Utopian Thinking and Logic-s
Workshop organized by Thalia Magioglou You can download here the poster Following the symposium organized in July 26 at Andros island, Greece by Stefaneas (National Technical Univ. of Athens) and Magioglou (EPoPs/FMSH, Paris), on “Logic and Utopia” this workshop focuses on the Plural logics of Utopian thinking. Utopias as projects of future societies have historically been present since ancient Greece, with the example of Plato’s and Aristotle’s Polities, but the term is created by Thomas Moore in England. Desire, perfectionism and (im)possibility to become reality have been some of its aspects in the past, as well as a form of criticism of the present situation. How does utopian thinking use “logic”? The concept of logic addressed as « logos », philosophical reasoning and language, will be considered in its plurality when it is question of utopias, socially and historically constructed and as a consequence, open to revision. The plural aspect of logic, is present in the notion of utopia, and particularly the political utopias as prospective of better worlds. The common good, the notion of the Polis and “Demos”, will be discussed and confronted to studies that show concrete initiatives taken by local actors, in the direction of change. What distinguishes utopias from dystopias could be our representation of the common good, in other words, the objectives chosen. Democracy, as well as economy, are examples of utopias related to the rationality of the modernity. They are imbricated in the contemporary societies to traditions (still active or reinvented) and religion. They allow new combinations, hybrids of meaning that multiply in the context of “global politics”, as producers of utopias, moral geographies, and imaginary identities that we are going to question
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Keynote Speaker
Contributing speakers Nadège Chell, LAIOS, EHESS, Paris, France, Contemporary imaginaries of women elected in positions of power in the temporality of globalization Thalia Magioglou, Centre Edgar Morin, IIAC, EHESS, Paris, France, Utopian thinking in the case of the Greek youth. The use of linguistic connectors for two different "logics" Rachid Mendjeli Social anthropology; EHESS/LAS, Paris, France, The time-space of the "halka", or narrative circle in Marrakech: utopia or heterotopia? Alessio Moretti, Nice, France, The oppositional geometry of political revolutions Mikhail Zarechnev and Bora Kumova, Department of computer engineering, Izmir Institute of Technology, Turkey, Fully-syllogistic reasoning under ontology
Call for papers
Abstracts should be sent via e-mail before January 31th 2015 to:
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