Peter Szendy
Biographic Data
| ID | 122379 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Peter Szendy |
| GIVEN NAMES | Peter |
| FAMILY NAME | Szendy |
| SIGNATURE | SZENDY P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Institut national d'histoire de l'art |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 32 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 30 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Introducing: The Readee
In order to preface the question that was asked of the contributors to this issue of differences (“for whom do we read?”), it seemed necessary to introduce the notion of the readee, the addressee of reading (with all the misdirections that such an address can involve). Absent from the theories of reading, the readee is nonetheless omnipresent, encountered or silently presupposed everywhere, recognizable in historical documents and painted reading…
Optographies du XXI e siècle
Depuis le début des années 2010, quatre lois majeures ont été adoptées en France pour réformer les politiques d’attributions des logements sociaux. Toutes encouragent les acteurs du logement social à recourir à des instruments numériques pour améliorer l’information au demandeur et lutter contre les discriminations. Ces incitations à la transparence se sont traduites par la multiplication d’expérimentations locales. Plusieurs villes ont opté pour…
De la photographie restreinte à la photographie générale: Wolfgang Tillmans au Centre Pompidou
Nadzorować i słuchać
This text is an excerpt from the book Sur écoute : esthétique de l’espionnage (All Ears: The Aesthetics of Espionage) first published by Éditions de Minuit in 2007. Peter Szendy analyzes the relationship between eavesdropping in politics, eavesdropping in other contexts, and numerous derivative auditory practices resulting from the political and social applications of listening, as well as from the use of auditory prostheses and devices. Szendy s…
Combien d'oreilles ? La place de l'auditaire
Sympnée en guise de préface (sur L’Homme sans souffle de Poe)
Conspiring (Sympnea and Dyspnea)
International audience
Rumor, an Anarchimedium
Beyond the only text Jean-Luc Nancy explicitly dedicated to it ('Rumoration' in La Ville au loin), rumor lurks in the background - under the surface - of any discourse on community, or on being-with. Following closely Nancy's thought process in 'Rumoration' (Nancy presents himself as walking, wandering in the city), this article interweaves fragments of a genealogy of rumor, from the ancient Greek logopoios to today's 'fake news'. But rumor is pr…
La rumeur, ou l’anarchimédium
Qu’est-ce qu’une rumeur et d’où tient-elle son pouvoir ou son contre-pouvoir ? En lisant de près des sources gréco-romaines (Platon, Aristote, Eschine, Virgile) et des approches modernes, il s’agit ici d’analyser le mode de propagation de la rumeur (par anaphores et cataphores), ses vitesses contrastées (ses hétérochronies) ainsi que ses relais et représentations au sein d’un médium. En dialogue avec l’ouvrage récent que Catherine Malabou a consa…
La Fonction de la couleur dans la musique: Timbre, musique et peinture, Wagner, Strauss et autres essais
Le fil conducteur de ce volume d’écrits de Theodor W. Adorno est la couleur (Farbe), qui renvoie musicalement à la sonorité, au timbre (Klangfarbe). Il faut l’entendre à la fois comme ce qui lie la musique aux images, à la peinture, et comme une problématique compositionnelle apparue au xixe siècle et devenue centrale au xxe. D’un côté, la possible conjonction entre les arts, au risque de l’illustration ; de l’autre, le timbre comme un élément co…
Du rapport entre peinture et musique aujourd’hui
Les analogies entre la peinture et la musique contemporaines sont évidentes. Dans les deux domaines, le langage des formes de la société bourgeoise – lequel s’était coagulé en une seconde nature, lequel était devenu convention – s’est en soi disloqué. L’antithèse de ce langage, c’est l’effort de la conscience esthétique – aussi inconscient soit-il – pour détruire le lien d’aveuglement que crée l’idéologie, et pour toucher l’essence. À l’abandon d…
The promise of photography: Scale, measure and proportion in a conflicted visual milieu
This roundtable discussion is based on an online symposium - The Promise of Photography: Scale, Measure and Proportion in a Conflicted Visual Milieu - which took place on 17 September 2021. Since its inception, photography has promised to set things to scale, to grant them measure and proportion, a series of promises that have also entailed moments of irrationality or conflict that persist in and continue to shape the era of global networked digi…
On Epigenesis
