…a practising artist working with photography and installation and has exhibited her work in group shows internationally. She has taught in FE and HE in the UK and abroad, including…
June 2013 Newsletter
…the Humanities and Arts Research Centre at Royal Holloway: Crisis, Creativity and the Self, 1550–1700 Lucy Delap – Maids, au pairs and treasures And now, just to break this up…
Emily Apter – ‘Doing Things with Untranslatables’ : The Problem of Translation and Untranslatability in the Comparative Humanities
…excitement and disaggregation characteristic of an emerging discipline. There are substantive historical reasons for this increased interest. The Cold War’s distribution of political and economic power into recognizable and antagonistic…
Nancy S. Love – ‘Why Do the Sirens Sing?’ Collaborating, Configuring and Categorizing with Dialectic of Enlightenment
…Political Science: A Journal of Politics and Culture. She and Mattern are working on a co-edited volume, Doing Democracy: Activist Art and Cultural Politics. Love’s research focuses on music and…
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Esther Leslie – Transdisciplinary Reflexes, Trans-species Reflexes
…and strikingly felt is in questions around animal rights and the relationship between humans and animals. The work has been cited to underpin militant arguments around veganism and specieism. In…
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Étienne Balibar – A Thought of/from the Outside: Foucault’s Uses of Blanchot
…his later work, when studying apparatuses of power-knowledge, and when outlining a history of regimes of subjectivation and truth, Foucault had entirely reversed this orientation. The lecture will discuss the…
Ken Gemes – Nietzsche on Nihilism and the Death of God
…cling to those values, for instance the value of compassion and the value of truth, in the absence of God or of any other justificatory basis for those values. When…
Olivier Schefer – Incompleteness, Reversibility and Fragmentary Montage: On Contemporary Romanticism
…concept of the work of art and of synthetic truth), the structure of reversibility discussed by Maurice Merleau-Ponty, and the logic of montage. This reading of romanticism and its contemporary…
Maria Rosa Antognazza – The Distinction of Kind between Knowledge and Belief
…1743 [Natural Law and Enlightenment Classics] (Liberty Fund 2012) and (with Howard Hotson) Alsted and Leibniz on God, the Magistrate and the Millennium (Harrassowitz Verlag 1999). In addition, she has…