File nietzsche/nietzsche.0511, message 2


From: "Nietzsche Circle" <goatvines-AT-hotmail.com>
To: nietzsche-AT-driftline.org
Date: Fri, 11 Nov 2005 17:22:44 +0000
Subject: [Nietzsche] Nietzsche Circle: Grant Writer, Fundraiser,



The Nietzsche Circle is a philosophical organization whose primary concern 
is artistic production and the questions on aesthetics which Nietzsche was 
concerned from his first to his last works, of responding to the crisis of 
art and its bearing on life. The Nietzsche Circle is devoted to the 
question: What kind of art is vital to our existence?

The organization was conceived last year and our first event, 
Transfigurations: Nietzsche’s Poetry and Music, was staged in April of 2005 
at NYU’s Deutsches Haus; in October we had the great honor of hosting 
eminent German scholar Dr. Walter Sokel, who presented a talk for us on 
notions of justice in Nietzsche and their relation to his conception of the 
Dionysian. In the coming months, there will be further events including 
music recitals, lectures, dialogues, interviews, and book release 
celebrations.

Now the Nietzsche Circle is in a crucial stage of development and is in need 
of a grant writer, a fundraiser, and for someone to pursue membership. If 
you are interested in working with the Nietzsche Circle in any of these 
capacities, please send a brief letter along with your resume to 
goatvines-AT-hotmail.com The Nietzsche Circle has yet to establish its 
not-for-profit status but does have fiscal sponsorship and is working with 
VLANY to become n-f-p. For further information, see our project description 
at Fractured Atlas:

http://www.fracturedatlas.org/site/fiscal/?do=browse_projects&category=Other&letter=N


About the Nietzsche Circle

The Nietzsche Circle is based in New York City and will function as a 
not-for-profit artistic and intellectual organization, bringing together a 
variety of workers of Geist (philosophers, artists, writers, poets, 
filmmakers, etcetera). As Foucault said of Nietzsche, “the only valid 
tribute to his thought . . . is precisely to use it, deform it, to make it 
groan and protest.” We are not interested in sanctifying Nietzsche, but in 
following our own paths and transforming his work, of living with the 
questions which he raised and pursuing them further.

The Circle will sponsor or organize festivals, workshops, symposia, 
lectures, conferences, and textual analysis sessions, and seek publication 
of a newsletter or journal (which would encourage the use of the aphoristic 
form, though not limit itself to that) to further disseminate Nietzsche’s 
works into different fields of culture as well as presenting entirely new 
works born of this engagement with Nietzsche’s questioning of aesthetics.

Primary goals of the society include developing an extensive website with 
various resources, staging a major festival in 2008 to celebrate the 125th 
anniversary of Zarathustra (what would he have to say to us today?), 
providing scholarships when possible to support doctoral and post-doctoral 
work on Nietzsche’s philosophy and its relation to art, creating a resource 
center of all of Nietzsche’s works in English, German and other languages, 
as well the works he studied and studies on his work, and finally, creating 
a searchable cd-rom of Nietzsche’s corpus in English. Lecture tours are also 
being planned in places where Nietzsche worked and lived, and other 
activities are currently under consideration. The advisory board of the 
Nietzsche Circle is comprised of various artists and scholars from around 
the world including some of the most eminent and established Nietzsche 
scholars.

Mission Statement:
To create an intellectual and artistic milieu whereby individuals of similar 
spirit and vision may come together to explore Nietzsche’s philosophy, 
developing ways in which it can explode like a dancing star, reform and bear 
fruit in daily life.

It is our purpose to invoke and embrace the notion of gaya scienza, carrying 
the Dionysiac spirit into contemporary society to enact necessary 
transformations, and, in whatever manner possible, transform culture.




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