Thomas Zummer. Annotations on the Notion of Capture. 2009 2/4

http://www.egs.edu/ Thomas Zummer speaking on the etymology of the word apparatus or dispositif in a lecture to the European Graduate School, in Saas-Fee, Switzerland in 2009. He lectured about Michel Foucaults use of the term to define the institutions and matrices of power that bind us. Drawing on Giorgio Agamben, Martin Heidegger, the politics of the subjective gaze and the history of cinema, Zummer hermeneutically guided the audience through a powerful unveiling of this most intricate term. Public open lecture for the students and faculty of the European Graduate School EGS Media and Communication Studies department program Saas-Fee Switzerland Europe Thomas Zummer 2009

Thomas Zummer is an artist and lecturer at the Tyler School of Art and a visiting professor in critical studies in the Transmedia Programme at the Hogeschool Sint Lukas, Brussels, as well as visiting professor at the European Graduate School in Saas-Fee. As an artist he has exhibited internationally since 1976, including at Exit Art, Thread Waxing Space, and The Dia Foundation in New York City as well as at the CAPC in Bordeaux and Wigmore Hall in London. With his wife, they have had a long collaboration as well with The Wooster Group, acting in many of their performances. Most recently, Zummer was artist in residence at the haudenschildGarage in La Jolla, California.

As an academic, Zummer has been affiliated with many institutions and studied with Michel Foucault, Jacques Derrida and Paul Ricoueur at the University of Toronto, as well as completing studies at Yale University where he studied with Paul de Man. At the University of California, Berkeley, Zummer was research assistant to Michel Foucault. He is currently at work on a book of early reference systems, provisionally entitled Intercessionary Technologies: Archive/Database/Interface.

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