UPDATE: Wandering with Spinoza (Australia) (6/30/06;
9/13/06-9/15/06)  full name / name of organization:  Dimitris
Vardoulakis contact email:   'Wandering with Spinoza'   The
Conference will be held at the Victorian College of the Arts, =
Melbourne, Australia from 13 =96 15 September 2006.  The
conference aims to bring together philosophers, theorists and
visual = and performing artists to celebrate this most
influential of =  Keynote Speakers include Alain Badiou, Mieke
Bal, Thomas Hirschhorn, = Genevieve Lloyd, and Christopher
Norris=20  There are at least two senses in which
=93wandering=94 can be taken as a = productive category to
approach Spinoza=92s thought. First, it could = designate
Spinoza=92s image of the human as the =93little worm in the =
blood=94 which wanders around the cosmic circulation system. To
follow = this =93worm=94 is to follow Spinoza=92s thought, from
the impassioned = geometrical writings to the personal
epistolary exchanges. But, like = the =93worm=94 that the human
is, one=92s t