[csaa-forum] Andrew Benjamin on Photography

[Ashley Woodward]

The Centre for Ideas

 

Tuesday 24 April and Tuesday 1 May

Time: 6.00-7.30

Venue: Federation Hall

Free event  -  No bookings required.

 

 

From Fear to Instability: On the Philosophy of Photography

The two lectures on the fear of photography that accompanies its presence within the 19th and early 20th Centuries.

Presented by    Andrew Benjamin

Andrew Benjamin is Professor of Philosophical Aesthetics at Monash. He was previously Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Centre for Research in Philosophy and Literature at Warwick University. An internationally recognised authority on contemporary French and German critical theory, he has been Visiting Professor at Columbia University in New York and Visiting Critic at the Architectural Association in London.His many books include: What is Deconstruction? (1988), Art, Mimesis and the Avant-Garde (1991), Present Hope: Philosophy, Architecture, Judaism (1997), Philosophy's Literature (2001) and Disclosing Spaces: On Painting (2004) Writing Art and Architecture (2010) and Of Jews and Animals (2010)

Lecture 1 : Tuesday 24 April

In the first lecture special attention will be given to Baudelaire's argument that photography could not be the work of the imagination. 

As such photography could not be inventive. However as the history of photography develops what emerges is the possibility on invention and experimentation. 

What experimentation reveals is a founding instability within the photographic image - an instability that allows the image to be both a document and a work of art. 

 

Lecture 2 : Tuesday 1 May

The second lecture will be concerned with the away this instability revels the truth of the photographic image.

  

These lectures form part of the Centre for Ideas Art & Philosophy project funded by the Sidney Myer Foundation.







Dr. Ashley Woodward
The Melbourne School of Continental Philosophy 
www.mscp.org.au
Editor, Parrhesia: A Journal of Critical Philosophy 
www.parrhesiajournal.org
website: http://users.tpg.com.au/phallacy/ashleywoodward/ashley_woodward.html

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