School of Materialist Research - Greece: Symposia, Meetings and Events

School of Materialist Research - Greece: Symposia, Meetings and Events Monoprosopiki School of Materialist Research is a micro company that serves organizationally the symposia organized by SMR and other academic platforms

30/12/2024

At the PHYSIS summer school in Greece (August, 2025), Joel White will examine the contemporary regimes of knowledge by way of addressing their political-economic conditions and by way of utilizing the model of critique enabled by the concept of metastability borrowed from thermodynamics. Deadline for applications: 7 February 2025, which gives you enough time to figure out your summer holiday plans and see if you want to pursue a Greek σχολή: study as pleasure and leisure, and vice versa (that is how we have structured the program too!)

Deadline for Applications February 7, 2025, giving you enough time to decide if you would like to combine a philosophica...
29/12/2024

Deadline for Applications February 7, 2025, giving you enough time to decide if you would like to combine a philosophical symposium (and a community) with a holiday in Greece at one of the most beautiful parts of the Aegean coast.
“The Physics of Philosophy: On Impossible Absolutes and Incomplete Theories of Everything”. John Ó Maoilearca is addressing the two major philosophical quandaries that move contemporary debates in physics even though they may be moving in circles: "What is the relationship between our general (in)ability to form cosmological grand narratives (to think the ‘whole’) and more specific cases of ‘theories of everything’ that attempt to unify the General Theory of Relativity with the rest of physics (Quantum Mechanics), that is, to unify gravity with electro-magnetism and the strong and weak nuclear forces? Can we discover parallel or covariant forms of observer-dependency and insufficient-thought in the two domains of classical metaphysics and (supposedly) non-classical physicalism?

Deadline for Applications February 7, 2025, giving you enough time to decide if you would like to combine a philosophical symposium (and a community) with a holiday in Greece at one of the most beautiful parts of the Aegean coast.
“The Physics of Philosophy: On Impossible Absolutes and Incomplete Theories of Everything”. John Ó Maoilearca is addressing the two major philosophical quandaries that move contemporary debates in physics even though they may be moving in circles: "What is the relationship between our general (in)ability to form cosmological grand narratives (to think the ‘whole’) and more specific cases of ‘theories of everything’ that attempt to unify the General Theory of Relativity with the rest of physics (Quantum Mechanics), that is, to unify gravity with electro-magnetism and the strong and weak nuclear forces? Can we discover parallel or covariant forms of observer-dependency and insufficient-thought in the two domains of classical metaphysics and (supposedly) non-classical physicalism?"

At our Summer Institute in Greece 2025: Dorion Sagan, who has co-authored many important books on biology and ecology wi...
28/12/2024

At our Summer Institute in Greece 2025: Dorion Sagan, who has co-authored many important books on biology and ecology with his mother Lynn Margulis (a leading name in biology, as was and is his father Carl Sagan in physics) and many books on philosophy of science and fiction authored by himself, will offer his unique perspective and style mixing art and science, mythology and philosophy, offering a whole new perspective on inter-species relations and a challenge to the concept of the "Anthropocene."

The company not only co-hosts the events of SMR, but also offers for rent the campus (classroom, dormitory and all facil...
26/12/2024

The company not only co-hosts the events of SMR, but also offers for rent the campus (classroom, dormitory and all facilities) for similar events. Check out our website and reach out to us if interested at The company not only co-hosts the events of SMR, but also offers for rent the campus (classroom, dormitory and all facilities) for similar events. Check out our website and reach out to us if interested at [email protected]

In collaboration with School of Materialist Research Deadline for applications till Sunday/Monday this week (1-2 Decembe...
29/11/2024

In collaboration with School of Materialist Research Deadline for applications till Sunday/Monday this week (1-2 December): here is the link to the program, including the application form, sign up!
The program costs half less than it used to thanks to the instructors' support and generosity, so thank you to them! Keep in mind we offer a *ECTS certificate, as our founding institutions are holders of Erasmus charters of excellence in higher education in Europe.*

In collaboration School of Materialist Research Deadline for applications till Sunday/Monday this week (1-2 December): h...
29/11/2024

In collaboration School of Materialist Research Deadline for applications till Sunday/Monday this week (1-2 December): here is the link to the program, including the application form, sign up!
The program costs half less than it used to thanks to the instructors' support and generosity, so thank you to them! Keep in mind we offer a *ECTS certificate, as our founding institutions are holders of Erasmus charters of excellence in higher education in Europe.

