2014-04-25, Labrecque, Simon, Political Science

convention of the International Studies Association,
Montréal, Québec. March 2011
7. Chénier, P.-L.; Labrecque, S. “Worlds, Idioms,
PROGRAMME
The Final Oral Examination
Images: Jean-Luc Nancy & Jean-Luc Godard around
Sarajevo, 1993.” 1st International Conference on the
Image, UC Los Angeles, California. December 2010
for the Degree of
8. Labrecque, S. “Micropolitique et performativité. Les
pratiques d’art action comme pratiques politiques.”
Annual convention of the Canadian Philosophical
Association, Montréal, Québec. May 2010
DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY
Department of Political Science
9. Labrecque, S. “Mimèsis amatrice. Création,
experimentation et pédagogie politique dans le bioart.” Colloque de Recherche Étudiante en Science
Politique, Montréal, Québec. May 2010
Simon Labrecque
2009
2007
Université Laval
Université Laval
MA (Political Science)
BA (Political Science)
10. Labrecque, S. “Radical Memory? Baudrillard Viewed
from the Walls of Québec City.” The Succession of
Simulacra: The Legacy of Jean Baudrillard (19292007), UC Santa Barbara, California. April 2008
Selected Publications
1. Labrecque, S. “Aesthetics of Coherence in Politological
Thought: Engaging Impredicativity.” Peninsula: A
Journal of Relational Politics 2012, 2 (1) [Online].
“Aesthetics of Politics: Refolding Distributions of
Importance”
Friday, April, 25, 2014
1:00pm
David Turpin Building, room A144
2. Labrecque, S. “Expérimenter. La pensée politique de
Deleuze et les theories féministes contemporaines.”
Aspects sociologiques 2010, 17 (1), 223-251.
Supervisory Committee:
Dr. Arthur Kroker, Department of Political Science & CSPT, UVic
(Supervisor)
Dr. R.B.J. Walker, Department of Political Science & CSPT, UVic
(Member)
Dr. Nicole Shukin, Department of English & CSPT, UVic
(Outside Member)
3. Labrecque, S. “Radical Memory? Baudrillard Viewed
from the Walls of Québec City.” International Journal
of Baudrillard Studies 2009, 6 (2) [Online].
External Examiner:
Dr. Michael J. Shapiro, Department of Political Science, University
of Hawai’i Mānoa
Chair of Oral Examination:
Dr. James Young, Department of Philosophy, UVic
of how the problem of political importance has been and is
being dealt with.
Abstract
Awards & Scholarships
This dissertation engages a very general question: what
matters politically? This question is characterized as a point
of heresy, as a site through which different political stances
differentiate themselves from one another and account for
their differences. Building on the concept of aesthetics of
politics developed by J. Rancière, I seek to free up this
concept’s critical and analytical potential by arguing that
different aesthetics of politics act as prerequisites to
divergent determinations of political importance. More
precisely, I argue that significant formulations of how
variations in distributions of political importance occur tend to
presuppose particular accounts of the relationships between
perception and interpretation, sensibility and understanding,
or how we sense and how we make sense.
While the concept of aesthetics is tied to particular
histories of what has been called Western Modernity, I argue
that Western political thought has been characterized by a
deep concern for questions of perception since its allegedly
inaugural texts in Classical Greece, and that the so-called
postmodern condition continues to put into play aesthetic
terms of political engagement. To test this hypothesis
positing that we always already think of politics aesthetically,
I map five influential aesthetics of politics: aesthetics of
prevalence, aesthetics of emancipation, aesthetics of
temperament, aesthetics of friction, and aesthetics of
endurance. Each one is already manifold. To make sense of
these multiplicities, each aesthetics of politics is studied
through a fourfold engagement with the politics of one of the
senses of the age-old fivefold of sight, taste, hearing, touch,
and smell. The politics of each sense are engaged along a
politological, an artistico-political, a polemological and a
hauntological folds. I am thereby able to show the intricacies
2009 – J.-A. Bombardier CGS Doctoral Scholarship, SSHRC,
University of Victoria
2008 – J.-A. Bombardier CGS Master’s Scholarship, SSHRC,
Université Laval
2007 – Honor Roll of Political Science graduates, Université Laval
Selected Presentations
1. Labrecque, S. “Scribere est agere. Strauss & Skinner
sur l’importance du contexte en pensée politique.”
Guest lecture, Département d’études françaises,
Concordia University, Montréal. February 2014
2. Labrecque, S. “Aesthetics of Coherence in Politological
Thought: Engaging Impredicativity.” CSPT conference.
University of Victoria, British Columbia. April 2012
3. Labrecque, S. “The Figure of the Amateur in Bio-Art:
Universalizing the Capacity of Anyone at All?” Annual
convention of the International Studies Association,
San Diego, California. April 2012
4. Labrecque, S. “The Figure of the Amateur in Bio-Art:
Occasioning Universalizations of the Capacity of
Anyone at All?” 4th Popular Culture & World Politics
conference, Rovaniemi, Finland. November 2011
5. Labrecque, S. “Interventions & Occasions: Around
Biotech Amateurs, J. Rancière & C. Schmitt.” CSPT
Thinking colloquium, University of Victoria, British
Columbia. September 2011
6. Chénier, P.-L.; Labrecque, S. “Are Images to be
Perceived & Idioms to be Heard? Jean-Luc Godard &
Jean-Luc Nancy on Sarajevo, 1993.” Annual