File spoon-archives/lyotard.archive/lyotard_2002/lyotard.0212, message 32


Subject: Re: EGS
Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2002 08:10:34 -0600 (CST)
From: Diane Davis <ddd-AT-mail.utexas.edu>


Hi, Lydia. I'm getting a second Ph.D. from EGS, and i think it's as exciting as 
it sounds, yes. It's not just for visual artists--I'm more interested in the 
philosophy. Over the past two years, i've studied with Avital Ronell, Jean-Luc 
Nancy, Wolfgang Schiermacher, Slovoj Zizek, Alain Badiou, Samuel Weber, Yve-Alain 
Bois, Chris Fynsk, Giorgio Agamben, John Waters....etc. The big deal is that you 
must be highly self-motivated because you don't get a lot of time with these 
folks. You have to be READY when the time comes, prepped, exploding with your 
questions. But if one is sufficiently prepped for the intensive summer seminars, 
the whole thing is quite amazing. 

I believe Wolfgang Schiermacher came up with the idea for this unique school and 
approached Lyotard with the plan. Lyotard was totally into it and gave it his 
full support--from what i understand, they worked together to get it off the 
ground. It was approved as a legit operation just before L died, so he lived long 
enough to know they had succeeded. 

The summer seminars are held in Saas-Fee, Switzerland--high up in the alps where 
Nietzsche strolled...  The setting is breathtaking, sublime, and the air is so 
clean that Avital Ronell once said it felt as if it was giving you a blood 
transfusion. If you're at all interested in this unique experience, i'd write to 
Wolfgang (schirmaw-AT-egs.edu)--he's the director and the dean of the communications 
school. But let me know if i can tell you anything else. 

best, ddd


Quoting Lydia Perovich <fauxprophete-AT-hotmail.com>:

> Can anybody tell me more about the European Graduate School 
> (http://www.egs.edu)?  Is it only for visual artists?  Is it as exciting
> as 
> it sounds?  What role did Lyotard play in its founding? Etc.  Merci,
> 
> L
> 
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____________________________________________
  Dr. Diane Davis 
  Division of Rhetoric and Composition
  Department of English
  University of Texas at Austin
  PARLIN 19  (512-471-8735)
  Austin TX 78712-1122

  ddd-AT-mail.utexas.edu
  http://www.cwrl.utexas.edu/~davis


   

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