newcastle 2011.
“Liebe und Wissenschaft” (with JanVölker), Goethe Institut, Essen 2010.
“Negating the Negative. Response to Ray Brassier”, Cutting the Not. Negativity and Reflexivity, Maastricht 2010.
“Conditions of a morale provisoire. Introduction to Philosophy under Conditions”, Philosophy under Conditions, ICI, Berlin 2010.
“Einleitung” (with Jan Völker) to the lecture and discussion with Lorenzo Chiesa unter dem Titel “The Partisan's Morale Provisoire”, morale provisoire, Berlin 2010.
“Thinking Politics Concretely: Negation, Affirmation and the Dialectics of Dialetics and Non-Dialectics”, Thinking - Resisting - Reading The Political, Gießen 2010
“Einleitung” (with Jan Völker) to the lecture and discussion with Jelica Sumic-Riha:“The 21st Century has not yet begun”, morale provisoire, Berlin 2010.
“Einleitung” (with Jan Völker) to the lecture and discussion with Alberto Toscano: “A Scalpel and a Compass: Morale Provisoire and Cognitive Mapping”, morale provisoire, Berlin 2010.
“Thesen zu einer kommunistischen morale provisoire” (with Jan Völker), Die Idee des Kommunismus, Berlin 2010.
“Einleitung” (with Jan Völker) to the lecture and discussion with Christoph Menke: “Wie frei urteilen?”, morale provisoire, Berlin 2010.
“Einleitung” (with Jan Völker) to the lecture and discussion with Rado Riha: “Die Idee ale Denken der Politik”, morale provisoire, Berlin 2010.
“Marx und das Ereignis. Zur wirklich kommunistischen Aktion beim frühen Marx”, Vortrag bei der philosophischen Gesellschaft, Basel 2010.
“Badiou's Fundamentals. Introducing Badiou”, Versus Laboratory, Berlin 2010.
“Idealism without Idealism. For a Renewed Materialist Reading of the 11th Thesis”, Eternity and Change, Ljubljana 2009.
“Marx's Whitman? Response to J. Rancière”, SFB 626 Workshop with Jacques Rancière, Berlin 2009.
“We can, so we must: Be Communists”, Book launch Of an Obscure Disaster, Amsterdam 2009.
“The Will and its Double. Hegel, Marx, Badiou. Answering P. Hallward”, Historical Materialism, London 2009.
“Retroactively Contemporaneous. Introduction to the Conference Art and Contemporaneity”, Art and Contemporaneity, Paris 2009.
“Experience et surgissements imprévisibles. Réponse a F. Heidenreich”, Colloque Hans Blumenberg, Paris 2009.
“Realismen”, Introduction to Section 3 of the annual conference of the CRC 626, Berlin 2009.
“Badiou's Renaissance: Living with or without an Idea”, Towards a Philosophy of Life, Liverpool 2009.
“Thinking De-Liaison between Hegel and Marx: From the Rabble to the Proletariat (and back)”, Politics and Thought, Maastricht 2008.
“We don't Love the War, but We are not afraid of it. Introducing Badiou”, Introduction to Alain Badiou at the KW, Berlin 2008.
“In-Different Multiplicities. A Response to B. Besana”, More than a Lot. Displacements in Ontology, Maastricht 2008.
“Proletarischer Aristokratismus und das Gattungswesen Mensch. Marx mit Badiou”, Der von sich selbst entfremdete und wiedergefundene Marx, Frankfurt / Oder 2008.
“Namen der Wahrheit. Lenin und Badiou”, Journée d'études 'Signes', Paris 2008.
“Treue als subtraktive Institution”, Romanistentag, Vienna 2007.
“Generische Inklusion. Hegel und der Pöbel”, Inklusion / Exklusion. Theoretische Perspektiven, Basel 2007.
“Theater and Philosophy. A Response to O. Feltham”, Workshop with O. Feltham und C. Fynsk, Berlin 2007