This videoed lecture by Leo Bersani held on 2 June 2011 at the Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti in Venice is the second public lecture of the programme ‘The State of Things’, commissioned by the Office for Contemporary Art Norway and organised by its director, Marta Kuzma and OCA’s associate curator, Pablo Lafuente, together with Peter Osborne, director of the Centre for Research in Modern European Philosophy at Kingston University in London.
With this lecture, titled Illegitimacy, Leo Bersani — referring to Bourdieu, Jean Genet and Todd Haynes’s film Safe — attempts to examine strategies of negativity as pre-conditions for inventing what Michel Foucault called ‘new relational modes’.
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