On Epigenesis" consists of a series of interrelated short articles examining the philosophical concept of epigenesis, with a particular focus on Catherine Malabou's development of it in contemporary thought. Alexander Miller introduces the topic of epigenesis and considers its significance as a new paradigm. He also presents the reader with an overview of Malabou's work on the topic: Drawing from recent advances in the life sciences as well as th…
Kino-Apokalipsa
21 cm
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Previous articleNext article FreeViral TimesPeter SzendyPeter SzendyPDFPDF PLUSFull Text Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditEmailQR Code SectionsMore15 April 2020Despite the warning signs, despite the news from China, it was as if we had woken up overnight in a completely different world: wholly different but exactly the same.The Emergency of Being at a StandstillFor some, inc…
Infinance, or Narration and Solvency
Narrativity and indebtedness are inextricably intertwined. Absolvere, in Latin, means both to "pay off" a debt and to "relate" a historical event that has reached its conclusion, that is complete (absolutum). In the Arabian Nights, Scheherazade tells many stories about debt and debtors; but it is also her very narration that she evokes as the redeeming of a debt ("I am willing to pay my debt," she says when resuming her story at the beginning of …
The Specter of 1966, or Speculative Realism and the Phantom of Deconstruction
The Specter of 1966, or Speculative Realism and the Phantom of Deconstruction Peter Szendy Translated by Jacob Levi Certain events have become landmarks in the history of contemporary thought. The conference held in October 1966 at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore was one such event: with Derrida's contribution entitled "Structure, Sign, and Play in the Discourse of the Human Sciences," as Benoît Peeters writes in his biography of the philos…
Face Value (the Prosopa of Money)
“Face value,” according to the OED, is “the value printed or depicted on a coin, banknote, ticket, etc., especially when less than the actual value.” But we could hear in this expression an imperative—“face value!”—an injunction to consider value face to face, that is, prosopon pros prosopon. Prosopon, the Greek word for mask, gave rise to the rhetorical figure of prosopopoeia (prosopon poiein: to confer a mask or a face). A striking occurrence o…
All Ears: The Aesthetics of Espionage
All the Marxes at the Big Store; or, General Fetishism
Taking a close reading of the Marx Brothers' film The Big Store (1941) as its thread, this article explores the possibility of extending the concept of fetishism to the very performance of music, that is, to the bodily gestures and keyboardistic fingerings executed by Chico and Harpo. Drawing on Karl Marx's and Sigmund Freud's theories of fetishism, but also taking into account Jacques Derrida's generalization of the very concept of fetish, Szend…
Ordalies sonores
Apocalypse-Cinema: 2012 And Other Ends of the World
Apocalypse-cinema is not only the end of time that has so often been staged as spectacle in films like 2012, The Day After Tomorrow, and Terminator. By looking at blockbusters that play with general annihilation while also paying close attention to films like Melancholia, Cloverfield, Blade Runner, and Twelve Monkeys, this book suggests that in the apocalyptic genre, film gnaws at its own limit. Apocalypse-cinema is, at the same time and with the…
Spacing and Sounding Out
July 01 2015 Spacing and Sounding Out Peter Szendy Peter Szendy Peter Szendy is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Paris Ouest Nanterre and musicological adviser for the concert programs at the Cité de la musique. He is the author of Apocalypse-Cinema (2015), Kant in the Land of Extraterrestrials (2013), Hits: Philosophy in the Jukebox (2012), Prophecies of Leviathan: Reading Past Melville (2010), and Listen: A History of Our Ears (2007…
Iconomie et innervation: Pour une généalogie du regard endetté
Iconomie est un mot-valise dans lequel on entend d'une part l'icône ( eikôn , c'était l'un des noms grecs pour l'image) et d'autre part l'économie, cette oikonomia qui désignait la bonne gestion des échanges. Mais l'iconomie dont il sera question ici s'inscrit dans ce que, après et d'après Marx, il faut bien décrire comme un supermarché esthétique , en y repérant ce que Walter Benjamin nous a aidé à concevoir comme une sensibilité innervée
L'usure de la déconstruction
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Previous articleNext article FreeViral TimesPeter SzendyPeter SzendyPDFPDF PLUSFull Text Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditEmailQR Code SectionsMore15 April 2020Despite the warning signs, despite the news from China, it was as if we had woken up overnight in a completely different world: wholly different but exactly the same.The Emergency of Being at a StandstillFor some, inc…
