[csaa-forum] RESEARCH SEMINAR 8 SEPTEMBER: TOM MOYLAN on THE AUDACITY OF THE UTOPIAN - ERNST BLOCH ON DEATH

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CENTRE FOR COMPARATIVE LITERATURE AND CULTURAL STUDIES
Monash University, Melbourne.

RESEARCH SEMINAR

Wednesday 8 September, 3.00 to 4.30 pm, Room W710, Menzies Building
(Building 11), Clayton Campus

THE AUDACITY OF THE UTOPIAN: ERNST BLOCH ON DEATH

Tom Moylan

Tom Moylan is Emeritus Professor in the School of Languages,
Literature, Culture, and Communication and Founding Director of the
Ralahine Center for Utopian Studies at the University of Limerick. His
publications include Demand the Impossible (1986), Scraps of the
Untainted Sky (2000), Dark Horizons (2003), Utopia Method Vision
(2007) and Exploring the Utopian Impulse (2007). He serves on the
editorial boards of Science Fiction Studies and Utopian Studies.

Abstract

In 1964, Theodor Adorno and Ernst Bloch met to discuss "the
contradictions of utopian longing." In that conversation, the
dystopian Adorno and utopian Bloch reached a moment of concordance.
Their agreement focused on two related matters: the shrinking of
utopian consciousness in contemporary life and the suppression of the
relationship between death and utopia. This paper will explore Bloch's
thinking on death and its consequences for the utopian project. The
paper opens with Bloch's critique of capitalism's simultaneous
reification and suppression of death, and it then summarizes Bloch's
retrieval of the utopian surplus in the cultural heritage, most
especially in terms of the figure of Faust. It then focuses on Bloch's
dialectical materialist re-functioning of death within the context of
the utopian not yet, and leads outward to his discussion of what he
terms the "post-mortal" and its impact not only in the longue durée of
existence but also in the darkness of the lived moment.

ALL WELCOME
DRINKS AND NIBBLES PROVIDED

For further details contact Professor Andrew Benjamin
<Andrew.Benjamin at monash.edu>

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