Is performance an end in itself? And if it is an end, does it justify all means? Two simple questions in form to introduce the two terms that make up the theme of this conference, ethics and performance. Returning to ethics is the great challenge of the new society.
Can there be an ethics of performance? This is the theme of the conference that will be held on November 16 and 17 at the CUM (Mediterranean University Center), 65 Promenade des Anglais.
This conference will attempt to outline what an ethics of performance might be, understood as a new “social contract,” that is, a connection between social ties and human engagement.
That the term performance has become a major signifier in the linguistic field of our post-modern world to the point of being elevated to a real cult is an obvious fact. This makes it all the more urgent for the question of ethics, to which this term is now attached, to be opened and debated.
In a period of crisis and questioning, this conference brings together psychoanalysts, psychologists, philosophers, economists, business leaders, management and management specialists, as well as artists and athletes to study this idea of performance.
Performance is not limited to the sports field: it concerns all human activities: artistic creation, the business world, work and the economy, the progress of science and technology, the production of consumer goods.
