Archive for the 'conferences' Category
“Now, the disciple’s consciousness, when he starts, I would not say to dispute, but to engage in dialogue with the master or, better, to articulate the interminable and silent dialogue which made him into a discipline—this disciple’s consciousness is an unhappy consciousness.”
Jacques Derrida, “Cogito and the History of Madness”
Yesterday I had the good fortune of [...]
In about a month, I’ll be trialling a few of my ideas at the United States Intellectual History conference in New York. It’ll be a great forum to trot out my work on the reception of Derrida for a few reasons: 1. Intellectual historians were the only subset of US historians who moved towards taking [...]
As I mentioned below, Catherine Malabou was at the recent Derrida Today conference, (Sydney, July 2008). A version of the keynote that she gave there is published in The European Legacy: Toward New Paradigms 12:4 pp.431-441, 2007, (in English).
In the course of a reading of the first section of Of Grammatology, Malabou addresses the question [...]
Another conference this week, on literature and history, hosted by the Australasian Association for Literature. Ah, perhaps it was foolish to present two different papers this winter? In either case, it will be interesting to see what the lit crits are up to.
I’ll be presenting on Derrida and Hayden White, on both of them getting [...]
It’s now been a couple of days since the Derrida conference, and perhaps I can start to make some sense of my over-full head. There was an immense amount of material packed into the conference… it seems that it was so much longer than a mere three days.
Following are some general notes, and I will [...]
Today was the first day of the Derrida Today conference. I won’t write much, but wanted to catalogue here the excellent address by Andrew Benjamin on Derrida, Heidegger, their readings of Sophocles, and the possibility of ever being without, outside, above, beyond the law. He wasn’t mentioned, but this would resonate very well with some [...]
Now this is just a brief post. N Pepperell of Rough Theory has posted a succinct account of some of her thinking on Derrida’s Specters of Marx. While NP had been focussing on Derrida’s reading of Marx, I had been more directed towards Heidegger’s role in this text. More on this to come. All this [...]
Today was the first day of the APPC - the Australian Postgraduate Philosophy Conference – held at the University of Sydney. I was also there yesterday for a research workshop that they ran. It was fascinating to see the Professors constantly explain their reluctance and uneasiness with the ‘analytical – continental’ divide, but then go on [...]
