A podcast of the conference ‘From Structure to Rhizome: Transdisciplinarity in French thought, 1945 to the present‘ held at the French Institute, London, is now available at:
http://backdoorbroadcasting.net/2010/04/from-structure-to-rhizome/

From Structure to Rhizome
Transdisciplinarity in French thought, 1945 to the present: histories, concepts, constructions
CENTRE FOR RESEARCH IN MODERN EUROPEAN PHILOSOPHY
MIDDLESEX UNIVERSITY
16-17 April 2010

Ciné Lumière, The French Institute
London, SW7 2DT

In the final decades of the twentieth century, the “great books” of postwar French theory transformed study in the humanities in the Anglophone world. These books were all, in one way or another, transdisciplinary in character. Yet their reception has primarily taken place in an array of specific disciplinary contexts, isolated from a broader understanding of the intellectual dynamics, forms, significance and innovative potential of transdisciplinarity itself. This conference aims to redress this situation. Each speaker will reflect on the transdisciplinary functioning of a single concept in French thought since 1945, with respect to a founding text, a particular thinker or a school of thought.

Speakers:Éric Alliez, Étienne Balibar, Andrew Barry, Guillaume Collett, François Cusset, Jean-Marc Lévy-Leblond, Alain de Libera, Peter Osborne, Michèle Riot-Sarcey and Stella Sandford.