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Garcia’s Jungle

Celebrating the 90th anniversary of Presses Universitaires de France (PUF) Multimedia Institute and Institut Français Zagreb coorganized a 2-day meeting in Zagreb (June 22-23, 2012 / net.culture club MaMa), presenting the series MétaphysiqueS.

PUF has been for a long time among the most important European publishing houses, instrumental in promoting cutting-edge theories in humanities and social sciences. In recent years it is a newly established series, collection MétaphysiqueS that stands out with its editorial choices and influence.

MétaphysiqueS - lead by 4 editors: Élie During, Patrice Maniglier, Quentin Meillassoux and David Rabouin - investigates the plurality of (new) metaphysical trajectories. Ranging from authors like Étienne Souriau, via Eduardo Viveiros de Castro and Graham Harman to Tristan Garcia or Pierre Cassou-Noguès.

Patrice Maniglier, Graham Harman and Ian Bogost came together to present and discuss the intellectual exigencies around MétaphysiqueS and some other similar projects.

FRIDAY, June 22
--- Patrice Maniglier: Metaphysics Today - The Methodological Controversy
--- Graham Harman: Garcia's Jungle (On Tristan Garcia)

SATURDAY, June 23
--- Ian Bogost: On Harman's The Quadruple Object [via Skype]
--- Roundtable/Discussion

http://www.puf.com/Collections/MétaphysiqueS
http://ifz.hr/
http://www.mi2.hr/