PAVILION

Răzvan Ion (n. 1970) este teoretician, curator, manager
cultural și activist politic. Este co-editor
(împreună cu Eugen Rădescu) al PAVILION - journal
for politics and culture, co-director al Bucharest
Biennale, iar în 2008 a fost numit director al PAVIL-
ION UNICREDIT - centrul pentru artă şi cultură
contemporană. A ținut prelegeri la University of
California (Berkeley), Headlands Center for the Arts
California, Facultatea de Știinţe Politice din Cluj,
Academia de Arte din Timișoara, La Casa Encedida
din Madrid, Calouste Gulbenkian din Lisabona etc.
Scrie pentru diferite reviste și ziare. În prezent
lucrează la proiectul editorial “Exploring the Return
of Repression” și la proiectul curatorial “Smash the
Church! Smash the State!”, care dezbate problema
anarhismului, a activismului colectiv și a mișcărilor
socio-politice în arta contemporană. Trăiește și
lucrează în Bucureşti.
Bruno Latour
Bruno Latour (born 22 June 1947, Beaune, Côted'Or)
is a French anthropologist, sociologist, and an
influential theorist in the field of Science and
Technology Studies (STS). After teaching at the
École des Mines de Paris (Centre de Sociologie de
l'Innovation) from 1982 to 2006, he is now
Professor and vice-president for research at the
Institut d'études politiques de Paris (2007), where
he is associated with the Centre de sociologie des
organisations (CSO). He is best known for his
books We Have Never Been Modern (1991;
English translation, 1993), Laboratory Life (with
Steve Woolgar, 1979) and Science in Action
(1987). Although his studies of scientific practice
were at one time associated with social constructionist
approaches to the philosophy of science,
Latour has diverged significantly from such
approaches. Along with Michel Callon and John
Law, Latour is one of the primary developers of
actor-network theory (ANT), a constructionist
approach influenced by the ethnomethodology of
Harold Garfinkel, the generative semiotics of
Greimas, and (more recently) the sociology of
Durkheim's rival Gabriel Tarde. In 2007, Latour was
listed as the 10th most-cited intellectual in the
humanities and social sciences by The Times
Higher Education Guide.
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Bruno Latour (născut pe 22 iunie 1947, Beaune,
Côte-d'Or) este un antropolog, sociolog și teoretician
francez influent în domeniul Studiilor de Știință
și Tehnologie (STS). După ce a predat la École des
Mines de Paris (Centrul de Sociologie a Inovației)
din 1982 până în 2006, este acum profesor și vicepreședinte
pentru cercetare la Institutul de Studii
Politice (2007), unde este asociat cu Centrul de
Sociologie a Organizațiilor (CSO). Cele mai cunoscute
cărți ale sale sunt We Have Never Been
Modern (1991; traducerea engleză, 1993),
Laboratory Life (cu Steve Woolgar, 1979) și
Science in Action (1987). Deși studiile sale asupra
practicii științifice au fost asociate cu abordările
social construcționiste ale filozofiei științei, Latour
s-a îndepărtat de astfel de abordări. Alături de
Michel Callon și John Law, Latour este unul din
primii din cei care au dezvoltat teoria actor-rețea
(ANT), o abordare construcționistă influențată de
etnometodologia lui Harold Garfinkel, semiotica
generativă a lui Greimas și (mai recent) sociologia
rivalului lui Durkheim, Gabriel Tarde. În 2007,
Latour a fost inclus în lista celor mai citați zece intelectuali
în domeniul științelor umaniste și sociale
de The Times Higher Education Guide.
Reinhold Martin
Reinhold Martin is Associate Professor of
Architecture in the Graduate School of Architecture,
Planning, and Preservation at Columbia University,
where he directs the PhD program in architecture,
and the Temple Hoyne Buell Center for the Study of
American Architecture. He is a founding co-editor
of the journal Grey Room, a partner in the research
practice Martin/Baxi Architects, and has published
widely on the history and theory of modern and
contemporary architecture. He is the author of The
Organizational Complex: Architecture, Media, and
Corporate Space (MIT Press, 2003), and the coauthor,
with Kadambari Baxi, of Multi-National City:
Architectural Itineraries (Actar, 2007). He is currently
completing a book that re-theorizes postmodernism.
Reinhold Martin este profesor asociat în Școala
Doctorală de Arhitectură, Planificare și Conservare
la Universitatea Columbia, unde conduce programul
doctoral de arhitectură și Centrul Temple
Hoyne Buell pentru Arhitectură Americană. Este coeditor
fondator al revistei Grey Room, un partener
în practica de cercetare a Martin/Baxi Architects și
a publicat extensiv despre istoria și teoria arhitecturii
moderne și contemporane. Este autorul The
Organizational Complex: Architecture, Media, and
Corporate Space (MIT Press, 2003) și co-autor,
alături de Kadambari Baxi, al Multi-National City:
Architectural Itineraries (Actar, 2007). Momentan
își finalizează cartea care re-teoretizează postmodernismul.