All the Marxes at the Big Store; or, General Fetishism
Taking a close reading of the Marx Brothers' film The Big Store (1941) as its thread, this article explores the possibility of extending the concept of fetishism to the very performance of music, that is, to the bodily gestures and keyboardistic fingerings executed by Chico and Harpo. Drawing on Karl Marx's and Sigmund Freud's theories of fetishism, but also taking into account Jacques Derrida's generalization of the very concept of fetish, Szend…
The Archi-Road Movie
Every film is the opening or pathway of a world, of what Jean-Luc Nancy has called a “cineworld.” The road and the road movie are more than the figure or metaphor of such a pathway, they are the schema that drives it, or as Nancy writes in The Evidence of Film, a “schema of experience.” Cinema thus becomes a vehicle for the “routing” of the senses, each time singular and unique, and for the way they are attached to one or another of the points wh…
Translating music
Listen: A History of Our Ears
Otographes
À travers un dialogue par correspondance avec Nicolas Donin, Peter Szendy évoque les implications, aussi bien juridiques que philosophiques, technologiques qu’historiques, de ses travaux sur l’écoute. Sont abordées en particulier : la problématique de la transmissibilité de l’écoute, par la trace ou l’arrangement; la figure d’Adorno et le modèle de l’écoute structurelle; la tripartition de Molino-Nattiez et les apories de la sémiologie musicale
Kant in the Land of Extraterrestrials: Cosmopolitical Philosofictions
L’archi-road movie, ou le routage des sens
Cada film abre un mundo (o un cinemundo , como dice Jean-Luc Nancy). Por esto, el camino, y el road-movie como género, son más que meros tropos, másque simples metáforas para la película: son los sensorimotor schemata del cine pavimentando su propio camino. El problema de la sincronización por lo tanto se reformula como routing de los sentidos, cada vez en un sentido singular, como su colisión, donde sus trayectorias se cruzan. El artículo analiz…
L’archi -road movie, ou le routage des sens
Cada film abre un mundo (o un cinemundo, como dice Jean-Luc Nancy). Por esto, el camino, y el road-movie como género, son más que meros tropos, másque simples metáforas para la película: son los sensorimotor schemata del cine pavimentando su propio camino. El problema de la sincronización por lo tanto se reformula como routing de los sentidos, cada vez en un sentido singular, como su colisión, donde sus trayectorias se cruzan. El artículo analiza…
The Archi-Road Movie
Every film is the opening or pathway of a world, of what Jean-Luc Nancy has called a “cineworld.” The road and the road movie are more than the figure or metaphor of such a pathway, they are the schema that drives it, or as Nancy writes in The Evidence of Film, a “schema of experience.” Cinema thus becomes a vehicle for the “routing” of the senses, each time singular and unique, and for the way they are attached to one or another of the points wh…
L'usure de la déconstruction
Apocalypse-Cinema: 2012 And Other Ends of the World
Apocalypse-cinema is not only the end of time that has so often been staged as spectacle in films like 2012, The Day After Tomorrow, and Terminator. By looking at blockbusters that play with general annihilation while also paying close attention to films like Melancholia, Cloverfield, Blade Runner, and Twelve Monkeys, this book suggests that in the apocalyptic genre, film gnaws at its own limit. Apocalypse-cinema is, at the same time and with the…
Spacing and Sounding Out
July 01 2015 Spacing and Sounding Out Peter Szendy Peter Szendy Peter Szendy is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Paris Ouest Nanterre and musicological adviser for the concert programs at the Cité de la musique. He is the author of Apocalypse-Cinema (2015), Kant in the Land of Extraterrestrials (2013), Hits: Philosophy in the Jukebox (2012), Prophecies of Leviathan: Reading Past Melville (2010), and Listen: A History of Our Ears (2007…
Iconomie et innervation: Pour une généalogie du regard endetté
Iconomie est un mot-valise dans lequel on entend d'une part l'icône ( eikôn , c'était l'un des noms grecs pour l'image) et d'autre part l'économie, cette oikonomia qui désignait la bonne gestion des échanges. Mais l'iconomie dont il sera question ici s'inscrit dans ce que, après et d'après Marx, il faut bien décrire comme un supermarché esthétique , en y repérant ce que Walter Benjamin nous a aidé à concevoir comme une sensibilité innervée
All Ears: The Aesthetics of Espionage
All the Marxes at the Big Store; or, General Fetishism
Taking a close reading of the Marx Brothers' film The Big Store (1941) as its thread, this article explores the possibility of extending the concept of fetishism to the very performance of music, that is, to the bodily gestures and keyboardistic fingerings executed by Chico and Harpo. Drawing on Karl Marx's and Sigmund Freud's theories of fetishism, but also taking into account Jacques Derrida's generalization of the very concept of fetish, Szend…
