”On Love”

Jean-Paul Martinon, a London-based writer and Emeritus Reader in the Department of Visual Cultures at Goldsmiths College, will present his current research on time and love. His paper, “On Love,” will explore the possibility of a non-relational adequate love that is not limited by durational relations through the work of philosophers, most notably, Spinoza, and of artists and poets.

Martinon has taught at Goldsmiths in London for over twenty years, having co-founded the PhD Curatorial/Knowledge Programme, teaching such topics as time and history, art and ethics, curating and the curatorial, as well as African thought. His research is an attempt to make sense of time: its staging in museums, its advent, its gender, its neglect, and the way it is used and abused to structure human life. His work focuses primarily on contemporary continental philosophy with a particular interest in the work of Spinoza, Levinas, Nancy, Chalier, Kagame, Mudimbe, and Meillassoux.

His books included On Futurity (Palgrave, 2007), The End of Man (Punctum, 2013), The Curatorial: A Philosophy of Curating (Bloomsbury, 2014), Curating as Ethics (Minnesota, 2021), and On Pyrrho and Time (Palgrave, 2024). And his book, Spinoza: Journal of an Emendation, is forthcoming. For more information about his research, writing, and teaching see:

https://jeanpaulmartinon.net/

Martinon’s seminar is part of a week-long residency called Curating Knowledge: Exploring the Curatorial in Multidisciplinary Research, organized by the subject area Curating in the Dept of Culture & Aesthetics and funded by the Wenner-Gren Foundation and the Faculty of Humanities at Stockholm University.