Chantal Mouffe
Chantal Mouffe is Professor of Political Theory at
the Centre for the Study of Democracy at the
University of Westminster in London. She has
taught and researched in many universities in
Europe, North America and South America and she
is a corresponding member of the Collège
International de Philosophie in Paris. She is the editor
of Gramsci and Marxist Theory (Routledge and
Kegan Paul, London, 1979), Dimensions of Radical
Democracy. Pluralism, Citizenship, Community
(Verso, London, 1992), Deconstruction and
Pragmatism (Routledge, 1996) and The Challenge
of Carl Schmitt, (Verso, London, 1999); the coauthor
with Ernesto Laclau of Hegemony and
Socialist Strategy . Towards a Radical Democratic
Politics (Verso, London, 1985) and the author of
The Return of the Political (Verso, London, 1993),
The Democratic Paradox (Verso, London, 2000)
and On the Political (Routledge. London, 2005).
Chantal Mouffe este profesor de Teorie Politică la
Centrul de Studiu al Democrației la Universitatea
Westminster din Londra. A predat și a făcut cercetare
în numeroase universități din Europa,
America de Nord și America de Sud și este membru
corespondent al Collège International de
Philosophie din Paris. Este editoarea "Gramsci and
Marxist Theory" (Routledge and Kegan Paul,
London, 1979), "Dimensions of Radical
Democracy. Pluralism, Citizenship, Community"
(Verso, London, 1992), "Deconstruction and
Pragmatism" (Routledge, 1996) și "The Challenge
of Carl Schmitt" (Verso, London, 1999); co-autor cu
Ernesto Laclau al "Hegemony and Socialist
Strategy. Towards a Radical Democratic Politics"
(Verso, London, 1985) și autorul "The Return of the
Political" ( Verso, London, 1993), "The Democratic
Paradox" (Verso, London, 2000) și "On the
Political" (Routledge. London, 2005).
Maria Muhle
Maria Muhle is Academic Assistant at the Chair for
History and Theory of Artificial Worlds, Institute for
Media Studies, Bauhaus-University Weimar. Her
research focuses on contemporary political and
aesthetical theory, and especially on the notion of
“aesthetic realism” in the context of a political aesthetics.
Latest publications include: "Zweierlei
Vitalismus", in: Friedrich Balke, Marc Rölli (ed.),
Gilles Deleuze: Philosophie und Nicht-Philosophie.
Aktuelle Diskussionen, Transcript Verlag,
Bidelefeld (im to be published); "Hito Steyerl. Notes
on documentary realism", in: Hito Steyerl.
Exhibition Catalogue, Henie Onstad Art Center,
Oslo, 2010; “Anna Artaker. History and Infamy”, in:
Camera Austria, No. 109, 2010; Eine Genealogie
der Biopolitik.Zum Begriff des Lebens bei Foucault
und Canguilhem, Bielefeld 2008.
Maria Muhle este asistent academic la Catedra de
Istorie și Teorie a Lumilor Artificale, Institutul de
Studii Media, Bauhaus-Universitatea Weimar.
Cercetarea sa se concentrează pe teoria contemporană
estetică și politică, în special pe noțiunea
de "realism estetic" în contextul esteticii politice.
Ultimele pubicații includ: "Zweierlei Vitalismus", în:
Friedrich Balke, Marc Rölli (ed.), Gilles Deleuze:
Philosophie und Nicht-Philosophie. Aktuelle
Diskussionen, Transcript Verlag, Bidelefeld (în
pregătire); "Hito Steyerl. Notes on documentary
realism", în: Hito Steyerl. Catalog de expoziție,
Henie Onstad Art Center, Oslo, 2010; “Anna
Artaker. History and Infamy”, în: Camera Austria,
No. 109, 2010; Eine Genealogie der Biopolitik. Zum
Begriff des Lebens bei Foucault und Canguilhem,
Bielefeld 2008.
Antonio Negri
Antonio Negri (born August 1, 1933) is an Italian
Marxist sociologist and political philosopher. Negri
is best-known for his co-authorship of Empire, and
secondarily for his work on Spinoza. Born in Padua,
he became a political philosophy professor in his
hometown university. Negri founded the Potere
Operaio (Worker Power) group in 1969 and was a
leading member of Autonomia Operaia. As an
authority of Marxist-Leninism, and proponent of the
view that it is an ideology of violent revolution, he
published hugely influential books urging "revolutionary
consciousness." He was accused in the late
1970s of various charges including being the mastermind
of the left-wing terrorist group Red
Brigades (Brigate Rosse or BR), involved in the
May 1978 assassination of Aldo Moro, two-time
Prime Minister of Italy, and leader of the Christian-
Democrat Party, among others. Voice evidence
suggested Negri made a threatening phone call on
behalf of the BR, but the court was unable to prove
his ties. The question of Negri's complicity with leftwing
terrorism is a polemical subject. He was indicted
on a number of charges, including "association
and insurrection against the state" (a charge which
was later dropped), and indirect involvement in two
murders. Negri fled to France where, protected by
the Mitterrand doctrine, he taught at the Université
de Vincennes (Paris-VIII) and the Collège
International de philosophie, along with Jacques
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