Ordalies sonores
Face Value (the Prosopa of Money)
“Face value,” according to the OED, is “the value printed or depicted on a coin, banknote, ticket, etc., especially when less than the actual value.” But we could hear in this expression an imperative—“face value!”—an injunction to consider value face to face, that is, prosopon pros prosopon. Prosopon, the Greek word for mask, gave rise to the rhetorical figure of prosopopoeia (prosopon poiein: to confer a mask or a face). A striking occurrence o…
The Specter of 1966, or Speculative Realism and the Phantom of Deconstruction
The Specter of 1966, or Speculative Realism and the Phantom of Deconstruction Peter Szendy Translated by Jacob Levi Certain events have become landmarks in the history of contemporary thought. The conference held in October 1966 at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore was one such event: with Derrida's contribution entitled "Structure, Sign, and Play in the Discourse of the Human Sciences," as Benoît Peeters writes in his biography of the philos…
Kino-Apokalipsa
21 cm
Viral Times
Previous articleNext article FreeViral TimesPeter SzendyPeter SzendyPDFPDF PLUSFull Text Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditEmailQR Code SectionsMore15 April 2020Despite the warning signs, despite the news from China, it was as if we had woken up overnight in a completely different world: wholly different but exactly the same.The Emergency of Being at a StandstillFor some, inc…
Infinance, or Narration and Solvency
Narrativity and indebtedness are inextricably intertwined. Absolvere, in Latin, means both to "pay off" a debt and to "relate" a historical event that has reached its conclusion, that is complete (absolutum). In the Arabian Nights, Scheherazade tells many stories about debt and debtors; but it is also her very narration that she evokes as the redeeming of a debt ("I am willing to pay my debt," she says when resuming her story at the beginning of …
La Fonction de la couleur dans la musique: Timbre, musique et peinture, Wagner, Strauss et autres essais
Le fil conducteur de ce volume d’écrits de Theodor W. Adorno est la couleur (Farbe), qui renvoie musicalement à la sonorité, au timbre (Klangfarbe). Il faut l’entendre à la fois comme ce qui lie la musique aux images, à la peinture, et comme une problématique compositionnelle apparue au xixe siècle et devenue centrale au xxe. D’un côté, la possible conjonction entre les arts, au risque de l’illustration ; de l’autre, le timbre comme un élément co…
Du rapport entre peinture et musique aujourd’hui
Les analogies entre la peinture et la musique contemporaines sont évidentes. Dans les deux domaines, le langage des formes de la société bourgeoise – lequel s’était coagulé en une seconde nature, lequel était devenu convention – s’est en soi disloqué. L’antithèse de ce langage, c’est l’effort de la conscience esthétique – aussi inconscient soit-il – pour détruire le lien d’aveuglement que crée l’idéologie, et pour toucher l’essence. À l’abandon d…
The promise of photography: Scale, measure and proportion in a conflicted visual milieu
This roundtable discussion is based on an online symposium - The Promise of Photography: Scale, Measure and Proportion in a Conflicted Visual Milieu - which took place on 17 September 2021. Since its inception, photography has promised to set things to scale, to grant them measure and proportion, a series of promises that have also entailed moments of irrationality or conflict that persist in and continue to shape the era of global networked digi…
On Epigenesis
On Epigenesis" consists of a series of interrelated short articles examining the philosophical concept of epigenesis, with a particular focus on Catherine Malabou's development of it in contemporary thought. Alexander Miller introduces the topic of epigenesis and considers its significance as a new paradigm. He also presents the reader with an overview of Malabou's work on the topic: Drawing from recent advances in the life sciences as well as th…
La rumeur, ou l’anarchimédium
Qu’est-ce qu’une rumeur et d’où tient-elle son pouvoir ou son contre-pouvoir ? En lisant de près des sources gréco-romaines (Platon, Aristote, Eschine, Virgile) et des approches modernes, il s’agit ici d’analyser le mode de propagation de la rumeur (par anaphores et cataphores), ses vitesses contrastées (ses hétérochronies) ainsi que ses relais et représentations au sein d’un médium. En dialogue avec l’ouvrage récent que Catherine Malabou a consa…
Sympnée en guise de préface (sur L’Homme sans souffle de Poe)
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