In Spring 2025, we offer our ICP (Integrated credit program) of several courses, among which: Daniel Tutt: Nietzsche’s Theoretical Surplus and Marxism in the 21st Century (February 2025). Below is the link to the Call for Applications open till 1 December 2024.
Description of Course: In this seminar we will read Nietzsche and Marx as productive antagonists whose insights radically diverge from one another, but whose itineraries of thought and investigations share a surprising degree of similarity, from the critique of political economy, religion, suffering, humanism, ideology, consciousness, to the function of the intellectual, revolution, equality, to a full-blown criticism of the bourgeoisie. 20th century philosophers from Paul Ricœur, Gilles Deleuze, Huey Newton to Alain Badiou have sought to combine the insights of Nietzsche and Marx, but this has come at the cost, most often, of completely sidelining the richness of Nietzsche’s robust reactionary political core. We will unearth the political core to Nietzsche by reading him in a wide-context situated in his time, and by reading Marxist criticisms of Nietzsche, we will discover a paradoxical series of theoretical surpluses in his thought, vital for a renewed Marxism in the 21st century.

In collaboration with School of Materialist Research Deadline for applications till Sunday/Monday this week (1-2 Decembe...
29/11/2024

In collaboration with School of Materialist Research Deadline for applications till Sunday/Monday this week (1-2 December): here is the link to the program, including the application form, sign up!
The program costs half less than it used to thanks to the instructors' support and generosity, so thank you to them! Keep in mind we offer a *ECTS certificate, as our founding institutions are holders of Erasmus charters of excellence in higher education in Europe.*

In Spring 2025, we offer our ICP (Integrated credit program) of several courses, among which Joel White's "On Logomachy: A Conceptual Recovery" (April 2025). Below is the link to the Call for Applications (containing the application form) open till 1 December 2024.
Course description: I take logomachy to be a transduced thermoinformatic logic of sense. It is concerned with how thermodynamics, the science of energy and entropy, and information theory, the science of information, affects questions concerning the adequacy, validity, and demonstration of sense, what is sometimes called logic or philosophical semantics. The content of the course, in particular, will explore the etymological and conceptual history of the Greek word λογομᾰχῐ́ᾱ (logmachia) and its subsequent translations into Latin, French and English as Logomachiis, Logomachie and logomachy. I shall track, through the major events in the concept’s history (from Plato and Saul to Artaud via Derrida), what is at stake in logomachy’s philosophical recovery as a thermoinformatic logic or art of sense.
https://schoolofmaterialistresearch.org/Integrated-Credit-Program-Spring-Semester-2025

In collaboration with School of Materialist ResearchDeadline for applications till Sunday/Monday this week (1-2 December...
29/11/2024

In collaboration with School of Materialist Research
Deadline for applications till Sunday/Monday this week (1-2 December): here is the link to the program, including the application form, sign up!
The program costs half less than it used to thanks to the instructors' support and generosity, so thank you to them! Keep in mind we offer a *ECTS certificate, as our founding institutions are holders of Erasmus charters of excellence in higher education in Europe.*

In Spring 2025, we offer our ICP (Integrated credit program) of several courses, among which Daniel Sacilotto's "Materialism and Eschatology: A Genealogy of Modern Thanatropism" (February 2025) Below is the link to the Call for Applications (containing the application form) open till 1 December 2024
Description of Course: This seminar explores the development of eschatological narratives in modern and contemporary philosophy. Expanding on the genealogy of structural materialisms developed in Structure and Thought Toward a Materialist Theory of Representational Cognition (2024), we will interrogate how thanatropism becomes an inherent dimension of various attempts to travers the critical turn and avoid the anti-realist consequences associated with transcendental idealism. Accordingly, radicalizing the tenets of Kant’s attempt to think of the conditions of all possible experience as the limits of finite cognition, we shall examine how the eschatology forms part of an epistemological and ontological matrix that challenges the idealist or “correlationist” results of post-Kantian philosophy, in order to think of the material conditions that present a limit to life (death), and even to materiality itself as a whole (extinction). https://schoolofmaterialistresearch.org/Integrated-Credit-Program-Spring-Semester-2025

22/10/2024
We helped organise the SMR Summer Symposia 2024. Here is some insight into the experience of the academic and daily life...
22/10/2024

We helped organise the SMR Summer Symposia 2024. Here is some insight into the experience of the academic and daily life at one of the summer schools: the classroom. the dormitory area, the cooking together and the sea only a few feet away from the SMR campus.

Our first guests: Mythoplanetarities, a symposium organized by the Interuniversity Platform (which we serve in organizat...
03/08/2024

Our first guests: Mythoplanetarities, a symposium organized by the Interuniversity Platform (which we serve in organizational and logistical matters) School of Materialist Research, let the season begin!

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